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• Makes it easier than ever to translate musical inspiration into professional productions
• Includes all the functionality of Logic Pro eight except for four high end professional features surround, TDM/DAE support, circulated audio processing DAP, and support for high end control surfaces
• 36 instruments from Logic Studio, as well as Ultrabeat drum machine, EXS24 Sampler, and ES2 synth
• 70 effects from Logic Studio, as well as Guitar Amp Pro, Ringshifter, and full featured Pitch Correction
• Hundreds of channel strip settings and thousands of royalty free Apple Loops so you may be able to make incredible sounding music right out of the box

Logic Express eight delivers the power, precision, and professional toolset of Logic Pro 8?Including a redesigned interface that lets musicians to write, record, edit, and mix with unparalleled speed and ease. Logic Express will include all the functionality of Logic Pro eight except for four high end professional features?Surround, TDM/DAE support, circulated audio processing DAP, and support for high end control surfaces. Logic Express eight comes with an extended group of professional instrument and effect plug ins from Logic Studio, also as channel strip settings and plug in settings that let you to start making music now with professionally intended sounds. Logic Express is the ideal application for professional musicians and producers who want to get into the world of Logic for $199, also as GarageBand users whoare prepared to take their music to the next level. Network based save and share, to use your settings and key commands on any Mac More than 100 instruments and effects from Logic Studio New instruments and effects from Logic Studio, as well as Ultrabeat and Guitar Amp Pro New channel strip settings and plug in settings produced for Logic Express, for a large range of high quality sounds System prerequisites Mac computer with a 1.25GHz or faster PowerPC G4 processor, Mac OS X v10.4.9 or later

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Logic Express eight gives musicians everything they have to write, record, edit, and mix. It delivers the same groundbreaking production tools as Logic Pro 8, as well as full data, 24 bit/192kHz resolution, and fast Swipe comping. A beautifully redesigned interface consolidates all windows into a single, economical workspace made for musicians. Make music right out of the box with 36 instrument plug ins from Logic Studio, as well as Ultrabeat drum machine, EXS24 Sampler, and ES2 synth. Form music productions with 70 effect plug ins from Logic Studio, as well as Guitar Amp Pro, Ringshifter, and full featured Pitch Correction.

Logic Express eight offers the same groundbreaking production tools and redesigned interface as Logic Pro 8, with more than 100 instruments and effects from Logic Studio. Download the product overview

Logic Express 8. Powerful music creation.
Logic Express eight delivers the power, precision, and professional toolset of Logic Pro 8 including a redesigned interface that lets musicians to write, record, edit, and mix with unparalleled speed and ease. Logic Express will include all the functionality of Logic Pro eight except for four high end professional features surround, TDM/DAE support, circulated audio processing DAP, and support for high end control surfaces.

Logic Express eight comes with an extended group of professional instrument and effect plug ins from Logic Studio, also as channel strip settings and plug in settings that let you to start making music now with professionally intended sounds. Logic Express is the ideal application for professional musicians and producers who want to get into the world of Logic for $199, also as GarageBand users who are prepared to take their music to the next level.

A World of Options
Logic Express puts a world of creative alternatives at your fingertips, thanks to an open architecture that allows you to use a large range of audio interfaces and various control surfaces. You may also explore hundreds of third party Audio Units instruments and effects and integrate sounds from third party applications like Ableton Live and Propellerhead Reason. Logic Express allows you to work anywhere at any time, without proprietary hardware. When inspiration strikes, all you need is Logic Express and a Mac to catch your ideas and turn them into music—at home, on the road, or in the studio.

New in Logic Express 8
Logic Express 8, Apple’s professional music production application, gives musicians with the powerful, easy to use tools they have to write, record, edit, and mix. It features an interface that was redesigned for fast, intuitive control, with all the key functions organized in a unified workspace. Time saving recording and editing tools make Logic Express eight perfectly suited for everything from a scratch recording to a symphonic 24 channel recording.

Includes 36 instruments and 70 effects from Logic Studio.

