Welcome
- 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 10.3
- What’s new in Logic Pro 10.0
- Introduction to Logic Pro
- Logic Pro main window
- Projects
- Playback and navigation
- Tempo, key, and time signature
- Patches
- Arranging regions
- - Piano Roll Editor
  - Audio Track Editor
- Drummer
- Smart Controls
- Live Loops
- Mixing
- Apple Loops
- Smart Tempo
- Sharing
- What is Logic Pro?
- Workflow overview
- Logic Pro project basics
- Advanced tools and additional options
- Undo and redo edits
- Manage Logic Pro content
- How to get help
- Overview
- Projects overview
- Create projects
- Open projects
- Save projects
- Delete projects
- Control Logic Pro projects using Logic Remote
- Preview projects in the Finder
- Close projects
- View project information
- 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
- Overview
- - Remove silent passages
  - Uses for Remove Silence
- - Create groove templates
  - Import 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 Audio Track Editor
- Use automation in the Audio Track Editor
- Overview
- View multiple MIDI regions
- Split chords
- Automation/MIDI area in the Piano Roll Editor
- Open other editors
- Overview
- Work with Producer Kits
- Convert Drummer regions to MIDI regions
- Flex Time and Pitch overview
- Use Varispeed to alter the speed and pitch of audio
- Logic Pro 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
- Overview
- Track-based vs. region-based automation in Logic Pro
- Show automation curves
- Choose automation modes
- - Select, copy, and move automation
  - Delete automation
- Snap automation to grid positions
- Edit automation in the Automation Event List
- Write automation with external controllers
- Smart Controls overview
- Show Smart Controls for master effects
- Choose a Smart Control layout
- Automatic MIDI controller assignment
- Map screen controls automatically
- Map screen controls
- Edit mapping parameters
- Use parameter mapping graphs
- Open the plug-in window for a screen control
- Rename a screen control
- Use articulation IDs to change articulations
- Assign hardware controls to screen controls
- Compare Smart Control edits with saved settings in Logic Pro
- Use the Arpeggiator
- 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
- Edit cells
- Edit scenes
- Work in the Cell Editor
- Bounce cells
- Record a Live Loops performance
- Change Live Loops grid settings
- Control Live Loops in Logic Pro with other devices
- Overview
- Load and save patterns
- Modify pattern playback
- Edit steps
- Edit rows
- Step Sequencer inspectors
- Customize Step Sequencer
- Global Changes overview
- - Add arrangement markers
  - Edit arrangement markers
- - Transposition overview
  - Add and edit transposition points
- Control project volume
- Overview
- Add notes
- 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 songs to SoundCloud
- Share a project to GarageBand for iOS
- Logic Pro surround overview
- Environment overview
- Common object parameters
- - Environment Layers overview
  - Create, name, delete, and switch layers
- Customize the Environment
- Video and synchronization overview
Touch Bar shortcuts
- Learn about Effects
- Learn about included Instruments
- - Alchemy overview
  - Name bar
  - - Preset browser overview
    - Browser results list
  - - Main filter controls
    - Filter types
  - Master voice section
  - Alchemy extended parameters
- - Drum Kit Designer overview
  - Edit pane
  - Use Drum Kit Designer
  - Extended parameters
  - Drum Kit Designer mappings
- - Drum Machine Designer overview
  - Logic Pro Drum Machine Designer interface
  - Grid Kit Controls
  - - Pad controls bar
    - Use Logic Pro Drum Machine Designer pad controls
  - Kit Tone and Effect Smart Controls pane
  - Kit Piece Tone and Effect Smart Controls pane
- - Logic Pro Drum Synth overview
  - Logic Pro Drum Synth Kicks
  - Logic Pro Drum Synth Snares and Claps
  - Logic Pro Drum Synth Percussion
  - Logic Pro Drum Synth Hats and Cymbals
- - ES1 overview
  - Global parameters
  - - Filter parameters overview
    - Drive the filter to self-oscillate
