#Going pro with logic pro 8 pro#
So there you have it: MusicRadar's ten most exciting and intriguing new features in Logic Pro 9. Somewhat less significant but no less welcome are such things as the facility to name and colour the dual mixer channels in the Inspector, the white keyline that now appears around the currently active pane in the GUI, and the movement of many menu entries to more sensible and intuitive locations.Īll in all, the little things add up to a Logic experience that just feels more cohesive, polished and, dare we say it, logical. Multicore CPU support has been vastly improved, for example, as has Quick Swipe Comping, which now enables the moving of comps to new tracks without having to flatten them, as well as improved editing. NEXT PAGE: Convert to Sampler Tracks, Amp Designer and PedalboardĪs well as those headliners, Logic Pro 9 introduces countless smaller improvements and tweaks to workflow and usability. Audio can now be quantised, for example, in exactly the same way as MIDI, with transient markers standing in for MIDI note events Varispeed enables you to speed up or slow down your entire project just by activating Varispeed mode and changing the global tempo and with Selective Track Import (more on this later) you can combine recorded tracks from different Logic projects, with everything conforming to the same tempo. Since Flex Time has clearly required an overhaul of Logic Pro's entire timestretching engine, a few other useful features have come about as a result. Using the Flex Tool, markers can then be locked in place or dragged along the timeline, taking the attached transient with it and timestretching everything before and after it up to the previous or next locked marker.Ĭleverly, the colour of each slice changes to show whether it's been stretched or compressed - orange for the former, green for the latter. Simply activate Flex Time on an audio clip, select a Flex Mode (Slicing, Rhythmic, Monophonic, Polyphonic, Tempophone and Speed) and a marker is created at every transient point.
#Going pro with logic pro 8 software#
Ever since Ableton burst onto the music software scene with its seminal Live DAW, every major developer has rushed to build its own take on 'elastic audio', and although it's taken Apple longer than most, its implementation is elegant and effective.