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Apple today released a major update for Logic Pro X and explained the whole thing in more detail in a press release.
Anyone who uses Logic Pro X can now look forward to a major update. Apple has made numerous changes and added dozens of features, including Live Loops. The first details of the upcoming update leaked out last month. So the whole thing is not entirely surprising. Apple expressed to Logic Pro X version 10.5 as follows:
With Live Loops on Mac, Logic users can now create music in a new, free-form, non-linear way. Loops, samples, and recordings can be organized in a new musical grid where musicians can perform spontaneously and capture different arrangement ideas in the timeline. From there, tracks can be further refined using all of Logic's professional production features.
If you want to see all the features in detail, you can read the update description below. The app is available in the macOS App Store for around 229.99 euros. Download ready.
Live Loops
- Compose music by triggering cells that you arrange in a grid with loops, samples and your recordings
- Play your ideas for free arrangements and record them in the track area
- Add Remix FX to play creative effects like filters, gates, repeaters and bitcrusher
- Perform Live Loops and Remix FX with Logic Remote on your iPad or iPhone using multi-touch gestures to simultaneously trigger different loops or effects
sampler
- Create and edit complex multi-sample instruments using drag-and-drop workflows
- A new, modern design for synthesis, mapping and zone editing in a single window
- Integrated zone editor with extensive control options for start, end and loop points
- Mapping editor for quick and flexible assignment of samples to keys
- By integrating Flex Time into samplers, sounds can be played for the same length and regardless of pitch
- Automatically convert MIDI-capable hardware and software instruments into sampler instruments with Auto Sampler
- Support for all existing EXS24 instruments
Quick Sampler
- Import individual audio files to create instantly playable sample instruments
- Use Quick Sampler to automatically identify the root note and optimal loop points and adjust the project tempo
- Use Segmentation mode to split a vocal or drum sample into multiple segments that can be triggered on a keyboard
- Record live samples with a microphone, external hardware, or from tracks or buses
Drum Machine Designer
- Create your own drum kits by moving and arranging samples with Drum Machine Designer
- Access Quick Sampler or Drum Synth controls directly on each pad
- Easily assign instruments or third-party plug-ins to pads
- Play notes chromatically to create bass lines or other melodic parts
step sequencer
- Create your own beats, melodies and effect automations with a user interface that is based on classic drum machine workflows
- Create and edit patterns with separate control over velocity, repeat, frequency, offset, step rate, skip and slurs for each line
- Use patches as a sound source, including custom kits created with Quick Sampler and Drum Machine Designer
- Includes a media library with 150 rhythmic and melodic patterns
Additional content
- Over 2,500 new loops with numerous instruments and genres such as modern and classic hip-hop, electro house, reggaeton, future bass, techno and transition effects
- 17 Live Loops entry-level grids from numerous electronic and hip-hop genres
- Over 70 new Drum Machine Designer kits
- Over 1,500 new patches
- original multi-track project "Ocean Eyes" by Billie Eilish
Additional functions
- Create synthesized kicks, snares, toms and hi-hats with dedicated sound shaping controls using the Drum Synth plug-in
- Move single or multiple audio files or software instrument regions into empty track headers to instantly provide options for creating Sampler, Quick Sampler, Drum Machine Designer or Alchemy instruments
- Many other improvements including stability (Image: Apple)
