Logic Pro is a Digital Audio Workstation and MIDI sequencer software application for the Mac OS X platform. Originally created by German software developer Emagic, Logic Pro became an Apple product when Apple bought out Emagic in 2002. Logic Pro is part of Apple's Logic Studio bundle of professional music applications. For other uses, see Software developer (disambiguation). ... Apple Inc. ... Code complete redirects here. ... Year 2007 (MMVII) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. ... is the 352nd day of the year (353rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... An operating system (OS) is a software that manages computer resources and provides programmers with an interface used to access those resources. ... Mac OS X (pronounced ) is a line of graphical operating systems developed, marketed, and sold by Apple Inc. ... Musical Instrument Digital Interface, or MIDI, is a system designed to transmit information between electronic musical instruments. ... The word sequencer can mean: a microsequencer in a computer CPU a music sequencer in the field of electronic music a DNA sequencer or a protein sequencer in the field of biology Sequencer (album) This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share... A digital audio workstation (DAW) is a system designed to record, edit and play back digital audio. ... A software license is a legal agreement which may take the form of a proprietary or gratuitous license as well as a memorandum of contract between a producer and a user of computer software. ... Proprietary software is software with restrictions on copying and modifying as enforced by the proprietor. ... A website (alternatively, web site or Web site) is a collection of Web pages, images, videos or other digital assets that is hosted on one or more web servers, usually accessible via the Internet. ... A digital audio workstation (DAW) is a system designed to record, edit and play back digital audio. ... Musical Instrument Digital Interface, or MIDI, is a system designed to transmit information between electronic musical instruments. ... In the field of electronic music, a sequencer was traditionally a device or piece of software that allows the user to record, play back and edit musical patterns. ... Mac OS X (pronounced ) is a line of graphical operating systems developed, marketed, and sold by Apple Inc. ... Emagic was a computer software company based in Rellingen, Germany. ... Apple Inc. ... Logic Studio is a music production suite by Apple Inc. ...

A consumer-level version based on the same interface and audio engine but with reduced features, called Logic Express, is also available at a reduced cost. Apple's GarageBand, another application using Logic’s audio engine, is included free of charge as part of the pre-installed software on all new Apple Macs. Logic Express is a cut-down version of Logic Pro, a MIDI sequencer and digital audio workstation software application maintained by Apple that runs on the Mac OS X platform. ... GarageBand is a software application that allows users to create music or podcasts. ... The first Macintosh computer, introduced in 1984, upgraded to a 512K Fat Mac. The Macintosh or Mac, is a line of personal computers designed, developed, manufactured, and marketed by Apple Computer. ...

History of the Logic sequencer

Early history

In the mid-to-late 1980s, the German company C-Lab produced a MIDI sequencer program for the Atari ST platform called Creator (the ST was an early favorite among MIDI users during the mid- and late-80s). When musical notation capabilities were added, this became Notator, and later Notator-SL. For simplicity these three are collectively referred to as Notator. Musical Instrument Digital Interface, or MIDI, is a system designed to transmit information between electronic musical instruments. ... In the field of electronic music, a sequencer was traditionally a device or piece of software that allows the user to record, play back and edit musical patterns. ... The Atari ST is a home/personal computer that was commercially popular from 1985 to the early 1990s. ...

Unlike most software sequencers (including its main rival at the time Cubase), which present a song as a linear set of tracks, Notator was a pattern-based sequencer: a song was built by recording patterns (which might represent for example Intro, Verse, Chorus, Middle-8, Outro) with up to 16 tracks each, and then assembling an Arrangement of these patterns, with up to 4 patterns playing simultaneously at any one point in the song. This more closely resembled the way that hardware sequencers of the 1970s and 1980s worked. To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ...

In its time, Notator was widely regarded as the most powerful and intuitive sequencing and notation program available on any platform, but subsequently Cubase's popularity increased and track-based sequencing prevailed over pattern-based (a situation which continues to this day).

The C-Lab programmers left that company to form Emagic, and in 1993 released a brand new program, Notator Logic, which attempted to fuse both track- and pattern-based operation (but looked much more similar to track-based sequencers than to Notator). Whilst very powerful, early versions of Logic on the Atari lacked the intuitiveness and immediacy of either Cubase or Notator, and never achieved the same degree of success. However, by this time the Atari was becoming obsolete, and part of the reason why it had been written from scratch was to make it easier to port to other platforms. The Notator brand was dropped and the software became known as simply Logic.

As subsequent versions of the software became available for Apple Mac and PC platforms, and acquired ever more sophisticated functionality (especially in audio processing) to take advantage of increased computing power, Logic gained popularity again.

