Musical Instruments Reviews

• Take your music from initial idea through last production and all the way to live performance using an groundbreaking suite of merchandise produced exactly for musicians
• Includes the upgraded Logic Pro 8, MainStage, an groundbreaking new application for live music performance, and Soundtrack Pro 2, a simplified audio post production application for film and video
• Features 40 powerful, updated instrument plug ins seamlessly integrated into Logic Pro eight and MainStage
• Enhance music productions, live performances, and post production projects with 80 professional effect plug ins
• Studio Sound Library incorporates content from five Jam Pack collections and last Cut Studio two to offer a total of 18,000 Apple Loops, 2400 channel strip settings, and 1300 EXS sampled instruments

Introducing Logic Studio, Apple’s complete suite of professional tools that gives musicians with everything they have to create in the studio, on the stage, and for the screen. Logic Studio will include Logic Pro 8, Apple’s professional music application, MainStage, an groundbreaking new application for music performance, and Soundtrack Pro two for audio post production. It also will include highly praised instruments, professional effects, an extended sound library, and new production utilities like Compressor three and Waveburner ? All in a single box. 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 Studio, Apple’s complete suite of professional music and audio tools, gives musicians with everything they have to create in the studio, on the stage, and for the screen. Logic Studio will include Logic Pro 8, Apple’s legendary professional music production application featuring a new, intuitive interface, MainStage, an groundbreaking new application for music performance, and Soundtrack Pro two for audio post production and sound design. It also will include Studio Instruments and Studio Effects, with 40 highly praised instruments and 80 professional effect plug ins, an extended Studio Sound Library, and new production utilities all in a single box at an unbelievable price.

Take your music from initial idea through last production and all the way to live performance using an groundbreaking suite of merchandise produced exactly for musicians. Download the product overview

Logic Studio. Music production, live performance, sound for picture.
With its highly praised power and flexibility for writing, recording, and producing music, Logic Pro eight is the heart of Logic Studio. New features in Logic Pro eight include:

• Next generation interface, with a simplified, single window workspace
• Simplified setup, with professional templates for common actions and projects
• Effortless multitake recording, as well as automatically generated take folders
• Revolutionary fast Swipe comping, for quickly building the perfect track
• Powerful audio editing, as well as sample accurate editing in the Arrange window
• Comprehensive surround, with multichannel tracks and busses up to 7.1
• XSKey free operation, with a simple serial number replacing the USB dongle

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.

For Creative Musicians Everywhere
With Logic Studio, you have everything you have to catch an initial idea and take it all the way through to last mastering or live performance no matter what kind of music you make and no matter where you work.

• In the studio
  Logic Studio gives you the freedom to concentrate on your music rather than the mechanics of the software. All the high quality sounds you need are at your fingertips, with a large range of presets for instrument and effect plug ins. Use familiar tools to swiftly form your distinctive sound. Arrange your song with drag and drop ease and audition your arrangements as you exchange out different sections. Experiment freely and intuitively to get just the sound you want, then refine your production all the way through last mastering.

• On the stage
  MainStage transforms your Mac into a simplified live rig that offers unparalleled possibilities for producing thrilling, original sound whether you’re at home, in a rehearsal space, or performing in front of an audience. Dynamically form your sound as you perform, using the knobs, faders, pedals, and other controls on your beloved gear.
• For the screen
  Soundtrack Pro two and Logic Pro eight supply everything you have to work in the world of audio post production for film, video, and games. Compose your score in Logic Pro 8, use Soundtrack Pro two to edit dialogue, design sound effects, and complete the mix in cinematic surround.
• On the road
  If you’re out on tour, collaborating far from home, or just traveling for a change of scene, you may be able to continue to make music on the Mac. Whenever and wherever inspiration strikes, all you need is Logic Studio and a MacBook Pro to catch your ideas and turn them into music it’s like having a movable studio in your backpack. Quickly feel at home in any studio by using your channel strip settings, plug in settings, and key commands, just save them to your .Mac account from Logic Studio and access them in concurrent over the Internet.
• In your style
  Logic Studio 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, control surfaces, and performance hardware. 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. Because Logic Studio offers TDM/DAE support, you may be able to use Logic Pro eight as the front end to Digidesign hardware, instruments, and effects.

