The Apple Logic Studio Music Production Bundle is a comprehensive suite of professional music and audio tools that provides musicians with everything they need to create in the studio, on the stage, and for the screen.
Logic Studio includes Logic Pro 8, Apple’s legendary professional music production application featuring a new, intuitive interface; MainStage, an innovative new application for music performance; and Soundtrack Pro 2 for audio postproduction and sound design. It also includes Studio Instruments and Studio Effects, with 40 acclaimed
instruments and 80 professional effect plug-ins; an expanded Studio Sound Library; and new production utilities—all in a single box at an incredible price.
Apple Logic Studio Bundle Features
- Take your music from initial concept through final production and all the way to live performance using
an innovative suite of products created specifically for musicians.
- Logic Pro 8, a major upgrade to Apple’s leading music production application
- MainStage, an innovative new application for live music performance
- Soundtrack Pro 2, a streamlined audio post-production application for film and video
- Studio Instruments, featuring 40 incredible-sounding instrument plug-ins
- Studio Effects, featuring 80 professional effect plug-ins
- Studio Sound Library, incorporating content from five Jam Pack collections and Final Cut Studio 2 to
provide a total of 18,000 Apple Loops, 2400 channel strip settings, and 1300 EXS sampled instruments
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Logic Pro 8 |
Single-Window Design
The Arrange window in Logic Pro 8 consolidates production activities in a single, elegantly-designed workspace. You can record multiple takes; cut, move, or stretch audio with sample accuracy; browse channel strip settings; audition Apple Loops; and drop chords onto your lead sheet—all from one central space, without managing multiple windows. |
Click here to watch a quick video on Logic’s single-window design |
Portable preferences
Save your key commands, channel strip settings and plug-in settings to your .Mac account for easy backup, sharing, and portability.
Effortless multitake recording
Region-based take management streamlines the process of recording, organizing, and auditioning multiple takes and overdubs. 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. |
Click here to watch a quick video on Logic’s multitake recording |
Surround mixing and processing
Logic Pro 8 allows for end-to-end surround production with multichannel tracks and busses. True Surround and multi-mono support lets you use any surround, stereo or mono plug-ins within any surround project.
Click here to watch a quick video on Logic’s quick swipe comping |
Quick Swipe Comping
Breakthrough Quick Swipe Comping dramatically streamlines the process for building the perfect track. Just swipe over the best portions of each take of an overdub or multitake recording and a seamless comp is created — complete with transition-smoothing crossfades. Multiple comps and autosave let you experiment with performances and ensure that your work is never lost. |
XSKey-free operation
A simple serial number replaces the USB dongle and lets you make music without the hassle of extraneous hardware.
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MainStage |
Built for live performance, MainStage lets keyboardists, guitarists, and other musicians perform with software instruments and effects through a full-screen interface designed specifically for the stage.
Hardware Control
From keyboards and drum pads to pedal boards and control surfaces, you can use any MIDI or USB controller with MainStage.
MainStage Layouts make it simple to assign hardware controllers to plug-in and performance functions, then reassign them if your equipment changes.
MainStage instantly recognizes all connected audio I/O and hardware controllers. For many popular devices, MainStage intelligently assigns plug-in and performance functions to knobs and faders. |
Click here to watch a quick video on MainStage’s hardware control |
Full-screen tuner
MainStage features a built-in tuner for guitars, basses, and other instruments.
Instruments
Access and play any of the instruments in Logic Studio, including the vintage keyboard series; a range of superb synthesizers; and hundreds of beautifully sampled pianos, horns, and percussion and string instruments. You can also use your favorite third-party Audio Units plug-ins.
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Soundtrack Pro 2 |
Completing the bridge between sound and picture, Soundtrack Pro 2 allows musicians to take their creative inspirations to the screen. Comprehensive editing tools, surround mixing, and seamless integration with Final Cut Pro make audio post-production a breeze. |
Click here to watch a quick video on Soundtrack Pro 2 |
Multitrack Timeline
The multitrack Timeline features a Waveform Editor that’s integrated into the single-window interface so you can fly through audio editing. Starting with a simple Timeline, you can progressively disclose additional interface controls for sophisticated tasks — even customizing screen layouts for configurations like single- and dual-display systems.
The Bin
Use the Bin to organize and manage audio files, clips, and markers across multiple projects. The Bin includes a powerful search tool and single-click access to your media.
Integrated video playback
Now you can watch perfectly synchronized HD or SD video right in the integrated playback window, view it full screen and full resolution on a second monitor with Digital Cinema Desktop, or send it through professional I/O devices to a broadcast monitor.
Multipoint spotting display
A breakthrough three-up video display helps you quickly place audio clips at specific points in the video by showing frames for start, sync, and end points in real time while audio is being positioned.
Nondestructive, multichannel Waveform Editor
An integrated multichannel Waveform Editor lets you select any clip from the multitrack Timeline, then perform nondestructive or destructive edits and processing to the audio file. Action layers give you even more creative freedom by allowing you to reorder, suspend, or delete processes and edits.
