Fantastic New Features And A Ugly Broken Update 10.3
I want to start by saying. I’ve 100% loved Logic Pro X since its release 2013, its my favorite audio editing app and I use it weekly for podcasting and audio editing. Its terrific. Runs great on my old but tricked out 2011 MBP. Top notch really. But this update…. I played the new features, love the Alchemy stuff and the color coding good stuff. BUT HERES THE BIG BUT: It 100% broke ALL MY TEMPLATES, they couldn’t find their missing files and even when located they where greyed out. Unusable terrible bug really you should get on that Apple. I personally absolutely LOVED the 2016 LPX UI it was beatiful and easy on the eyes. This new 2017 version seems like someone intentionally made all the text jagged, replaced all the icons I was acostomed too and then turned the CONTRAST way way way up. I’ve spoken to may LPX users on Reddit and it seems pretty split on the new UI colors its either a love or hate thing. I personally hate it. It literally hurts my eyes. And I don’t want to have to futz with the monitor settings just to get it back to usability. The consesus online is that its great is you do your editing during the day and in the sun. Terrible if, like me, you use it during evening hours. I literally tried to edit a podcast on it last week and my eyes couldn’t take it. For now. I see no good reason to upgrade to 2017’s version 10.3. I’ve already used Time Machine to take me back to LPX 10.2.4 and I will be sticking with that untill such time as Apple Developers gives me the option to at the very least CHANGE the look back to a much more darker theme. Its unfortunate I hit the crushing template killer bug and that the UI is so ugly to me. (Looks like the old Logic 9 UI which was terrible) As a long time user I can’t recoomend this version update. If your a new user unaccustomed to how it looked before you may very well do just fine. In my research, it also seems most people like me complaining about it are on older Macs, and the new Retina Macs make this new verison look good. So I beg you Apple. I love this program to death. Please give us older Mac users our Dark beautiful theme back, heck make it a option! Like a Light mode and a Dark mode yes please!? And fix the really wonky jagged text issue on older machines please and thank you. Still love the app. Just not this version.
Tim T about Logic Pro, v10.3