What’s new in Logic Pro 10.5

Live Loops

With Live Loops, you can arrange and play with musical ideas in real time in a grid of cells, each containing a musical phrase or loop. You can start and stop cells freely while keeping everything in sync with the beat and the project tempo. Additionally, you can record a Live Loops performance to the Tracks area. Live Loops is designed for use in live performance, and can be used with compatible hardware control surfaces. You can use MIDI controller assignments to start and stop cells and scenes, record to a cell, enable performance recording, activate key commands, and perform other functions. See Logic Pro for Mac Live Loops overview.

Remix FX

Remix FX includes a set of buttons, sliders, and XY pads you can use to control real-time effects commonly used in electronic and dance music. It makes it easy to scratch mix a project, like a DJ using a turntable, to play audio in reverse, to stop or downsample the song, and to apply a variety of other dance-oriented effects. You can also use Remix FX together with Live Loops. See Remix FX in Logic Pro for Mac.

Step Sequencer

Step Sequencer features a grid with steps you can edit to create repeating patterns. Each row controls either a sound or an automation parameter, and each step represents a definable length of musical time. You can easily create drum and rhythm-based patterns, as well as instrument and melodic patterns. You can adjust a wide range of parameters for individual steps, including velocity, pitch, gate time, and more; and edit pattern and row settings including pattern length, loop start and end points, playback position, and rotation. See Overview of Step Sequencer in Logic Pro for Mac.

New drag-and-drop workflows

You can quickly create new tracks and choose one of several instrument plug-ins, insert an instrument plug-in on a software instrument track, replace the sound for Alchemy or Quick Sampler, create Sampler zones, and add samples to Drum Machine Designer pads using drag and drop. See Create tracks using drag and drop in Logic Pro for Mac, Insert an instrument plug-in on a track, Replace the sound for Alchemy on a software instrument track, Replace the sound for Quick Sampler on a software instrument track, Create Sampler zones, and Drum Machine Designer Pad controls. There are also drag-and-drop workflows for Live Loops.

Sampler

Sampler is a full-featured software sampler in a modern design that provides synthesis, mapping, and zone editing areas in a single window interface. You can show and hide different sets of controls to easily switch between synthesizer processing and sampler instrument editing. The zone editor offers detailed control over start, end, and loop points, while the mapping editor enables fast and flexible assignment of samples across the keyboard. Sampler supports all existing EXS24 mkII instruments. See Sampler overview.

Quick Sampler

Quick Sampler makes it easy to capture audio and to create a sampler instrument using a single audio file. You can record directly to Quick Sampler or drag an audio file to use as the starting point for an instrument. Quick Sampler analyzes the audio and can intelligently create slices, find loop points, and adjust sample length and pitch independently. You can make adjustments in the waveform display to fine-tune the results, and add synthesizer-type processing using filters, envelopes, and other controls. See Quick Sampler overview.

Drum Synth

This powerful but easy-to-use plug-in creates synthesized drum sounds. Choose from a diverse collection of drum models and shape their sound with up to eight simple controls. Drum Synth is also directly integrated into the bottom of the Drum Machine Designer interface, giving you a focused set of sound-shaping controls. See Drum Synth overview.

Drum Machine Designer enhancements

Drum Machine Designer is the ideal way to create, organize, and interact with electronic drum kits and drum kit pieces. You can use it for electronic Drummer tracks, as well as on instrument channel strips. To help you quickly edit sounds, Quick Sampler and Drum Synth are directly integrated into the Drum Machine Designer interface. In the Drum Machine Designer window, you can view and edit Kit Controls for the overall kit, or Pad Controls for an individual kit piece. Use drag-and-drop workflows to quickly reorder pads, and add samples by dragging them to pads. Drum Machine Designer provides a flexible platform for groove production when combined with Step Sequencer. See Drum Machine Designer overview.

Logic Remote

You can control Live Loops and Remix FX in Logic Remote. Play, queue, and edit cells, trigger scenes, record to cells, record a performance to the Logic Pro Tracks area and more, from your iPad or iPhone. See the Logic Remote User Guide.

More content

• Over 2,500 new loops in a variety of instruments and genres covering modern and classic hip-hop, electro house, reggaeton, future bass, techno, and transition effects

• 17 Live Loops starter grids covering a range of electronic and hip-hop genres

• More than 70 new Drum Machine Designer kits

• Over 1,500 new patches

• Original multi-track project of Billie Eilish’s “Ocean Eyes”