Apple today announced major updates to its music creation apps with exciting new features for music makers of all levels on iPhone, iPad and Mac.
GarageBand for iOS 2.2 now features the powerful creative synthesizer Alchemy and a new sound browser that makes searching through instruments and patches easier than ever. Logic Pro X 10.3 becomes an even more powerful tool for pros with a modern interface, new features for professional audio production as well as support for the revolutionary Touch Bar on the new MacBook Pro, putting intuitive, context-sensitive controls right at users’ fingertips.
Logic Pro X users can also remotely add new tracks to their Logic sessions from their iPhone or iPad when they’re away from their Mac. With a new share option, users can upload a special GarageBand-compatible version of a Logic project to iCloud, which they can then open on their iOS devices and add new recordings whenever inspiration strikes. When the project is saved back to iCloud, any newly added tracks will automatically appear in the original Logic project the next time it’s opened on a Mac.
“Music has always been part of Apple’s DNA, and we are excited to deliver yet another fun and powerful update to our music creation apps, GarageBand for iOS and Logic Pro X,” said Susan Prescott, Apple’s vice president of Applications Product Marketing, in a statement. “These updates bring a wide range of new and highly requested features to both hobbyists and the community of pro musicians and audio engineers who rely on our software and hardware to create amazing music.”
“Logic Pro X is an indispensable part of the creative process for me and the artists I work with. I’m thrilled to see all the new professional features that have been added,” said Grammy- and Academy Award-winning producer and composer Paul Epworth, in a statement. “As a huge fan of the Alchemy synthesizer, I love that I can grab my iPhone or iPad and use GarageBand to keep coming up with new tracks for my Logic sessions when I’m traveling and away from my studio.”
GarageBand for iOS
GarageBand for iOS brings even more sophisticated music creation options to iPhone and iPad, while still remaining fun and easy to use. It features a redesigned sound browser that makes it faster than ever to explore Touch Instruments® and quickly find the exact sounds you’re looking for.
Alchemy, one of the world’s most innovative modern synthesizers and a favorite of Logic Pro users, comes to iOS and includes a rich collection of over 150 Apple-designed patches from a wide variety of genres, including EDM, Hip Hop, Indie, Rock, Pop and more. And with Alchemy’s Transform Pad, users can morph between eight sonic snapshots in real-time, to create expressive synth performances.
Recording music in GarageBand for iOS also gets easier with Multi-Take Recording, giving users multiple passes to capture their best performance and the ability to audition and switch between their favorite takes.
The release also features a redesigned Audio Recorder that adds fun, one-tap vocal effects and provides users with even more sophisticated studio effects like pitch correction, distortion and delay. Seasoned users looking for even more control over their mixes can use a new collection of advanced audio processing tools, including an interactive graphic Visual EQ and the ability to use third-party Audio Unit plug-in effects for expandable, creative sound design.
Logic Pro X
Logic Pro X includes advanced new features that make Logic an even stronger tool for audio production, giving musicians and audio engineers even more control over editing and mixing their music. The latest release features a new modern design that improves legibility in a variety of working environments.
Logic Pro X also adds support for the revolutionary new Touch Bar on MacBook Pro, providing the ability to view and navigate your project in a timeline overview, along with convenient access to volume and Smart Controls for any selected track. New performance controls let you play and record software instruments with the Touch Bar using a piano keyboard that can also be customized to a variety of musical scales, or by tapping drum pads to create beats. Assignable key command buttons let you customize the Touch Bar controls to keep your favorite keyboard shortcuts available when you need them.
Track Alternatives let users create and switch between different playlists of regions and edits on any track. This feature makes it easier to experiment with various creative ideas or evaluate different versions of a track as it evolves. Selection-based Processing allows users to apply any combination of Logic or third-party effect plug-ins onto any selection of one or multiple audio regions. It is useful for optimizing sound quality and a great tool for creative sound design.
Logic Pro X becomes more powerful for professional mixing, with a 64-bit summing engine, 192 additional busses and true stereo panning, providing discrete control of stereo signals.
