Logic Pro X 10.2.1 Release Notes
Learn what’s new in Logic Pro X 10.2.1.
Logic Pro X 10.2.1
Logic Pro X 10.2.1 includes the following changes.
For more information, see the Logic Pro X website. For information about previous Logic updates see the Logic Pro X 10.0 Release Notes and Logic Pro X 10.1 Release Notes.
New Features and enhancements
- Logic Pro X 10.2.1 includes over 650 new Apple Loops in a variety of dance and popular music genres.
- An Audio preference has been added for multithreading live tracks to improve CPU performance when processing multiple live channels.
- The spectral engine in Alchemy now provides 11 spectral effects that allow creative sound processing in the frequency domain.
- The tempo map embedded in Music Memos Ideas can be exported to the Project tempo.
- You can drag Apple Loops into Alchemy and they automatically conform to the current tempo.
- The downbeat of Music Memos Ideas automatically snaps to the bar nearest the playhead when imported.
- The accuracy of the Detect Tempo options has been significantly improved, especially with long audio files
- The content of the Score edit window reliably updates as expected wen the Same Level link mode is enabled
- Alchemy now supports MIDI mono mode. This lets you use third-party Expressive MIDI Controllers including products from Roli and Roger Linn Design.
- There’s now an Empty Kit patch for Drum Machine Designer to use when building custom kits from samples dragged and into empty cells.
- The playhead now remains visible in the Audio File Editor and you can use it to navigate in the Audio File Editor when playback is stopped.
- You can now manually (independently of the alphabet) sort Categories folders in the Plug-In Manager by grabbing and dragging a folder to a new place in the list.
- There are two new columns in the Plug-In Manager that can be used to assign long and/or short names to each of the plug-ins. The longer name appears in the menu, and the shorter name appears in the plug-in insert.
- The Sound Library and Apple Loops browsers now display content that’s available but not yet downloaded. Individual files or directories can also be downloaded directly from within the browsers.
- You can now hold the Shift key while clicking on an empty channel strip EQ graph to insert a Linear Phase EQ.
- The drum kits and software instruments in Logic now respond to Force Touch and 3-D touch with supported devices.
- Drum Machine Designer now supports drag and drop of multiple audio files at a time.
- There’s now an option to include tempo information when importing MIDI files into an existing project.
- Logic now supports the WAV RF64 audio file format for WAV files greater than 4 GB in size.
- You can now use the Export Region as Audio File command with multiple selected regions.
- Export Track as Audio File now works for multiple selected tracks, with each track exported as a separate file.
- Bounce Tracks in Place now works for multiple selected tracks.
- There’s a new metronome option to generate accents according to the beat grouping of the current time signature.
- If the currently selected audio device isn’t available, Logic now uses one of the other three most recently used audio devices in order of last usage (instead of defaulting to the built-in audio hardware).
- There’s a new project setting recording option to "Create Tracks when recording in Cycle mode."
- You can now define Catch behavior independently per window by right-clicking or Control-clicking the Catch button in each window.
- The Step Editor now includes a Lane Set you can use to automatically create lanes that display all the content in a region.
- You can now reposition Plug-in windows by grabbing either the header, or the lower edge of the window.
- Alchemy now automatically adjusts the gain when morphing formants.
- MIDI generated from Create MIDI Track using Flex Pitch Data now includes velocity data based on the source audio volume.
- The function to delete unused tracks now offers an option to include tracks without regions that contain automation.
- When the horizontal size of the Main window is decreased enough to hide the Waveform Zoom and Vertical Auto Zoom buttons, those controls now are added to the Action menu.
- When bouncing to a new track, Track Notes from the source track are now transferred to the destination track.
- When you drag a Piano Roll Time Frame handle past another, it now pivots the note start positions (instead of swapping note starts and ends). You can still trigger the older behavior by holding Shift while you drag the handles.
- The behavior of the Option key in the Event List now depends on where you place the cursor:
- The Piano Roll View menu now offers a Region Transpose option that causes the display of notes in the Piano Roll to match the Transpose setting in the Region Inspector.
- Hovering the pointer over a plug-in slot now displays a Help tag with the plug-in name and the name of the plug-in preset (if one is loaded).
- There’s now a key command "Hide all empty tracks" that hides all tracks that don’t contain regions or automation.
- If Logic Remote sends a custom key command for a feature that’s not available for the current Advanced Tools setting, you’re now prompted to activate the needed setting.
- Clicking the VCA slot in the Inspector area channel strip now switches the second channel strip in the Inspector to the corresponding VCA channel.
- You can now create and flatten Track Stacks in the Mixer in Tracks view.
- You can now create a new category in the Plug-In Manager by dragging a selection of plug-ins below the last category in the Category column.
- Beat Mapping now works with Take regions.
- When a set of non-contiguous regions is selected in a track the Catch Playhead in the Piano Roll now automatically disables and re-enables as needed during playback.
- The Score now provides a button to zoom the staff to fill all available vertical space in single track view.
- The track export dialog now offers an option to limit the export to the cycle range.
- You can now horizontally drag multiple selected take regions when Quick Swipe Comping is disabled for a Take Folder.
- The Drummer Editor now includes an Auto Region Select button that selects Drummer regions in the track as the Playhead reaches them.
- The new tool selection latch mode lets you temporarily select a tool by pressing and holding its key command.
- You can now use Smart controls to automatically configure how Logic interacts with various MIDI controllers and keyboards.
- Scrubbing with the Option key in the event value or position columns on a group of selected events allows editing to continue when the maximum or minimum limit is reached on part of the selection.
- Scrubbing on the event type column with the Option key temporarily solos the events.
These plug-ins have been updated with new Retina-ready interfaces
- Stereo Delay, Tape Delay, Sample Delay, Bitcrusher, Clip Distortion, Distortion, Phase Distortion, Adaptive Limiter, Limiter, Single Band EQ, AutoFilter, Levelmeter, Multimeter, Chorus, Ensemble, Flanger, Microphaser, Phaser, EnVerb, SilverVerb, Gain, Klopfgeist, Test Oscillator
These plug-ins include the following new features:
Delays > Stereo Delay
- Stereo Link – Change parameters for both Left and Right channels at the same time while preserving any differences between values. The Command key acts as a temporary way to disengage the stereo link for making changes to individual Left and Right channels.
- There are now separate filter settings for both Left and Right channels.
- Dotted and Triplet notes have been added to the delay time menu.
- Dragging the delay time knobs can be used to set the timing with "in-between" value deviation. Clicking on the note values around a knob snaps to times with deviation set to 0%.
- Routing presets make it easy to set up common delay patterns like Ping Pong, Panning, Rotating and more.
Delays > Tape Delay
- Tape Delay now includes Tape Head Mode and Spread control.
- The Distortion Level has been renamed to Clip Threshold.
- Dotted and Triplet notes have been added to the delay time menu.
- Dragging the delay time knobs can be used to set the timing with "in-between" value deviation. Clicking on the note values around a knob snaps to times with deviation set to 0%.
Delays > Sample Delay
- You can now switch the delay amount between milliseconds and samples.
Distortions > Bitcrusher
- The Mix parameter is now on the main interface.
Distortions > Distortion
- Level Compensation is now on the main interface
Distortions > Overdrive
- Now includes Level compensation
Dynamics > Adaptive Limiter
- Meter delay compensation
- Optimal look ahead button
Dynamics > Limiter
- Meter delay compensation
- Choice of Legacy and Precision mode
Dynamics > Surround Limiter
- Meter delay compensation
- Choice of Legacy and Precision mode
Filters > AutoFilter
- AutoFilter now includes Add Peak filter mode.
