Great value, totally worth the purchase!

I had my heart set on other more expensive DAWs, however, I’m finding my music creation and production experience to be quite enjoyable! The inclusion of Alchemy made a huge difference. The newer tool skins seem to help, the older ones still REALLY REALLY need to be replaced (*nudge* *nudge* *wink* *wink). Many of the older synths and drum machines aren’t set up as intuitively as I’d like. I’m hoping Apple plans to overhaul or replace them. Some of the documents need an update also, only being available in a web browser or just not being exhaustive (Hint; generate ibooks and pdfs of them all including the alpha/beta documents on changed/new instruments). There are excellent youtube videos out there to learn how to use the DAW, if you find a few that seem amatuerish keep searching! Make sure you download all available sound libraries: Logic Pro X > Sound Library > Download All Available Sounds. Also enable advance mode or you’ll be missing half the buttons, options, and tools you see in any tutorial video you watch: Logic Pro X > Preferences > General > Advance > Show Advanced Tools > Enable All. An important NOTE, if you look at the “View” and “Window” dropdown menu’s most of the options in there will help you to toggle the various panes and tools on and off. CMD K will open the virtual keyboard once you’ve loaded a software instrument (click the little keyboard icon if you dont own a midi keyboard, this will enable you to play with your computer keyboard). The inspector button (on the upper left in the toolbar a circle with an i in it) will display the active track and the loaded instrument (click this in case it disappears and you cant find it). In the track area of the screen if you cant hear your audio output chances are the red R (arm the track for recording) button hasn’t been pressed, or you’ve hit the M or S buttons in the same area. M mutes that track and S solos that track. If you’ve clicked the S button on another instrument the currently selected instrument will be unheard. In the Track area just to the right of the instrument you can click on the numbered measures bar to make a yellow bar appear, which you can then resize to create a looping area. NOTE: I’ve included the tips because once you move up the learning curve just a bit and get past the initial frustrations the rest of the Logic Pro X experience is generaly smooth sailing and VERY enjoyable. Its FUN and a GREAT escape! I give the value 5 stars, I give the daw 4-4.5 stars because of some of its older tools/instruments, the sample library is useable, although not stellar. I suspsect everyone will have different sample tastes anyway.

Babaloo Rothschild about Logic Pro, v10.3