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Q: Using Logic Pro 9 at school and using Logic Express 9 at home.  What are the issues?

My daughter has started using Logic Pro at school.  She wants to be able to work on her compositions at school AND at home.  If we buy Logic Express, will we encounter any difficulties when she imports her files made at school using the full features?  For instance, will she have used instruments that are not available in Express - What would happen there?  What if she used a continuous loop at school? etc.

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Posted on Oct 7, 2011 5:40 AM

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Q: Using Logic Pro 9 at school and using Logic Express 9 at home.  What are the issues?

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  • by CCTM,

    CCTM CCTM Oct 8, 2011 2:47 AM in response to nowthenapple
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    Oct 8, 2011 2:47 AM in response to nowthenapple

    Hi

     

    Logic Express is essentially the same as Logic Pro, minus a few Instrument plugins and a few Effects Plugins (there are some other slight differences, but nothing that is likely to cause any significant problems).

     

    You/she will be able to open Pro projects in Express fine, but if any of the 'missing plugins' have been used these will not be found in Express. For Instruments plugs, this might cause a problem because the tracks will not play unless a replacement plugin is selected. For Effects plugins, you might be missing some, but the project should play OK, just sound a little different.

     

    Should these issues become a problem, one solution would be to use the "Bounce in Place" feature to print these tracks as audio temporarily in Logic Pro.

     

    Logic Studio (Logic Pro) comes with all the Jampacks, Express does not. If any loops from the Jampacks have been used, you should be OK as long as the project has been "Saved with Assets.. including Imported Audio". This will copy any loops used into the project folder.

     

    In short, nothing insurmountable.

     

     

    HTH

     

     

    CCT