Apple makes Logic Pro 9, MainStage 2 exclusively available through Mac App Store
The move shifts Logic Pro from a $499 physical package to being just $199 as a digital download, the same price as the former Logic Express, which is no longer available.
Logic Pro is delivered as a 413 MB app, but can download 19 GB of additional content, including loops and instruments, from within the app after it is obtained.
The formerly bundled MainStage (used in orchestrating live performances) is now available on its own for $29.99. MainStage can also import settings from the less expensive GarageBand for live shows.
Still missing is Soundtrack Pro, which was once bundled with both Logic Pro and Final Cut Pro but is not yet available in any form from the App Store.
A report from September indicated Apple was working to complete a new version its professional audio software to be dubbed Logic Pro X, but new digital version is the same release the company had been shipping as a physical package on DVDs.
Apple had previously updated Logic Pro to a 64-bit app in January of 2010, something it did not do for Final Cut prior to bringing it to the Mac App Store as the extensively rewritten Final Cut Pro X.
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Logic Pro for $199? Wow, that's a nice price.
Logic was $1000 not that many years ago.
Logic is the reason I switched from Windows to Mac (having been a Sonar user).
Fantastic software now at a stunning price. I'm interested to see what Logic Pro X turns out like....
Logic is the reason I switched from Windows to Mac (having been a Sonar user).
Fantastic software now at a stunning price. I'm interested to see what Logic Pro X turns out like....
That is basically why I switched to Mac too...having a reliable platform for a great DAW. However, I think Sonar was great software. It's only problem is that it ran on Windows. If there was a mature version of Sonar for Mac that would be a superb DAW.
I wonder how far out Logic Pro X is now. It would seem strange to move Logic Pro 9 to the App Store with a great low price and then replace it shortly thereafter with Logic Pro X. So it would seem like Logic Pro X is still not coming for a while.
We'll see.
The move shifts Logic Pro from a $499 physical package to being just $199 as a digital download?
The praise over this will turn into outright loathing when Apple releases Logic Pro X and redesigns everything. Different can't possibly be good, you know; everything must remain identical for all eternity.
And just a short few months ago I shelled out the several hundred dollars for Logic Express... now I haven't got the money to buy this one........... crud.