From the first note to the final polished product, Logic Pro 7 fits every part of the music creation workflow. Doing so requires an extensive, universal approach tailored to the needs of both creative artists and technicians. Musicians, engineers and producers benefit equally from the power, flexibility, portability, pristine sound quality and dependability of this virtual studio. What’s more, compliance with industry standards makes it easy for you to meet the needs of clients or other artists and guarantees the simple integration of projects from other sources into your digital workflow.

Record Audio with Stellar Quality

Logic Pro 7 turns the Macintosh into a professional digital audio workstation that meets the highest demands for audio quality. It supports audio at 16- and 24-bit resolution and sample rates of up to 192kHz for both audio recording and playback of internal software instruments. Internal signal processing is based on 32-bit floating-point mathematics. This provides enormous headroom for internal processing, making it nearly impossible to overload the signal. The high level of sonic quality persists throughout the project — even during mixdown to 16- bit audio for CD release — thanks to the integrated POW-r dithering algorithm.

Fine-tune Audio Samples

Logic Pro 7 incorporates a powerful sample editor, allowing precise editing of your audio data. Beyond simple operations such as cut, copy, and paste, an extensive suite of DSP tools is also available.These tools include time stretching, pitch shifting and formant correction. Within the sample editor, you can quantize your audio recordings, translate pitched monophonic audio recordings into notation or extract the rhythm of an audio drum loop for use as a quantization template on MIDI performances. Premiere and Audiosuite format plug-in compatibility provides additional processing possibilities.

Professional Mixing Capacity

The virtual mixer in Logic Pro 7 controls a maximum of 255 audio tracks, 128 audio instrument tracks and a nearly unlimited number of MIDI tracks. Each audio and audio instrument track can display and use up to 15 insert plug-ins and 8 effect bus sends. Logic Pro offers dozens of effect plug-ins and supports additional Audio Unit (AU) format plug-ins.

World-class MIDI Sequencing

MIDI processing provides control over external sound devices as well as software instruments and effects, such as internal instruments and plug-ins or Audio Unit plug-ins. Thanks to the native MIDI functions in Mac OS X Core Audio, you can also record MIDI keyboard performances in Logic Pro 7. The Mac OS X Audio MIDI Setup utility controls most MIDI tasks, such as adding new devices, routing and so on. All MIDI information automatically transfers to Logic Pro 7, providing you with immediate access to your MIDI devices. Additionally, the deep integration of OS-native MIDI with Logic Pro 7 provides reliable MIDI data transmission at minimal latencies, enhanceing the playability of software instruments and accelerating workflow.

Automate Every Parameter

The parameters of software instruments and effects, as well as those of the mixing desk, integrate into the comprehensive automation system, thereby allowing full, total-recall mixes. The mixer supports a range of hardware controllers, from simple home studio models to high-end professional control surfaces that are deeply integrated into the Logic system. Generic control surfaces can be easily customized in a convenient MIDI Learn dialog.

Elegant Notation

The Score editor perfectly transforms MIDI performances into notation — in real time — as you’re playing. Elaborate layout functions and professional notation printout functions allow you to quickly deliver anything from a lead sheet to a complete orchestral score. Logic Pro 7 supports automatic transposition of different instruments, as well as guitar tablature, drum notation and rapid entry of song lyrics or performance notes.

Ample Output Options

You can write your final mixes to disk using industry-standard formats such as SDII, WAV, AIFF, AAC and MP3, including ID 3 tags. Logic Pro 7 also supports 12 surround formats, making it ideal for those involved in the creation of film and TV soundtracks. You can even bounce your song to a stereo audio file and immediately burn it to CD or create a CD master.

Logic Pro 7 Music Studio

Audio Hardware

Plug-In Formats

Inter-application workflow

External Control Surfaces