Pro Tools went from strength-to-strength in the studio but also increased their offerings for the home musician. Now firmly in the new millennium, there were an increasing amount of competitive players in the DAW market. With the release of Logic Pro 7 in 2004, the user interface was shaped in the image of Apple, slowly but surely becoming the company’s ‘in-house engineer’. Logic 6 soon followed and it wasn’t long before Logic adopted the ‘Pro’ moniker, which provided a neat delineation from the scaled-down version of Logic Express.
All-in-all, it was an aggressive takeover – if you wanted to use Logic, you needed a Mac.
It also coincided with the discontinuation of Logic’s relationship with Windows. On July 1, 2002, Apple bought out Emagic, becoming the first computer company to own a music production software.
