Logic Remote 4+

Just got this for my iPad to use with GarageBand and I’m really impressed! Pretty much everything I want for editing stuff while using GarageBand feels great on a touch screen. The only thing I don’t like is that for some reason guitar pedals have been omitted from the app for some reason. I’m a guitar and bass player so I love using all of the different amps available. Those are all there but the more precise controls and knobs for the amps themselves that can be accessed on Mac can’t be accessed on this app. Nor can the pedals. I find this rather odd and disappointing because I love experimenting with the different effects I can get with all of them. Think of it, placing the pedals on the pedal board, tapping them to turn them on, making fine adjustments to the knobs would be easy, and using the whammy pedals by rubbing your finger over them would feel a lot better than clicking and dragging your finger over a touchpad or using a mouse on a computer. I’ve looked at the smart help guide on the app and there is a page for pedals but it only gives directions for using them on Mac. Hopefully they add it because being able to do everything via the companion app would make things even more seamless.

While everyone knows how great this app and Logic are, its kinda messed up, if you read all of the reviews from upset users, that you don’t do a very simple thing to prevent the issue where a users app updates and its not backwards compatible with their Logic. Apple you have the data on all the user’s machines. You know I have a Mac Pro 3,1 that only supports El Capitan and therefore only supports Logic Pro X 10.2 (I think, I forget exact version). All you have to do is block inter-system apps like Logic Remote and Keynote Remote from updating if you detect a Mac in the users account will not be compatible with the update. A lot of people will be very happy. And tbh, you should probably give people back backwards compatibility in the next release and then do this the right way, the smart way, the Apple way, going forward.
While I did end up buying a Mac that supports Catalina, I didnt buy a new one, because my hardware requirements are so specific I cant just buy a new Mac even if I wanted to. I think this is true for quite a few audio folks, so in the event this is a business strategy, it probably won’t sell as many Macs as it might frustrate some folks to “switch”. I’m sure you’ve done your market research, but still there’s enough data to prevent this in the first place, and I dont think upsetting people and breaking their setups is a good way to sell computers. Maybe if youre Microsoft, but not if youre Apple. Cheers.

I’m soooo happy to finally have Logic for iPad. I loved my iPad in concept, but without running the standard Apple apps I like I was really about to sell it. The only thing that I held out for was this and then the iPad was perfect and reasonable for me. Logic literally came in at the 11th hour as I’d listed my iPad for sale. So far I’m beyond happy with the app. I get people complaining about compatibility, but you know… I don’t use ancient doodoo machines, so I cannot relate. M1 smokes your silly Xeon crap.

Price is reasonable for a subscription. I’d hoped my $200 Mac Logic investment would carry over, but $49 a year I can live with too as long as it keeps getting worked on and added to.

FINALLY, YO! Now just start welcoming game devs in please…