MainStage makes it simple to use your beloved software instruments and effects in live performance.

MainStage. Introducing your new live rig.
Musicians are accustomed to using a rich palette of software instruments and effects as they write, record, edit, and mix their music, but it was hard to take the same sound to the stage. Artists have been forced to re create their sounds using conventional hardware rigs or adapt software that isn’t intended for use in live performance.

Introducing MainStage, an application that makes it simple to use your beloved software instruments and effects in live performance. MainStage turns your Mac into a adaptable live rig that will include a rich array of software instruments, powerful effects processing, and easy integration with standard hardware controllers.

Create new music in your studio or rehearsal space and use the same sounds on stage. Manage the sounds for your show with drag and drop ease. Dynamically form your music as you perform, using the knobs, pedals, and faders on your beloved gear, with large scale 3D graphics intended to show you just the info you need on stage.

MainStage considerably expands the range of sounds you may be able to use in your live music, with a breakthrough simplified interface that allows you to concentrate on performing.

MainStage features:

• Simplified user interface, with a high contrast view for use in live performance
• Amazing sound for the stage, with world class Studio Instruments and Studio Effects
• Flexible hardware setups, using keyboards, knobs, faders, and pedals to control sounds
• Flawless performance, with seamless patch switching and an interactive display
• Powerful templates, offering a fast and easy way to set up your live rig

With its familiar interface and intuitive tools, Soundtrack Pro opens the world of audio post production to musicians.

Soundtrack Pro 2. The next wave in audio post.
Soundtrack Pro two offers unprecedented convenience and power for advanced audio editing also as creating soundtracks for film and video. Fly through editing and mixing with an intuitive interface that combines the multitrack Timeline and Waveform Editor in a single view. Create immersive soundtracks with adaptable surround tools. Easily move projects between last Cut Pro and Soundtrack Pro, using simple round trip collaboration features and the industry’s 1st auto conform procedure. With its familiar interface and intuitive tools, Soundtrack Pro opens the world of audio post production to musicians.

Soundtrack Pro two features:

• Advanced Audio Editing
  Soundtrack Pro two makes it simple to edit anything—from individual audio files to big multitrack projects for film and video. The intuitive interface allows you to work proficiently on common tasks and progressively release extra features when you need exact control. Sample accurate, nondestructive audio processing lets you to freely experiment to get the sound you need and stay adaptable till the last mix.

• Innovative Sound Design
  Using the Studio Effects plug ins and any of the 5000 Foley, sound effects, and music beds included in the Studio Sound Library, Soundtrack Pro gives you everything you have to create anything from a fast stinger to the complete sound design that sets the mood for an complete film.
• Dialogue and Restoration Tools
  Most recorded speech requires improvement, if it consists of dialogue spoken by actors, a natural interview included in a documentary, or voiceover narration recorded in the studio. Soundtrack Pro will include a range of tools that let you to enhance dialogue quickly, easily, and with precision.
• Mixing for Picture
  Soundtrack Pro two will include a powerful toolset for creating combinations for film and video projects, in both stereo and cinematic 5.1 surround. Save effort and time by creating concurrent surround and stereo combinations in the same project.
• Broad Compatibility
  Soundtrack Pro two lets you to share files with other applications and decide from a large range of audio interfaces, also as control surfaces that use Mackie Control or Logic Control protocols. It’s also seamlessly integrated with last Cut Studio for easy round trip collaboration with film and video editors.

Studio Instruments gives the biggest set of instrument plug ins available in a single box.

