“From the fun and intuitive GarageBand to the all new Logic Studio, there’s never been a better time to be a musician on the Mac,” said Rob Schoeben, Apple’s vice president of Applications Product Marketing, in the press release. “For less than $500, Logic Studio transforms the Mac into the most powerful musical instrument in the world.”
At the heart of Logic Studio is Logic Pro 8, now with an intuitive single-window interface for instant access to powerful music creation and production functions, including snap-to-transient selection and sample accurate editing directly in the Arrange window. New audio production tools such as Quick Swipe Comping and dynamic channel strip creation speed up common tasks. Logic Pro 8 also includes end-to-end surround production capabilities with innovative surround panning controls, multichannel tracks and busses, and support for True Surround software instruments and effects.
MainStage turns the Mac into a powerful live performance rig that produces reliable, consistent sound—whether music is being made at home, in a rehearsal space, or in front of an audience. Screen controls link software plug-ins to hardware knobs, faders and buttons, so musicians can use their favorite gear while performing live. An easy-to-read interactive display, designed for distant viewing in dim light, shows exactly the information needed on stage. Professional templates simplify set-up giving musicians more time to explore and create their own unique sounds.
Soundtrack Pro 2 is the musician’s bridge to sound for picture with professional editing tools and seamless film and video integration that simplifies every aspect of the audio post production process. Musicians can compose their score in Logic Pro 8 then use Soundtrack Pro 2 to edit dialog, design sound effects and complete the mix in cinematic sound.
Studio Instruments with 40 instrument plug-ins enable musicians to access and play almost any sound imaginable, including enhanced versions of Ultrabeat, Sculpture and ES2 synthesizers, and the EXS24 sampler. Studio Effects include a new Delay Designer plug-in that offers in-depth control over individual delay taps, and Space Designer, now with True Surround enhancements for multichannel audio processing. Logic Studio gives musicians a vast Studio Sound Library, featuring content from the five Jam Pack® collections and Final Cut Studio 2, for a total of 18,000 Apple Loops, 1,300 EXS instruments and 5,000 sound effects that span a huge variety of genres and styles. Production utilities include WaveBurner for CD mastering, Compressor 3 for surround encoding, an Apple Loops utility and a new Impulse Response utility for capturing the acoustics of real performance spaces.
Logic Studio is now available for a suggested retail price of US$499 through the Apple Store, Apple’s retail stores and Apple Authorized Resellers. Registered Logic Pro 7 users can upgrade to Logic Studio for $199. Customers who purchased Logic Pro 7 on or after August 1, 2007 are eligible for a free upgrade to Logic Studio ($9.95 shipping & handling).
Logic Studio System Requirements:
Minimum requirements to install all applications:
• Mac computer with a 1.25GHz or faster PowerPC G4 processor (PowerPC G5, Intel Core Duo, or Intel Xeon processor highly recommended)
• 1GB of RAM (2GB or more highly recommended)
• Display with 1024-by-768 resolution (1280-by-800 or higher recommended)
• Mac OS X v10.4.9 or later
• QuickTime 7.2 or later
• DVD drive for installation
• PCI Express, ExpressCard/34, USB, or FireWire based audio interface recommended
Additional recommendations for Logic Pro:
• At least 2GB of RAM for large EXS instruments
• USB musical keyboard (or suitable MIDI keyboard and interface) for instruments
• Logic Node requires a Mac computer with a PowerPC G5, Intel Core, or Intel Xeon processor and Gigabit Ethernet
Additional recommendations for MainStage:
• At least 2GB of RAM for large EXS instruments
• USB musical keyboard, control surface, or guitar pedal board (or suitable MIDI control device and interface)
• Standard graphics card in any Mac Pro, MacBook Pro, iMac with Intel Core Duo, Power Mac G5, or iMac G5
Surround requirements for Logic Pro and Soundtrack Pro:
• Mac computer with dual PowerPC G5 processors or an Intel Core Duo or Xeon processor
• Multichannel audio interface
Available disk space:
• 7GB to install all applications and required content
• Additional 39GB 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
– 7GB for other optional content
Contents:
• DVD containing Logic Pro 8, MainStage, Soundtrack Pro 2, Studio Instruments, Studio Effects, WaveBurner 1.5, Compressor 3, Impulse Response Utility, Apple Loops Utility, QuickTime 7 Pro, and required content
• Six content DVDs containing Jam Pack collections, sound effects, surround music beds, EXS24 samples, and impulse response files
• Demo content DVD
• Printed and electronic documentation
More information on Logic Studio including a list of certified, compatible hardware and software, can be found here.
I’m not much more than a music tinkerer, but this looks like a great deal. It costs $500 just to buy all 5 Apple Jam Packs. But they all come with Logic Studio, so it’s like getting the software for free.
does it still require a hardware dongle?
“does it still require a hardware dongle?”
Yes, but a groupie will take care of that before the show….
OMG… Logic Users have been waiting for this upgrade for 2.5+ years!!! Many of the features we’ve been hoping for. No dongle required
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@twilightmoon:
no, dongle is no longer required.
Nothing about a dongle here:
http://www.apple.com/logicstudio/systemrequirements.html
Sorry, I guess we had stroked the dongle issue enough.
Soundtrack Pro 2 is still a very buggy and unstable app. (at least in the FCS 2 suite.)
…the whole intel Mac is a dongle through EFI courtesy of your friends (not) at the Trusted Computing Group.
