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Originally Posted by Geert van den Berg  Logic 8 was kind of a special release, it took such a long time to get released.
Then Nuendo users started asking for a special Nuendo forum, but as you can see it's not as crowded as the Logic forum, it might be because not many have a copy of N4 yet, so maybe it will change, but personally I didn't find it very necessary, on the other hand, it's still fun.
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Golly,
thanks, Geert!
Seriously, though, as I pointed out above, I think there were plenty of good reasons to put up a special Logic forum for this release -- the previous ordinal release had had
so many bugs and other problems and this release was not just long-awaited by a lot of people inside
and outside the then-current Logic user base but it appeared to be a major sea change that might well have fouled up the board for months if this release had been as troubled as the previous. Kudos to Apple for pulling off a
relatively trouble free overhaul!
As I pointed out, Sonar does not inspire much drama as a rule.
Look how long after Sonar introduced its 64 bit processing engine and its 64 bit OS release that those issues (so often erroneously conflated) took to make waves outside the Sonar community... the
next version of Sonar was just about out before the rest of the DAW using world had awakened to those sea-change signaling events.
Having used CW/Sonar since 1996 when Win 95's includsion of OS level multirack audio and enhanced MIDI made modern Windows DAWs a practical reality (OS-level features that wouldn't be added to the Mac platform for another 6 years!) I've seen CW's flagship mature and grow and -- as I investigated other DAWs, there were features I liked -- but they were usually added to Sonar before long (those clockwork updates!) and the relative lack of bugs and version-to-version stability cut WAY down on the
drama angle that made the convulsions around Logic (and the recent Cubase 4 update) such vicarious fun to watch.
It makes sense to devote extra, dedicated space to products which have had such a troubled, tumultuous release history.