
Logic Pro - Tech Specs
Year introduced: 2013
Minimum System Requirements
- macOS Sonoma 14.4 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 18.0 or later 
- iPhone: iOS 18.0 or later* 
- iPod touch: iOS 18.0 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 
- 1/3840-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 6 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/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, 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 
- Custom instrument-tuning system including 97 fixed tuning presets, equal-tempered, custom 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 
- Custom 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/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/Export MIDI regions as MIDI files, export MIDI and audio regions as Apple Loops 
- Import/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 
- Requires iPhone with iOS 16 or later and TrueDepth camera. See support.apple.com/en-gb/HT213318 for more information. 
- Personalised Spatial Audio Profile requires macOS 13 or later, iCloud, and an iCloud‑enabled device. 
- Supports built‑in speakers on MacBook Pro (2018 or later), MacBook Air (2018 or later) or iMac (2021 or later). 
- Supports built‑in speakers on a Studio Display.