Hi,
tl;dr - the questions:
(a) How does Live / FL Studio compare in terms of buggy-ness and stability wise?
(b) Anything that really bugs you in Live / FL?
I've recently (~2 months now) started production using Logic Pro X and have run into some WTF-worthy bugs. In order of annoyance, not necessarily severity:
- Incorrect cursor being displayed, apparently an ongoing bug
- Copy doesn't always work reliably (alt-drag clip)
- Window positions getting messed up when I reload a session, 'cause why not?
- NI Battery crashing, kills Logic as well - happens a lot when changing multi-out settings :-/
- Dragging audio clips from audio browser sometimes doesn't work (target / grab handle is not obvious)
- Sometimes, the first note of midi regions doesn't trigger (yes, I've tried quantise with no effect and re-setting the regions)
- Dragging midi clips into project causes an GM device to be created, including extra tracks in the mixer
- Sometimes, empty midi channels default to mono, and will not switch to stereo even after loading a VST in stereo mode
- UI is inconsistent - i.e. some of the built-ins and especially the "environment window"
- Melodyne workflow is painful - e.g. setting the transfer project folder to your LPX project folder seems like a nice way to keep everything sync'd, that is until you do a "clean up" and accidentally delete the transfers....
- Chopping vocals feels harder than it needs to be (admittedly this one is probably on me and lack of experience)
I know that no DAW is perfect, and accept (and love) that the in-depth performance optimisations are about as good it gets on an mid-2014 MBP. Sounds petty, but I'm finding the above sufficiently frustrating to be distracting.
I have used (and have licenses for) Bitwig 2 as well as Studio One 3 / Notion 6. Bitwig is a nice and clean modern DAW and has nice plugin sandboxing but the audio stretching sound rough compared to LPX. S1 is nice and has seamless Melodyne support - I plan to keep this for non-EDM stuff.
I will probably migrate back to PC with my next laptop (due to photography), so may not remain attached to LPX in any case. By then Live 10 / FL 20 should be out :-).
Your experience greatly appreciated and thanks in advance!
thzp
Submitted October 03, 2017 at 06:27PM by thzp https://www.reddit.com/r/edmproduction/comments/743kar/anyone_with_experience_of_both_logic_x_and/?utm_source=ifttt