- The Distortion Mode menu now includes Classic, Tube, and Scream
- The Distortion Mode can be selected individually for input and output distortion.
- There are now separate Distortion Mode menus for Pre and Post Filter.
- The Distortion, LFO, Envelope, and Filter sections now each have an individual bypass button.
Metering > Correlation Meter
- Meter delay compensation
Metering > Levelmeter
- Meter delay compensation
- Numerical readout for max RMS value
- Vertical and horizontal UI versions
- Adjustable "Target Level" where the yellow range starts
Metering > Surround Level Meter
- Meter delay compensation
- Adjustable "Target Level" for Center, LFE and other channels
Metering > Multimeter
- Meter delay compensation
- Numeric readout for max RMS value
- New 63 band mode
- Adjustable "Target Level" where the yellow range starts
- Loudness meter
- Discrete readouts for LU-I and LU-S
Modulation > Ensemble
- On/off for LFO 1, LFO 2, and Random modulation sources
Modulation > Flanger
- Sync for LFO
Modulation > Microphaser
- Sync for LFO
Modulation > Phaser
- Sync for LFO
- Exponential sweep mode
- Feedback filter on/off switch
Reverbs > SilverVerb
- On/off switch for modulation
Stability and performance
- Logic no longer unexpectedly quits while playing when you convert the sample rate of a new project to match that of an audio file dragged into the Tracks area.
- Logic no longer becomes unresponsive when dragging a vertically zoomed track with several lanes of automation displayed.
- MIDI Time Code is now much more stable when output from a project with multiple tempo changes.
- Alchemy includes improvements to decrease the potential for clicks and pops when switching between patches while playing.
- Scrolling and redraw performance is improved with plug-in windows containing a large number of parameters in Controls view.
- You no longer have to download the Essential Sounds library before you can open Logic.
- You can now eject an external drive you’ve imported tracks from without closing the current project.
- There’s no longer a delay in response when long-clicking an Audio DSP slot on a channel strip.
- The bypass button for plug-ins on channel strip inserts now responds more quickly to rapid and sequential mouse clicks.
- The first note played on a Software Instrument summing stack is no longer unexpectedly delayed.
- Playback responsiveness is faster when previewing Apple Loops and performing region edits.
- Alchemy now uses less CPU processing for each instance.
- Logic performance is improved when a large number of flexed tracks are visible in the Main window.
- Logic takes less time to analyze tracks with a large number of regions when Flex is enabled.
- Logic is also now more responsive for these actions:
- When rubber-band selecting large numbers of notes in the Piano Roll
- Using the Pencil to draw in a series of notes in the Step Editor
- Zooming in projects that contain a large amount of automation
- Drag-copying or moving automation at high zoom levels
- Rearranging the order of tracks in the track header in projects that contain a large amount of automation
- Using a EuCon control surface with projects that contain a large number of tracks
- Horizontally dragging automation points in projects that contain a large amount of automation
- Scrolling in the Main window with a large number of tracks, regions, or automation
- Typing Delay values in the Region Parameter Box in songs that have the Use Musical Grid option disabled
- Redoing a Comp selection after undoing it
- Accessing Alchemy sample content by using an alias at launch
- Using the Enter key to activate the Go to Position command
- Renaming a channel strip while Logic is playing
- Loading IR files with certain special characters in their file name in Space Designer
- Connecting more than one iPad with Logic Remote
- Choosing presets from the Vintage B3 Organ presets menu
Editing
- The Audio File editor now zooms to use the full horizontal width of the screen when you double-click an audio region.
- Vertically zooming a stereo file in the Audio File Editor now keeps one channel centered in the display if there’s no longer vertical space to show both channels completely.
- The Bar Ruler in the Audio File Editor now reliably shows the correct position with Apple Loops whose tempos don’t match the project tempo.
- The Audio Editor opens again when you double-click an audio region (instead of opening the separate Audio File Editor).
- With Catch Playhead enabled, the Audio Track Editor now correctly keeps focus on the Playhead when you switch from track to track.
- The Audio File Editor now correctly displays the current region position when a Screenset is recalled.
- The Play Region Solo button again works in the Audio Track Editor when the Secondary Ruler is visible.
- The Piano Roll now correctly shows MIDI events as they are being recorded on Macs with Retina displays.
- Undo now works for adjustments made with the Quantize Strength and Swing sliders in the Piano Roll.
- The Piano Roll now reliably displays the contents of a selected MIDI take folder.
- It’s no longer possible to inadvertently add notes to a folder using the Brush or Pencil tool in the Piano Roll.
- The Marquee tool now divides all regions in the group as expected when you use it to double-click on grouped tracks.
- The Piano Roll now reliably shows the content of regions of a selected track when you drag it to a new position in the track header.
- You can insert notes outside the current division value in the Piano Roll using the Control and Shift modifiers.
- The contents of a region inside of a folder are now immediately visible in the Piano Roll the first time you select a region.
- The Collapse button in the Piano Roll is no longer disabled when you click the background of the Tracks area and then reselect a region.
- It’s now easier to make small adjustments to the lengths of notes in the Piano Roll.
- The MIDI Draw lane in the Piano Roll now properly maintains its size when you close and reopen the Piano Roll.
- The Piano Roll no longer disables Catch mode when you stop playback and enter notes.
- The Quantize shortcut menu appears as expected when you click-hold notes in the Piano Roll using the Quantize tool.
- When you use the Piano Roll solo cycle button to play a region, it continues to play if the region is deselected in the Main window.
- You can now reliably resize notes in the Piano Roll by grabbing the right edge with any tool.
- The velocities of newly inserted notes in the Piano Roll now match the value last set by adjusting the Velocity slider in the Inspector.
- Select All in the Piano Roll no longer selects notes that are outside the current region borders.
- Position guides in the Piano Roll are now more visible when you enable the Bright background preference.
- The Piano Roll background colors now correctly match the white/black keys on the keyboard when you switch from Drum Names view.
- Drum names in the Piano Roll are no longer truncated when you resize the name column wide enough to display the full name.
- The tool assigned to the Command key in the Piano Roll area now displays correctly when you hover the pointer over the Piano Roll while a different window has key focus.
- When you select notes of the same pitch by clicking the keyboard in the Piano Roll, they now display as selected in the Event List.
- Snap MIDI Draw and Automation is again available from the Piano Roll gear menu.
- Logic now uses the last set Piano Roll note color setting in newly created projects.
- You can again vertically drag MIDI Draw points to a value of 127.
- The Pencil tool is no longer limited to creating MIDI Draw points in the left-most region when you select multiple regions in the Piano Roll.
- An Event list showing the Arrange level no longer simultaneously shows newly recorded MIDI events and regions in the arrangement when you record MIDI.
- You can now use the Add (+) button in the Event list to insert Fader events.
- Multiple selected events pasted into the Event editor now all move when you adjust the position of one.
- The Event Float window now reliably shows currently selected MIDI events, rather than the region that contains them.
- You can now reliably select unquantized events in the Step Editor.
- The selected region content is now immediately displayed when you click the Step Editor tab in the Main window after opening a project.
- The Step Editor now scrolls vertically to show Step Lanes that contain data when you select a region.
- Object labels in the Environment can now display as multiple lines.
- When you disconnect a cable from a Transformer object in the Environment, an additional cable port is created as expected.
