![]() The Arrange, Matrix, Hyper Edit and Score Edit windows have also gained an extra section called Global Tracks where the user has graphical control over tempo, key and time signatures, markers, and more. ![]() Under the hood, the Apple Loops audio engine employed in Garage Band has been integrated into Logic Pro, offering a load of new features for working with loop-based music: for instance, the standard Logic region-looping facility is retained alongside the one used in Garage Band where loops are created by dragging from the end of an original audio region to the desired location. This facelift also extends to the score window, where the original bitmapped fonts have been replaced by scaleable, smoothed fonts for a more professional look when printed. Visually, the program is quite clearly still the Logic Pro we all know and love, yet it has benefited from a significant degree of 'Appleisation' most evident in the Arrange window, the menus and the preference panes, with the result that these items are much better organised and clearer to read. In fact the leap from Pro 6 to Pro 7 is so significant that it's difficult to know where to start. Inevitably, there are new features, new plug-ins and improvements to existing features, but there are also some welcome surprises, not least being the inclusion of the Waveburner CD-writing application. Any suggestions that Logic Pro is being dumbed down to make it more of a consumer product are firmly dispelled by the direction Logic 7 is taking, though not surprisingly, Apple have aimed for a greater degree of compatibility and file interchangeability with their other media software. Apple's strategy is to slot Logic Pro into their existing range of high-end media applications such as Final Cut Pro, and to this end, they've tidied up certain visual aspects of the program using what can best be described as Apple's house style. Emagic's office in Hamburg still operates under the Emagic name, but that name is no longer on the Logic box, and the fact that Logic Pro is now an Apple product has been made very clear. With its distinctive new Apple-style packaging, Logic Pro 7 is without doubt the biggest overhaul Logic has ever seen. ![]() ![]() Logic has retained backwards compatibility with Mac OS 9 for longer than most applications, but version 7 will be the first to support OS X only. Some elements may be subject to change at the last minute, but if all goes to plan, the release version will be on sale by the end of September or very early in October. A full review will follow next month when I've had a chance to use the program in anger, but in the meantime, I've learned enough to offer this detailed exclusive preview. When Apple bought Emagic two years ago, the question on everyone's lips was 'What will they do with Logic?' Now they've unveiled perhaps the most radical overhaul the sequencer has ever seen, with improvements ranging from new instruments and effects to a networking system that could eliminate CPU restrictions completely.īecause of Apple's policy of not announcing products or upgrades until they are very close to shipping, Logic Pro 7 will probably already be in the shops by the time you read this feature, written after a flying visit to Hamburg for a pre-launch preview followed by a couple of days' opportunity to play with the software for myself.
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