Comments on: Logic Pro/Express 7.2.1 Adds Intel ReWire, Other Key Features

By: Rique Pantoja

Rique Pantoja — Tue, 30 May 2006 04:42:58 +0000

Hi there,
Thanks for the article !
I would really appreciate if you could shed a light in this situation . I have Macbook pro intel and downloaded Logic 7.2 and I’m trying to rewire it to Live 5.2 … It’s not working…frustrating.

I have on my G$ Live 4 rewired to my Logic 7.1 and it’s pretty straight forward .

On Logic 7.2 , I cannot see Ableton Live listed as my device…

Could you please help ?

Thanks so much !

Best to you

Rique

By: Create Digital Music » Ableton Live + Logic 7.2.1 + ReWire + Intel Mac Hands-On: It Works, It Rocks

Tue, 16 May 2006 00:21:59 +0000

[...] As reported here last week, Apple’s 7.2.1 update to Logic Pro and Express adds ReWire support to Intel Macs. Logic 7.2 also revamped the way ReWire works on all machines, so it’ll benefit all Logic users, not just Intel Mac owners. But the addition of ReWire means you can now fire up a Core Solo or Core Duo Mac and ReWire the Intel-native Live into Logic. [...]

By: thesimplicity

thesimplicity — Sun, 14 May 2006 04:42:02 +0000

Ah, I somehow missed the Mini part of that macworld article. Thanks.
Pretty impressive stuff. The 17″ MBP is hard to resist considering the features, but a Duo MIni is even harder to resist due to it’s price-point.

By: Peter Kirn

Peter Kirn — Fri, 12 May 2006 04:28:33 +0000

I focused on the MacBook Pro only because it tends to be the best mobile solution for people. The real performance issue is the move to Intel Core Duo (and even Core Solo). In fact, we did test a Mac mini, at my suggestion, for the Macworld story:

http://www.macworld.com/2006/04/firstlooks/logicprotests/index.php

As you can see, even the 1.66 mini performs on par with the more expensive MacBook Pro. I think the MBP will still work for more musicians thanks to the laptop form factor, but the mini is intriguing, too — and we’ve already seen people racking Mac minis.

The only reason I’m not snapping up a mini, personally, is the lackluster graphics card, especially when the MacBook has a great video card (er, albeit at a much higher price).

I’m not dissing Adobe, by the way, and you’re right — anything that isn’t dependent on real-time will work just fine. Unfortunately, the two Adobe apps I care about most are Flash and After Effects. Doh. The good news: when they finally DO ship, us Mac users will finally get the parity we deserve with PC, and these next-gen Intel chips will give these CPU-hungry apps the performance they need. (Oh, yeah, side note: Flash can be CPU hungry if you’re doing insane things with it like me. Not ad banners, in other words. Though I do bet we’ll get the Intel Mac Flash player long before the app itself.)

By: thesimplicity

thesimplicity — Thu, 11 May 2006 23:35:26 +0000

I’ve found that the majority of Adobe apps run nicely through emulation if you’ve got the RAM. Really intensive stuff like After Effects isn’t exactly ideal, but you won’t be tearing your hair out due to render times. Nevertheless, I’m holding off on a new Mactel until Adobe announces their pricing plans for CSX or whatever the next iteration will be called…
But that has nothing to do with digital music.

Anyway, I’d like to see a review of Logic on the Intel Mac Mini (with an external HDD, I suppose, since you can’t upgrade the internal drive to 7200RPMs for some reason). I played around with the Duo model at an Apple store and it seemed really fast… as well about $2K cheaper than a MacBook Pro, so I’m wondering if it’d be a good rig on stage. The addition of working Rewire in the new Logic is great, now I’m just wondering what machine to put it on.