Garageband Vs Logic Pro - Which one should I choose?

[Dood]

Yes, hence why I concluded, “So, given the learning curve, if you can get Logic and intend to pursue music production, go straight for it. ” and made no mention of having to buy 3rd plugins, just the side effect caused by the sorts of GAS we end up suffering from.

 

From a career point of view, if the OP goes to specifically study a course or work in a studio where DAWs are used, then they are more likely to use a full-fat system from the get-go. So sure, by all means start on GarageBand, its actually a good app, but, like me with video production, I saw no point faffing around with iMovie, rather saving the time and energy in learning an industry standard application instead, because it was part of my career path.

 

Horses for course, sure - I’m just focussing on what the OP was actually asking for: “I want to pursue music production as a career and make sure that in future the DAW should have all the features that a music producer need.”

 

However, in the defence of third party plugins whilst I am here - they aren’t all about ‘presets for stupid people’, there’s some insanely good virtual instruments, workflow utilities and as I’d mentioned, plugins that help users learn too. Not to mention the piles of free offerings that Logic does not include natively such as Neural Amp Modeller and SSL 360’s controller software. Of course, as you’d mentioned your Simmonds add-ons, plenty of brands offer proprietary software versions of their hardware also not available in Logic natively - none of which are designed to primarily dumb down the creative process, but to aid it. Still, each to thier own.