Is there a Logic Pro X equivalent for Windows?

[Steve vRS]

My son ‘needs’ Logic Pro X for his A level Music Tech course. Therefore he ‘needs’ a Mac Book.

Is there an equivalent software package for Windows as for the cost of a base Mac Book you can get a super HP laptop!

Thanks in advance!

[flacko]

there are loads. none are as good, but Fruity Loops is the easiest to manouvre. however, id recommend Cubase, especially as its a-level. they'll surely teach him a lot that can be done in Cubase

if he need complexity, there's Reason. Ableton if he wants to be hipster about it, but thats difficult to pick up

[flacko]

also, you can easily sail your pirate ship into the bay and find the software i mean treasure

[deckster]

Ask his tutors.

There are many DAWs available for both Mac and Windows, and the tutors will doubtless have their own ideas about which is best to use. These range from free to exceptionally expensive.

I will say one thing for sure: in A level they won't get close to touching the sides of what Logic Pro can do. It's an incredibly powerful and complex piece of software that many music professionals with years of experience never really get to grips with.

[Steve vRS]

Not quite the morals I want to instill into the youngster.....

I think you hit the nail in he head in your first sentence. None as good. But Are these alternatives easy to use and intuitive as I imagine the Apple software would be?

[pip t]

It's a wee while since I've been involved with DAWS, but don't forget about ProTools, by Avid, which certainly used to be very commonly used professionally. They have a version called 'ProTools First' which is cheap/free, albeit with reduced functionality, but would teach him the use of an industry standard (Or used to be - someone else may say things have moved on).

https://www.avid.com/pro-tools-first

It can also run on Mac or PC....