Addition of audio recording

In the early 1990s, with Logic version 3, Emagic added the ability to record and mix audio into the sequencer tracks, along with its existing MIDI capabilities that had continued to be expanded as well. At the time, computers were not fast enough to record audio in "native mode", so additional hardware was needed to make it work, usually in the form of sound cards or DSP cards plugged into the computer's internal bus slots, such as the NuBus slots on Apple Macs running the Motorola 68K line of CPU processor chips. Among the systems that worked with Logic 3 were Digidesign's Audiomedia card and Pro Tools III. A sound card (also known as an audio card) is a computer expansion card that can input and output sound under control of computer programs. ... The abbreviation DSP can refer to: // Digital signal processing, the study of signals in a digital representation and their processing methods Digital signal processor, a specialized microprocessor designed specifically for digital signal processing Dylan Server Pages, a web template engine using the Dylan language Delivery Service Partner, a type of... NuBus is a 32-bit parallel computer bus, originally developed at MIT as a part of the NuMachine workstation project, and eventually used by Apple Computer and NeXT Computer. ... Macintosh, also known as Mac, is a family of personal computers manufactured by Apple Computer, Inc. ... The Motorola 680x0, 0x0, m68k, or 68k family of CISC microprocessor CPU chips were 32-bit from the start, and were the primary competition for the Intel x86 family of chips. ... CPU can stand for: in computing: Central processing unit in journalism: Commonwealth Press Union in law enforcement: Crime prevention unit in software: Critical patch update, a type of software patch distributed by Oracle Corporation in Macleans College is often known as Ash Lim. ... Digidesign is an American digital audio technology company. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ...

In the mid 1990s, Emagic released the Logic version 4, and their Audiowerk audio interface, introducing the ability for Logic to record and mix audio without requiring additional hardware, although the track counts and processing possibilities were significantly limited by the speed of the computers of those times, which were very slow relative to current systems.

Further developments

Logic 5 featured significant improvements in user interface, and increased compatibility with more types of computers, operating systems, and a wide range of native-more audio interfaces.

With Logic 6, Emagic added the availability of separately packaged software products that were closely integrated add-ons developed specifically for use with Logic, including software instruments, the EXS sampler and audio processing plug-ins. The Logic 6 package also included the stand-alone program Waveburner, for burning redbook audio CD standard-compliant CDR masters for replication, however, that application was considered a free bonus feature; it was not advertised as part of the package and did not include printed documentation. PDF documentation was included on the installer disc. WaveBurner Pro is a Mac OS X professional application (proapp) bundled with Logic Pro for assembling, mastering, and burning audio CDs. ... Red Book is the standard for audio CDs (Compact Disc Digital Audio system, or CDDA). ...

Apple’s acquisition

Apple acquired Emagic in July 2002.^[1] Support for the Windows version was dropped with the release of Logic 6 shortly thereafter. Apple Inc. ...

In late 2004, Apple released version 7 of Logic Pro, consolidating over 20 different Emagic products, including all instrument and effect plug-ins, Waveburner Pro (CD Authoring application), and Pro Tools TDM support, into a single product package. Apple also released a scaled down version of Logic called Logic Express, replacing two previous versions that filled that position called Logic Silver and Logic Gold. Apple began promoting Logic Pro as one of its flagship software ‘Pro’ applications for the Macintosh platform. Logic was also used as the basis for a modified application titled GarageBand, included at no extra charge as part of OS X on all new Apple computers. GarageBand is a software application that allows users to create music or podcasts. ...

Additions to Logic Pro 7 included: the integration of Apple Loops, Distributed Audio Processing (an innovative technology for combining the power of multiple computers on a network), 3 new instruments including Sculpture (a sound modeling synth) and Ultrabeat (a drum synth and sequencer), and 9 new effect plug-ins including Guitar Amp Pro (guitar amp simulator), and a linear phase corrected version of their 6 channel parametric equalizer. In total, Logic Pro 7 now included 70 effect plug-ins and 34 instrument plug-ins. Pro-Tools TDM compatibility, which had been a feature of Logic since version 3.5, was not supported by Logic 7.2 on Intel-based Mac computers^[2]; TDM support returned with the release of Logic 8.

Logic 8

On September 12, 2007, Apple released the Logic Studio suite that includes Logic Pro 8. Logic Pro is no longer a separate product, although Logic Express 8, which was released on the same day, remains a separate product. is the 255th day of the year (256th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2007 (MMVII) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. ... Logic Studio is a music production suite by Apple Inc. ...

Significiant changes were made for Logic 8. Alongside changes such as the new processing plug-in (Delay Designer), Apple has included features such as Quick Swipe Comping, such as that in Soundtrack Pro 2, and multi-take management. Apple also made changes to ease of use. These include the discontinuation of the XSKey dongle and a streamlined, single window interface, which is in some ways similar to that of Ableton Live, but highly customizable, or similar to the interface in Digital Performer but more consistent and easier to use. Soundtrack Pro is a music composing and audio editing application made by Apple Inc. ... Chained parallel port copy prevention dongles. ... Ableton Live is a loop-based software music sequencer for Macintosh and Windows by Ableton. ... Digital Performer is a full-featured Digital Audio Workstation/Sequencer software package published by Mark of the Unicorn (MOTU) of Cambridge, Massachusetts for the Apple Macintosh platform. ...

