Flex Time:

With a new collection of features integrated into Logic Pro Studio 9, Flex Time allows you to easily manipulate timing and tempo aspects of your music, quickly and creatively without cutting and splicing. Use features like Audio Quantize, and Tempo/Flex Imports to get your beats and rhythms up to speed.

 

New Production Tools:

Now you can tackle any aspect of the recording and mixing process right from your Mac, and get it done in a fraction of the time it would take with multiple mixers in a recording studio. With tools like Bounce in Place you can render your effects with ease, use more than 450 warped impulse responses with the Space Designer, and improved Notation and chord grids make sharing your compositions in any format a breeze.

Guitar Gear:

Logic Studio Pro 9 now lets you mix and match amp heads, EQ, reverbs, and  add mics with a new collection of stompboxes.

 

Live Performance:

Included with Logic Studio Pro 9 is the newly enhanced MainStage 2, bringing you a host of new backing tracks and a live loop recorder. Multi-take recording has never been so easy to set up.

 

Logic Pro Benchmark Features 

 

Consolidated Arrange windows:

With the new Arrange window, all edit and browser windows are consolidated into a single, efficiently designed workspace featuring shortcut menus and customizable toolbars. So you can write, record, edit, and mix — all from one location without navigating a maze of windows.

 

Built-in browsers:

Intelligent, integrated browsers provide fast access to your content. The browser lets you preview and select any plug-in or channel strip setting. The Spotlight-searchable File browser helps you find and grab any file on your system. And the Apple Loops browser allows you to easily audition and insert Apple Loops. 

 

Dual Channel Strips:

View and manipulate the entire channel strip for the selected track and any auxiliary or output channel strip to which it is sending a signal — without ever leaving the Arrange window.

Simplified track setup:

Create and configure multiple audio, instrument, or external MIDI tracks from a single, simple setup window. 

 

Production-ready templates:

Start making music fast by choosing from a variety of professionally crafted templates designed for different music styles and production scenarios. You can also save and recall your own customized templates from the same, well-organized template browser.

 

Powerful MIDI creation:

Logic Pro is the gold standard for creating and editing MIDI-based music. A legendary timing engine provides rock-solid straight and swing quantization, and a wealth of MIDI production tools lets you edit performance characteristics while monitoring the results in real time. 

 

Apple Loops:

Build songs using thousands of included royalty-free music loops that automatically conform to your project’s tempo and key. An integrated browser with advanced search features helps you find Apple Loops quickly, and specialized Software Instrument loops offer more creative freedom by allowing you to edit the instrument, processing, or original MIDI performance.

Songwriting:

Capture and develop your musical inspirations with unprecedented ease. You can record multiple takes and build the perfect comp, then create a groove by selecting Apple Loops from a newly integrated Loops Browser. Fill out your composition with Studio Instruments and burn your finished production directly to CD — all in Logic Pro. 

 

Music notation:

Logic Pro lets you transform MIDI performances into music notation in real time. Create fully ornamented, professional scores with a complete set of notation tools, including comprehensive layout and print options, instrument transposition, guitar tablature, drum notation, and adaptive lyric input. 

 

Compose to picture:

Advanced music-for-picture features make scoring and sound design easy. Flexible video display options let you view synchronized QuickTime movies directly within the interface or choose to display on a separate monitor using various output options, including Digital Cinema Desktop. You can also locate scene changes visually via a thumbnail track, or automatically mark transitions with the scene detect option. 

Transient selection:

Snap-to-transient selection lets you extend marquee selection borders to the next or previous transient for fast, efficient drum editing and sound replacement.

 

Advanced tracking:

Logic Pro 8 provides a streamlined track setup window that lets you create and record-enable multiple tracks instantly. Work efficiently with features like seamless punch recording and input monitoring for listening to audio tracks that are not record-enabled. CAF file format support allows you to record extended-length projects of up to 6 hours at 96kHz. 

