Thanks for nothing, Apple Logic Pro

Since a friend gifted me with Apple Logic Pro earlier this year, I’ve created dozens of songs and released two LPs. I am hardly an expert in Logic—the software is deep—but my past experiences as a musician and analog recordist made most of Logic’s interface easy to grasp and use. If you’d done multi-track recording before the digital revolution, the mental model just worked. Then this weekend I opened Logic hoping to start work on LP № three and found that the interface had changed. Instead of my clean, well organized wall of instruments and patches, a spaghetti wall of samples, patches, plug-ins and presets, all drunkenly jumbled together, defied me to make sense of it or even locate the instruments I rely on. Better metaphor than spaghetti wall: If you watched Hannibal, the 2010s Mads Mikkelsen-starring American horror thriller slash love story TV series based on Thomas Harris’ collected works, you may have seen an episode involving a totem pole of human corpse parts. An aged…

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