Other additions to the new interface include consolidated arrange windows, dual channel strips, built in browsers (like that in GarageBand) and production templates. GarageBand is a software application that allows users to create music or podcasts. ...

Features

The Space Designer plugin attempts to emulate the characteristic echo and reverberation of a physical environment, using a technique called convolution.

The Ringshifter effect, new in version 7, which adds a 'metallic sheen' to music.

Logic Pro provides software instruments, synthesisers, audio effects and recording facilities for music synthesis. It also supports Apple Loops - professionally-recorded instrument loops that can be used as beats and are royalty-free. Audio effects include distortions, dynamics processors, equalization filters and delays. The Space Designer plugin, for example, simulates the acoustics of audio played in different environments, such as rooms of varying size, or producing the echoes that might be heard on high mountains. Logic can work with MIDI keyboards and control surfaces for input and processing. It also features real-time scoring in musical notation, supporting guitar tablature, chord abbreviations and drum notation. Image File history File links Space_Designer_Logic_Effect. ... Image File history File links Space_Designer_Logic_Effect. ... This article is about audio effect. ... In mathematics and, in particular, functional analysis, convolution is a mathematical operator which takes two functions f and g and produces a third function that in a sense represents the amount of overlap between f and a reversed and translated version of g. ... Image File history File links Ringshifter. ... Image File history File links Ringshifter. ... The term synthesiser is also used to mean frequency synthesiser, an electronic system found in communications. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... “Fortissimo” redirects here. ... For information about Canadas fiscal transfer system, see Equalization payments. ... In audio signal processing and acoustics, an echo (plural echoes) is a reflection of sound, arriving at the listener some time after the direct sound. ... Musical Instrument Digital Interface, or MIDI, is a system designed to transmit information between electronic musical instruments. ... For other uses, see Guitar (disambiguation). ... Example of numeric vihuela tablature from the book Orphenica Lyra by Miguel de Fuenllana (1554). ... Typical fingering for a second inversion C major chord on a guitar. ...

Logic Pro and Express share much functionality and the same interface. Logic Express is limited to two-channel stereo mixdown, while Logic Pro can handle multichannel surround sound. Both can handle up to 255 audio tracks, depending on system performance (CPU and hard disk throughput and seek time). Logic Express is a cut-down version of Logic Pro, a MIDI sequencer and digital audio workstation software application maintained by Apple that runs on the Mac OS X platform. ... Multichannel audio is the name for a variety of techniques for expanding and enriching the sound of audio playback by recording additional sound channels that can be reproduced on additional speakers. ... CPU can stand for: in computing: Central processing unit in journalism: Commonwealth Press Union in law enforcement: Crime prevention unit in software: Critical patch update, a type of software patch distributed by Oracle Corporation in Macleans College is often known as Ash Lim. ... Typical hard drives of the mid-1990s. ... In communication networks, throughput is the amount of digital data per time unit that is delivered over a physical or logical link, or that is passing through a certain network node. ... Seek time is one of the several delays associated with reading or writing data on a computers disk drive. ...

The application also features distributed processing abilities, which can function across an Ethernet LAN. One machine runs the Logic Pro app, while the other machines on the network run the Logic node app. Logic will then offload the effects and synth processing to the other machines on the network. If the network is fast enough (i.e. gigabit Ethernet) this can work in near-real time, depending on buffer settings and CPU loads. This allows users to combine the power of several Macintosh computers to process Logic Pro’s built-in software instruments and plug-ins, and 3rd party processing plug-ins. This article or section should include material from Distributed programming This article or section should include material from Distributed system Distributed computing is the process of aggregating the power of several computing entities to collaboratively run a single computational task in a transparent and coherent way, so that they appear... Ethernet is a large, diverse family of frame-based computer networking technologies that operate at many speeds for local area networks (LANs). ... Lan can stand for several things: A local area network Lan (airline) formerly LanChile Lan Peru Län, a kind of administrative division used in Sweden Lan Mandragoran, a fictional character in the Wheel of Time fantasy series by Robert Jordan. ... Gigabit Ethernet (GbE or 1 GigE) is a term describing various technologies for transmitting Ethernet frames at a rate of a gigabit per second, as defined by the IEEE 802. ...

See also

• Logic Studio
• Logic Express
• Logic Control
• Audio Units
• Core Audio

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References

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External links

• Official Logic Pro home page
• Logic Pro Tech Specs
• Logic Resources
• RU Mac Users Wiki Logic Pro Reference
• List of celebrity Logic Pro users
• The History of Logic