  - Amplifier parameters
  - MIDI controller assignments
- - ES2 overview
  - ES2 interface
  - - Use the dynamic stage
    - Enhance sounds with the Sine Level control
  - ES2 integrated effects processor controls
  - Use ES2 in Surround mode
  - Extended parameters
  - - Use randomization parameters
    - Restrict randomization
- - EFM1 overview
  - Modulation parameters
  - Global parameters
  - Output parameters
  - Create random sounds
  - Extended parameters
  - MIDI controller assignments
- - ES E overview
  - Oscillator parameters
  - LFO parameters
  - Filter controls
  - Envelope controls
  - Output parameters
  - Extended parameters
- - ES M overview
  - Oscillator parameters
  - Filter and filter envelope controls
  - Level envelope and output controls
  - Extended parameters
- - ES P overview
  - Oscillator parameters
  - LFO parameters
  - Filter controls
  - Envelope and level controls
  - Integrated effects processor
  - Extended parameters
- - - EVOC 20 PolySynth overview
    - Vocoder basics
  - EVOC 20 PolySynth interface
  - Analysis parameters
  - (U/V) detection parameters
  - Formant filter controls
  - Modulation parameters
  - Output parameters
  - Vocoder history
  - EVOC 20 block diagram
- - Logic Pro Quick Sampler overview
  - Add content to Logic Pro Quick Sampler
  - Logic Pro Quick Sampler waveform display
  - Use Flex in Logic Pro Quick Sampler
  - - Logic Pro Quick Sampler Mod Matrix pane
    - Logic Pro Quick Sampler LFO controls
  - Logic Pro Quick Sampler Pitch controls
  - Logic Pro Quick Sampler Filter controls
  - Quick Sampler filter types
  - Logic Pro Quick Sampler Amp controls
  - Logic Pro Quick Sampler extended parameters
- - Retro Synth overview
  - Analog oscillator controls
  - Sync oscillator controls
  - - Table oscillator parameters
    - Use Waveset menu functions
  - FM oscillator controls
  - Filter controls
  - Filter types
  - Amp and effect controls
  - Global and controller settings
  - Extended parameters
- - Sampler overview
  - Load and Save sampler instruments
  - Sampler articulation handling
  - Sampler memory management
  - Sampler extended parameters
- - Sculpture overview
  - Sculpture interface
  - - Use pickup parameters
    - Spread controls
  - Global parameters
  - Amplitude envelope parameters
  - Use the Waveshaper
  - Filter parameters
  - Output parameters
  - Use surround range and diversity
  - Assign MIDI controllers
  - Extended parameters
- - Learn about the Studio instruments
  - Section MIDI channel assignments
- - Ultrabeat overview
  - Ultrabeat interface
  - Synthesizer section overview
  - Filter section controls
  - Distortion circuit controls
- - Learn about the Utility instruments
  - External Instrument controls
  - Klopfgeist controls
- - Vintage B3 overview
- - Vintage Clav overview
  - Vintage Clav interface
  - Extended parameters
  - - D6 Clavinet history
    - D6 mechanical details
- - Vintage Electric Piano overview
  - Vintage Electric Piano interface
  - - Model parameters
    - Pitch parameters
  - Extended parameters
  - - Rhodes models
    - Hohner and Wurlitzer models
  - MIDI controller assignments
- - Vintage Mellotron overview
  - Vintage Mellotron controls
- - Legacy instruments overview
  - - Bass
    - Church Organ
    - Drum Kit
    - Electric Clav(inet)
    - Electric Piano
    - Guitar
    - Horns
    - Piano
    - Sound Effects
    - Strings
    - Tuned Percussion
    - Voice
    - Woodwind
    - Tonewheel Organ
- - Synthesizer basics overview
  - Synthesizer fundamentals
Glossary

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 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 Logic Pro Remix FX.

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 Logic Pro Step Sequencer overview.

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, 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 Logic Pro 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 Logic Pro 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 Logic Pro 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.

Logic Pro User Guide