Apple have updated Logic Pro with some cool features, available as a FREE download with a couple of in-app purchases for their subscription service options.
What’s new in version 2.0:
- AI Enhanced Tools
- Bass Player and Keyboard Player join Drummer to complete a set of Session Players — all built with AI making it easy to create performances that respond to your direction*
- Session Players can follow the same chord progression using Global chord track
- Add warmth to any track with ChromaGlow, an advanced plug-in with five saturation models designed to simulate the sound of vintage analog hardware*
- Use Stem Splitter to separate nearly any mixed audio recording into four distinct parts: Drums, Bass, Vocals, and Other instruments**
- Session Players, ChromaGlow, and Stem Splitter also come to Logic Pro for Mac 11 — making it simple to move between projects created in Logic Pro for iPad 2
- Sound Library
- Play any of six deeply-sampled acoustic and electric basses with Studio Bass
- Perform any of three meticulously-sampled pianos with Studio Piano
- Loops that contain chord tags will automatically populate the chord track when added to a project
- Original multi-track project of “Swing!” by Ellie Dixon available as in-app demo song
- Enhancements
- Learn how to get the most from Session Players, ChromaGlow, Stem Splitter, and Sample Alchemy with several new interactive lessons
- Bounce in place adds automatic realtime recording for External Instrument regions or tracks that utilize external hardware using Logic’s I/O plug-in
- MIDI generated by supported software instruments and effects can be routed to the input of other tracks for creative layering during playback or recording
Logic Pro for iPad is a professional music creation app that puts the power of Logic at your fingertips. Logic Pro features a complete collection of sophisticated creative tools for professional songwriting, beat making, editing, and mixing — all with an interface that’s been designed from the ground up for iPad.
Use Multi-Touch in Logic Pro to play powerful software instruments with the tap of a finger and interact naturally with intuitive controls. Creative production tools — including the new Sample Alchemy and Beat Breaker plugins — make it easy to quickly make beats and explore new sonic territories, and a full featured mixer gives you everything you need to create a professional-sounding mix entirely on iPad.
Creative interface optimized for iPad.
- Play powerful software instruments and interact expressively using Multi-Touch
- Navigate large complex projects with pinch-to-zoom and swipe-to-scroll
- Quickly shape and tweak your sound using Plug-in Tiles
- Fine-tune MIDI and audio using intuitive Multi-Touch editors
- Discover powerful features and strengthen your skills with integrated guided Lessons
- Roundtrip capabilities let you open projects in Logic Pro for Mac or Logic Pro for iPad*
- Connect any Bluetooth keyboard to access powerful key commands
- Create precision edits and detailed track automation with Apple Pencil
All-new Browser
- Quickly access all Logic Pro sounds from a single location
- Easily discover inspiring sounds with a predictive filtering system
- Audition any sound in the Browser before adding it to your project
- Use the Sound Library to access an expanding collection of free sound packs containing royalty‑free loops, samples, and instruments
Professional Instrument and Effects Plugins
- Create music with a massive collection of powerful software instruments including sophisticated synthesizers, realistic acoustic instruments, and modeled vintage keyboards
- Shape your sound using high quality effects like vintage EQs and compressors, high-end reverbs, and creative multi-effects
- Build your own guitar or bass rig with Amp Designer using vintage and modern amps, cabinets, and mics
- Expand your instrument and effects library with third-party Audio Unit
Beat Making and Production Tools
- Radically reshape and reshuffle audio with Beat Breaker, a new sophisticated time and pitch morphing instrument
- Use Sample Alchemy, a sample manipulation instrument that uses Multi-Touch, to transform audio into entirely new malleable sounds
- Chop or loop any sample into a playable instrument using Quick Sampler
- Build and play custom drum kits using samples and plugins with Drum Machine Designer
- Create drum beats, bass lines, and melodic parts, and reshape sounds over time using Step Sequencer
- Use Live Loops to capture inspiration and quickly build arrangements by mixing and matching loops, samples, and your recordings
- Create authentic acoustic, electronic, or hip-hop drum tracks using Drummer, a virtual session player and beat producer
- Record external instruments or microphones by connecting an audio interface or MIDI device
Full Featured Pro Mixer
- Shape a mix using channel strips with volume faders, pan controls, plug-ins, sends, and precision automation
- Mix naturally with Multi-Touch by moving multiple faders at once
- Use the meter bridge to navigate an overview of all track levels — even with hundreds of tracks
- Create Track Stacks to organize and simplify mixing large projects
Massive Library of Sounds
- Build kits and sampler instruments with over 6,300 samples of drums, vocals, sound effects, and more
- Over 4,800 instrument and effects patches
- More than 9,000 loops in a wide range of styles
Watch the Logic Pro Guide overview of the update HERE.
Logic Pro for iPad supports any class-compliant audio interface or MIDI device.
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