Apple has released Logic Pro 11 for macOS, featuring new AI-enhanced tools, an expanded sound library, spatial audio improvements, and enhanced MIDI and bounce capabilities.

Logic Pro for Mac is a complete collection of sophisticated creative tools for professional songwriting, beatmaking, editing, and mixing, built around a modern interface designed to get results quickly and provide more power when you need it. Logic Pro includes a huge collection of instruments, effects, loops, and samples, providing a complete toolkit for creating amazing music.

Apple releases Logic Pro 11 for Mac

New features in this version:
AI-enhanced tools
New AI-enhanced tools join intelligent tempo and pitch correction plug-ins to enhance your artistry

• A bass player and keyboard player join the drummer to complete a group of session players – all built using AI to easily create performances that respond to your direction
• Session Player can use the Global Chord Track to follow the same chord progression
• Add warmth to any track with ChromaGlow, a premium plug-in with five saturation models designed to emulate the sound of vintage analog hardware*
• Use Stem Splitter* to separate stereo audio files into stems for vocals, drums, bass, and other parts
• Session Player, ChromaGlow, and Stem Splitter also work with Logic Pro on iPad 2 – making it easy to move between projects created in Logic Pro for Mac

Sound Library
• Play any of six deeply sampled acoustic and electric basses with Studio Bass
• Play any of three meticulously sampled pianos using the studio piano
• When added to a project, loops containing chord labels will automatically populate the Chord track
• Three new producer packs available: Hardwell, The Kount, and Cory Wong
• Original multi-track project of "Swing!" by Ellie Dixon, available as an in-app demo song

Spatial Audio
• Downmix and trim options allow custom mixes for non-Atmos channel configurations
• Exported ADM BWF files have been expanded beyond Dolby Atmos to include settings for stereo and other multi-channel formats

Enhancements
• In-Place Bounce adds automatic real-time recording to external instrument zones or tracks using external hardware using Logic's I/O plug-ins
• MIDI generated by supported software instruments and effects can be routed to the inputs of other tracks for creative layering during playback or recording
• Edit more efficiently using key commands to move, extend, or resize marquee selections

*Requires Apple M1 chip or later

You can buy Logic Pro from the App Store for $199.99.

Minimum system requirements

  • macOS Ventura 13.5 or later
  • At least 6GB of free disk space is required to install the software; 72GB of disk space is required to install the complete sound library

Logic Remote minimum system requirements

iPad: Running iPadOS 14.0 or later

iPhone: Running iOS 14.0 or later*

iPod touch: Running iOS 14.0 or later*

* Smart Controls, Sound Library navigation, Smart Help, full Mixer functionality, and access to plug-in controls are available only on iPad.

  • 2114 definable keys and MIDI commands
  • 90 callable screens
  • Undo history of up to 200 steps, including undo for plug-in and mixer edits
  • Full plug-in delay compensation, also for external audio and MIDI gear
  • MIDI events with a precision of up to 1/3840th of a note
  • Audio file resolution up to 32-bit/192kHz
  • Audio I/O resolution up to 24-bit/192kHz
  • Maximum project length: 96kHz: over 6 hours, 44.1kHz: over 13 hours
  • Professional dithering algorithm (POW-r, Apogee UV22HR)
  • 64-bit mixing engine
  • Up to 16 separate voices per part
  • Over 4000 predefined chord grids
  • Tablature supports instruments with up to 16 strings in any tuning
  • Articulation Kit for intuitive keyswitching between Logic and third-party instrument articulations

Musical notation

  • Notes and rests of varying lengths
  • Adaptive multi-measure rests
  • Key and time signatures
  • Clef
  • Slurs and crescendo/decrescendo symbols
  • Various note head types including percussion styles
  • Accents, bowing marks, fermata, and other symbols for special notes
  • Clause markers
  • Trills and other ornaments, trill symbols
  • sustain pedal marking
  • Bar lines, repeat signs, repetition signs, and syllable endings
  • Chord symbols
  • Chord grids and fingering symbols
  • Page breaks and line breaks
  • Support for Bravura fonts
  • MusicXML import and export

plugins

  • 108 effect plug-ins including pedals, including 35 stompbox effects
  • 28 software instrument plug-ins
  • 9 MIDI plug-ins
  • 7 instrument and effect plug-ins supporting up to 7.1 surround sound
  • 14 effect plug-ins supporting up to 7.1.4 surround sound
  • Custom instrument tuning system, including 97 fixed tuning presets, equal temperament tuning, custom tuning, and Hermode tuning

