These errors are all present in the (until now) most recent version of Logic. Emagic is aware of these problems: They have a buglist feature that all registered users get access to (I wonder why others don't... let me guess: because it might hold them off from buying it?).
More likely because Logic only wants to offer support to those who've registered their product. The PC version of Logic was warezed like crazy.
IRIX? yeah, exactly. wtf?
Cubase evolved on the Atari ST from Steinberg's Pro24 - alson on the Atari ST (built in midiport -woohoo!). I believe Steinberg moved to the mac from the Atari and only after that moved to the PC. Music developers tended to heavily favor the mac over the pc.
Logic was also originally developed by C-Lab (which changed its name to Emagic) on the Atari ST (8 mhz processor - woohoo!) when it was known as Notator. It then became Notator Logic. Then Logic. Then moved to the Mac. Emagic than developed a PC version - which was good but more buggy than the mac version and always a little behind featurewise. Not surprisingly when Emagic was bought by Mac they gave up the PC version of Logic.
The looks quite complicated because it is quite complicated. Logic is probably the most user unfriendly sequencing/audio program out there. It's also the most powerful. Because of this its the favorite of music technology geeks - think of it as the OpenBSD of music software.
Very very steep learning curve. If you've never used a sequencing program before I'd give you a small chance of getting some sound out of the program within a few days. If you're familiar with another program (MOTU or Cubase) you can probably get sound out of it in a day but certainly won't be able to get it fully up and running in a day. The features and flexibility of it are pretty much unmatched by anything else. Like everything, there's a tradeoff between simplicity and ease of use versus power and features. If you want the former, Logic is definitely not for you. If you're a geek, you'll love logic. Just don't plan on installing it and immediately, or even a in couple of weeks, getting to making music. Drum and Base, techno people tend to be logic guys.
More user-friendly is Mark of the Unicorn's (MOTU) Digital Performer. Nice looking and not as feature packed - it tends to be the choice of those scoring films and tv. Having worked as MOTU tech support I can tell you that MOTU tech support is the absolute worst! Oh god, they're laughably horrible. However, there are some good user MOTU forums which will help you out should you encounter any trouble.
As for the knobs that you turn issue, it does look a bit silly if you're trying to control a bunch of knobs with one mouse. But most serious users of Logic or any digital workstation will buy a hardware controller with a number of knobs. Logic has something called the "Environment" which pretty much allows you to control anything with anything else. Powerful, flexible, and, again, will take time to learn.
Personally I like Logic the best, been using it for a while, and would say am still only using 5-10% of what its capable of. You will not outgrow Logic.
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These errors are all present in the (until now) most recent version of Logic. Emagic is aware of these problems: They have a buglist feature that all registered users get access to (I wonder why others don't... let me guess: because it might hold them off from buying it?). More likely because Logic only wants to offer support to those who've registered their product. The PC version of Logic was warezed like crazy.
IRIX? yeah, exactly. wtf? Cubase evolved on the Atari ST from Steinberg's Pro24 - alson on the Atari ST (built in midiport -woohoo!). I believe Steinberg moved to the mac from the Atari and only after that moved to the PC. Music developers tended to heavily favor the mac over the pc. Logic was also originally developed by C-Lab (which changed its name to Emagic) on the Atari ST (8 mhz processor - woohoo!) when it was known as Notator. It then became Notator Logic. Then Logic. Then moved to the Mac. Emagic than developed a PC version - which was good but more buggy than the mac version and always a little behind featurewise. Not surprisingly when Emagic was bought by Mac they gave up the PC version of Logic.
The looks quite complicated because it is quite complicated. Logic is probably the most user unfriendly sequencing/audio program out there. It's also the most powerful. Because of this its the favorite of music technology geeks - think of it as the OpenBSD of music software.
Very very steep learning curve. If you've never used a sequencing program before I'd give you a small chance of getting some sound out of the program within a few days. If you're familiar with another program (MOTU or Cubase) you can probably get sound out of it in a day but certainly won't be able to get it fully up and running in a day. The features and flexibility of it are pretty much unmatched by anything else. Like everything, there's a tradeoff between simplicity and ease of use versus power and features. If you want the former, Logic is definitely not for you. If you're a geek, you'll love logic. Just don't plan on installing it and immediately, or even a in couple of weeks, getting to making music. Drum and Base, techno people tend to be logic guys.
More user-friendly is Mark of the Unicorn's (MOTU) Digital Performer. Nice looking and not as feature packed - it tends to be the choice of those scoring films and tv. Having worked as MOTU tech support I can tell you that MOTU tech support is the absolute worst! Oh god, they're laughably horrible. However, there are some good user MOTU forums which will help you out should you encounter any trouble.
As for the knobs that you turn issue, it does look a bit silly if you're trying to control a bunch of knobs with one mouse. But most serious users of Logic or any digital workstation will buy a hardware controller with a number of knobs. Logic has something called the "Environment" which pretty much allows you to control anything with anything else. Powerful, flexible, and, again, will take time to learn.
Personally I like Logic the best, been using it for a while, and would say am still only using 5-10% of what its capable of. You will not outgrow Logic.