Well, I completed my first mix in Logic 8 yesterday.

Overall this is the best update of a piece of audio software I've seen. It's solid and stable. I have run into something that might be a design flaw, or possibly a bug and it has to do with the Quick Swipe Comping (my favorite new function BTW). If you pack a folder of takes for the comping. Then expand it. Then realize you need to change the lengths of some of the regions involved - you can't. Then if you unpack it, you still can't change their lengths as the regions get locked and there's no way to unlock them. Took me a while to figure that out. Good thing I kept reverting to the saved version, but that was a pain in the butt.

As far as workflow is concerned I'm much more happy with Logic's new setup. It's a faster workflow to me. Which meant I could spend a lot more time on tweaking stuff in the mix and hearing the results right away. There's another new feature of the plugins where you can compare your changes that you just made with what it was when you opened it. Very cool, but unfortunately it's not working perfectly yet. There were a couple of times when it reverted to something I didn't do in compare. I need to do some more trials of that to see if it's only on 3rd party stuff where that happens.

I made use of the Binaural panning on one instrument as well. Extremely cool.

Put the new Delay Designer to good use. Very intuitive. Very flexible.

As my G5 has lost one of the two processors, I also made use of the Logic Node by hooking up my Macbook Pro. Worked fairly well. Reality is, I can't wait until I have a nice 8 core Mac Pro to put Logic 8 through it's paces.

I like the new mixer window tied to the arrange. Though I did have some issues with the AUX portion constantly turning itself on. Mind you, I imported the song from 7.2.3 to mix it. So it had the busses, which apparently new Logic 8 songs don't have.

To put it mildly, I don't want to go back to 7. But I know I have to keep it around just because.

Larri, if you do want to get a multi out RMX, you can create it in Logic 7, save it. Then import that song file into 8. It will retain the multi out thing. However, it is correct that you cannot create a new multi out in Logic 8. Need to thank Apple on that one.

I am bummed that they've changed most of the key commands. But alas, they can always be changed back.

I'm going to be tracking my first song in Logic 8 today. So that should be interesting.

Richard - If you're the Apple nut your website pegs you to be... There should be no reason to question this update. It's awesome.

Jody Whitesides
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