Award Sounds Music, Photography & Consultancy

I like to upgrade one thing at a time, knowing that I can reverse the upgrade at any point if possible. I like the look of Apple's Logic Studio 8. At the price, it's got to be the best value DAW currently on the market. I'm using Logic Pro 7.2 and relatively happy with it, but I'm beginning to feel the pull towards the upgrade.

The main 3rd party plug-in I use is Native Instruments' Kontakt 2. And I can't find any source that states that Kontakt 2 and Logic Studio 8 will work together. I have seen plenty of posts that state that the multi-output abilities from Kontakt into Logic are messed up. But they are in the versions I'm using, I just find my workarounds (e.g. automating the faders of the aux channels that I've used as outputs). It's not nice, but it allows me to do what I need to do.

The main trouble is that Native Instruments have also released news of their forthcoming Kontakt 3. That makes it more interesting. More importantly, I can imagine NI not continuing with patches for Kontakt2 soon. So at some point Kontakt2 will have got as far as it's ever going to get. Expect anything more and you'll have to upgrade to Kontakt3. I'm not complaining, that's the way it is with software. I can understand why, although I don't always agree.

My guess is that to get Kontakt to work nicely with Logic Studio 8, I'm going to have to upgrade to Kontakt3 as well. That'll mean two upgrades in a short amount of time. And even then, I'd guess that I could be in the same situation (having to automate aux faders to automate volume changes) just with newer software. 

Add to that the forthcoming OS X upgrade to Leopard - which so far nothing is forcing me towards - and it becomes even more interesting.

Technorati Tags: