Logic on PC
- KVRian
- 744 posts since 15 May, 2003 from R'lyeh
Yeah Logic 5.5.1/Windows XP is it, you wont be running anything past that on a PC.
Good luck with that one, that's going to be a basic Logic Audio Platinum install with none of the instruments or plugins that everyone loves Logic for nowadays. Those didnt show up until Apple Logic Pro 6. Hopefully the XSKey still works for authorization.
Good luck with that one, that's going to be a basic Logic Audio Platinum install with none of the instruments or plugins that everyone loves Logic for nowadays. Those didnt show up until Apple Logic Pro 6. Hopefully the XSKey still works for authorization.
- KVRist
- 312 posts since 19 May, 2017 from Ukraine, Odesa
Hackintosh
- KVRAF
- 2340 posts since 23 Sep, 2004 from Kocmoc
It was horribly unstable back then (and still is, also horrible daw IMHO
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- KVRAF
- 9572 posts since 6 Jan, 2017 from Outer Space
Better get Logic for Atari… No audio though…
- KVRAF
- 2340 posts since 23 Sep, 2004 from Kocmoc
I have to say to my previous post that yeah I get it and one can make tunes with it, but in my journey through DAWs it did not make any impact to me. I classify it as a "big host" aka "too much tuning it to make actually tunes fast" - which led me to Ableton Live (Yeah, it was horrible too before version 8 came up, it started to be better). Yep we made early tunes mixed with logic and ableton.
Soft Knees - Live 12, Diva, Omnisphere, Slate Digital VSX, TDR, Kush Audio, U-He, PA, Valhalla, Fuse, Pulsar AUDIO, NI, OekSound etc. on Win11Pro R7950X & RME AiO Pro
https://www.youtube.com/@softknees/videos Music & Demoscene
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- KVRAF
- 2814 posts since 26 Jul, 2015 from Philadelphia
I did a YouTube video once on how to use Logic on Windows with the use of Parsec. At that time Parsec opened up the possibility to host a Parsec session on the Mac and we were quite surprised about how well that works. Very little latency. But while that allows you to use Logic on Windows as if it would be a Windows app, you still need a Mac on the network that serves as the host system for the Parsec session.classic wrote: Mon Oct 03, 2022 7:39 pm Just read, that it should be possible to run Logic on a Windows mashine?
Anybody here that has ever went this way and got it to work ?
All the best
classic
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- KVRAF
- 2814 posts since 26 Jul, 2015 from Philadelphia
The point was that cloud gaming systems have reached a level of quality that would allow thin client setups also in audio production. It's more a general point. The "Logic on Windows" proof of concept was more of a vaguely disguised click-bait thing.
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- KVRAF
- 2068 posts since 8 Feb, 2013 from Switzerland
Seems it's possible to install Logic DAW in a virtual machine environment inside Windows OS. But don't ask me if that's a joy to work with Logic that way.
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- KVRAF
- 2814 posts since 26 Jul, 2015 from Philadelphia
In the end you need a MacOS host system, either on the same machine or on another one in the same network. If done correctly, it is very usable. OS virtualization has come a long way.
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- KVRian
- 1418 posts since 14 Apr, 2016 from Germany
Poeple doing that since years. Hackintosh of course. I tried it out myself, was very stable even 10 years ago.classic wrote: Mon Oct 03, 2022 7:39 pm Just read, that it should be possible to run Logic on a Windows mashine?
Anybody here that has ever went this way and got it to work ?
All the best
classic

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- KVRist
- 479 posts since 23 Apr, 2006 from Berlin
I run Logic on a Hackintosh for years and it was great. It was also a lot of work to set it up and it would break occasionally.
These days you will get more performance per dollar from a real mac anyway so it’s not worth the hassle imo.
These days you will get more performance per dollar from a real mac anyway so it’s not worth the hassle imo.