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The performance is great, it's very stable, they frequently release powerful updates.
It's a small company, but they are all ex Ableton and clearly know what they are doing.
I do it on an almost daily basis and no one has figured out a great way yet.
There is a new partnership potentially that will allow it but DAW makers need to opt in and most have not.
The best way to do it is to render everything as audio and import into the new DAW.
You can export the midi data as a midi file but you will still need to set up all your virtual instruments from scratch.
Really though how important is it to open old files in the new DAW?
I do it because I move between Pro Tools and Logic a lot, all the midi sequencing gets done in Logic, all the mixing and most of the audio editing gets done in Pro Tools.
Once something is done though I never really need to go back to it.
I would ignore OMF and AAF myself.
They don't work as well as they should and are a hassle from beginning to end.
Unless you are working in broadcast video the benefits over just doing a straight audio export are minimal.
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I need to spend some more time with it.
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If Logic is oil painting then GB isn't quite crayons but it is on its way there.
@TTony definitely download the Logic trial but also doing a few songs in GB might be a good way to start with the Logic approach.
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I lied to myself. I hate being my own engineer and only use it for song demos or sample arrangements for bandmates. But there were (at the time and maybe still are) a couple of things about Logic that I do use which GB on macOS did not support.
- Tempo changes. If your music has more than one tempo in the same tune, and you're not just recording "free tempo" audio but using a click track or software instruments, I think you need Logic for that. It also has the delightful ability to take an audio demo (say a stereo audio recording of your band ) and import it so that you can see how your drummer can't keep to a tempo or how much the lovely ebb and flow of your tune plays with the timings.
- Time signatures. GB used to only support 4/4, 3/4 and 6/8 IIRC, and it was set at a project level. Logic allows you to program changes in different sections of the same song and supports far more variations.
If it wasn't for those things, I'd probably have stayed with GB on macOS, which is free. But I paid £149 for Logic (in 2015) and it has been upgraded for free several times since then. It's paid for so I'm OK about using it despite being a very primitive user only scratching on the surface.
Used it reasonably happily for a few years, just doing simple things.
When I wanted to do more involved things, I looked at Logic as the obvious upgrade path but it was only available as download (I had various conversations with Apple support) and I only had very poor broadband connections back then, which ruled it out. I also needed a better interface than I'd been using with iPad/GB, so ended up buying a PreSonus interface+S1 bundle which worked well for many more years.
But I'm now downloading my 90-day free trial of Logic. 90days should be enough time to do a reasonable compare/contrast against S1.
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Although I've now hit that standard Apple blocker which I mentioned right at the outset. I can't install Logic without first updating OSX from 13.3 to 13.5. I'm always wary of OS updates as - invariably - something will break in other applications and/or features will be "improved" in a way that I don't find improving.
I had some major GAS for Logic recently, but it doesn’t run on my 10 year old Mac Mini… and to be honest Reason does all I need.