Hi,

I'm looking at buying Logic Studio 9. However i have a few questions i need answering first.

Logic Studio is £417 in the Apple Store. With this you get Logic Pro and a few other programs but you also get 38GB of additional content:

Additional 38GB to install all optional content (large content packages can be installed on separate disk):
- 10GB for Jam Pack collections
- 16GB for sound effects
- 6GB for surround music beds
- 7GB for other optional content

Logic Pro is £139 in the Apple App Store. With this it looks like you get the program and nothing more.

The reason i want the full Logic Studio is for the additional content you get with it, the 38 GB of samples and so on. Is it possible to obtain these without Logic Studio?

Also i don't suppose anyone has a heads up about Logic 10, as a lot of shops i have noticed are saying Logic 9 is discontinued....


Cheers

In short yes, you can access the content. Once you've downloaded and installed Logic you get the option (at any time you want) to download all the other stuff. I hadn't used Logic since it was on the PC but at this price I bought it and now found myself using it more and more. I run the latest version (9.1.6) on Lion and and high spec Macbook Pro and never have any issues at all.

Your best bet is getting the full studio. Unless you have a friend with disks for the additional content; it's only going to be available online. That's also the reason shops have discontinued it. Logic 10 will be download as well. The Logic development team is still very much alive and I'm sure we'll see something very soon (fingers crossed).

Yes for all 38Gb worth you need the full package. The additional content with Logic download is only about 10Gb.

Quote Pink Fluid:

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Yes for all 38Gb worth you need the full package. The additional content with Logic download is only about 10Gb.

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That's compressed, and afaik it's all the Logic content *except* the 3 Soundtrack Pro content disks, as STP is no longer bundled (or available at all). Maybe some legacy content is not there, but I haven't looked as I don't need the download and it's a heckuva lot to download without my ISP declaring shenanigans...

I'm gonna miss soundtrack pro. I hope they integrate it properly into Logic.

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If you have logic pro 8 and buy logic 9 can you use the additional content from logic 8 ? Or would you have to purchase the additional content for logic 9 ?

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Edited by DannyZRecords (18/02/12 07:47 PM)

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If you have logic pro 8 and buy logic 9 can you use the additional content from logic 8 ? Or would you have to purchase the additional content for logic 9 ?

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You can still use the content from Logic 8, it's mostly the same (although LP9 comes with CAF format compressed Apple loops, which take up less space than the aiff versions with LP8).

The additional content is free, you don't have to purchase it separately for LP9. You click on a link in the LP9 app, select the content you want to download, and hit "Go"... that's it.

Thanks for the reply
but just to confirm is the additional content is free even if you just purchase program itself for $200?

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Thanks for the reply
but just to confirm is the additional content is free even if you just purchase program itself for $200?

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I thought I was pretty clear? :shrugs:

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The additional content is free, you don't have to purchase it separately for LP9. You click on a link in the LP9 app, select the content you want to download, and hit "Go"... that's it.

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Cheers for all the help!

So am i right in saying, with Logic Studio you get 39gb of additional content which is shared for Logic Pro, as well as the other applications?

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After you download Logic Pro 9 from the app store you get an opportunity to download 10gb of content, all of which you would get in Logic Studio to be used with Logic Pro?

So i wouldn't be losing any samples or surround sound beds or something like that compared to if i got Logic Studio?

Cheers (hope that made sense!)

My apologies desmond it was written clearly i just read it wrong thanks again for the reply

Danny

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So i wouldn't be losing any samples or surround sound beds or something like that compared to if i got Logic Studio?

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Soundtrack Pro is no longer bundled, so you don't get the Soundtrack content. Same with Mainstage - but if you buy Mainstage too, for, what £20, then you can download the Mainstage content.

So, if you buy Logic Pro, Mainstage, and Compressor, you'll basically have all that's contained in Logic Studio except the Soundtrack Pro application and content.

Ok, awesome, Don't suppose you know what content Soundtrack Pro has? sound effects? stuff like that?

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Ok, awesome, Don't suppose you know what content Soundtrack Pro has? sound effects? stuff like that?

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3 DVDs of sound effects, ambiences, surround recordings, foley - it's primarily intended for film stuff, really.
There's also a whole bunch of music bed stuff intended to let non-musicians knock up some quick beds for film stuff.

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Ok, awesome, Don't suppose you know what content Soundtrack Pro has? sound effects? stuff like that?

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3 DVDs of sound effects, ambiences, surround recordings, foley - it's primarily intended for film stuff, really.
There's also a whole bunch of music bed stuff intended to let non-musicians knock up some quick beds for film stuff.

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(shhh...to be honest the included content from the dvd's is a little dated if truth be told....not really worth the hard disc space......reckon you can get better quite cheaply from "more livelier and mondener" sources......all IMHO of course )

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So i wouldn't be losing any samples or surround sound beds or something like that compared to if i got Logic Studio?

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Soundtrack Pro is no longer bundled, so you don't get the Soundtrack content. Same with Mainstage - but if you buy Mainstage too, for, what £20, then you can download the Mainstage content.

So, if you buy Logic Pro, Mainstage, and Compressor, you'll basically have all that's contained in Logic Studio except the Soundtrack Pro application and content.

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You also lose Waveburner (which is included in Logic Studio) if you decide to buy them from the app store.

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Sorry yeah, forgot about that... another app that's been discontinued.