November 6, 2023
UPDATE
Apple supercharges Logic Professional with highly effective instruments for music creation on Mac and iPad
Options embody a brand new Mastering Assistant, 32-bit recording, Pattern Alchemy, and Beat Breaker on Mac; a Fast Sampler Recorder mode on iPad; and extra
Right this moment Apple up to date Logic Professional with highly effective new options obtainable throughout Mac and iPad. With the brand new Mastering Assistant and its skilled palette of intuitive sound-shaping instruments, musicians can ship a release-ready combine quicker than ever. Logic Professional for Mac now will get unimaginable pattern manipulation with Pattern Alchemy, and the unconventional reshaping and reshuffling capabilities of Beat Breaker. Logic Professional for iPad gives much more highly effective options, together with Fast Sampler Recorder mode, which permits customers to shortly seize “discovered sounds” utilizing the built-in microphone in iPad and immediately create customized playable devices. Producers and beat makers with their very own collections of samples can shortly construct kits or customized devices utilizing improved multitasking options comparable to Break up View and Stage Supervisor. And customers can work simply between Mac and iPad with challenge round-tripping, taking the music-making expertise on the highway or to the studio.
New Options Coming to Mac and iPad
Mastering Assistant gives creators a fast and straightforward method so as to add that ultimate skilled polish for a release-ready combine. As soon as a combination is full, Mastering Assistant can immediately analyze the audio and make knowledgeable refinements to the sound, adjusting parts such because the dynamics, frequency stability, timbre, and loudness. Creators also can use Mastering Assistant’s preliminary processing as a place to begin after which fine-tune every setting with intuitive controls, permitting for a combination that sounds nice each within the automotive and within the membership.
Logic Professional now helps 32-bit float recording when used with appropriate audio interfaces. This helps artists reduce the digital clipping that may happen when recording extra dynamic devices or performances. With 32-bit float, even recordings made at decrease ranges might be simply amplified with out growing the noise flooring, offering studio-quality audio and suppleness in post-production.
New in Logic Professional for Mac
Launched on Logic Professional for iPad earlier this yr, Pattern Alchemy and Beat Breaker at the moment are obtainable in Logic Professional for Mac. Pattern Alchemy permits customers to remodel a single audio pattern right into a playable instrument utilizing quite a lot of methods, together with granular, additive, and spectral synthesis. Artists can now create a variety of distinctive sound beds, pads, results, and rhythms, pushing the boundaries of creativity.
With the Beat Breaker multieffect plug-in, creators can radically reshape and reshuffle audio in actual time, slicing audio, rearranging it, and including scratching results. By altering the velocity, route, quantity, and variety of repeats for every slice, musicians can effortlessly outline complicated patterns that may be modified on the fly.
The Instruments menu within the Tracks space and time-based editors now consists of Slip and Rotate instruments, enabling customers to maneuver content material inside audio and software program instrument areas with out altering the area boundaries.
Right this moment’s replace to Logic Professional for Mac introduces two new sound packs: The Hybrid Textures sound pack features a assortment of 70 patches, in addition to over 80 Apple Loops that includes Pattern Alchemy, whereas the Vox Melodics sound pack comprises a various assortment of over 475 lyrical phrases, hooks, layered harmonies, FX, and one-shots. Customers can obtain all the app’s free sound packs utilizing the Sound Library.
New in Logic Professional for iPad
The Fast Sampler plug-in permits customers to shortly create sampler devices from nearly any sound. With the brand new Recorder mode, customers can create devices and drum kits by instantly recording audio with the built-in microphone or a related audio enter, permitting for instrument creation to occur nearly wherever.
Now creators can transfer seamlessly between Logic Professional and different apps like Voice Memos or the Recordsdata app utilizing Break up View and Stage Supervisor. Break up View permits customers to open two totally different apps — or two home windows from the identical app — by splitting the display into resizable views, whereas Stage Supervisor permits customers to resize home windows, see a number of overlapping home windows in a single view or faucet to modify between apps, and extra.
Customers can shortly discover the right sound within the Browser by merely dragging up or down with a finger to preview a number of samples, loops, or devices. Moreover, customers can choose and drag their very own samples from the Recordsdata app to Logic Professional to simply construct drum kits or add stems to a challenge.
Logic Professional provides to its well-liked in-app Classes with further instruction overlaying a broad vary of subjects, together with Mastering Assistant, Pattern Alchemy, Beat Breaker, beat making, automation, sound packs, and Play Surfaces. The Hybrid Textures sound packs additionally come to Logic Professional for iPad, providing creators new materials to discover the ability and depth of Pattern Alchemy.
Pricing and Availability
- Logic Professional 10.8 is accessible right now as a free replace for current customers and for $199.99 (U.S.) for brand spanking new customers on the Mac App Retailer. Logic Professional for Mac requires macOS Ventura 13.5 or later. For extra data, go to apple.com/logic-pro.
- Logic Professional for iPad 1.1 is accessible right now as a free replace for current customers, and obtainable on the App Retailer for $4.99 (U.S.) per thirty days or $49 (U.S.) per yr, with a one-month free trial for brand spanking new customers. Logic Professional for iPad requires iPadOS 17 or later, and an iPad with Apple A12 Bionic chip or later. For extra data, go to apple.com/logic-pro-for-ipad.
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