New features in Logic Express eight include:

• Next Generation Interface
  A new workspace features a single window design with retractable panes, customizable toolbar, shortcut menus, fitted browsers, and dual channel strips. This simplified layout removes clutter and allows you to concentrate on your music.

• Simplified Setup
  Logic Express eight allows you to start making music now, with production ready templates, one step track setup, dynamic channel strip creation, and seamless integration of ReWire compatible applications like Ableton Live and Propellerhead Reason.
• Effortless Multitake Recording
  Logic Express eight offers a simple, adaptable approach to multitake recording. When you record over present material, your takes are automatically stored in a take folder. Expand your take folder at any time to see a graphical display of all your takes for easy auditioning and editing. You may be able to move a take folder anyplace in your arrangement and edit it just as you could any other region.
• Revolutionary fast Swipe Comping
  Quick Swipe comping considerably streamlines the procedure of comping tracks. Rather than cutting, moving, and muting regions, all you must do is click and drag to choose the best sections of each take. This creates a perfectly seamless comp, complete with transition smoothing crossfades.
• Powerful Audio Editing Features
  New editing features in the Arrange window let you to work with greater speed and precision, without opening separate windows.
• Network Based Save and ShareBack up personal channel strip settings, plug in settings, and key commands to your .Mac account for easy access from any computer connected to the Internet.2 You may also choose favorite settings to share across a local or Internet based network or through your .Mac Public folder.
• New Instruments from Logic Studio
  Logic Express eight features 36 high quality software instruments—including Ultrabeat, ES1, ES2, EXS24 Sampler, and more than a dozen GarageBand instruments.
• New Effects from Logic Studio
  With more than 70 professional effects, Logic Express gives you a rich palette of alternatives for creating distinctive sounds—including some high quality effect plug ins from Logic Studio.

Built in media browsers give you intuitive, fast access to your content without opening extra windows or leaving the workspace.

Logic Pro eight offers a simple, adaptable approach to multitake recording.

Logic Express represents the gold standard for creating and editing MIDI based music.

Additional Features in Logic Express 8
Logic Express eight is a sophisticated, full featured audio and MIDI application that gives all the tools you have to create professional quality music productions. It lets you to record and edit audio and MIDI, add high quality effects, and mix your music. The last mix may be exported to one or more standard audio files or burned to an audio CD. Logic Express eight offers a broad and deep feature set in a redesigned single window workspace.

Key features include:

• Ultimate Writing Studio
  A professional group of music creation and writing tools makes it simple to catch and develop your musical inspirations. Record many takes, quickly assemble the perfect comp, establish a groove with a selection of Apple Loops, and fill out the left over parts in your structure with Studio Instruments.

• Multitrack Recording
  You can use Logic Express eight to record anything from a fast demo to a large scale commercial project. One step track setup allows you to create and record enable many tracks with ease.
• Precision Editing
  Audio editing features in Logic Express eight let you work with power and precision, using sample accurate tools in the Sample Editor or directly in the Arrange window.
• Professional Mixing
  Complete your project with powerful mixing and automation tools that match the demands of any size production.
• Broad Compatibility
  The open architecture of Logic Express eight offers huge creative freedom to musicians by behind a large range of professional hardware and software alternatives.

Choose from a large range of EXS instruments and quickly build sampled instruments and sample libraries using the integrated, redesigned EXS Editor.

Additional Instruments from Logic Studio
Logic Express eight will include 36 professional instrument plug ins. Also to new instruments from Logic Studio—such as Ultrabeat, EXS24 Sampler, and ES2—Logic Express features more than a dozen instruments from GarageBand ‘08 and a set of powerful synth instruments from Logic Studio.

Synth Instruments
Produce beautiful synth beds and driving bass lines with an array of FM, subtractive, and analog modeled synthesizers. An remarkable range of synthesizer sounds offers more richness, thanks to new modulation effects.

• ES1
  The ES1, a classic analog style synthesizer, allows you to create earthshaking basses, rich pads, textures, screaming leads, ultrasharp percussion, and exotic effects. The plug in offers up to 16 voice polyphony, each voice features a major and sub oscillator to deliver the raw sounds that are shaped by the analog ES1 filter.