Spectrum view editing
Spectrum view gives you an alternative way to see audio using a color-coded waveform. You can also select and edit specific frequency ranges — perfect for audio cleanup and restoration.
Surround mixing
Create cinematic soundtracks for your project using discrete 5.1 mixing, bussing, and routing.
Surround Panner
An innovative Surround Panner dynamically represents how sound is positioned within the surround field. Rotation, collapse, and discrete LFE sliders provide complete control over your surround mix, while integrated meters show sound levels on all six channels.
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Studio Instruments |
Featuring 40 powerful instrument plug-ins seamlessly integrated into Logic Pro 8 and MainStage, Studio Instruments provides the largest software instrument package available in a single box.
Ultrabeat
Build big beats with Ultrabeat, expanded with more than 50 new drum kits featuring 400 new patterns and over 1000 new sounds. Step automation and Full View drum grid editing give you more power than ever.
Sculpture
Create expressive and unusual sounds in mono, stereo, and full surround with the world’s most advanced component modeling instrument. New True Surround features allow you to animate sound through surround space.
Synths
Produce beautiful synth beds and driving bass lines with an array of FM, subtractive, and analog-modeled synthesizers. The flagship ES2 synth now features surround panning and modulation effects and a simplified Macro view.
EXS24 Sampler
Play over 1300 EXS instruments included in the Studio Sound Library, and quickly make sample instruments and sample libraries with the integrated, redesigned EXS Editor.
Vintage Instruments
Play fully modeled simulations of vintage keyboards, including classic organs, clavs, and electric pianos.
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Studio Effects |
Enhance music productions, live performance, and post-production projects with 80 professional effect plug-ins.
Delay Designer
Build creative delay effects in stereo or full surround with the new multi-tap delay plug-in.
Get creative
Filter, pan, and pitch controls for each tap allow you to generate morphing delay effects. A multimode resonant filter provides filtering on specific frequency ranges for even more interesting delay sounds. And swing-time delay makes taps sit in the groove.
Surrounded by sounds
True Surround processing includes dedicated spatial controls that let you give each tap its own pan position in the surround field.
Guitar Amp Pro
Recall classic tones with a guitar amp plug-in featuring 11 amp models, 15 speaker cabinets, microphone controls, and a dedicated effects section.
Amp modeling
Guitar Amp Pro features 11 amp models, 15 speaker cabinets, microphone controls, and an effects section for constructing the perfect guitar tone. Bass Amp offers nine different amplifier models and separate frequency and gain controls to craft warm and punchy electric bass sounds. And you can access over 200 brand-new guitar and bass channel strip settings made from scratch by world-famous sound designers.
Space Designer
Reproduce the reverberant qualities of some of the world’s most distinctive locations in stereo or full surround — with over 130 new spaces and new surround controls.
Virtual reverb
Convolution reverb effectively places your audio tracks within the acoustic spaces where the impulse responses (IR) were recorded, from a small wine cellar to a massive Gothic cathedral. Space Designer ships with a library of over 900 impulse responses, which can be further shaped via a comprehensive parameter set. You can also record your own impulse responses with the included Impulse Response Utility.
Surround reverb
New True Surround multichannel support creates surround convolution reverb effects with all cross-reflection patterns in any format, including Quad, LCRS, 5.1, 6.1, 7.1, and true stereo.
Explore new spaces
Logic Studio ships with 73 new stereo IR spaces and 138 new surround IR spaces, all for use in Space Designer. Created at some of the world’s most distinctive locations, these impulse responses provide a wealth of creative options for music and post-production.
Production effects
Fine-tune your audio production with a range of superb-sounding plug-ins. A new Surround Compressor lets you compress multichannel surround sources, and a redesigned Multipressor displays all controls for all bands in a single window.
Creative effects
Transform audio and create shifting fields of sound using advanced reverb, modulation, vintage, warped, and delay plug-ins.
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Studio Sound Library |
18,000 Apple Loops, 2400 channel strip settings, and 1300 sampled instruments provide infinite possibilities for making your music.
Jam Packs
The Studio Sound Library comes with five Jam Pack collections, featuring redesigned content that incorporates the professional sound quality of Studio Instruments and Studio Effects.
Channel Strip Settings
2400 professionally-designed channel strip settings offer combinations of Studio Instruments and Studio Effects that can be used right out of the box or customized to fit your personal sound.
Surround sound
Move your productions into surround using 600 royalty-free surround channel strip settings and over 1000 multichannel sound effects and music beds.
Apple Loops
18,000 royalty-free Apple Loops let you build a rhythm, grab a melodic phrase, or simply sketch out an arrangement. Create and tag your own loops with the included Apple Loops Utility.
EXS Instruments
1300 EXS instruments provide a world of beautifully sampled, authentic sounds.