I'm very interested in this thread. As a PC guy with FLStudio historically, recently got a Mac (not just for music but basically bought for me by my work) and went out of pocket for Logic studio. Lots to like about Logic, but I'm still learning. I would have thought that with the tight hardware/software integration of the Mac, there is pretty much no excuse for any hardware that says it works with it to be buggy, but I think I'm reading otherwise here? Sounds like all the same bugs that occur on PC.
I will say that I'm starting out with Lion, and between that and Logic 9.1.5 it is a mess of crashes and lockups. I understand Lion is new, so I'm actually sticking with out of box synths and samplers (except for Zebra which I loaded) for now. I know they patched yesterday and I haven't had a lot of time to spend with it, but what a mess, crashes at least once an hour with nothing but a factory install and Logic synths running. Seems like OSX Lion is the Apple version of Vista, only worse. Hope it gets better. Saw lots of folks bitching about Lion, so I guess its just a waiting game for patches. Welcome Apple to the Microsoft world.
Anyway I was hoping the Mac/Logic integration would be tight enough to inspire me to get a hardware Virus again. Please do keep us posted, if you have good or bad luck with AU Virus Control. One thing I have noticed is that certain things like my MIDI controller aftertouch just work (assuming the synth patch acts on it). That part is nice and I assume would be true with the AU version of VC?
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