Streamlined Interface
- Unified window design consolidates multiple edit and browser areas
- Library browser makes it easy to find audio files, channel strip settings and plug-in settings
- Inspector provides convenient access to region and track parameters as well as primary mix functions via the innovative Dual Channel Strip
- Assign tools to mouse and view current assignments directly in the Arrange window
- Simple multiple track creation and setup
- Customisable tool and transport bars
- Context-sensitive shortcut menus
- Definable startup behavior
- Enhanced plug-in headers for all instruments and effects
- Global Tracks for graphical editing of key and time signatures, markers, tempo and transposition
- Selectable time- and/or beat-based bar ruler for time-linear and/or beat-linear display in the Arrange window
- Waveform zoom slider for improved visibility of low-level signals
- Extensive zoom tools and functions
Ultimate writing studio
- Extensive MIDI composition
- Region-based quantize, transpose, gate, swing and velocity control
- MIDI Groove templates
- Creative MIDI processing and routing in the Environment
- Caps Lock Keyboard for note entry using computer keyboard
- Custom and Hermode tuning
- MIDI step entry
- Full support for Apple Loops
- Apple Loops browser for finding and previewing loops based on tempo, key, style and mood
- Export of MIDI and audio regions as Apple Loops
- Edit plug-ins and MIDI performances for Software Instrument loops
- Independent loop transposition
- Comprehensive loop tagging and editing with Apple Loops Utility
- Complete music notation
- Real-time transcription
- Instrument transposition
- Guitar tablature
- Drum notation
- Chord symbols
- Adaptive lyric input
- Automatic multibar rests
- Comprehensive palette of slurs, crescendis and other ornaments
- Staff Styles for easy recall of multiple stave attributes
- Score Sets allow instruments to be combined for editing and print
- Layout and printing of complete professional scores
- Robust video playback features
- Embedded or floating video window display
- Digital Cinema Desktop for display of full screen video on second monitor
- External video output via Firewire or DVCPro HD
- Global video thumbnail track
- Scene detect option to mark video transitions automatically
- Fast and intuitive region looping
- Global chord track with automatic chord recognition
Production powerhouse
- Over 980 definable key and MIDI commands
- 90 recallable screen configurations
- Audio file and I/O resolution up to 24-bit/192kHz
- Internal audio resolution: 32-bit floating point; 64-bit precision where required
- Extended project length: 6 hours at 96kHz; 13 hours at 44.1kHz
- .Mac backup and sharing of preferences and settings
- Use of an Apple Remote to control Logic Express 8 from a distance, with the ability to play, stop, record, rewind, fast-forward and move to the next or previous track
- High-end POW-r dithering algorithm
- Seamless punch-on-the-fly recording
- Low latency mode to remove plug-in induced latency during recording
- Graphic beat mapping for creating tempo maps from existing audio
- Well-designed collection of production-ready templates
- Multiple documents open at once
- Bounce to AIFF, WAV (Broadcast Wave), CAF, SDII, MP3, M4A (Apple Lossless, AAC)
- Fast, offline bouncing of single or multiple tracks
- Burn any bounced audio directly to CD or DVD-A (PCM only)
- Asset management simplifies consolidation and transport of projects and their dependent assets
- MIDI note extraction from audio for drum replacement and melodic transcription
- Freeze Tracks feature releases CPU resources by invisibly rendering tracks
- Extreme Compatibility
- Open GarageBand songs directly in Logic Express
- Support for Apple Core Audio
- Support for Audio Units plug-ins
- Support for AAF, OMF, Open TL and XML (Final Cut Pro)
- Streamlined ReWire support for optimised integration with Reason, Ableton Live and other ReWire-compatible applications
- Serial-based copy protection
- Powerful folders to facilitate organisation and streamline various arranging tasks
Precision Editing
- Intuitive region-based MIDI and audio editing
- Comprehensive set of editing tools assignable to left, right and key-modified mouse buttons
- Effortless take management
- Region-based take recording and management in automatically generated take folders
- Pack existing tracks into take folders
- Single-click take selection
- Colorize takes on the fly
- Intelligent unpacking of take folders onto separate tracks
- Move and edit entire take folders like any other region
- Revolutionary Quick Swipe Comping
- Build a comp track from multiple takes
- Create comps on the fly
- Audition comps in real time
- Automatic, customisable crossfades between phrases
- Flatten function replaces take folder with regions that represent the current comp
- Flatten and Merge function replaces take folder with newly created audio file
- Multiple MIDI editors
- Piano Roll
- Score
- Hyper
- Event List
- Transform
- Graphical time stretching and compression in the Arrange window
- Sample-accurate editing in the Arrange window
- Definable relative or absolute snap grid
- Nondestructive graphical fades and crossfades
- Snap-to-transient selection
- Shuffle and Auto-Crossfade Arrange Edit modes
- Destructive sample editing using built-in or external sample editor like Soundtrack Pro 2
- 10,000-step undo history
- Time-linear and/or beat-linear display in the Arrange window
