Just spent the first 2 days with LPX.
Sweet stuff:
- Love LPX's updated GUI & colour scheme, IMHO looks way better. (Flipped back to LP9 project at the end of the day and already it looks dated...looks so '90's now!) The darker look means less eye strain for me, LP9 is too bright & sterile in retrospect.
- Smart controls, initially thought they looked stupid but after actually using them....brilliant, great for quickly accessing key parameters.
- Track Stacks, I'll be using this feature a lot.
- Mixer. Like the refinements, reminds a little of the PT mixer. Like the new way insert buttons work.
- Auto-colour multiple takes - Sweet.
- Drummer - Excellent, will also use this one a lot.
- MIDI plugins, they've been a while coming, but hey, they're here and they rock! (Arpeggiator is so much fun.)
- Flex Pitch - Bye bye Melodyne & ATune. Really like the implementation of this, very easy to use.
- Logic Remote on the iPad. It's ver.1 release, it's free, it works....love it.
- Retro Synth is sweet.
- THE TUNER, wow, getting excited 'bout this is weird, but it's super smooth & responsive and...well, it just works, press the tuner button & it's there.
- When starting a new project being able to enter key & tap tempo, what a great addition.
- The Alternatives, great for arrangements.
- 64 bit plugs...Yes! Goodbye 32 bit, watch the door doesn't hit yer arse on the way out.
- Start up time! With 16gb RAM and an SSD drive it now takes all of 3 to 4 seconds to load! Killer!
- Instruments & loops. There's still an absolute shedload of stuff included that covers a huge amount of ground
I know I'll find more little gems over the next few weeks.
Take it or leave it stuff:
- No update to EXS24. Doesn't affect me, still sounds great. (Ditto for any other VI's that remain mostly unchanged)
- MultiCore handling. Never affected me in 9, so far yet to have in impact with X.
- Guitar & bass amps & fx. I've got an Axe FX II so I won't really use these for guitar. (However can be great to f***k up drums or vocals with)
Can't think of anything else just yet.
- The Environment? Still there.....{crickets}
Big shout out to the Apple team responsible for LPX, I really like what you've done, and I like where it's headed. Bravo!
Just remember folks, this IS Logic Pro X, not Garageband Pro (and hasn't that jibe gotten old very quickly).
(Think of Garageband as "Logic-Lite", coz that's what it is.)
OzGuitar.