The App Store is accessible directly from the dock on your desktop w/ the latest revisions of OSX. I think it was implemented sometimes earlier this year.
Logic is actually pretty efficient in terms of performance. The plug-ins and softsynths are very easy on the cpu, and most of them are very, very good. Depending on how old you laptop is, you may be able to squeeze decent performance out of it.
The compressor, in particular, is my absolute favorite compression plug-in - a bit like the Sonitus one, in that, it has all those different modes (digital, opto, fet, vca, vari-mu), but, to me, it sounds much tighter/punchier. It can even be set up to emulate the infamous SSL bus compressor, and the results aren't that far from the Waves plug-ins - some presets are floating around on the web.
In fact, I've often tried to replace the bundled plug-ins w/ 3rd party's when mixing, but I always find myself going back to Logic's own, at least for EQ, Gate, Compression. Unless I find the money to buy the Duende suite, I don't see that changing anytime soon.
My only wish would be to have different, more radical types of hi pass filter than Butterworth for the EQ.
post edited by Rain - 2011/12/10 08:15:49