Apple Logic Pro /LogicExpress Discussion

Although Apple had a huge area at the NAMM show last year, and plenty of 
sessions on Logic, it was amazed to see they were essentially not there at all 
this year. Apple is listed, but when I tracked down the room, its an upstairs 
backroom with a locked door saying that private meetings were going on. Bizarre.

I did see or talk to the developers of the Access Virus, Melodyne, Altiverb, 
DSPquatro, Masterwriter, PSP, Chickensystems, Redmatica, etc.


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--- In Logic_Cafe@yahoogroups.com, GAmoore@... wrote:
>
> Although Apple had a huge area at the NAMM show last year, and plenty of 
> sessions on Logic, it was amazed to see they were essentially not there at all 
> this year. Apple is listed, but when I tracked down the room, its an upstairs 
> backroom with a locked door saying that private meetings were going on. Bizarre.
> 
> I did see or talk to the developers of the Access Virus, Melodyne, Altiverb, 
> DSPquatro, Masterwriter, PSP, Chickensystems, Redmatica, etc.
> 
What was odd was that MacWorld was exactly the same time as NAMM this year - which has 
never been the case before.  That being the case, it makes sense that Apple wouldn't have 
chosen to be at NAMM since there weren't any specifically music-related updates and they 
chose to be up in S.F.  

And....Apple was represented at the Apogee booth, but didn't really have any machines there.  
And as you say, they did have meetings on the 2nd floor.

They had nothing left to announce, since everything was released in the last
few weeks. 

> Although Apple had a huge area at the NAMM show last year, and plenty of
> sessions on Logic, it was amazed to see they were essentially not there at all
> this year.

There literally thousands of companies present at NAMM and I would guess very 
few of them actually something new to announce. This is one of the most major 
music product shows of the entire world - with plenty of European and Asian 
companies coming long distances to be there. The only company I can think of 
that was not there was Apple. Does Neumann have new mics? or Waves new plugs? or 
Cakewalk new features? There are plenty of little companies selling cables, 
guitar strings, titanium guitar bridges, music magazines, etc with nothing new 
at all.

What was the big announcement last year? Apogee compatibility? The actual 
Apple booth barely mentioned that. There were training sessions each day run 
almost continuously, plenty of computers and hands on stuff, etc - Just like there 
was yesteday for many other products. This suggests that Logic is an 
afterthought for Apple, now that they are "giving it away" for $500 with fairly few 
new features. 

In addition to seeing Everclear play live in Taylor's room, I saw the famous 
bass player Victor Wooten playing from a few feet away.


In a message dated 1/19/08 12:40:42 PM, falchook@... writes

> They had nothing left to announce, since everything was released in the 
> last
> few weeks.
> 
> > Although Apple had a huge area at the NAMM show last year, and plenty of
> > sessions on Logic, it was amazed to see they were essentially not there at 
> all
> > this year.
> 
> 




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