What’s new in Logic Pro for iPad 2

Session Players: Keyboard Player and Bass Player

Bass Player and Keyboard Player join Drummer to provide a set of Session Players you can use to create professional, nuanced performances that are in sync with each other and responsive to your control. Each Session Player’s performance can be edited using a variety of performance controls, and all can follow common chord progressions to deliver realistic musical interplay. See Intro to Session Players.

• Bass Player provides a set of bass players covering a wide range of styles, from Motown to Indie Disco, with intuitive control over performance factors.

• Keyboard Player provides a set of keyboard players covering a range of playing styles using newly sampled acoustic pianos, with intuitive control over performance factors.

Studio Bass and Studio Piano plug-ins

The Studio Bass plug-in contains six newly recorded bass models inspired by the bass guitars found on countless recordings, with intuitive controls for palm mutes, articulations, and more. See Studio Bass. The Studio Piano plug-in contains three newly recorded piano models with multi-microphone volume adjustment and controls for pedal noise, key noise, and sympathetic resonance. See Studio Piano. The Studio Bass and Studio Piano plug-ins are optimized for use with the Session Players, but they can also be played and recorded independently, just like other instrument plug-ins.

Global Chord track and region chords

You can add chords to a Logic Pro project and have the Session Players in the project follow the chords, playing in sync harmonically. When you edit the chords, the Session Players’ performances change to reflect your edits. Session Player regions can have their own chords, allowing the region to play when no chords exist on the Chord track or to play different chord extensions, scales, and fills from regions following the Chord track. See Intro to chords.

Many Apple Loops also contain chords, and many Apple Loops designed to be used together share compatible chords. Apple Loops containing chords are indicated by a glyph next to the key signature in the Browser.

Control transposition with the Pitch Source parameter

You can control the transposition of regions and loops in a project using the Pitch Source parameter in the Region inspector. Different region types have different Pitch Source options, including following key signature changes and following the chords on the global Chord track. See Control transposition with the Pitch Source parameter.

Extract stems from an audio region with Stem Splitter

Using Stem Splitter you can separate a stereo audio region, such as a band recording, into stems for vocals, bass, drums, and other instrumental parts and use the individual stems on different tracks in your project. Use Stem Splitter to recover moments from demos or unfinished projects and use them as a basis for new ideas. See Extract vocal and instrumental stems with Stem Splitter.

ChromaGlow

Use the ChromaGlow saturation plug-in to add warmth and vintage character to your mixes by simulating analog audio hardware and overdriven circuits. You can choose from five saturation models to create both modern and vintage saturation. See ChromaGlow.

Route MIDI internally using Internal MIDI In

You can route and record the MIDI output of a MIDI effect plug-in or software instrument plug-in on a software instrument track to a software instrument track in your project using the Internal MIDI In track parameter. This is similar to using aux sends to route audio internally from a track to a receiving track, in addition to sending it to the main output. You can also tap the MIDI signal from different points along the MIDI signal path of a software instrument track (similar to tapping the signal from different points in the signal flow in an aux send). See Route MIDI internally to software instrument tracks.

New Lessons for Session Players, Chords, Stem Splitter, ChromaGlow, and other features

Logic Pro for iPad features interactive Lessons covering the Session Players, working with chords, Stem Splitter, ChromaGlow, and Sample Alchemy. Your progress in each Lesson is now saved when you end the lesson before completing it. You can also choose whether or not to save the Lesson project to the Projects browser. See the Use Lessons section of How to get help in Logic Pro.

New Producer packs

The Kount Producer pack features sonic explorations with meticulously crafted drum kits and loops from The Kount’s vast collection of percussion, rare instruments, and unique sounds. The Cory Wong Producer pack shows his passion for classic funk with tight rhythm guitars, deep bass grooves, smacking drums, and blazing horn lines for a collection of loops and playable drum kits. The Hardwell Producer pack includes everything from signature kick drums to custom Alchemy patches and drum loops from Hardwell’s released tunes. You can download these and other sound packs from the Sound Library. See Download additional sound packs.

Other features

• Real-time bounce for external instruments: When bouncing a project in place, Logic Pro now supports including the output from external instruments, the I/O plug-in, and external inserts in the bounce. When the Automatic Mode option is chosen in the Export > Processing Details dialog, Logic Pro determines whether to perform the bounce in real time or offline, depending on whether channels contain plug-ins requiring a real-time bounce. See Export a project to an audio file.

• Input monitoring for software instrument tracks: You can use input monitoring on software instrument tracks as well as on audio tracks. On software instrument tracks, input monitoring is useful for playing multiple tracks simultaneously, or when used in conjunction with MIDI Input and MIDI In Channel settings to play a software instrument with an external source independent of the focused track. See Use input monitoring on tracks.

• WAV now default audio recording format: The default format for audio recording is now WAV (BWF), which allows for longer recordings without interruption and provides increased compatibility with third-party audio products.

• Duplicate a project in the Projects browser: In addition to moving and copying a project, you can now duplicate a project directly in the Projects browser. See Manage projects.