That's more flexible and requires less overhead it speeds up project load times, and it means they now work with Flex Pitch.Įlectronic drum manipulation interface: Tweaking and livening up an electronic drum, dance, or hip-hop percussion performance requires lots of pad manipulation and knob twiddling. Real-time fades: Instead of generating audio fade files that bundle with each of your projects, fades are now computed and performed in real time. That makes it infinitely easier to tweak performances and then move those clips around, or loop them, without having to copy the automation over and over again. Region-based automation: Now you can write automation directly to a region, instead of having it only on a track-by-track basis. This time around, Logic gets drummer personalities for techno, house, dubstep, and other electronic and hip hop styles. You can make them as neat as Logic's own bundled plug-ins, as well as mix and match between them in different folders.ġ0 electronic drummer personalities: Drummer brought some serious session player chops to an automated drum track in Logic Pro X 10.0, but it was largely focused on acoustic playing. Plug-in organizer: Finally, after years of messy, nested third-party plug-in menus, you can now organize your plug-ins however you wish. The interface also scales perfectly to 5K Retina levels, if you've got one of the fancy new iMacs. There's also a new dbx 160-inspired Classic VCA emulation mode, and everything is eminently more tweakable. But for now, based on our hands-on experience over the past five days, here are some of our favorite upgrades in this version of Logic Pro X.Ĭompressor: Logic's venerable compressor-always a good sounding, flexible plug-in-gets a huge visual upgrade, with different faces for each of the main modes.
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Ahead of the announcement, we got to spend some early hands-on time with a pre-release version of the software, running on a 15-inch MacBook Pro with Retina display that Apple loaned to us. We're already working on our full review of Logic Pro X 10.1.