- Environment objects can now use any of the 72 available colors from the palette.
- The editor for the Mapped Instrument displays a vertical keyboard again.
- When you play MIDI from a controller, and MIDI In is enabled for an editor, and the Sound Library has focus, this no longer triggers step input into the editor
Automation
- Showing automation lanes no longer causes the currently selected track to zoom out of the current view.
- Track Automation in sections of the project that don’t contain regions now moves as expected when you use the "Snip: Cut Section Between Locators" command.
- Duplicated tracks are now set to the same Automation Mode and active state as their original track.
- The Automation mode button in the Track header now matches the color of the button in the Mixer.
- Alchemy Filter 3 automation parameters now have their own submenu in the automation lane (instead of in the Filter 2 submenu).
- When you paste Automation, it’s now reliably placed at the correct position in projects that start either before or after bar 1.
- Using the key command "Create 2 Automation Points for Visible Parameter" no longer causes the Automation display to switch to a previously selected parameter.
- When you set the automation mode for the main track of a Drum Machine Designer track stack, it now sets it for all sub-tracks.
- When you disclose an additional automation lane on a non-selected track, the visible area no longer shifts to show the currently selected track.
- When Show Automation is active, collapsed Track Stacks now show automation from sub tracks in the stack.
Takes and comping
- Take folder controls are now automatically shifted with the region name so they remain visible at all zoom levels.
- The active comps in a Take folder now display properly as active when the track is soloed.
- When you comp in a Take folder that’s been copied to a track, and then protect and un-protect the track, it now works as expected.
- When you select the Pencil Tool, the cursor now shows the correct tool when using Flex Pitch in a Take folder.
Score
- You no longer have to apply the "Allow Half Values" setting in the Tuplet window twice to a group of notes in order for the setting to take effect.
- Logic now displays an alert if you create a chord with unplayable fingering in the Chord Grid editor.
- The Select Equal Colored Notes key command now works in the Score editor.
- The pointer now reliably selects the correct events when you’re working at high bar number positions in the Score.
- You can now numerically edit values for Size, Transposition, and Split points in the Score Staff Style editor.
- Zooming out with a scroll-wheel mouse and the Option key in the Score window works more smoothly.
- The Zoom tool again works as expected in Wrapped view in the Score.
- Chords in the Score now follow the Transpose Track. You can also transpose them with key commands.
- Inserted coda signs now display correctly when using the Sigler Jazz font.
- In chord grids, chord extensions now display on the same line as the chord root.
- Selecting all regions on a track now selects all the regions in a content-linked Score window.
- When you select more than one Part Box in the Score, the currently active box now shows a blue frame.
- The alignment and spacing for Nashville Roman chords is improved.
- The Score no longer shows unexpected vertical lines at the end of some regions when Fill Gaps is disabled.
- Double-clicking the instrument area in an empty Score Set now creates an instrument entry.
- Repeat symbols and double lines now scale properly according to the Score Set scale value.
- When you grab a note in track or full page view in the Score, the Tooltip now shows the correct absolute position in the project (instead of its relative position in the region).
- You can now drag and copy score symbols across pages in the Score.
- You can use the backspace and arrow again to edit and select fields in the Chord Grid library.
- You can use the Return key again to close an activated text edit field in the Chord Grid Library.
- The Score display is no longer corrupted when you scroll the visible area.
- Adding a chord grid from the Chord Grid editor no longer inserts an empty chord grid.
- The Hide All Time Signatures project setting now hides all time signatures as expected. There is also a new setting to hide only the first time signature.
- The Show Same Level link mode in the Score now takes the instrument filter parameter into account.
- The Colors menu in the Staff Style window now shows a color bar, as well as the color label.
- Pressing Option when moving a bar with the Layout tool now preserves subsequent manually inserted Line Breaks.
- You can now edit Drummer regions that have been converted to MIDI regions in the Score.
Flex
- The display of Flex Time enabled regions has been updated to make it easier to identify areas that are flexed:
- When you add a Flex marker to grouped tracks in Slice Mode, the action no longer unexpectedly moves Transient markers.
- Flex Pitch editing can be performed directly in the Tracks area using a Piano Roll interface
- When you enlarge a quantized audio region, quantization is now correctly applied to the newly revealed portion of the region.
- You can now reliably delete Flex markers in Take folders by double-clicking.
- When you load a patch or channel strip setting on an Audio channel with Flex enabled, it no longer disables Flex.
- The Analyze Audio for Flex Editing command now recovers note pitches previously deleted from Takes.
- When you select a note in another region by grabbing one of its hot spots, Flex Pitch notes are now properly de-selected.
- When you cut a region using the Flex Slicing mode, the waveform for the resulting region to the left of the cut now displays as expected.
- Compressed areas are displayed in white.
- Stretched areas are displayed in gray.
- Areas retaining the region color play at their native speed.
Drummer
- The visible area no longer jumps to the original region when editing the end point of a looped Drummer region.
- When you device a Drummer region with the Scissors tool, Logic no longer shows an Overlapping Notes Found message.
- When you lengthen a Drummer region in the Event Editor, it now updates the content of the region.
Mixer
- Drum Machine Designer tracks no longer appear in the Mixer when Instruments are filtered from view.
- Solo buttons in the Track Header now show Solo Safe when you enable it for the corresponding channel in the Mixer or Inspector channel strip.
- Values of 0 db no longer display on the Mixer level meter preceded by a minus (-) sign.
- Switching an Apogee Audio channel from mono to stereo now properly updates its audio device controls.
- If you select a channel in a Mixer when no channel was previously selected, it now also selects the corresponding track in the Main window.
- The Dim button on Logic’s Master fader now illuminates as expected when you activate Dim from Logic Remote.
- Clicking the Settings menu in the Mixer no longer disables the Compare button for a plug-in that has been modified.
- Duplicated folder track stacks now are correctly set to a new VCA control fader.
Movies
- You can now set movies to start at negative SMPTE times.
- Movie region borders are now consistently calculated properly at 23.97, 23.976, and 59.94 frame rates.
Control surfaces
- You can again control Logic using Apple remote.
- You can now use Logic Remote to adjust Format controls in Alchemy.
- Logic now connects reliably to Logic Remote in cases where your computer has two IP addresses on the same network (such as when it’s connected to both Wi-Fi and Ethernet).
- MIDI plug-ins are now accessible from control surfaces.
- Automation mode switches for External MIDI tracks again work with control surfaces.
- Detection of attached SSL Nucleus and Mackie Control MCU Pro control surfaces is more reliable.
- Mackie Control control surfaces now update as expected when you select a channel outside the current bank in the Mixer.
- Logic now responds smoothly to jog wheel input from Mackie Control control surfaces.
- You can now use modifier keys on the Mackie C4 control surface in Logic.
- Level metering shown on a connected SSL Nucleus control surface now matches metering displayed in the Logic Mixer.
Accessibility
- VoiceOver now works as expected when Quick Nav is turned off in OS X 10.10 or later.
- VoiceOver now recognizes the buttons to switch between Project, Media, and All Files view in the List area of the Main window.
- When interacting with the Sample Rate setting in the LCD, VoiceOver now reports the name of the setting and its value.
- Logic no longer becomes less responsive when VoiceOver is used to access Alchemy in Controls view.
- When interacting with a group of Bus sends, Voiceover no longer incorrectly announces a non-existent Set button.
- It’s easier to make large adjustments of circular controls using VoiceOver.
