is a
MIDI Sequencer and
Digital Audio Workstation Software application that runs on the
Mac OS X platform. Originally created by German software developer C-Lab, then
Emagic , Logic Pro became an
Apple product when Apple bought out Emagic in 2002. A cut-down version,
Logic Express , is also available from Apple, and their
Soundtrack Pro product can also use Logic
Plugins .
GarageBand also uses Logic's audio engine.
Logic started life as the
MIDI Sequencer C-Lab Creator on the
Atari ST platform in the 1980s (the ST was an early favorite among MIDI users during the mid-80s). As the program advanced, and Music Notation was added, it was named Notator Logic, and then clipped to Logic. With increasingly powerful computing hardware becoming available to users throughout the 1990s, succeeding generations of the Logic software were released with ever more powerful inbuilt audio processing tools. New versions of Logic do much more than simply send and receive MIDI messages, and Logic's
Audio Unit based effects and
Synthesiser plugins have become well-respected tools for composers and producers worldwide.
Over its history, the program evolved through a few version upgrades and was offered for both Mac and Windows; after the Apple acquisition, however, support for the Windows version was dropped and Apple now treats Logic Pro as one of its flagship software 'pro' applications for the Macintosh platform.
Logic Pro and Express share much functionality and a similar interface.
Logic Express is limited to two-channel stereo mixdown, while Logic Pro can handle multichannel
Surround Sound . Both can handle up to 255 audio tracks, depending on system performance (
CPU ,
Hard Disk Throughput and
Seek Time ). A
Logic Pro/Express feature comparison table can be found on Apple's site.
The official
discussion forum is operated by
Apple .
The
Logic User's Group , or LUG, is a 10+ year old community of 20,000+ professionals and
Newbies that started life as
Emagic 's official Logic forum and has today grown into the biggest Logic community on the net. The LUG launched new custom forums in September 2005 as an alternative to the advertisement-filled YahooGroups forums: http://logic-users.org/forums
Logic Pro Help is an online Logic Pro community, offering a forum with file sharing functionalities where users can ask questions and exchange templates, icons, impulse responses, plug-in and channel strip presets, as well as browse through a collection of professional tips and tricks on Logic Pro.
Logic Pro Files is a comprehensive file sharing portal dedicated to Logic Pro. Members may freely download and upload thousands of Logic
Icons made expressively for Logic Pro. They may share Logic Templates, channel strips, Environments too. A free app called Logiconizer helps Logic users build their own icons sets and bring them along in the studios in order to use the same icons anywhere.
