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- What’s new in Logic Pro 10.7
- What’s new in Logic Pro 10.6
- What’s new in Logic Pro 10.5
- What’s new in Logic Pro 10.4
- What’s new in Logic Pro 10.3
- What’s new in Logic Pro 10.2
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- - Piano Roll Editor
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- Drummer
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- What is Logic Pro for Mac?
- Logic Pro project basics
- Use menu commands and key commands
- Use the complete set of Logic Pro features
- Undo and redo edits
- Manage Logic Pro content
- How to get help
- Hardware connection overview
- Projects overview
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- Use Logic Remote to control Logic Pro projects
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- Tracks overview
- Control timing with the groove track
- Use selection-based processing
- Edit track parameters
- Overview
- Use the metronome
- Using loops and other media in Logic Pro
- Bookmark folders in the All Files Browser
- Import compressed audio files
- Arranging overview
- - Remove silent passages
  - Uses for Remove Silence
- Create groove templates
- Overview
- Select audio regions
- Cut, copy, and paste audio regions
- Move audio regions
- Trim audio regions
- Split and join audio regions
- Snap edits to zero crossings
- Delete audio regions
- Use Flex Time and Pitch in the Logic Pro for Mac Audio Track Editor
- Use automation in the Audio Track Editor
- Overview
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- Split chords
- Automation/MIDI area in the Piano Roll Editor
- Open other editors
- Drummer Overview
- Work with Producer Kits
- Convert Drummer regions to MIDI or pattern regions
- Flex Time and Pitch overview
- Use Varispeed to alter the speed and pitch of audio
- Logic Pro for Mac advanced editors overview
- Mixing overview
- - Channel strip types
  - Channel strip controls
- Set channel strip input formats
- Set channel strip pan or balance positions
- Mute and solo channel strips
- Work with channel strip settings
- Surround panning
- Use the I/O Labels window
- Undo and redo Mixer and plug-in adjustments
- Automation overview
- Track automation vs. region automation
- Show automation curves
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- - Select, copy, and move automation
  - Delete automation
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- Edit automation in the Automation Event List
- Write automation with external controllers
- Smart Controls overview
- Show Smart Controls for master effects
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- Rename a screen control
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- Automate screen control movements
- Live Loops overview
- Start and stop cells
- Work with Live Loops cells
- - Record to cells
  - Record and edit takes in cells
- Change loop settings for cells
- How the Live Loops grid and Tracks area interact
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- Edit scenes
- Work in the Cell Editor
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- Use Step Sequencer with Drum Machine Designer
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- Step record Step Sequencer patterns
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- - Add arrangement markers
  - Edit arrangement markers
- - Transposition overview
  - Add and edit transposition points
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- Overview
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- Use automation in the Score Editor
- Share a score
- Sharing overview
- Share songs to the Music app
- Share songs using AirDrop
- Share songs using MailDrop
- Share a project to GarageBand for iOS
- Share a project to Logic Pro for iPad
- Overview of surround and spatial audio
- - Overview of spatial audio with Dolby Atmos
  - - Bed tracks and object tracks
    - Rendering a Dolby Atmos mix in Logic Pro for Mac
- - Surround Panner overview
  - Surround Panner parameters
- - 3D Object Panner overview
  - 3D Object Panner parameters
- - Bounce surround audio files
  - Export ADM BWF files
- Video and synchronization overview
Touch Bar shortcuts
- Environment overview
- Common object parameters
- - Environment Layers overview
  - Create, name, delete, and switch layers
- Customize the Environment
- - Effects overview
  - Add, remove, move, and copy plug-ins
- - Instruments introduction
  - Add, remove, move, and copy plug-ins
  - Use multi-output instruments
- - Alchemy overview
  - Alchemy interface overview
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  - - Preset browser overview
    - Browser results list
  - - Main filter controls
    - Filter types
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  - Alchemy Extended parameters
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  - Edit pane
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- - Drum Machine Designer overview
  - Drum Machine Designer interface
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  - - Pad controls bar
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    - Overdrive the filter
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- - ES2 overview
  - ES2 interface overview
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- - EFM1 overview
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- - ES E overview
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  - Extended parameters
- - ES M overview
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- - ES P overview
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    - Vocoder basics
  - EVOC 20 PS interface
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  - (U/V) detection parameters
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  - Add audio to Quick Sampler
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  - - Mod Matrix pane
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  - Quick Sampler filter types
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    - Use the Wavetable menu
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- - Legacy instruments overview
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- - Synthesizer basics overview
  - Synthesizer fundamentals
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Share a project to Logic Pro for iPad

You can open and edit projects in Logic Pro for iPad that were created in Logic Pro for Mac, and you can use AirDrop or MailDrop to quickly send projects to anyone. When you share projects from Logic Pro for Mac to Logic Pro for iPad, there are best practices that you can follow.

Best practices for sharing projects to Logic Pro for iPad

You can consolidate your project in Logic Pro for Mac, which combines the assets used and copies them into the project. This helps you avoid attempting to load projects with missing files.

Tip: When you want to continue working on a project in Logic Pro for iPad, it’s helpful to include all the assets and files used in a project so that the project opens correctly. So before sharing to an iPad, be sure to save all assets into your project in Logic Pro for Mac. To do this, you can choose which files to copy into your project package when saving.

If your project in Logic Pro for Mac uses Audio Units plug-ins or Audio Unit Extensions that are not installed as Audio Unit Extensions on your iPad, you can bounce or freeze any tracks that use these before you share the project and open it in Logic Pro for iPad. This is also true for tracks using Drummer Producer Kits.

Tip: For Audio Units instruments, you can also use Auto Sampler in Logic Pro for Mac to create a sampler instrument that you can play in Logic Pro for iPad.