- You can now access these items using VoiceOver:
- Buttons in the Main window
- Buttons and insert slots on channel strips
- The Preview Volume slider in the Loop Browser
- The Input Format selector on Output channels
- The Piano Keyboard in the Piano Roll
- Channel strip names in the Mixer
- The Add (+) button to add new category folders in the Plug-in Manager
- There are also several improvements to VoiceOver accessibility in the Piano Roll.
Global tracks
- You can now disengage the Arrangement Marker track so Arrangement markers can be edited without affecting the Tracks area content.
- A single click in the Global Tempo track now creates a new tempo point.
- You can now trim a marker to the current cursor position by Command-clicking in the Marker track.
- Tempo values pasted into the LCD now take effect as expected.
- The LCD now reliably displays Global Key signatures for all major keys.
- When you right-click or Control-click a marker and choose Rename Marker, Logic now renames it.
- The Split by Playhead command now works on Arrangement Markers when you select other types of objects.
- When you adjust the height of Global tracks, the cursor now changes as you grab the splitter at the bottom of the Global Track header. This indicates that dragging resizes all Global Tracks.
- The Marker List now immediately updates when you create a Marker is created, and then remove it with Undo.
- It is again possible to copy Arrangement Markers in songs that are shorter than 16 bars.
- The position of SMPTE locked regions no longer shifts slightly when you adjust a tempo curve in the Global Tempo track.
- Text now wraps as expected on markers when the marker height is large enough to display more than one line of text.
Import and export
- Audio from Final Cut Pro X XML projects that contain compound clips now reliably plays in sync.
- Audio from synchronized clips in Final Cut Pro X XML projects now reliably plays in sync.
- Audio from Final Cut Pro X XML projects is no longer truncated in Logic Pro X.
- Projects converted from Logic 7 no longer appear too long when opened in Logic Pro X.
- The correct Smart Controls layout is now imported when you import a track from another project.
Synchronization
- The value for the setting that delays the MIDI Clock transmission is now shown in milliseconds rather than ticks.
General improvements
- Percussive sounding Apple Loops no longer play back with phasing artifacts.
- MIDI (green) Apple Loops again load reliably when you drag them into a project.
- The Waveform display is now correct for Apple Loops that have Follow Tempo disabled and a Speed setting other than 1x.
- When you drag a region or Apple Loop in the Tracks area of a project that starts at a position other than 1 1 1 1, the Help tag now shows the correct time position if the secondary ruler is visible.
- When you set Apple Loops as a Favorite, the selection no longer jumps to the top of the list.
- Hovering the pointer over a "channel strip send" now displays a tool tip showing the name of the send destination.
- You can now use the Scissors tool to simultaneously divide selected audio regions, take folders, MIDI regions, and folders.
- You can now use Undo after renaming a region in the Audio Bin.
- You can now zoom by dragging down from the Bar Ruler while holding the Option key even when Option is pressed before clicking the mouse.
- For projects where the musical grid is disabled, the Bounce dialog now displays the section to be bounced by time instead of bars and beats.
- Recording to the master track of a Summing Stack now records to all included audio tracks that are set to discrete inputs.
- If you select the same tool from the Tool Box twice in succession, the cursor now continues to show the correct tool.
- Logic no longer inadvertently zooms when you copy regions using a Magic Mouse.
- MIDI events are no longer displayed in the wrong region when MIDI regions overlap with one another and No Overlap mode is active.
- You can now Option-drag the left edge of a MIDI region to stretch or compress content in the same way as option-dragging the right edge.
- The key command "Toggle Zoom to fit Selection or All Contents" no longer includes content on hidden tracks when calculating the area to display.
- Menu commands to edit track automation now affect all selected tracks.
- The key command "Set Optimal Region Sizes Rounded by Bar" again works as expected.
- Includes several fixes for issues that caused the wrong cursor to display.
- The Marquee now draws properly over grouped tracks when you drag the Marquee tool over one track in the group.
- When you save an Alternative with a project that contains a movie, it no longer unexpectedly copies the movie when the Copy movie file to project setting isn’t enabled.
- Region parameters are now properly locked for regions on frozen tracks.
- You can no longer activate the Compare button in the Smart Controls window before any changes have been made to the Smart Controls settings.
- The Replace or Double Drum Track function now places MIDI notes at their correct positions in regions whose Anchors aren’t at the region start.
- The "Toggle Zoom to fit selection" key command again works when you select a group of notes in the Piano Roll and the region containing them isn’t selected.
- The "Open/Close Track Stack" command now works for multiple selected tracks in the Track Header.
- Smart Controls mappings are now more reliably maintained when switching layouts.
- Locators are now maintained as expected when you switch between Logic and other applications while Auto Set Locators is enabled.
- The "Set All Tracks to Automation Touch" command no longer creates unexpected classic MIDI tracks.
- The "Capture Recording" key command now creates a a single track as expected for Kontakt instruments.
- You can now to change the length of a region whose right edge overlaps a looped region by more than the length of the loop.
- VCA tracks in the Track header are no longer inadvertently protected when you swipe over the Track Protect buttons of other tracks.
- Key Signature display is now available in the Custom LCD setup.
- You can now reopen an Event Float window after closing it on OS X El Capitan.
- When you double-click the MIDI out display in the LCD, it now sends note-offs to all software instrument tracks.
- The Articulation State in the Smart Control Orchestral layout is now saved as part of a patch.
- Dividing a SMPTE locked region no longer results in one of the resulting regions slightly shifting position.
- If the Playhead is currently within the area covered by a region, opening a Piano Roll for the region enables Catch Playhead Position.
- You can now use email addresses containing a plus symbol (+) with Gobbler sharing.
- Vertically Auto Zoomed tracks that contain regions with MIDI Draw displayed now retain their height when you recall a Screenset.
- Editing regions that originated from a flattened Take folder and are part of a phase-locked group no longer results in "Inconsistent Start Position" messages.
- Smart Controls parameter value labels now update when the parameter is adjusted from an external controller.
- When you delete a MIDI environment object that’s set as "Instrument without MIDI thru function," this no longer causes newly created objects to be assigned as "Instrument without MIDI thru function."
- The start of a cycle zone is no longer unexpectedly early in projects that start before bar 1.
- The Zoom tool now zooms into the selected area as expected.
- The "Zoom to Fit" key command now vertically centers content on the screen (instead of top-aligning it).
- Single-clicking a region on a frozen track no longer triggers an unnecessary alert message with the option to unfreeze the track.
- Logic no longer refreezes frozen tracks when you edit another unfrozen track and choose Undo.
- When you right-click the Channel Strip Inspector and choose Assign Channel Strip Color from the menu, it now brings up the color palette as expected.
- When an Autopunch zone is set inside a larger Cycle zone, Logic no longer visually displays that it’s still recording when the Playhead moves beyond the Autopunch boundary.
- Audio regions are now numbered starting at 1 in projects derived from Templates that are saved from previous projects where all previous audio recordings were removed from the Audio Bin.
- The New field in the Go to Position window correctly has the previously defined position again (rather than the current position).
- When you grab a region, the Tooltip again shows the region length.
- Smart Controls mappings are now preserved when you replace a channel from the Inspector setting menu, and then perform an Undo.
- Entering values of 0 or less in the Region Gain field now works correctly in regions where commas are used as decimal separators.
- Logic now more easily scrolls when you drag regions to tracks that aren’t currently in the visible area.
- Merging overlapping MIDI regions in a track no longer results in unexpected extra events in the resulting region.
- An Undo step is now reliably created when you trigger the Create Tracks for Selected Channel Strips command.