Pricing and Availability
The GarageBand for iOS update, available today, is free for all existing users and with all new iOS devices. Customers with older, non-qualifying devices can purchase the app for $4.99 (US) on the App Store®. For more information about GarageBand for iOS, visit: www.apple.com/ios/garageband.
The Logic Pro X update, available today, is free for all existing users, and available on the Mac App Store for $199.99 (US) for all new customers. For more information about Logic Pro X, visit: www.apple.com/logic-pro.
Source: Apple Inc.
So where’s the “PRO” whiners now?
Propping up the bar…if they’re even old enough.
Are you serious, breeze?
Apple releases touchbar MacBook Pros and then finally updates its apps to support it 2 months later … then you gloat about how great Apple is?
These are not major updates, they are minor tweaks addressing issues that should have been available last year plus touchbar function that no desktop Mac user can use.
And Apple created the revolutionary iPhone sans App Store and Developers or independent Apps too…
If you only knew a fraction of Logic Audio’s complexities, you might appreciate what Apple has done for and to it.
Hint: ask the original creator of Logic and emagic Mikail Graham…
Wasn’t Gerhard Lengeling the creator of Emagic Notator and Logic ?
Mikail Graham.
It was Gerhard Lengeling and Chris Adam.
You are correct Tweaker.
http://mikailgraham.com/MyLife/NCCC.htm#mikail_briefhistory
http://mikailgraham.com/MyLife/NCCC.htm#mikail_briefhistory
Not sure if you read the release notes, but this was not a ‘minor update’ to LPX.
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT203718
As I look through the notes, it is mostly a bug squashing release. There are very few new features. That’s not to say that we don’t need these bugs squashed. All hail the major bug quashing!!
No, the long list of changes is mostly fluff. If it was a major update, it would be given a full digit version number.
Pro users STILL here and STILL waiting on the new Mac Pro we want, not what is farted in our general direction. (What makes you think every pro user needs a DAW anyway?)
Pro development takes time Mr. Pickert. When Apple is ready with a new solid Mac Pro offering you’ll get it, not a moment sooner, though I bet you could easily do with anything that’s already seen the light of day.
Mr. Pickett that is Mo…
Its taking a bit too much time… dont u think… like many other things not running on all cylinders at apple lately…. thats a reason for concern.. not a reason to look the other way Breeze.
Historicallly…, patience always pays off grasshopper – Have faith – this is Apple, not Trump.
Yup it is Apple Musta Breeze .. but not the old Apple…. its seens it has become the complaicent Apple… ….
And to quote AG: Success breeds complacency. Complacency breeds failure……..
Let me give u a little example of my situation:
I want to invest in some expensive software… in 3d and visualization and fx area… to tune of about 12k…. i am not able to move forward…
For two reasons: i have no idea what Apples commitment to pro mac are! While they are taking their sweet time with it(if they are at all )….. they are creating doubt in pro/power users mind if they will support them with availibilty of highest end computing devices. Hence lack of confidance to invest in the platform . 2- i don’t want to abandon mac (yet) and go back to windows and pc..(where i have no doubt that i will always have access to top of the line power/pro user equipment)
But at some point i will have to draw the line.
Apple is pushing people like me away.. by taking this long and not giving Us a roadmap of where their commitments and priorities are…
(Its not like macs are some new concepts deserving of top secret status )
That is complacent and arrogant and shortsighted..and disrespectful of power users , who are some of the best advocates of Apple. ..
Patience has its limits …..indefinite patience gets nothing done.
In the words of confucious: Patience is a virtue you have to wait for…
Apple has said it is commited to the Mac Pro. “Old Apple or new, Apples word and commitments to its users means evrything and is the reason Apple has loyal, involved (pro) users. Until Apple makes a hostile shift to the contrary, its loyal users have learned to be patient – with a proven track record. Yeah it sucks to wait but hang in there, you will be rewarded.
“For two reasons: i have no idea what Apples commitment to pro mac are! While they are taking their sweet time with it(if they are at all )….. they are creating doubt in pro/power users mind if they will support them with availibilty of highest end computing devices. Hence lack of confidance to invest in the platform . 2- i don’t want to abandon mac (yet) and go back to windows and pc..(where i have no doubt that i will always have access to top of the line power/pro user equipment)”
As always .. pardon me for all typos.. and plural/singular errors… .. believe me it gets on my nerves too…. wish we could edit our posts..