 

Effortless multi-take recording:

Region-based take management streamlines the process of recording, organizing, and auditioning multiple takes and overdubs. Record passes are automatically tucked into an expandable take folder where they can be conveniently recalled and colorized. Entire take folders can be moved and edited just like standard regions.

Editing tools:

Improved audio editing features give you incredible flexibility and sample-accurate precision directly in the Arrange window. Graphically stretch and compress regions with click-and-drag simplicity. You can perform destructive edits on multiple noncontiguous regions and tracks using the built-in editor or an external sample editor such as Soundtrack Pro 2. 

 

Advanced comping:

Breakthrough Quick Swipe Comping dramatically streamlines the process for building the perfect track. Just swipe over the best portions of each take of an overdub or multi-take recording and a seamless comp is created — complete with transition-smoothing crossfades. Multiple comps and autosave let you experiment with performances and ensure that your work is never lost. 

 

Graphic beat mapping:

Easily conform any audio or MIDI track to bars and beats using powerful beat-mapping features. Create tempo tracks based on a selected guide track, or simply drag bar and beat guides to downbeats in an audio file or MIDI region. 

 

Complete mixing desk:

Create the perfect mixer configuration with up to 255 audio, software instrument, and auxiliary channels, along with up to 32 mix groups and as many output channels as your audio hardware provides. Each track supports 15 plug-ins and 8 pre-, post-, and post-pan sends with full latency compensation to keep everything in perfect sync. Logic Pro 8 also lets you record busses and integrate outboard hardware into your own mixes. 

 

Automation:

Automate channel strip and plug-in parameters on the fly or set values manually for even greater precision. You can simultaneously view and edit automation for single or multiple tracks, including multiple parameters per track. Track grouping provides simultaneous writing and editing of automation for multiple tracks, and the curve tool helps you create more natural-sounding transitions. 

 

Dynamic channel strip creation:

Dynamic channel strip creation streamlines recording and mixing by automatically adding auxiliary and output channels to your project as needed. For example, when you create a bus send, Logic Pro creates an auxiliary channel strip to receive that bus. You can also create auxiliary channel strips for multi-output instruments with a single click.

 

Optimized mixer views:

New mixer views help you visualize the signal flow of any audio path by displaying only relevant channel strips. 

 

Virtually limitless processing power:

Distributed audio processing technology allows you to harness the processing power of multiple computers on a network, providing virtually limitless plug-in processing power. 

Multichannel file support:

Play, record, and process multichannel, interleaved audio files. Surround level metering lets you monitor volumes for all channels within a single channel strip.

 

Multichannel bussing:

Logic Pro supports end-to-end, multichannel signal routing. You can submix surround tracks or use sends to route audio to surround sound auxiliary tracks.

 

Graphic surround panning:

Precisely manipulate the positioning of audio in a Quad, LCRS, 5.1, 6.1, or 7.1 surround field. 

 

Surround plug-ins:

True Surround plug-ins such as Space Designer and Delay Designer let you explore state-of-the-art surround processing, while multi-mono support lets you use any mono or stereo Logic Studio or Audio Units plug-in in surround. The Down Mixer plug-in makes it easy to continue working on surround projects even if you’re temporarily using a stereo-only system.

 

Deliver in surround:

Burn uncompressed surround stems directly to DVD-A or transfer bounced files to Compressor for industry-standard Dolby Digital AC-3 encoding and preview. 

 

MobileMe backup and sharing:

Back up personal channel strip settings, plug-in settings, and key commands to your MobileMe account for easy access from any computer connected to the Internet. You can also selectively share your favorite settings across a local or Internet-based network. 

 

Hardware freedom:

Logic Pro can be used with any audio interface that works with Mac OS X, so you never have to worry about restrictive proprietary hardware requirements.

 

Single folder:

Gather and save all project-related assets in a single folder, making it easy to back up and transfer projects between computers or locations. 

 

Frozen tracks play anywhere:

Freeze Tracks provides an easy way to play large projects on less powerful systems or on computers that do not have the original project plug-ins input.