Instruments
Work with just about any software instrument you can imagine — and so much more. You get a complete range of drum sounds, synths and vintage keyboards. A powerful sampler. And an advanced component modelling instrument.
Ultrabeat
This powerful drum synthesizer combines every available technology for producing drum sounds with a self-contained pattern sequencer. It’s never been easier to create original drum beats.
Effects
Get instant access to a long list of plug-ins you can use to enhance any recording session, live show or post-production project. Warped Effects let you break the rules of reverb, transforming your sound with movement, texture, ghost rhythms and much more. Delay Designer has an intuitive, multi-tap interface that lets you get as creative as you want with delay. And you can bring just the right touch to your project with professional EQ and dynamics plug-ins, pitch correction, modulation, filters and distortion.
Space Designer Reverbs
Play your tracks in more than 1,000 of the world’s most distinctive acoustic spaces, from a tiny wine cellar to a massive cathedral.
Guitar Gear
Amp Designer and Pedalboard are two plug-ins that let you create every rig you’ve ever dreamed of. Amp Designer lets you mix and match 25 amp heads, 5 EQs, 10 reverbs, 25 speaker cabinets and 3 mics that you can position freely around the speaker cone. So you can faithfully re-create almost any legendary sound. And Pedalboard features 30 stompboxes, all meticulously crafted to reproduce the tones and responsiveness of the originals they’re modelled on. The Pedalboard interface makes it easy to re-order and swap your pedals, and to creatively route your signal for thousands of combinations and virtually unlimited sounds. And because it all lives on your Mac, it’s easy to bring your killer sounds with you to the stage.
Amp Designer Tweed
Get the warm, clean, complex sounds of American amps from the ’50s and early ’60s. Pushing the gain will take you gradually from gentle distortion all the way to ripping overdrive.
Pedalboard Delay
Pour on the vibe with spacey echoes, spring reverbs and backward delays. Just run your guitar signal through Blue Echo, Spring Box or Tru-tape Delay and leave your dry signal behind.
Sound Library
A huge selection of Apple Loops, sound effects and sampled instruments give you more creative freedom than ever. The Sound Library also includes surround content, so you can build beautiful, immersive productions.
A whole world of samples.
Create songs with lead vocals, rappers, backup singers, an entire choir or even software instruments based on the human voice and body. Work with beats, sound effects, synth sounds, bass lines and the rhythms of classic Roland drum machines. Build a solid foundation of drums with sets of fills, grooves and groove variations — along with dozens of playable strings, basses and drum kits. Conduct full brass, percussion, string and woodwind sections. And use world loops, ethnic percussion, exotic strings and regional wood instruments to bring new textures to your songs.
More than 4,500 presets for plug-ins.
You don’t have to be a sound engineer to take advantage of the enormous range of plug-ins. Just rely on the plug-in settings (designed by sound engineers) to get great sounds straight out of the box. Plug-in settings can also speed up the production, mixing and mastering process if you use them as templates for your instrument and effects combos and tweak them from there.
More than 15,000 Apple Loops.
Royalty-free Apple Loops let you build a rhythm, grab a melodic phrase or simply sketch out an arrangement. Any loop you choose will automatically change key and tempo to match your project. Real Instrument loops, also known as blue loops, are integrated into your project as audio files and can be edited like any audio region. And Software Instrument loops, or green loops, allow you to fully edit the instrument, effect and original MIDI performance. Apple Loops give you plenty of creative fuel.
More than 1,700 sampled instruments.
Beautifully sampled EXS instruments are a few taps away. Build your song with authentic strings, horns, woodwinds, guitars, pianos, basses, harps, choir, synthesizers, electric and pipe organs, acoustic and electric drum kits, orchestral percussion, world instruments, textures and soundscapes.