- Command-Option clicking the Ruler to toggle Auto Punch now works in all editors that display the Ruler.
- Program change events that are at the same position as Note events are now reliably sent first to external MIDI instruments in projects where the project start isn’t 1 1 1 1.
- The paper color option in the Font selection window for the Notepad now works as expected.
- Joining two non-contiguous MIDI regions that each contain MIDI CC data no longer creates unexpected extra MIDI CC events.
- When you click the cycle zone in the bar ruler to enable or disable cycle, it no longer alters the end point of the project.
- The glyph for locked regions is now always visible at any zoom level.
- Metronome (Klopfgeist) sound settings are now saved with a project.
- The Fade tool no longer unexpectedly appears when you hover over the controls of a Take folder.
- MIDI regions created using Capture as Recording are now selected after the key command is used.
- Dividing audio regions at high zoom levels no longer creates unexpected gaps between the resulting regions.
- All regions in a group are now selected after recording in Replace mode.
- Aliases of audio regions are now reliably placed in the correct position.
- When the Show Hidden Tracks button is active, all editing functions now work as expected on tracks where the H button is active.
- The cursor now correctly displays a pointer when you select items from a floating part box and another tool is assigned.
Updated Plugins
- The default star rating for Alchemy presets now shows as three light gray stars.
- Selecting a filer type in Alchemy now automatically enables the filter.
- Alchemy now displays a warning message if you load a preset with samples that Logic can’t locate.
- The Alchemy Waveshaper now affects output before you start playback.
- Alchemy now reliably loads samples when a preset has been altered in a project but the preset hasn’t been saved yet.
- Loop crossfades from zones in EXS instruments now are reliably maintained when you import them into Alchemy.
- In Alchemy, the Num-Osc control in Additive synthesis mode has been renamed to Partials to more accurately represent its function.
- Alchemy loop cross fades now work properly when the start Start or End markers for the loop are at the Sample Start or Sample End markers.
- The label on knob 3 of Filter 2 in Alchemy now reliably shows the title of the currently selected source filter.
- Text rendering on Retina displays is improved in Alchemy.
- In Controls view, stereo linked controls in plug-in windows now visibly update correctly when you adjust them.
- In the Plug-ins window, typing a value for an Alchemy parameter in Controls view and in Smart Controls now properly sets the parameter to your typed-in value.
- When you import an Apple Loop into an Alchemy source, settings are automatically configured so the loop can be triggered from any key and play at the current project tempo.
- You can now move the Alchemy plug-in window even after it’s closed and reopened.
- The Alchemy "Priority = Oldest" voice mode now works as expected.
- Sample previews in Alchemy’s import browser no longer shift in pitch after a second of playback when the project sample rate is set to 96 kHz.
- When you open a saved project, Alchemy’s browser now opens in the same area as it was when the project was last saved.
- When you enable both Morph mode and Additive Complex mode, Alchemy now shows the correct settings for Additive Complex if a sample is imported to a second Source.
- The Analyzed Formant controls in Alchemy no longer appear active when you haven’t enabled Analyzed.
- When you add new tags to Alchemy, typing in the text field no longer activates key commands assigned to the typed characters.
- The Polyphony Modulator in Alchemy now works correctly.
- Selecting MIDI in the Keymap Editor in Alchemy now works correctly when you switch from one group to another.
- When you click the previous or next arrow in an Alchemy Source selector, it now enables the Source if it was disabled.
- When you import samples, Alchemy no longer shows folders that don’t contain supported audio file types.
- When you reopen closed Alchemy windows, they now reopen to the correct size on dual display systems where the main display is smaller than the secondary display.
- The Vintage B3 Organ now plays in tune when you switch from stereo to mono while the Software Instrument Pitch project setting is set to a value other than 0.0 cent (440 Hz).
- You can again drag IR files into the Space Designer to load them there.
- Reverse works again in Space Designer.
- When you move the Output Mix fader from Amp to Direct Box, Bass Amp Designer no longer outputs clicking sounds.
- Logic no longer initializes parameters for the Oscillator when you select the Show in Finder option from the Oscillator sample selection menu in Ultrabeat.
- Automating the cutoff filter to 100% in Autofilter no longer causes intermittent audio dropouts.
- Moving your pointer over the left side of the Surround Multimeter plug-in window no longer causes it to inadvertently switch between Analyzer and Goniometer mode.
- The key commands for Previous and Next setting now work with MIDI plug-ins.
- You can again define a User Scale in the Transposer MIDI plug-in.
- Patches created in Logic Pro that use the External Instrument plug-in now open correctly in MainStage.
- Alchemy windows now retain their size after closing and reopening them.
Logic Pro X 10.2 is released
Logic Pro X 10.2 Release Notes
Learn what’s new in the Logic Pro X 10.2 update.
Introduction of Alchemy
Alchemy is a new sample manipulation synthesizer that includes the following:
- Next generation synthesizer plug-in with multiple sound generators including; additive, spectral, formant, granular, sampler, and virtual analog
- Over 3,000 presets for all types of electronic music including electronic dance, hip hop, rock, and sound for picture
- Integrated keyword preset browser for finding the right sounds quickly
- Performance controls like the Transform Pad make it easy to explore and reshape sounds
- Combine up to four synth modules to create complex multi-layered sounds
- Virtual analog oscillators produce authentic recreations of iconic synth sounds
- Wide selection of modeled analog and special effect filters for producing sounds with vintage character and tonal complexity
- Create animated, dynamic instruments using over 100 modulation sources that include flexible LFOs, AHDSR and MSEG envelopes, and step sequencers
- Manipulate and combine samples in new ways using unique collection of morphing and resynthesis tools
- Import EXS24 instruments or create your own using a robust set of sampler features
- Apply independent arpeggiators to each of the four sound sources to transform simple chords into elaborate performances
- Integrated effects rack with reverb, modulation, delay, compression, and a range of distortion effects
More new features
- Share directly to Apple Music Connect (requires Apple Music Connect account)
- Share and backup files to Gobbler (requires Gobbler third-party subscription)
- Adds support for Force Touch trackpad
- Create custom track icons with your own image files
- 1,000 new Apple Loops from a variety of popular instruments and genres including EDM, Hip Hop, Indie, Disco, Funk, and Blues
- There are now independent settings for the handling overlapping MIDI recordings depending on whether Cycle is on or off
- It’s now possible to set Replace mode for audio recordings independently depending on whether Cycle is on or off
- It’s now possible to create new tracks with the same channel strip instead of creating a Take folder when recording audio in cycle mode
- Expanded MIDI clock options improve sync compatibility with external MIDI devices
- The new As Time Quantize option in the Piano Roll Snap menu sets the snap value to follow the Inspector quantize setting
- Audio regions can now be nondestructively reversed using either a check box in the Region Inspector, or a key command
- There are now Global Key Commands to set the Nudge value to various note values
- There is now a key command to toggle the Clear/Recall Solo button
- The Audio Editor now shows fades applied to flexed regions
- The new General > Editing preference Piano Roll: Region Border Trimming controls whether the borders of a region can be edited within the Piano Roll editor
- There are now commands in the Global Tracks Marker Set menu to convert the currently selected Marker Set to Arrangement Markers, or to convert Arrangement Markers to conventional Markers
- There is a new key command Set Locators by Regions/Events/Marquee and Enable Cycle Mode
- Open the sound library from the shortcut menu that appears when you right-click or control-click a cell in Drum Machine Designer
Additional updates
This update includes various fixes to enhance stability and reliability, including, but not limited to the following.
