Apple has denied rumours that it is laying pro audio app Logic Pro to rest. The company responded to one concerned user who emailed CEO Tim Cook this weekend saying: "I want to assure you the team is still in place and hard at work on the next version of Logic Pro." The response came from Apple Director of Product Marketing Xander Soren rather than Apple's Tim Cook. Soren can be seen demoing Garageband here.
Pro Tools Expert sources claimed last week that in Europe Apple has just two pro application specialists and no plans to hire any one else, leading to speculation that the company would stop developing the software.
Earlier this year the lack of a truly up-to-date Mac Pro and the scaled down Final Cut X left many pro users concerned that Apple was neglecting its professional user base. Apple CEO Tim Cook did confirm earlier this year that a new Mac Pro will be launched in 2013.
Logic Pro 9 was last updated in 2009.
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office recently granted Apple a patent for polyphonic note detection - the ability to parse out single pitches and tones from a plurality of voices. AppleInsider suggested that this could make its way into a future version of Logic Pro.
With polyphonic detection, a user would be able to tune all strings on a guitar with a single strum, explains the site.
According to some Mountain Lion users, Logic Pro is experiencing major lags, crashes, and unresponsiveness.
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DoxyCycling said on Tue, 04 Dec 2012
"With polyphonic detection, a user would be able to tune all strings on a guitar with a single strum, explains the site."
How can Apple possibly be awarded a patent for this? TC Electronic have had the Polytune guitar pedal on the market for 2 years now which does exactly that. Celemony's Melodyne editing software also uses polyphonic pitch detection to identify and manipulate individual pitches within a polyphonic source. Surely both of these companies hold patents for the technologies they have developed?
DoxyCycling said on Tue, 04 Dec 2012
"With polyphonic detection, a user would be able to tune all strings on a guitar with a single strum, explains the site."
How can Apple possibly be awarded a patent for this? TC Electronic have had the Polytune guitar pedal on the market for 2 years now which does exactly that. Celemony's Melodyne editing software also uses polyphonic pitch detection to identify and manipulate individual pitches within a polyphonic source. Surely both of these companies hold patents for the technologies they have developed?
Dragonfly said on Mon, 10 Dec 2012
There's a lot of Pro uncertainty with Apple which isn't healthy. They've scaled back focus on their server technology, FCP X is more like iMovie +. The general feeling is Apple want to move away from Pro and Pro-sumers and just cater for the Facebook / twitter generation.
I think Apple shouldn't underestimate the cachet that they gain from being the makers of technology used in Hollywood and by most bands / big Music studios. If Apple just makes solutions in Corel's league, Apple's prestige as a serious player will suffer as a result.
If Apple need to ignore anything that SJ said, I think it's the notion that any serious work will start with someone whipping out their tablet, it'll never happen ! Not because it won't be technologically possible to cram everything in, but because the form factor is totally wrong for any serious work.
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