Some instruments and effects available in Logic Pro for Mac provide only playback compatibility in Logic Pro for iPad. You can still load projects in Logic Pro for iPad that use these plug-ins, but you can’t edit their parameters.

Logic Pro for iPad doesn’t support projects in surround, so you need to convert any surround settings in your project to stereo before sharing and opening on an iPad. For information on how to convert surround projects, see Convert spatial audio and surround projects.

Projects created in Logic Pro for Mac with any of the following features can’t be opened in Logic Pro for iPad (in such cases, a dialog appears while the project is loading that tells you which features are present):

Surround and spatial audio
Binaural panning
Projects saved in folders (not as packages)
Sample rates greater than 96 kHz
Projects in which the primary ruler is set to time instead of bars and beats
Projects starting at a position other than 1 1 1 1
Drummer Producer Kits
Arrange folders (with multiple tracks)
External MIDI tracks (without External Instrument plug-ins)
No output tracks

Working with projects from Logic Pro for iPad

If your project in Logic Pro for iPad uses Audio Unit Extensions that are not installed as Audio Units plug-ins or Audio Unit Extensions on your Mac, you can bounce or freeze any tracks that use these before you share the project and open it in Logic Pro for Mac.

Prepare projects for Logic Pro for iPad

The following tasks can help you prepare your projects before you share them and resolve any issues when trying to open them in Logic Pro for iPad.

Create a consolidated copy of project assets

In Logic Pro, choose File > Project Management > Consolidate (or use the Consolidate Project key command).
Select the checkboxes for the file types you want to copy into the consolidated project, then click OK.

Copy files into an existing project package

In Logic Pro, choose File > Project Settings > Assets, then select the checkboxes for all the assets you want to save in your package.

Save a project as a package

In Logic Pro, choose File > Save As.
In the Save As dialog, enter a new name for the project.
Next to “Organize my project as a,” select “Package.”
Select the type of assets to copy to the project, then click Save.

For more information about managing project assets, see Manage project assets.

Freeze a track

You can freeze any tracks that use Audio Units plug-ins not installed as Audio Unit Extensions on your iPad. This allows you to play back the tracks in your project in Logic Pro for iPad and hear any plug-ins used on those tracks.

In Logic Pro, click the Freeze button in the track header.
If the Freeze button is not visible, you can show it or configure track header components.
In the Track inspector, choose Pre Fader from the Freeze Mode pop-up menu. This freezes the track signal with all effect plug-ins. When selected, the Freeze button appears blue.
To unlock the track, click the Freeze button again.

Bounce one or more tracks in place

You can bounce any tracks that use Audio Units plug-ins not installed as Audio Unit Extensions on your iPad. This allows you to play back the tracks in your project in Logic Pro for iPad and hear any plug-ins used on those tracks. Make sure the Bypass Effect Plug-ins checkbox is unselected.

In Logic Pro, select the track.
Choose File > Bounce > Track in Place (or use the Bounce Track in Place key command).
In the Bounce Track In Place dialog, set the following parameters:
- Name field: Enter a name for the bounce file in the field. The name defaults to the region name of the first selected region, with the extension _bip added at the end.
- Destination buttons: Define the track on which the bounce file is placed. You have two options:
  - New Track: Creates a new audio track below the selected track, and places the bounce file on that track.
  - Replace Track: Replaces the existing track, and places the bounce file on it.
- Include Instrument Multi-Outputs checkbox: Select to include aux channel strips with multi-output signals of the instrument in the bounce process. Otherwise, only the channel strips of tracks with selected regions are bounced.
  - As Additional Tracks checkbox: Select to create additional bounce files for every aux with any multi-output of the selected multi-output software instrument as input source.
- Bypass Effect Plug-ins checkbox: Make sure this checkbox is unselected to include all plug-ins on the source track during the bounce process.
- Include Volume/Pan Automation checkbox: Select to have volume and pan automation performed during the bounce process, with their result influencing the bounce file. Otherwise, the volume and pan automation is simply copied, not performed.
- Normalize pop-up menu: Choose between three states of normalization:
  - Off: Turns off normalization.
  - Overload Protection Only: Allows downward normalization in case of overloads—levels above 0 dB, which would lead to clipping—but no normalization in case of lower levels.
  - On: Allows full bidirectional normalization.
- Restore Defaults button: Click to set all parameters in the dialog to their default settings.
Click OK to trigger an in-place bounce of the selected track or tracks.

Following the bounce in place, the original track content (all regions, and all automation data except for volume, pan, and sends) is lost, and the original instrument or track channel strip is reset. You can use the Undo command if you want to return to the pre-bounce state. For more information about bouncing, see Bounce in place overview.

Set the channel strip panning mode (for projects using binaural panning)

In Logic Pro, do one of the following:
- Click the Output slot of the channel strip, then choose Balance or Pan.
- Control-click the Pan knob, then choose Balance or Pan from the shortcut menu.

For more information, see Overview of binaural panning and Set channel strip pan or balance positions.

Set the ruler to use bars and beats

In Logic Pro, choose File > Project Settings > General, then select the “Use musical grid” checkbox.

Unpack and delete an arrange folder

In the Logic Pro Tracks area, Control-click the folder header area, then choose Folder > Unpack Take Folder to Independent Tracks (mute inactive) or Unpack Folder/Take Cell to New Tracks from the shortcut menu.
Control-click the folder track header, then choose Delete Track from the shortcut menu.

Note: Projects created and last saved in Logic Pro for Mac version 9 or earlier (with the filename extension .logic) don’t appear in the New Project Chooser in Logic Pro for iPad and can’t be opened.

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