Bah, Logic 9 is so good I'm not sure I'll be upgrading... ;)
Man, this caught me off guard this morning - even before my morning coffee. That's the thing w/ Apple and Logic - there's no sneak peak or such. You wake up one morning just like every other morning since 2009 and then you see an article by EM in your Facebook Newsfeed and you realize that this isn't a hoax - Logic X is here.
My X wishlist or list of tiny improvement wasn't all that big. Little things like having MIDI plug-ins and access to an arpeggiator w/o having to mess w/ the environment layer will be cool. That's the thing w/ Logic - you could do any and everything w/ the modular-ish thing called environment. But having that stuff conveniently warped as a plug-in definitely is a plus.
I don't use pitch correction all that much. The only vocalist I record is my wife and it'll be raining frogs before you find a note she can't hit or a vocal line she can't nail. I'm curious to see it in action, but I may not be the best person to ask about that stuff.
Same for drummer - though it looks like an interesting idea, I doubt that it'll replace Superior Drummer.
I love the synths in Logic so it's good news to read that they've received some TLC and that there's been a few additions to the family. Having just recently added a bass to our rig, I'm also curious to hear the new bass amp.
Overall, it doesn't come across as anything revolutionary. As I've been saying all along, version 9 still is pretty much as advanced as anything out there. The most obvious thing it was missing was in track pitch correction and that has been fixed.
The one other thing which I thought they might have worked on is an equivalent to VST Expression in Cubase. That thing still puts Cubase in a class of its own, but rounding up, I still think Logic is much better.
And cosmetically, I was expecting that they'd come up w/ something darker, as they did for Final Cut. They didn't disappoint. Considering the insane amount of hours I spend staring at that GUI in a week, darker is usually better, though I feel that it's one of the toughest type of color scheme to get right. I think that they might have come up w/ something relatively good. Some things do remind me of certain darker DP themes.
Anyway, as always, I'm sure that even the info on the web site is merely scratching the surface and that there'll probably be lots of little things to accommodate my workflow.
Since it requires migrating to a new OS, I can't just jump on it right now. I have a couple of things I need to warp up in Logic 9 before, and for that, I prefer to stick w/ my current OS. But I'm pretty excited about it.