• EFM1
  The EFM1 uses FM synthesis to re create the classic synthesizer sounds of the 1980s. A simple interface gives available controls that make tweaking sounds a pleasure, or you may be able to let the EFM1 create own sounds randomly.
• ES E
  The eight voice polyphonic synthesizer allows you to mix sawtooth or rectangular waves in a big range of tones, with extra controls for frequency and impulse width modulation.
• ES M
  The ES M allows you to design powerful basses and expressive lead sounds straight from the 1970s. Variable selection between sawtooth and rectangular waves and a biting slope feature of 24 dB give the ES M its distinctive analog sound.
• ES P
  Create the feature polysynth sounds of 1980s pop music with the polyphonic ES P. Also to an oscillator, sub oscillator, and filter, the ES P offers an LFO for creating dynamic effects and an ADSR envelope generator for exact level control.

Guitar Amp Pro allows you to play your guitar through faithful re creations of classic amplifiers and speaker cupboards.

Additional Effects from Logic Studio
More than 70 professional effect plug ins are included in Logic Express 8—most of which are the same powerful variants included in Logic Studio. Also to new effects from Logic Studio, Logic Express eight offers a range of production effects and creative effects intended to meet the prerequisites of professional musicians.

Production Effects
A range of superb sounding effect plug ins makes it simple to add the last polish to your music productions.

• EQ
  Fine tune your audio production with professional EQ plug ins like the eight band Channel EQ, which features a graphical signal analyzer.
• Dynamics
  Compressor will include a linked limiter and five independent circuit types that catch the feel of vintage and modern studio hardware. Professional dynamics plug ins such as Limiter, sound Gate, and Enveloper further expand your capability to polish your mix or tweak your recordings.
• Voice processing
  Using the Pitch Correction plug in, you may be able to precisely and quickly tune vocals while preserving articulation and tonal color. Change the pitch of drums, speech, and vocal audio using the optimized settings in Pitch Shifter II.

Creative Effects
Transform audio and create changing fields of sound using advanced reverb, modulation, vintage, warped, and delay plug ins. Logic Express eight will include creative effects suited for a large range of genres and performance styles.

• Reverb
  Add texture to instruments and vocals using synthesized reverb plug ins like AVerb, EnVerb, SilverVerb, GoldVerb, and PlatinumVerb.
• Modulation
  Fatten, turn, and change audio with Chorus, Ensemble, Flanger, Microphaser, Modulation Delay, Phaser, Ringshifter, Scanner Vibrato, Spreader, and Tremolo.
• Vintage processing
  Get classic sounds like analog warmth or thick fuzz with distortion effects modeled after legendary tube stomp boxes. Vintage Leslie speakers are modeled in the Rotor Cabinet effect emulation, which allows you to change cabinet type and microphone positioning. Five carefully modulated circuits for Compressor imitate the world’s most respected vintage hardware, and Fuzz Wah combines distortion, compression, and auto wah effects in a single plug in.
• Warped processing
  Build classic 1970s sounds with Ringshifter, a joint ring modulation and frequency changing plug in. Transpose, robotize, and control the character of monophonic audio with Vocal Transformer. Apply dramatic filter effects with the EVOC20 Filterbank, and turn vocals and instruments with the EVOC20 Track Oscillator.
• Delay
  Use Tape Delay to create the special character and feedback behavior of classic tape based delay effects boxes. Your creative delay alternatives are rounded out by Echo, Sample Delay, and Stereo Delay.

Channel Strip Settings and Plug in Settings
The fitted library in Logic Express eight offers a large selection of professional channel strip settings and plug in settings. You may be able to use the settings as is or change them and save them as your. You may also create settings from scratch and save them for easy reuse in any project.

• Channel Strip Settings
  Logic Express eight offers a extraordinary selection of more than 790 professionally intended channel strip settings, each combining Logic Express instruments and effects in a powerful plug in chain. You may be able to find channel strip settings in the library included in Logic Express.
• Plug in Settings
  With more than 1600 plug in settings for Logic Express instruments and effects, it is easy to start making music now with high quality sounds.

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