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Originally Posted by gearsux  For every person on this forum who says they are jumping ship and moving from Pro Tools to logic, there are three moving from Logic to Pro Tools 8 |
Of course I agree that PT for a while has been way ahead of Logic in terms of elastic time and audio quantizing, and your statement above could be right, but according to
this poll, which contains question about people moving from Logic to PT and vice versa, more than three times as many report that they have moved from PT to Logic than the other way round.
In a few years both Logic and PT are going to be more than good enough to do everything we need, and people will then make their choices based on other considerations: innovative-ness, being compatible with colleagues and studios, price, freedom to choose the interfaces you want, stability, track/plug-in count, ease-of use and so on.
PT8 was in many ways a response to Logic 8, and of course Logic needs improvements in the audio editing department. Logic had elastic audio and audio quantize before anyone else (AFAIK), but it was destructive and worked on mono/stereo tracks only. Of course Apple knows that they need to catch up regarding non-destructive, multi-track elastic audio as well.
The main problem for Digi with Lebolt moving over to Apple may be that he has been as inside Digi's plans and possible visions as it gets. The other problem Digi has is of course that people's former willingness to pay for DSP power has been a main income for them, and this market has changed a lot already - and will continue to change dramatically.
Apple has taken a massive bite of the video editing market, they are getting lots of people who earlier needed PT over to the various native solutions, and they could even head towards the live market if they so wished: They could make a live oriented software that supported all kinds of 3rd part hardware controllers, based on native DSP - which already is more than powerful enough to deal with a live show. *
Digi simply has to tune into all this, and maybe DL's move over to Apple isn't the best thing that could happen to them - but who knows... maybe Apple acquires Avid one day as well?
I don't know anything about the Lebolt move than what has been written on various sites today, but at least it seems to confirm that Apple (of course) still is focusing on pro audio.
* [ETA: I guess you already can use Logic (or maybe even Mainstage?), and any CoreAudio supporting hardware controller to do that already - at least to some extent.]