Logic Pro X is “Pro” in name only. Anyone serious about programming in Logic Pro is stll using version 9.
Apple gives us a semi pro workstation (The current Mac Pro), a semi pro laptop (The current MacBook Pro), and a semi pro application (Logic Pro X).
And what exactly are your credentials and “programming needs’ for Logic? Please enlighten me.
Dearest breeze,
Here is a short summary of some of the music I have worked on.
http://www.allmusic.com/artist/slamm-andrews-mn0000749374
All the best,
-Slamm
HA!
I don’t use any of it, but I’m happy to see an upgrade happen anyway! 😊
lol.
Musicians: Garageband. Logic Pro.
Videographers: iMovie. Final Cut Pro X.
Photographers: Photos. . . . . . . . . . .
Apple has let the Mac fall dangerously behind in tons of industries.
Enterprise Server Mgers: . . . . . . .
2D Drawing: . . . . . . .
Architects: . . . . . . .
Engineers: . . . . . . .
Solid model based designers: . . . . . . .
CAD/CAM: . . . . . . .
CRM: . . . . . . .
Accounting & Financial Modeling: . . . . . . .
Publishing and Office stuff . . . . . .
….
I realize Apple has to rely on 3rd party apps, but the Mac is practically nowhere to be seen in any of the above industries. Not even a contender.
However, when you do go to Apple’s store or to any of a dozen app vendor sites, there are a gazillion cheap utilities that add features that Apple inexplicably can’t get right in macOS. Password managers, disk cleanup, menu bar customization, data backup. You’d think Apple would have the undisputed best solution for these areas, but since Apple has been coasting so long, there is apparently enough of a demand that 3rd party developers are fixing what Apple will not. What does that say about Apple’s macOS? Apple should have enough resources to be able to let the iOS guys play with their emojis and still have enough people left over to make the macOS the best desktop OS on the planet out of the box without the need for hundreds/thousands of dollars more software to make it compatible and efficient to use in the real world.
Big time…
Add to that the 3d animation, FX and 3d gameing industry for the most part.
But no update for GarageBand on the Mac, the current version of which is broken and a complete mess. Seriously Apple, how hard can it be to fix a few bugs in a timely manner?
I love Logic Pro. However, the Logic Pro user interface has been getting slower and slower. I will definitely back up my current version (which I’m not very happy about) before I install the new version.
All good..
But still no way to export a song one creates in GarageBand on an ios device to ones music liberary/playlist on the same or other ios device/s without having to resort to a Mac..
This is silly… isnt ipad supposed to an independent device?
Why am i forced to own a 1500$+ mac or pc to be able to do this.
Arent the iPad/iPhones considered “Post PC” independent devices?
Garagband is an ios app from Apple.. so is the Music App….but yet there is such disconnect.
Which brings me to my usual objection:
The Overall lack of a native, systemwide user managable file sys in iOS pretty much renders it useless for serious work.. let it be music, photo/ video..etc..anything that may be asset intensive . .
Give us an iOS-Pro upgrade version Apple … for a Fee .. bring this crucial functionality to ios for those who need it… it will be win win for all.
Ohhhh …..and the capability to run full fledged applications not snippets. ….
or drop the Pro moniker untill you do…..its misleading imo.
Or is it that transfering a single file in the same device from one location to another is work suitable for TRUCKS only ?
Funny, I went into one of my studios and showed them your comments. “Total FUD”
Incidentally, you seem to know virtually EVERYTHING about Macs, iPads, iPhones, OSX, iOS and of course Apple; whether it is product design, functionality, corporate strategy —ALL NEGATIVE.
AMAZING. Such knowledge and insight. I don’t know how Apple could survive without your guidance, IMO!
FUD? Where is the fud?
I dont know everything md8.. i kniw what i know and when i see a problem i vocalize it… and i also complenent and praise when i see the good(If u follow all my post and not just panic on negative comments ) ..