Sound Resource Library

  • 5,953 Patches for audio, auxiliary tracks, software instruments, and output tracks
  • 13,552 Apple Loops covering a wide range of music genres
  • 1250 sampler instruments
  • 110 Quick Sampler instruments
  • 3556 Alchemy presets
  • 150 Drum Machine Designer kits and over 3,066 individual kit patches
  • 4529 plugin settings for 104 plugin groups
  • 1060 reverb spaces and distortion effects for Space Designer
  • 54 groove patterns for the Arpeggiator MIDI plug-in
  • 26 Live Loops grids
  • 4 tutorial projects
  • 161 patterns and templates for the step sequencer
  • Up to 1000 audio channel strips
  • Up to 1000 software instrument channel strips
  • Up to 1000 auxiliary channel strips
  • Up to 256 buses
  • Up to 1000 external MIDI tracks
  • 15 insert methods for internal or Audio Units effect plug-ins
  • 8 insert methods for internal or Audio Units MIDI plug-ins
  • 12 sends per channel strip, pre/post fader, or post pan
  • 32 groups for audio, software instruments, or MIDI channel strips

Control surface support

Other available plugins from third-party manufacturers

  • Frontier Design Group: AlphaTrack
  • Jazzmutant: Dexter
  • KORG: nanoKONTROL
  • M-Audio: Axiom, Axiom Pro, Axiom AIR, Oxygen
  • Novation Launch Pad: All models
  • PreSonus: FaderPort
  • Roland: V-STUDIO 20
  • Smart AV: Smart Console

Extensive support via control surface plugins

  • Apogee Electronics GiO
  • Apple Logic Remote (for iPhone and iPad)
  • CM Labs: Motor Mix
  • Custom recording light
  • Emagic: Logic Control, XT
  • EuCon protocol supports Euphonix / AVID Artist series control surface systems
  • Frontier Design Group: TranzPort
  • hexler: TouchOSC
  • JL Cooper: CS-32, FaderMaster 4/100, MCS3
  • KORG: KONTROL49, microKONTROL
  • Mackie: Baby HUI, HUI, Mackie Control, C4, Extender, MCU Pro, MCU XT Pro
  • M-Audio: iControl
  • Novation: All AutoMap compatible devices
  • Radikal Technologies: SAC-2k, SAC-2.2
  • Roland: SI-24
  • TASCAM: US-2400
  • Yamaha: 01V96, 01X, 02R96, DM1000, DM2000
  • Full support for any control hardware via MIDI Learn
  • SSL UF1, UC1, UF8

Surround sound and spatial audio

Supports multiple surround channel configurations Surround sound formats

  • Quadraphonic
  • LCRS
  • 5.1 (ITU)
  • 6.1 (ES/EX)
  • 7.1 (3/4.1)
  • 7.1 (SDDS)
  • 5.1.2
  • 5.1.4
  • 7.1.2
  • 7.1.4

Spatial audio formats

underlying format

  • 5.1 (ITU 775)
  • 7.1
  • 7.1.2

Monitoring Format

  • Two-channel stereo (suitable for stereo headphones)
    • Dolby Renderer
    • Apple Renderer (Standard Spatial Audio Description File1)
    • Apple Renderer (Personalized Spatial Audio Description File1 2)
    • Apple Renderer (head tracking, standard spatial audio description files1)
    • Apple Renderer (head tracking, personalized spatial audio description files1 2)
  • 2.0
  • 5.1
  • 7.1
  • 5.1.4
  • 7.1.4
  • Mac built-in speakers3
  • Renderer for Studio Display speakers4
  • Can open projects created with Logic 5 or later
  • Open projects created with Logic Pro for iPad
  • Open GarageBand tracks directly in Logic Pro
  • Support for Core Audio-compatible MIDI and audio hardware
  • Support for Audio Unit effects, instruments, and MIDI plug-ins
  • Import/export of AAF and XML (Final Cut Pro) projects
  • Export Dolby Atmos mixes in the ADM BWF64 file format, compatible with Apple Music
  • Create a project from an ADM BWF64 file, including a surround theme track and all object tracks and metadata
  • Import/export MIDI regions as MIDI files, export MIDI and audio regions as Apple Loops
  • Import/Export sheet music as MusicXML
  • Plays AIFF, WAV (BWF), CAF, SDII, Apple Lossless, qualified MP3, and AAC (non-qualified files will be converted to PCM format)
  • Records AIFF, CAF and WAV (BWF)
  • Bounce to AIFF, WAV (BWF), CAF, MP3, and M4A (Apple Lossless, AAC) formats
  • Burn any bounced audio directly to CD or DVD-A (PCM audio only)
  • Ableton Link sync support
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