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Logic Pro - Technical Specifications

Minimum System Requirements

  • macOS Ventura 13.5 or later

  • 6GB of available storage space for minimum installation, or 72GB of storage space for full Sound Library installation

  • Logic Remote Minimum System Requirements

    • iPad: iPadOS 14.0 or later

    • iPhone: iOS 14.0 or later*

    • iPod touch: iOS 14.0 or later*

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

General

  • 2,114 definable key and MIDI commands

  • 90 recallable screens

  • 200-step undo history, including plug‑in and mixer editing undo

  • Full plug-in latency compensation, also for external audio and MIDI gear

  • 1/3,840-note resolution for MIDI events

Audio

  • Audio file resolution up to 32-bit/192kHz

  • Audio I/O resolution up to 24-bit/192kHz

  • Maximum project length greater than six hours at 96kHz; 13 hours at 44.1kHz

  • Professional dithering algorithms (POW-r, Apogee UV22HR)

  • 64-bit summing engine

Score Editor

  • Up to 16 independent voices per part

  • Over 4,000 predefined chord grids

  • Tablature supports up to 16‑string instruments with any tuning

  • Articulation Sets for intuitive key switching between articulations on Logic and third party instruments

  • Score symbols

    • Notes and rests for various lengths

    • Auto-adapting multi-bar rests

    • Key and time signature symbols

    • Clef signs

    • Slurs, and crescendo and decrescendo symbols

    • Various note head types, including percussion styles

    • Accents, bowing marks, fermatas and other symbols that apply to specific notes

    • Phrasing marks

    • Trills and other ornaments, and tremolo symbols

    • Sustain pedal markings

    • Bar lines, repeat signs, and Segno and Coda markings

    • Chord symbols

    • Chord grids and tablature symbols

    • Page and line break symbols

    • Support for Bravura font

    • MusicXML import and export

Plug-ins and Sounds

  • Plug-ins

    • 108 effect plug-ins including Pedalboard, which includes 35 stompboxes

    • 28 software instrument plug-ins

    • 9 MIDI plug-ins

    • 7 instrument and effect plug-ins with support for up to 7.1 surround

    • 14 effect plug-ins with support for up to 7.1.4 surround

    • Customisable instrument-tuning system, including 97 fixed tuning presets, and equal-tempered, customised and Hermode tuning

  • Sound Library

    • 5,953 total patches for audio, auxiliary, software instrument and output tracks

    • 13,552 Apple Loops covering a wide range of genres

    • 1,250 Sampler instruments

    • 110 Quick Sampler instruments

    • 3,556 Alchemy presets

    • 150 Drum Machine Designer kits with more than 3,066 individual kit piece patches

    • 4,529 plug-in settings for 104 plug-ins

    • 1,060 reverb spaces and warped effects for Space Designer

    • 54 groove patterns for Arpeggiator MIDI plug-in

    • 26 Live Loops grids

    • 4 Tutorial projects

    • 161 patterns and templates for Step Sequencer

Mixer

  • Up to 1,000 stereo audio channel strips

  • Up to 1,000 software instrument channel strips

  • Up to 1,000 auxiliary channel strips

  • Up to 256 busses

  • Up to 1,000 external MIDI tracks

  • 15 inserts for internal or Audio Units effect plug‑ins

  • 8 inserts for internal or Audio Units MIDI plug‑ins

  • 12 sends per channel strip, pre- or post‑fader, or post‑pan

  • 32 groups for audio, software instrument or MIDI channel strips

Control Surface Support

  • Additional plug-ins available 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 plug-ins

    • Apogee Electronics GiO

    • Apple Logic Remote for iPhone and iPad

    • CM Labs: Motor Mix

    • Customisable Recording Light

    • Emagic: Logic Control, XT

    • EuCon protocol support for 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

    • Comprehensive support for any control hardware via MIDI Learn

    • SSL UF1, UC1, UF8

Surround and Spatial Audio

Support for a variety of surround channel configurations

Surround 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

Bed Formats

  • 5.1 (ITU 775)

  • 7.1

  • 7.1.2

Monitoring Formats

  • Binaural (for stereo headphones)

    • Dolby Renderer

    • Apple Renderer (Standard Spatial Audio Profile1)

    • Apple Renderer (Personalised Spatial Audio Profile1 2)

    • Apple Renderer (Head Tracking, Standard Spatial Audio Profile1)

    • Apple Renderer (Head Tracking, Personalised Spatial Audio Profile1 2)

  • 2.0

  • 5.1

  • 7.1

  • 5.1.4

  • 7.1.4

  • Mac Built‑in Speakers3

  • Renderer for Studio Display Speakers4

Compatibility

  • Open projects from Logic 5 or later

  • Open projects from Logic Pro for iPad

  • Open GarageBand songs directly in Logic Pro

  • Support for Core Audio–compliant MIDI and audio hardware

  • Support for Audio Units effect, instrument and MIDI plug-ins

  • Import and export AAF and XML (Final Cut Pro) projects

  • Export Dolby Atmos mixes as ADM BWF64 files compatible with Apple Music

  • Create a project from an ADM BWF64 file complete with surround bed track and all object tracks and metadata

  • Import and export MIDI regions as MIDI files; export MIDI and audio regions as Apple Loops

  • Import and export music notation to MusicXML

  • Play AIFF, WAV (BWF), CAF, SDII, Apple Lossless, eligible MP3 and AAC (non-eligible files will be converted to PCM)

  • Record AIFF, CAF and WAV (BWF)

  • Bounce to AIFF, WAV (BWF), CAF, MP3 and M4A (Apple Lossless, AAC)

  • Burn any bounced audio directly to CD or DVD-A (PCM audio only)

  • Support for Ableton Link synchronisation

  1. Requires iPhone with iOS 16 and the TrueDepth camera required. See support.apple.com/en-au/HT213318 for more information.

  2. Personalised Spatial Audio Profile requires macOS 13 or later, iCloud and an iCloud‑enabled device.

  3. Supports built‑in speakers on a MacBook Pro (2018 model or later), MacBook Air (2018 model or later) or iMac (2021 model).

  4. Supports built‑in speakers on a Studio Display.