Studio Instruments. Incredible sounding instruments for Logic Studio.
Featuring 40 powerful, updated instrument plug ins seamlessly integrated into Logic Pro eight and MainStage, Studio Instruments gives the biggest set of instrument plug ins available in a single box. Updated instruments include an improved variant of Ultrabeat, an improved EXS24 Sampler, and Sculpture and ES2 synths, both updated for True Surround.

Virtual mapping allows you to quickly reassign controllers when your equipment changes.

Instruments in Logic Studio include:

• Ultrabeat
  Use the tone shaping features in Ultrabeat to sculpt distinctive sounds from 25 drum voices, with new drum kits featuring more than 1000 new sounds. Full View drum grid editing and step automation give you more power than ever.

• EXS24 Sampler
  Choose from more than 1300 EXS instruments included in the Studio Sound Library and quickly build sampled instruments and sample libraries using the integrated, redesigned EXS Editor. The EXS24 Sampler allows you to quickly integrate sample based sounds into your productions. Featuring sample accurate timing, a robust synthesizer section, and support for sampled instruments of near limitless size, the EXS24 Sampler also will include 16 individual outputs for discrete voice processing. Wide ranging sample library support will include Akai, GigaSampler, SampleCell II, SoundFont2, and REX2.
• Vintage Instruments
  Play completely modeled simulations of vintage keyboards, as well as classic organs, clavs, and electric pianos. Logic Studio offers surprisingly real simulations of the Hammond B3, different Fender Rhodes and Wurlitzer pianos, and the Hohner Clavinet D6. All three instrument plug ins rely on finely tuned modeling engines, so the quirks and character of the real instruments come through.
• Synth Instruments
  Produce beautiful synth beds and driving bass lines with an array of FM, subtractive, and analog modeled synthesizers. Sculpture now will include True Surround features, the flagship ES2 synth now features surround panning and modulation effects also as a simplified Macro view. An remarkable range of synthesizer sounds offers more richness, thanks to new surround potential and modulation effects.

Use Delay Designer for everything from a basic echo effect to an audio pattern sequencer.

Studio Effects. Audio processing for Logic Studio.
Improve music productions, live performances, and post production projects with 80 professional effect plug ins. Studio Effects now feature 16 True Surround effect plug ins, as well as the new Delay Designer, a new surround variant of Space Designer, and Surround Compressor. Highlights of Studio Effects include:

Guitar Amp Pro features eleven amp models, 15 speaker cupboards, microphone controls, and an effects section for constructing the perfect guitar tone.

• New Delay Designer
  Delay Designer lets you to build creative delay effects in stereo or True Surround. Create up to 26 separate delay taps to use the power of 26 delay processors in a single plug in.

• Space Designer, Now in Surround
  Reproduce the reverberant qualities of many of the world’s most distinctive places in stereo or full surround—with over 130 new surround impulse responses. Space Designer is a state of the art convolution reverb featuring fitted EQ controls and adjustable volume, filter, and density envelopes.
• Surround Compressor
  The new Surround Compressor plug in lets you to compress multichannel audio using a range of vintage and modern circuit models, as well as Opto and FET. Linked compression assures consistent, smooth compression of surround signals.
• Guitar Amp Pro
  Guitar Amp Pro allows you to play your guitar through faithful re creations of classic amplifiers and speaker cupboards.
• Production Effects
  Fine tune your audio production with a range of superb sounding plug ins. A new Surround Compressor allows you to compress multichannel surround resources, and a redesigned Multipressor displays all controls for all bands in a single window. A large range of plug ins gives valuable everyday tools for adding the last polish to your music productions.
• Creative Effects
  Transform audio and create changing fields of sound using advanced reverb, modulation, vintage, warped, and delay plug ins.
• True Surround Effects
  Process multichannel audio using 16 True Surround effect plug ins, as well as Chorus, Flanger, Microphaser, Modulation Delay, Phaser, and Tremolo. All of the other Studio Effects plug ins work with Logic Pro eight and Soundtrack Pro two in multi mono, so you may be able to use them in surround combinations.