General performance improvements
- Quantizing large audio files is much faster
- Logic’s performance when Undo is performed is improved
- Logic no longer sometimes quits unexpectedly under these circumstances:
- Sharing content to iTunes 12.2
- Reindexing all loops in the Loop Browser
- Adjusting values in the Region Inspector
- Importing MIDI files that contain unknown text encoding
- Quitting while a configuration panel is open
- Closing a project while the Customize Control Bar and Display dialog is open
- When creating more than 64 Aux channel strips
- Quitting if a V-Control control surface is installed
- Deleting all automation on a track while playing
- Dragging long strings of text in the Score editor
- Logic no longer becomes unresponsive under these circumstances:
- When opening a song if a modal dialog window is already open
- When the trim field is used to adjust Smart Controls automation
- If a connected control surface is disconnected while Logic is hidden
- Sometimes when disabling Phase-locked audio for a group
- Sometimes if the number of available MIDI ports increases while Logic is open
- Sometimes when quitting
Main Window
- When cutting multiple regions simultaneously, the location of the edit window is now consistently the same for all affected regions.
- When the left corner of a flex quantized audio region is dragged to the left, the newly revealed portion of the region is now immediately quantized as expected.
- Option-dragging to copy a region now places the copy at the correct position in projects that have a start position earlier than 1 1 1 1.
- It’s now possible to vertically swipe to affect multiple instances of the Record, Input, Mute and Solo buttons in the track header.
- Locked Markers now properly display the lock glyph.
- Changing the start position of region slaved to a Groove master track no longer causes unexpected timing changes.
- The Repeat Section command no longer truncates audio loops at the left locator.
- The Repeat Section function now works as expected when applied to the Looping section of a Looped region.
- When in Flex mode, the user interface now updates properly when the Marquee tool is used to define areas to shift in time.
- On computers with smaller screens, the Track inspector no longer overlaps the Channel Strip inspector when a new project is created or when a new Main window is opened in an existing project.
- Locking a track now prevents Flex edits.
- Region Gain values are now retained when regions are packed into a Take folder.
- Region Gain now applies as expected to Take regions within collapsed Take folders on phase-locked audio tracks.
- Option-clicking on parameters in the Region Inspector again reliably sets them to their neutral values.
- All Region parameters from the MIDI Thru inspector are now applied correctly when creating an empty MIDI region.
- When a new MIDI recording is merged with an existing region, the notes contained in the merged region are no longer selected after recording.
- It’s now possible to delete a single MIDI take from within a Take folder.
- When recording MIDI to an existing region with No Overlap mode enabled, the new MIDI recording is now merged with the existing region.
- It’s now possible to close the Track Header configuration pane by clicking outside the borders of the window, or by toggling it with the Configure Track Header key command.
- Double-clicking the Pan control in the Track header and typing a value no longer results in an incorrect random setting.
- When a Track header is reduced in height to one line, the track name is now displayed instead of the Track/Region automation button.
- Naming tracks now works reliably when the Additional Name Column is disabled in the Track List.
- The Repeat Section function now extends the Project End point when necessary to accommodate the additional regions.
- Performing Undo after using the Export Active Comp to New Track now works as expected.
- Dividing a looped region with the Marquee tool no longer creates an extra region to the left of the edit position.
- Dragging a MIDI region over another with No Overlap Mode enabled no longer causes MIDI notes outside the overlapping area to be deleted.
- Marquee tool transient detection now places the Marquee borders at the correct position on regions where the Anchor has been adjusted to the right of the region start.
- It’s now possible to set the icon for all selected tracks simultaneously.
Editors
- It’s now easier to grab the Playhead in the Piano Roll editor.
- The Piano Roll quantize value is now saved with the project.
- Notes that start within ¼ note before the beginning of a region no longer snap unexpectedly to the region start when moved in the Piano Roll.
- The playhead is now reliably placed at the clicked position in the Piano Roll timeline.
- Defining a Brush pattern with the Brush selected as the secondary tool no longer also sets the primary tool to the Brush.
- The visible location in the Piano Roll no longer jumps to the playhead when clicking a note if Catch is enabled and MIDI Draw is displaying MIDI Sustain events.
- Performing Undo after dragging a note in the Piano Roll no longer causes Tuning in the Project settings to revert to the default value.
- Changing or refreshing a Screen Set no longer causes Piano Roll inspector controls to revert to their default values.
- Clicking on a region no longer sometimes causes it to move unexpectedly when the Playhead is off screen and the Piano Roll is open.
- The Quantize button in the Piano Roll editor no longer quantizes unselected notes when the Q-range is set to a value other than zero.
- The Piano Roll quantization mode now matches the mode selected in the Region Inspector.
- Key labels for Mapped Instruments now appear on the keyboard in the Piano Roll editor.
- When multiple regions on different tracks are selected, notes added in the Piano Roll editor with the Pencil tool are placed in the region on the currently selected track, rather than the first track.
- It’s now possible to use the Pencil or Brush tool to insert notes into an empty region when Collapse Mode is enabled in the Piano Roll.
- The contextual menu command Create Note now creates a note at the clicked position in the Piano Roll while Collapse Mode is enabled.
- The Velocity tool once again causes the the Piano Roll editor to scroll when click-dragged over the right edge of the window.
- It’s once again possible to access the Velocity tool in the Piano Roll using Control+Command as modifier keys.
- Time Stretch Handles in the Piano Roll editor now remain visible when switching to another editor and then back.
- Time Handles now switch off immediately when the notes are deselected in the Piano Roll.
- If the Time Handles option is enabled, then Nudge commands applied in the Piano Roll will shift the Time Handle selection along with the selected notes.
- Using the Zoom tool to rubber-band a selection of notes in the Piano Roll no longer affects the Time Handles selection.
- The Time Handle selection now includes non-note MIDI events when used to compress or stretch in the Piano Roll.
- Option-dragging the Playhead to zoom horizontally in the Piano Roll now works as expected when the Playhead is inside a region.
- The vertical positioning line is again displayed at the start of notes dragged in the Piano Roll.
- The cursor now reliably switches to the Length Change tool when hovered over the left or right edge of a note in the Piano Roll editor.
- Using the Brush tool to repeat existing sections now includes non-note MIDI events from the source.
- Notes entered while the Brush tool is in pitch lock mode are no longer unexpectedly transposed when disabling the lock mode.
- Logic no longer inserts unintended notes when toggling velocity or locked pitch mode with the Shift key while using the Brush tool.
- The Velocity slider in the Piano Roll Inspector now sets the velocity for notes added by the Brush tool.
- The Include Non-Note MIDI Events function in the Piano Roll now works when using the arrow keys to navigate from note to note.
- The key command Select Same Channel in the Piano Roll no longer also selects all regions of the same track when used on an event assigned to MIDI channel 1.
- The Shift key again works to toggle between horizontal and vertical dragging in the Piano Roll when the Limit Dragging to One Direction in Piano Roll and Score preference is enabled.
- The Play Region Solo button in the Piano Roll editor now works when the Secondary Ruler is visible.
- The Select Next Region/Event or Move Marquee End (or Marquee Point) to Next Transient and Select Previous Region/Event or Move Marquee End (or Marquee Point) to Previous Transient key commands again work as expected in the Piano Roll editor.
- Selecting a large number of notes in the Piano Roll no longer sometimes causes unexpected noise.
- Changing screensets no longer causes the quantize value in the Piano Roll to be set to 1/16th note.
