Nusskappe wrote:
Are you of the opinion that Apple is concerned to solve problems described in this community?
I don't have any "opinion" about it, I know that they have people reading forum discussions and know from sources I have every reason to trust 100% that they are both working on the lag issue(s) and and on other great changes for the future. I even met some Logic developers some time in the 1990s, and was very impressed with they interest in user feedback. I haven't seen anything vaguely similar from people from other companies. Listening to others, being innovative + being backed up by Apple's success is quite a combination.
The speculations are a product of vendor ignorance and then of course the community starts to express frustration.
Which is only fair, of course. It's not the venting I'm talking about, it's the repeated claim that Logic is 'doomed' along with the theory that all Apple employees only think of phones and consumer products, that pro users are ignored and suggestions that Apple doesn't work on issues unless they tell us that they do. Some people repeat stuff like that over and over again, and that's a main reason I and some other don't use this forum more than we do. I guess 99% of all Logic users never visit this forum, because they don't need to.
I guess that your right in your opinion but it's difficult to act positive when worries are not taken care of.
Unless you are rather high in the Apple hierarchy, you don't know what they are taking care of, do you? ;-)
When I call Apple their first concern is how their support will be paid for.
Of course, Logic is practically free (if you are a pro, you can earn enough money to pay for Logic in less than a day), so who should pay for support if the customers don't do it?
And why wouldn't a pro (or amateur) pay pro (support person) to do his work? The good thing about Logic being so inexpensive is that students and others with little money - people who can sort out isues on they own don't need to sponsor the support team if they don't want to.
The difference between the circa $3000 Logic + extras used to cost and today's $199 means that we have a lot of money to use on support if we ned it (compared with the old situation). One simply can't pay less than 10% of the original price and expect that the support team should work for free.
Not long ago an Apple supporter I got on the phone said to me: "If you buy the product again, you will get 3 months support for free." I cant say that I liked this statement.
I don't know why they said that or why you don't like that they said that, so I have no comment - but your "Of course I'm right about this because I have the problem" only means that you are right about you having that problem.
"Any kind of modifications during playback - is not possible anymore" is not correct, because lots of us are doing "modifications during playback" all the time. People who have followed these threads know that as Apple is working on the lag issue, and we also know that they are working on other great stuff for DAW users (if not, why would the put up ads for more developers knowing about notation, DSP etc?). All is good, except that there's no obvious place to look for info about known Logic issues, and that Apple generally communicate less about what they are working on than most customers probably want.
