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Friday, April 24, 2009

Major Logic Studio update?

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Hello, well...

This is not a rumors site, you know, like this site that says that major updates might be coming the Pro Apps way... nor a site to talk about non-existing features, there are already tons of websites that have countless "wish lists" on what users would like to see on Logic Studio.

Being the company Apple is, makes it very unlikely that you would know anything about what they're cooking until it's ready.

Nevertheless I would like to present to you some features I would love to see implemented on LS, please feel free to comment on it.

In no particular order...

1. More guitar effects! bare with me, don't roll your eyes and think it's petty, better wahs, tremolos, and more amp simulation never hurts. Don't forget that a lot of guitarists use LS. (just look at the poll here on the side)

2. Real time Time Stretching/pitch correction: You know, making your audio tracks change either pitch or tempo or both but independently, on the fly.
All this would be better if it could be applied to Apple Loops.

This may sound far fetched but yeah, Autotune or Melodyne style would be lovely.

3. Simpler ReWire implementation: not having to create first an external MIDI track and then a bus for ReWire tracks, just a single track that would act as both, like an instrument track, would that destroy the world? naa, it would probably make it a better place.

For those who do not like to see changes in that department a toggle switch would allow the "Legacy Method" or the old style way of "ReWire-ing".

4. Speaking about ReWire, make MainStage a ReWire host/client, a lot of people would love to use it along with Ableton Live or Propellerheads Reason.
If not, why not let MainStage receive transport messages? and if it's not much to ask, to send MIDI.

I know, the video where Trent Reznor talks about MainStage and says it's the best thing around looks impressive, but most of us are not NiN and we do not have an army of roadies, sound engineers or truckloads of gear so don't just ignore the hords of electronic musicians and dj wannabes who would like to take their laptops on a live show and have top quality effects and instruments (like Ultrabeat) well sequenced and synched.

5. Simpler Arpeggiator implementation: (yeah that means not having to use the Environment) oh well, you know it's not rocket science but wouldn't it be nice if it would just work like a plug-in? They have got the vocoder right, now it's the arpeggiator's turn.

6. OSC implementation: Open Sound Control is the next thing after MIDI, yeah, trust me, IT IS, just give up, embrace it. We would be able to use almost any piece of hardware like Wii-motes, iPhones, home-made step sequencers you name it. Plus, we wouldn't have to hack our way into Logic via Max MSP.

7. New or updated instruments: We cannot complain about the 40+/- instruments that come with LS, hey, some of may even be perfect, but who ever said musicians do not appreciate new stuff? You know, the ES1 debuted 10 years ago!


That's about it for me, anyone has more suggestions?

Cheers.
Posted by Ricco Escalante at 10:07 PM
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6 comments:

  1. really want #2 as well.. seems easy enough, at least easier than pitch/time shifting should be!
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  2. What I want more than anything else is the Chord Memorizer in Main Stage. I play bass live, but I also use a foot synthesizer to add some extra texture to our 3-piece band. But my pedal synth can only play one note per button press. So to play chords, I need to either use Logic, which isn't an ideal live set up, or I have to sample the chords I want to play, and then import them into the Ultrabeat drum machine to trigger them from one note command at a time. It works, but it's much harder than it needs to be.
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  3. You're right, sometimes I find myself using Ultrabeat as a sequencer-sample trigger.
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  4. honestly, you hit every nail on the head... If Apple/Logic took what you wrote into consideration, they would forever beat the market (and by "beat" the market, I mean surpass Protools as the Golden standard in studios).

    Better timestretching integration is one of my favs also.

    Also, your take on Open Sound Control (OSC) technology is interesting. MIDI is soooo old and inefficient, I have been wondering when they were going to get rid of it and it looks like this could be it.
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  5. That Logic update can't come soon enough for me. I'm not that excited about the guitar fx, because I use GuitarRig, but the realtime stretching would help. I would scrap all of that stuff for some major optimization in Logic, so I don't lock up after 37 instrument tracks.
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  6. Logic Studio desperately needs to be shown some video-post love! I'm talking about improved OMF and AAF functions like being able to open Avid or Pro Tools generated OMFs. This is the foolishness that lets to PT folks get up to speed on film projects faster than Logic users, despite PT. And why can't Logic have region-based fades like most other DAWs? And where is the ability to adjust video playback speed to nail cues, and why can't we have the good parts of Soundtrack Pro integrated properly, like the spectral analysis or the click and pop removal?

    All your wishes are noble and good, but only within the one realm of Logic's potential.
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