- It’s again possible to edit the position of events in the Event List when the View > Event Position and Length as Time option is enabled.
- It’s again possible to set the Channel value for multiple events to MIDI channel 1 by dragging the value of one selected event while pressing Option and Shift in the Event List.
- The Select Similar Events command in the Event List no longer selects both Relative and Absolute automation events, when only one type is selected to start with.
- It’s again possible to continue editing multiple selected events in the Event list when one or more events has reached its minimum or maximum possible value by pressing Option while dragging the value of one event.
- Logic no longer creates interpolated events between two controller events manually inserted in the Event List editor.
- The Audio File Editor timeline now shows labels for beats in Bars/Beats view mode.
- The hot spots around Flex Pitch notes in the Audio Track editor now behave more reliably.
- The Pitch slider in the Audio Track editor no longer sometimes stops working after switching from one region to another.
- When multiple regions are visible in the track editor with Flex Pitch enabled, choosing Select All no longer highlights notes outside the currently selected region.
- It’s no longer necessary to scroll in the Audio Track editor to show the note bar display for flex-pitched regions.
- The Audio Track Editor Inspector now accurately shows the current region Flex Pitch settings when switching between regions.
- The contents of a recently recorded region now reliably continue to be shown when switching between linear and page view in the Score editor.
- Sustain Pedal Off symbols now reliably display in the Score when the corresponding CC64 message has been moved to the end of the region.
- The strum up and strum down symbols are now correctly inserted into tablature with the Bravura font.
- Muted and diamond head note stems in tablature are no longer sometimes drawn with stems that span an entire page.
- Whole bar rests now reliably display at their correct positions in regions that follow a time signature change.
- The Sustain Pedal symbol highlighted in the Score Part Box now alternates between On and Off as Pedal events are inserted into the score.
- MIDI Draw in the Score editor now reliably shows names for all available parameters.
- Repeating the key command for Part Box: ¼ Note, Part Box ⅛ Note, etc, now cycles through the related dotted and triplet note values.
- Note names are now centered properly inside note heads with non-serif fonts.
- The editor now correctly switches back to the Drummer editor when Undo is used after converting a MIDI region to a Drummer region.
- The Drummer editor now updates correctly when a Drummer region is moved from one Drummer track to another.
- It’s now possible to define a MIDI pitch for applicable input fields in the Transform Window using live MIDI input.
- The key command Sustain Inserted Note now works when the Step Input window is closed.
- It’s no longer possible to set the Step Input keyboard to octave ranges below the allowed MIDI minimum of C-2 with the Octave -1 key command.
- Environment objects can now be freely positioned within the window.
Mixer
- The Reset Channel Strip command now works on all selected channel strips in the Mixer.
- The Mixer now shows the record-ready status of a selected audio track.
- Channel strips can be added to newly created VCAs by Option-clicking the channel strip VCA slot.
- Clicking on a channel strip meter now clears the peak hold display on all channels when the Display > Mixer > Peak Hold Time preference is set to Infinite.
- Double-clicking an External MIDI volume fader in the Logic Mixer now sets its value to 90, as expected.
- Option-clicking on the numerical volume display in the Mixer now sets it to 0dB.
- In the Mixer, double-clicking on the output slot of a channel strip assigned to a mono output now correctly selects the corresponding mono output channel strip.
Automation
- It’s now easier to grab and drag up an automation line defined by two points at the bottom the automation lane.
- New automation lanes are no longer set to Volume if volume automation is already visible for the track.
- Region-based automation no longer is unexpectedly moved or deleted when the left corner of a region is adjusted.
- Region-based automation is now correctly retained for all regions when joining regions that were originally divided from one continuous region.
- This update improves the handling of region-based automation in cases where the start of the region is moved to the right of the first automation point.
- Automation Write mode with region-based automation no longer creates unexpected automation ramps when playback is started in the middle of a region.
- Automation Write mode with region-based automation now reliably brings the last touched parameter to the front when different parameters are written in the same pass.
- Automation nodes added to an automation lane that has been switched off no longer playback until the lane is switched back on.
- Unexpected Track automation ramps are no longer created when converting track-based automation to region-based automation when there are not regions that encompass the entire track.
- Volume automation now properly maintains the last written value after writing in Latch and Write mode.
- Region-based automation is now exported or moved as expected when using the Export or Move the Active Comp commands.
- Automation nodes created at the right side of a Marquee selection are now reliably placed at the correct position.
- The command to set automation points at the borders of overlapping regions now places the points for the start of the right-most region correctly when the anchor point has been offset in the left-hand region.
- Automation lanes labeled Display Off are no longer sometimes created after converting track-based automation to region-based automation or vice versa.
- Automation on External Instrument tracks can now be converted between region-based automation to track-based automation.
- Region-based automation now visually updates when being trimmed using Track Header control in projects that start before bar 0.
- Moving track-based automation with regions no longer sometimes results in unexpected automation ramps in projects that start before bar 1.
- Logic no longer sometimes creates extra unexpected automation points after joining two overlapping regions that both contain region-based automation.
- Changing direction while adding track-based automation with the Pencil tool no longer creates unexpected spikes in the automation.
- Imported tracks now include the volume and pan level, even when they contain no automation.
- Relative automation now works correctly in songs where the MIDI > General > Control Change 7/10 controls Volume/Pan of channel strip objects project setting is enabled.
- The Automation View no longer incorrectly switches to display Read mode when a second automation point is added while in Touch mode.
- Existing automation is no longer set to an External MIDI Instrument when new automation is being written.
- If a track is set to region-based automation mode, Logic no longer switches to writing track-based automation when the automation view is turned off.
- If a long region completely overlaps a shorter region, Logic now continues to write region-based automation to the longer region after the playhead passes the right edge of the short region.
- The position of points for Mute automation off/on is now displayed consistently whether the MIDI > General > Control Change 7/10 controls Volume/Pan of channel strip objects project setting is enabled or not.
- In Touch mode, automation no longer briefly jumps unexpectedly at the beginning of the ramp time when the fader is released.
- Midi Draw now shows the correct scale for Pitch bend and Pan in the Score and Piano Roll editors.
- Smart Controls now reliably update when automation for their corresponding parameters is written in Touch mode.
Plug-ins
- It no longer requires two clicks on another application to bring it in front of a Logic plug-in window.
- When resizing the Drum Machine Designer plug-in window, there is now a percentage display of of the current size in the upper right corner of the window.
- The new positions of kit piece cells that have been rearranged in the Drum Machine Designer plug-in are retained when the project is saved and then reopened.
- The BPM Counter now correctly displays the tempo when in Controls View.
- It’s no longer necessary to press Return or Enter to confirm the name of a new folder created in the Plug-in Manager.
- Plug-in Manager categories that include a “/“ in their name no longer show up multiple times when clicking on a channel strip plug-in insert slot.
- Logic track names and numbers now display as expected in the Softube Console 1 plug-in.
- Logic no longer shows a “Too many files open” error when opening Omnisphere patches that contain more than 256 samples.
- The Pitch parameter for the Apple AUPitch plug-in can again be automated when running Logic in German.
Sharing/Export
- Project XML files exported from Logic to Final Cut Pro X now reliably maintain the correct sample rate.
- When importing Final Cut Pro X Project XML, Logic now places audio clips that lack time position information in the Audio Bin.
Accessibility
- The Filter buttons in the Event list are now accessible with VoiceOver.
- The Velocity slider in the Piano Roll Inspector is now accessible with VoiceOver.
