Logic Studio is a discontinued professional

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suite by Apple Inc. The first version of Logic Studio was unveiled on September 12, 2007. It claims to be the largest collection of modeled instruments, sampler instruments, effect plug-ins, and audio loops ever put in a single application.What is Logic Studio?
Retrieved on April 9, 2011 The package contains

Logic Pro Logic Pro is a digital audio workstation (DAW) and MIDI sequencer software application for the macOS platform. It was originally created in the early 1990s as Notator Logic, or Logic, by German software developer C-Lab which later went by E ...

, Mainstage, Soundtrack Pro,

WaveBurner WaveBurner was a Mac OS X professional application ( proapp) bundled with Logic Studio for assembling, mastering, and burning audio CDs. Audio CDs created with WaveBurner could be played back on any audio CD player, and could be used as premaster ...

, Studio Instruments, Studio Effects, Apple Loops, Apple Loops Utility, Impulse Response Utility,

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, and

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Pro. It also contains 6 content DVDs containing Jam Pack collections, sound effects, surround music beds, EXS24 samples, and impulse response files and a demo content DVD.Apple Logic Studio Technical Specifications
Retrieved on April 9, 2011 On December 8, 2011, it was announced that the boxed version of Logic Studio suite would be discontinued. Instead,

and Mainstage would be sold separately on the

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. Soundtrack Pro was discontinued as part of the move.Logic Pro comes to Mac App Store, Logic Express dropped in the shuffle
Retrieved on November 8, 2014

Components

Apple Loops Utility

The Apple Loops Utility software is a small companion utility to Soundtrack Pro,

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Logic Express Logic Express was a "light" version of Logic Pro, a MIDI sequencer and digital audio workstation software application maintained by Apple that runs on the Mac OS X platform. It was announced on January 15, 2004, for release in March 2004. Logi ...

, and

, all made by Apple Inc. Apple Loops Utility allows users to create loops of audio that can be time-stretched. Audio files converted to "Apple Loops" via the Apple Loops Utility can also be tagged with their publishing (Author, Comments, etc.) and musical information (Key, Tempo, etc.). Multiple files can be tagged at the same time, a process known as batch tagging. Apple Loops Utility can read both

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and WAV

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s, but it will convert the latter to AIFF when saved with tagging information.

Compressor

Compressor is a video and audio media compression and encoding application for use with

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and Logic Studio on

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. It can be used with

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for clustering. Compressor is used for encoding MPEG-1,

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for DVD, QuickTime .mov, MPEG-4 (Simple Profile), MPEG-4 H.264 and optional (third Party and often commercial) QuickTime Exporter Components to export to Windows Media, for example. Among its other features is the ability to convert from

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to PAL and vice versa, and the ability to 'upconvert' from

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with feature detail detection to prevent serious quality losses.

Impulse Response Utility

The Impulse Response Utility is used to create custom

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Logic Pro

Logic Pro is a hybrid 32 / 64 bit

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and

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software application for the

platform. Originally created by German software developer Emagic, Logic Pro became an

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product when Apple bought Emagic in 2002. Logic Pro provides software instruments,

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s, audio effects and recording facilities for music synthesis. It also supports Apple Loops –

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professionally recorded instrument loops. Audio effects include distortions, dynamics processors, equalization filters, and delays. The Space Designer plugin simulates the acoustics of audio played in different environments, such as rooms of varying size, or producing the

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that might be heard on high mountains. Logic Pro can work with

keyboards and control surfaces for input and processing, and for MIDI output. It features real-time scoring in musical notation, supporting

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tablature, chord abbreviations and drum notation. The application features distributed processing abilities, which can function across an

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. One machine runs the Logic Pro app, while the other machines on the network run the Logic node app. Logic will then offload the effects and synth processing to the other machines on the network. If the network is fast enough (i.e.

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) this can work in near-real time, depending on buffer settings and CPU loads. This allows users to combine the power of several Mac computers to process Logic Pro’s built-in software instruments and plug-ins, and 3rd party processing plug-ins.

MainStage

MainStage's primary purpose is to serve as a method of centralizing any virtual instruments that users might have installed on their computers that are normally used in Apple's DAW software

for use in live performance. The instruments can then be played using a pre-recorded MIDI file or via a MIDI controller such as a keyboard. MainStage's other features include the ability to play back pre-recorded backing tracks and to function as a guitar and vocal multi-effects processor. The second version, MainStage 2, was released on July 23, 2009, along with updated releases of many of the other applications in the Logic Studio package.

Soundtrack Pro

Soundtrack Pro is a music composing and audio editing application made by Apple Inc., which includes a collection of just over 5000 royalty free professional instrument loops and sound effects. The program also allows multitrack projects to be exported directly with

settings.

Waveburner

WaveBurner can be used for assembling, mastering, and burning audio CDs. Audio CDs created with WaveBurner can be played back on any audio CD player, and can be used as premasters to produce CDs in large numbers for possible distribution. WaveBurner has several notable features: *Allows for up to 99 tracks and 99 subindexes per track *Includes

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codes for each track *Includes copy prevention and pre-emphasis for each track *Adds UPC/EAN codes for the CD *Supports CD-Text *Create DDP (CD-image)

System requirements

According to Apple, one needs to meet the following requirements to install all applications: * Mac computer with an

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processor (PPC is supported prior to v9.1.11) *2GB of

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(4GB or more recommended) *Display with 1280x768 or higher resolution *

v10.6.8 or later *

7.6 or later *DVD drive for installation *9GB to install all applications and required content **Additional 38GB to install all optional content (large content packages can be installed on separate disk): ***10GB for Jam Pack collections ***16GB for sound effects ***6GB for surround music beds ***6GB for other optional content

References

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