EFI is a extremely powerful firmware enviroment that can read hard drives, cd drives, contact the internet and download without a OS even running!! The OS actually has to go through EFI to get to the hardware calls.
Wonderful ain’t it? A spy in your machine.
Already iTunes (not iTMS), AddressBook, imovie, IDVD, FRONTROW!! and dashboard advisory deamon contacts Apple regularly without your permission or knowledge.
Even booting your Mac contacts Apple.
Now Intel Macs it’s unknown at this time what software and when EFI is contacting the internet. Perhaps programs like Photoshop are already using EFI.
Snoop on your hard drive they can. Won’t work unless your connected to the internet it will become.
Now I can afford to buy Logic, as it’s $500 less, thank you Apple!
“Wonderful ain’t it? A spy in your machine.”
Should I care if I have nothing to hide?
Apple already has my personal and financial information and everything on my HD is licensed and legal.
One of you audio gurus, please give us a few sentences of what the big improvements and changes this will give us. For those of us who are not real familiar with this stuff, what’s the “big deal”?
“Won’t work unless your connected to the internet it will become.”
Wow. When did schools stop teaching grammar?
Did they lose funding for English classes too?
MW: reading
“…A simple serial number replaces the USB dongle and lets you make music without the hassle of extraneous hardware…”
Oh well, I have a dongle for 7.x so I could care less about the cheap bastards who aim for ripped apps.
On the more important part, I bet the folks from Emagic still haven’t fixed the utterly shitty sound editing environment, also I bet the app still overwrites the original audio file when commiting an edit (leaving a .dup behind)…not to mention the disappearing DNA groove templates. Even though the snappiest version so far was 4.8, I’m curious how this one performs. I was hoping for an Absynth-esque synth to be added, nothing new tho.
This software is an industrial strength recording studio in your Mac where you can easily combine midi tracks, audio tracks, rudimentary notation, film scoring, processing, finalizing and mastering in one environment. Logic is to Garage Band what InDesign is to Pages. There are two other simular and equally mature programs in this category, MOTU’s Digital Performer and Steinberg’s Cubase. (Cubase is the only one left which is cross platform.)
I personally use MOTU’s Digital Performer, so I’m not familiar with the upgrades here but MOTU should be more than a little worried that Apple has lowered the price by $500! That is a huge upgrade all by itself.
I’m also a little baffled why Soundtrac 2 is a separate program. I always assumed that SoundTrac was simply a subset of Logic. Having to run two programs seems cumbersome to me.
Maybe someone else can enlighten us as to the upgrade details of the new Logic.
Should I care if I have nothing to hide?
Apple already has my personal and financial information and everything on my HD is licensed and legal.
Your a total and complete fscking idiot.
Just because you don’t have nothing to hide doesn’t mean you should give up your right to privacy.
Can we snoop in on your sexcapades then? i’m sure your fat fscking gross dog kicking pervert who licks his own genitals.
@NSFY
“”Wonderful ain’t it? A spy in your machine.”
Should I care if I have nothing to hide?
Apple already has my personal and financial information and everything on my HD is licensed and legal.”
Absolutely. Unless, you trust big corporations and the government, which today, is the same thing. It’s not communism, it’s not capitalism, it’s corporatism. And the only thing that form of government cares about is money. Oh, 1984 took a different turn, alright.
Lenin refers to some as “useful idiots”. People who never question anything, is what they like. Go watch your sports and pron and believe everything you see on CNN.
@spooksty
You have a few obvious anger and literacy issues. Don’t fear the apostrophe. It can be your friend.
However, that was a well thought out and intelligent comeback. Keep it coming.
(P.S. Who says sexcapades? Are you high?)
Apple needs to put faster, larger hard drives in their laptops. The 200GB 4200 drive is not acceptable, and while the 160GB 7200 is nice and fast, it is still kinda small when you put Final Cut Studio and this new Logic Studio on it. Didn’t someone come out with a 250GB 7200 a short time ago?
One word: paranoia!
As I said in another comment (see: Win smartphone vs. iPhone), of all companies out there (software or hardware), Apple is probably the biggest champion of DRM-free philosophy. If you sniff your Mac’s outgoing traffic, you’ll notice that Apple’s apps send very little machine- or user-specific info; they just check for updates.
I notice how nothing in the paranoid (anonymous, mind you) comment above states confirmed facts. Notice the words “perhaps”, or “now they can…”, or “it is unknown…” or “it will become”. Well, when I disconnect my MacBook (an Intel Mac with the EFI chip) from any network (Airport off, BlueTooth off, Ethernet unplugged), everything works just fine – apps launch, work as specified, without the need to talk to the mother ship. There is no way in h3ll this can ever change. There are too many places in this world where computers are only sometimes connected to the internet. Not to allow an app to work because there’s not connection would be suicidal for the developer (obviously, unless it is a web-browser, or FTP, or something obvious).
No need for paranoia just yet.
Can we go back to stroking the dongle jokes now?
@The Skeptic
Thanks for the intelligent reply. I was throwing in a little devil’s advocate. It is a serious privacy issue for some of the reasons you stated about corporations and bureaucracy. Sometimes it’s disguised as tailoring to your personal preferences which is closer to marketing gone amok.
P.S. I prefer sports combined with porn. There’s more action.
… just put a packet sniffer between your machine and your network connection and watch all traffic. Filter out the stuff you know and look at the rest. I haven’t done it so I don’t know whether my Mac is talking without my knowledge…
MW: yet
“Perhaps programs like Photoshop are already using EFI.”
No.