U hear more negative Because there have been too many problematic issus with Apple. And im not the only one tsusing a fkag… some of Apples best advocates are doing the same..
If u cant see that you live under a rock. ….
…..and it seens you like to generlize things..and look the other way or ignore issues.
Next time u want to disagree … show me which point of mine u actually find unreasonable or false and why… and i will be more than happy to reassess or debate.
In the meanwhile acting like a blind fanboy and aplauding apple even when they screwup helps no one…. it wont even help a 2 year old child.
So line up what u disagree with. …. and dont just bash …. it sounds too dogmatic and pathetic.
Did your experts show you how to transfer a song from ios GarageBand to your ios music liberary without using a mac or pc? FUD? Please show me.. Even Apple will be happy to know.. since their support is also bewildered that this is the way it is…… and they actually aknowleged it as a problem.
But you choose to ridicule me…
Ill say again… one of the biggest problems at Apple universe is the dogmotized blind fanboy/s
So, you are trying to tell me that, “…[there is] still no way to export a song one creates in GarageBand on an ios device to ones music liberary/playlist on the same or other ios device/s without having to resort to a Mac.”
BS! https://support.apple.com/kb/PH17218?locale=en_CA
Yes md8 im a still telling you that… dont you think i have studied the forums and have even talked to Apple support before i raised the issue here?
I am very familiar with the article u sent .
Please Read the article carefully.. you will see that :
In all cases of transferring the GB music to the music liberary or a play list on ios .. one has to export/share the song from GB as an audio file in an itunes format (which will stay hidden)…. the next step after sharing the song from GB is to sync with a mac or a pc and opeing itunes….then finding the shared GB song in itune’s shared files…. then adding it to the liberary and desired playlist using itunes on mac/pc …….and then resync the ipad/iphone to the computer again to have the song transfered to the ios music liberary.
No way to do it without resorting to a desktop. That i know of….
If u find a way please let me know. ……. And Apple.
I know it sounds ridiculous, but is it possible this is due to some contractural (DRM) problem?
1st let me thank you for not bashing because i point out problems…
2nd… i dont see how it can be a drm related issue..
iTunes on mac/pc allows me to add my own ripped songs from old cds on my playlist… … it also allows me to add my own compositions to any playlist i want..
Now, GarageBand on ios will also allow me to export an audio format of my compositions for iTunes ( it just creats the file .. it cant be seen until its been synced to a mac/pc)
Then if i sync my iphone/ipad to my Mac the song will transfer to my Mac … i can then use itunes to see the file add my composition to any playlist.
After all that … i can then sync my iphone or ipad with the Mac and all these songs will transfer to my ios devices… no drm issues going through this process.
But if you remove the mac/pc from the picture its no longer possible to do this… ios wont allow me to add a song to my playlist.. let it be a song my friend performed and sent me through email ..or a songs i created on ios GarageBand or other apps… .. i can send the songs to icloud… i can email them .. but i can directly transfer them them to my ios music liberary .
Apple’s whole treatment of ‘files” on ios is some voodoo science… its cumbersome and impractical for any task that is slightly involved.
I dont mean the following towards u Progress.
But Yes i am pointing out a problem fanboys… line up and shoot me. That will solve the problem… !…..sigh
Sorry .. Correction..” but i Cant ( not can ) directly transfer to ios music liberary.. ..
The answer, as most of us have learned, is that all production requires a Mac. Ipads are good only for consumption and even there file management is a pain.
Yes Andy its obviouse…… but Thats not how apple promotes the Tablets… and the Pro moniker is misleading.
Plus in this particular case…. the production on ios and grageband is not the issue… actually the production process in GarageBand is fun and allows for some suffucticated compoitions on ios.
The problem is transferring a single audio file to my music libetary on ios .. without using a mac. …
This is not a production issue Andy.
Its ios’s files system’s handicap….
hence my call for an ios-pro version… for a fee… its a win win for all.
Sorry… Typo alert…meant “sophisticated compositions “
Great!! Now just waiting for the major update to Aperture…..oh wait…