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Apple Updates Logic Pro for Mac and iPad With Several New Features

Apple today announced that it has updated its professional music-making app Logic Pro with several new features on the Mac and iPad.

Logic Pro Amplifies Beat Making Feature
First, a new Flashback Capture feature lets you recover a performance that otherwise may have been lost because you forgot to set Logic Pro to record.

Next, there are enhancements to the Stem Splitter feature that allows you to extract stems from an audio track for vocals, bass, drums, and other instrumental parts. With today's update, Apple says Stem Splitter now supports guitar and piano, and the feature now offers even greater audio fidelity. Stem Splitter requires a Mac with an M1 chip or newer, or an iPad with an A12 Bionic chip or newer running iPadOS 18.4 or later.

The new version of Logic Pro also includes a new Dancefloor Rush sound pack for the Mac and iPad, offering drum-and-bass sounds with over 400 dynamic loops and punchy drum kits. Two more sound packs added to the Mac app include Magnetic Imperfections with analog tape sounds, and Tosin Abasi with progressive metal guitar sounds.

On the Mac, Logic Pro's built-in notepad now supports Apple Intelligence's Writing Tools.

Logic Pro version 11.2 for Mac and version 2.2 for iPad are available now in the App Store, as free updates for existing users. In the U.S., Logic Pro costs $199.99 on the Mac for new users, and $4.99 per month or $49 per year on the iPad.

For a list of all new features and changes introduced today, read Apple's full release notes for the latest versions of the Mac app and iPad app.

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Top Rated Comments

glenayre Avatar
12 months ago
Beat-making app? That is selling the Logic’s capabilities juuuust a little short. Do you mean “Digital audio workstation”?
Score: 26 Votes (Like | Disagree)
12 months ago
A copy/paste article from someone who appears to have little or zero understanding of this incredible, powerful, audio creation and processing application. Of course, it is unlikely to be unveiled as such on many users’ iPads, but calling it a “beat maker” is an insult.

This is a fully capable digital audio workstation, and it is magnificent.
Score: 25 Votes (Like | Disagree)
Starfia Avatar
12 months ago

Beat-making app?
Seriously. ^ ^

I mean, I suppose it is. But that feels rather like calling Final Cut Pro a "professional cross-dissolve app."
Score: 18 Votes (Like | Disagree)
arvinsim Avatar
12 months ago
Shame that the iPad version is subscription based.
Score: 14 Votes (Like | Disagree)
12 months ago
Apple should create a new mode besides basic and advanced. Call it 'Beat maker mode'. This way it will strip out all the unnecessary other stuff so you can make beats without other annoying genres
Score: 9 Votes (Like | Disagree)
12 months ago
I remember back in the day the haters used to say Apple bought Logic and will never update and bugs will stay. Years later and it’s still very much alive. Yes it sells a lot of hw for Apple. But still..
Score: 9 Votes (Like | Disagree)