Logic Express 8 makes it easier than ever to translate musical inspiration into professional recordings.
A wide range of powerful, easy-to-use features put sophisticated tools at your fingertips. Logic Express 8 delivers the power, precision, and professional toolset of Logic Pro 8—including a redesigned interface that allows musicians to write, record, edit, and mix with unparalleled speed and ease.
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Next Generation Interface
A new workspace featuring a single-window design, retractable panes, and Dual Channel Strips eliminates clutter and lets you focus on your music. |
Consolidated Arrange window
With the new Arrange window, all edit and browser windows are consolidated into a single, efficiently designed workspace. So you can record multiple takes; cut, move, or stretch audio with sample accuracy; apply channel strip settings; automate a group fade; and drop chords onto your lead sheet — all from one central location without navigating a maze of windows.
Built-in browsers
Intelligent, integrated browsers provide fast access to your content. The Library browser lets you preview and select any plug-in or channel strip setting. The Spotlight-searchable File browser helps you find and grab any file on your system. And the Apple Loops browser allows you to easily audition and insert Apple Loops.
Simplified track setup
Create and configure multiple audio, instrument, or external MIDI tracks from a single, simple setup window.
Production-ready templates
Start making music fast by choosing from a variety of professionally crafted templates designed for different music styles and production scenarios. You can also save and recall your own customized templates from the same, well-organized template browser.
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Multitrack Recording
Advanced tracking features include seamless punch recording, input monitoring, and effortless multi-take management. |
Simplified tracking
A new template browser offers a variety of preconfigured projects to get you started, while the track creation window dramatically streamlines project setup. Dynamic channel strip creation simplifies mixer setup by adding auxiliary and output channels as needed.
Effortless multitake recording
Region-based take management streamlines the process of recording, organizing, and auditioning multiple takes. Record passes are automatically tucked into an expandable take folder where they can be conveniently recalled and colorized. Entire take folders can be moved and edited just like standard regions.
Remote control
Use an Apple Remote to control Logic Express from a distance, with the ability to play, stop, record, rewind, fast-forward, and move to the next or previous track.
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Professional Mixing
Complete your project with powerful mixing and automation tools, along with optimized mixer views to help you visualize the signal flow of any audio path. |
Complete mixing desk
Create the perfect mixer configuration with up to 255 audio, software instrument, and auxiliary channels, up to 32 mix groups, and as many output channels as your audio hardware provides. Each track supports 15 plug-ins and 8 pre-, post-, and post-pan sends with full latency compensation to keep everything in perfect sync. Logic Express 8 also lets you record busses and integrate outboard hardware into your mix.
Automation
Automate channel strip and plug-in parameters on the fly or set values manually for even greater precision. You can simultaneously view and edit automation for single or multiple tracks, including multiple parameters per track. Track grouping provides simultaneous writing and editing of automation for multiple tracks, and a curve tool helps create natural-sounding moves.
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Ultimate Writing Studio
A powerful set of music creation tools make it easy to capture and develop your musical inspirations, whether you’re writing a rock song, crafting a club remix, or composing to picture. |
Songwriting
Capture and develop your musical inspirations with unprecedented ease. You can record multiple takes and build the perfect comp, then establish a groove by selecting Apple Loops from a newly integrated Loops browser. Fill out your composition with Studio Instruments and burn your finished production directly to CD — all in Logic Express.
Music notation
Logic Express lets you transform MIDI performances into music notation in real time. Create fully ornamented, professional scores with a complete set of tools, including comprehensive layout and print options, instrument transposition, guitar tablature, drum notation, and adaptive lyric input.
Compose to picture
Advanced music-for-picture features make scoring and sound design easy. Flexible video display options let you view synchronized QuickTime movies directly within the interface or choose to display on a separate monitor using various output options, including Digital Cinema Desktop. You can also locate scene changes visually via a thumbnail track, or automatically mark transitions with the scene detect option.
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Instruments
Logic Express 8 features 36 incredible-sounding instrument plug-ins from Logic Studio—including Ultrabeat, EXS24 Sampler, the ES synth series, and more than a dozen GarageBand instruments. |
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Effects
Shape and transform your sound with 70 professional effects from Logic Studio–including Guitar Amp Pro, Ringshifter, and full-featured Pitch Correction. |