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I am currently installing Logic Studio! I had a cracked copy that I messed up and let "update" and then needed a serial number... but I did have it long enough to KNOW that I needed this wicked program. So I went today and bought it. The freaking box weighs like 10 pounds. The manual is literally an inch and a half thick, but I know already that it is easy to use and very familiar to those who came up on FLS. It is easy to see where FLS got their interface ideas from. The included effects blow away every other software that I have tried. The included convolution reverb is just sick. The presets are just class where so many have cheese for presets. Folks that love Live would easily get into Logic. Much of what is available in Live is there. One of the features that I like is that if you tell it what key a loop is in it can change it to fit the key of your song and put it in time. No guessing... Nice!

Downside? The installer is estimating a 6 hour installation for some reason!!!!! LOL Dang!

Now ProTools 7.4 has some nice new features that I love too like Elastic Audio, which allows you to time stretch loops as you like but also Quantize AUDIO. Now some of you Pros may not need these little tricks, but for the rest of us it is a God-send.

I have been debating upgrading to Reason 4 but I have not yet. The new interface is not to my liking. It doesn't seem user friendly anymore. Unlike Logic... familiarity is all gone.

Anyways, what do you guy folks think of the new stuff that is out? What are you using on Mac?