Studio Sound Library incorporates content from five Jam Pack collections and last Cut Studio two to offer a total of 18,000 Apple Loops, 2400 channel strip settings, and 1300 EXS sampled instruments.

Studio Sound Library. The final sound library for Logic Studio.
Thousands of channel strip settings, royalty free Apple Loops, sound effects, and EXS sampled instruments supply creative fuel for music creation, production, and performance. New surround content lets you to build beautiful, immersive productions.

The Studio Sound Library comes with the complete content from five Jam Pack collections, featuring redesigned material that incorporates the professional sound quality of Studio Instruments and Studio Effects. Move your productions into surround using 600 surround channel strip settings and more than 1000 multichannel sound effects and music beds. The complete Studio Sound Library is optimized for economical browsing, with updated names and tags to assist you quickly find just the right Apple Loop, channel strip setting, or sound effect.

The Studio Sound Library consists of:

• Apple Loops
  Build a beat, grab a melodic phrase, or sketch out an arrangement by picking from 18,000 royalty free Apple Loops, or create your loops from any audio file by using the Apple Loops Utility included in Logic Studio. Apple Loops automatically change key and rate to go with your project, making it simple to create a groove or embellish your music.

• Sound Effects and Music Beds
  The Studio Sound Library will include 5000 sound effects and music beds taken directly from last Cut Studio 2. Design immersive music and cinematic soundtracks with 1000 multichannel sound effects and music beds in surround.
• EXS Instruments
  The Studio Sound Library will include 1300 pristine sounding EXS sampled instruments that you may play and procedure with the EXS24 Sampler or with third party software samplers.
• Channel Strip Settings
  The Studio Sound Library offers a extraordinary selection of 2400 professionally intended channel strip settings, each combining Studio Instruments and Studio Effects in a powerful plug in chain. Of these channel strip settings, 600 are in surround, combining new True Surround Studio Instruments and Studio Effects plug ins.
• Plug in Settings
  Hundreds of new, professionally intended plug in settings for Studio Instruments offer beautiful, expressive instrument sounds right out of the box. Every setting, or predetermined, changes the parameters of an instrument plug in to produce one of a kind sounds. The Studio Sound Library also will include more than 700 settings intended for a large range of Studio Effects, from amp modeling to dynamics and modulation.
• Surround Impulse Responses
  Apply reverb in full surround using one of 138 new multichannel impulse responses for Space Designer. Decide from a large range of strange places, ranging from an underground cave to the 69,000 seat Allianz Arena in Munich.

Production Utilities. Convenient tools for music, effects, and mastering.
Logic Studio will include convenient production utilities for mastering and authoring CDs, encoding AC 3 surround files, and creating impulse answer files and Apple Loops. Logic Studio production utilities include:

• WaveBurner
  WaveBurner, a CD mastering and authoring environment, is simple enough for fast turnaround demo discs still sophisticated enough to deliver professional premasters and Red Book–standard CDs.

• Compressor 3
  Use Compressor three to encode and preview surround combinations in the industry standard Dolby Digital AC 3 format. It outputs files to MP3 also as to any QuickTime compatible format, as well as AAC, AIFF, and QuickTime Surround.
• Impulse answer Utility
  An impulse answer is a sample that captures the acoustic characteristics of a given physical space. Use the Impulse answer Utility to create a profile of your beloved recording space from a tiny wine cellar to Notre Dame Cathedral in mono, stereo, B Format surround, or discrete surround. Then use the sample in Space Designer to place your music “inside” the acoustic space.
• Apple Loops Utility
  The Apple Loops Utility allows you to change any audio file to an Apple Loop. It analyzes the sound file and generates the metadata used by Logic Pro and Soundtrack Pro to go with the audio file’s rate and key to the project rate and key, without changing pitch.

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