- The volume slider in the Track Header is now accessible via VoiceOver.
- Volume faders and bus send knobs in the Mixer are now accessible via VoiceOver.
Synchronization
- Logic no longer sends MIDI Clock when stopped, improving sync with MIDI hardware devices.
- MIDI Clock Song Position Pointer now works as expected in Cycle mode.
- MIDI Clock transmission now behaves as expected when Cycle is enabled and the Cycle Pre-Processing Preference is set to Off.
- Logic no longer sends MIDI Clock data when the playhead is dragged while Logic is stopped.
- The Frame Rate warning Logic shows when 30 fps (non-drop) is selected now offers a “Do not show again” option.
- Double-clicking the Time display in the Transport and typing in a SMPTE position now takes the playhead to the correct position in projects where a SMPTE Offset has been set.
- The Plays at SMPTE field in the Synchronization > General project settings window now displays the correct time when the Display Time setting is set to SMPTE/EBU with Subframes.
- Importing a movie with embedded audio no longer unexpectedly SMPTE locks existing audio regions in the project.
Control Surfaces
- Touch OSC can now access Aux channel strips that are not assigned to tracks.
- Channel strips that are not assigned to tracks are no longer labeled with track numbers on connected control surfaces.
- The Spot Erase button now works on the Mackie C4 control surface.
- Mackie Control control surfaces are now reliably recognized when Logic launches.
- Turning the Logic Control jog wheel to the right no longer sometimes causes the playhead to jump to the end to the project.
- It’s again possible to step through parameters using the left and right cursor keys on Emagic Logic Control hardware.
- Select All and delete now work as expected in the Control Surfaces Setup window.
- The control surface Flip Group parameter now works with control surfaces not directly supported by Logic.
Additional Updates
- This update includes various fixes for issues related to patches and content.
- A Multitimbral instrument saved as a Track Stack patch no longer loads as separate instruments when the patch is recalled.
- The "grace period" for MIDI notes played before the start of a project is again always a quarter note, regardless of the Cycle and Cycle Pre-Processing settings.
- Projects saved to iCloud Drive now show up in Logic’s recent files list.
- Sliders in the preferences window can now be incrementally adjusted with the mouse wheel or touch pad.
- The Normalize Region Parameters key command now properly changes the MIDI channel of events within regions on Software Instrument tracks.
- The New Track with Duplicate Settings menu command and key command now work with Drummer tracks.
- Canceling Flex analysis now works consistently.
- Project templates can now be set to tempos that include decimals.
- Software Instrument loops created in versions prior to Logic 10.1 now play back properly.
- New files dragged into the Project Audio window are now placed at the bottom of the list.
- There is now a Cancel button in the dialog that appears when notes cross the point at which a MIDI region is divided.
- Living Groove connection now works as expected with quantized audio regions.
- The Physical Input object in the environment now displays each port’s device name, as well as the port number.
- Resizing Global tracks no longer sometimes causes graphics issues when more than one Global track is visible.
- The division value 1/192 is again available in the LCD.
- The key commands Increase/Decrease Last Clicked Parameter by 1 now work in the local Inspectors for the Piano Roll, Score editors, Track Header channel strips and Mixer Channel Strips.
- There is now a contextual menu and key command for deleting all region-based automation for all selected region or regions.
- It’s now possible to delete the first Tempo Set in cases where more than one Tempo Set exists.
- Selected tempo events in the Tempo track can now be reliably deselected by clicking anywhere in the background of the Tempo track.
- It’s now possible to copy/paste tempo events from the Tempo List to a new Tempo Set in the Tempo track.
- Clicking on a tempo event in the Tempo track no longer selects the previous event when that event is the same value.
- Tempo events created by clicking the + button in the Tempo List now immediately appear in the Tempo track.
- Erasing the first Beat Mapping event in a project no longer causes the SMPTE position of the first Tempo event to shift when the project SMPTE format is not 25 fps.
- Marker text can now wrap to the next line if the Marker track is tall enough to accommodate more than one line of text.
- Markers displayed in the Timeline now update as expected when a new Marker Set is chosen.
- After a Marker List editor has been closed, it no longer reappears when a screenset is recalled, or a song saved after closing it’s reopened.
- The first point in the Tempo track now displays properly.
- It’s again possible to learn MIDI commands when the MIDI port is set to All.
- The Set Locators and Goto Position dialogs now allow the position to be entered in time code format, as well as bars and beats.
- The Musical Typing window no longer opens when a new project with a Software Instrument track is created and the option to Open Library is disabled.
- MIDI events no longer sometimes disappear when two SMPTE locked regions are glued together.
- The Audio > Editing > Crossfade Curve preference for Merge and Take Comping now correctly affects crossfades created when comping takes.
- The Repeat Section command no longer causes the Playhead to change position.
- The Set Locators by Marker and Enable Cycle key command again works as expected.
- Logic projects again reliably display Quick Look previews.
- When the cursor is in an Inspector, pressing Option no longer incorrectly changes the cursor to the Zoom tool.
- Key commands to control the Transport now work when the Time & Pitch Machine window has focus after processing some audio.
- Moving an Arrangement marker no longer sometimes causes protected text markers to be deleted.
- If Cycle is enabled, Logic will ignore selected regions and use only its range to determine which portion of a project to include when exporting audio to a movie.
- The MIDI In display on Mapped Instruments now updates to show the last played note.
- Regions selection is no longer changed unexpectedly by changing to a different screenset, or reloading a song.
- The Audio Crossfade Options for Merge key command now opens the correct preferences panel.
- Performing Undo after importing tracks no longer unexpectedly changes the color of markers to the default color.
Bug fix fiesta in Logic Pro X 10.1.1
Logic Pro X 10.1.1 update
Stability and performance
- Logic no longer sometimes stops responding when you open it with Euphonix control surfaces installed
- Resolves an issue that could cause the Download Manager to appear empty
- Logic no longer sometimes quits unexpectedly when you use Izotope RX4 as external audio editor
Main window
- Disabling Automation view in the Main window no longer causes region-based automation that has been switched off to playback unexpectedly
- Click-holding a region now immediately brings up the Region Info window
- It is again possible to split a take region with the Scissors tool
- Editing automation during playback now works properly in projects that start before 1 1 1 1
- Writing automation for send mutes now works as expected
- The cursor keys on control surfaces no longer sometimes trigger unexpected key commands
- Region based automation for all Smart Control parameters now displays reliably
- Logic now displays the tempo correctly when the Display Tempo As preference is set to “Frames Per Click with Decimals,” or “Frames Per Click with Eighths,” and the frame rate is 50, 59.94, or 60 fps
- Audio tracks edited with Melodyne in songs that originated in Logic Pro 9 now play back in sync
- Logic Screensets that include only plug-in windows work as expected again
- MIDI regions recorded in Cycle mode no longer sometimes have a measure before the start position of the recording when the first note is performed within the Cycle Pre-processing time before the downbeat
- The “Beats from Region” function works as expected again
- Logic no longer outputs an audio pop when switching between certain patches
Editors
- Deleting fader events for region based automation in the Event List editor now properly removes the interpolation events between them
- Clicking the plus button in the Sysex Fader editor again adds events as expected
- All audio take regions now reliably display in the Track Editor
- The Brush Tool no longer gets stuck in fixed pitch mode when selected after using the Pencil Tool
- While using the Brush tool, pressing Shift while pressing the mouse button no longer erases the recently brushed notes
- There is now an option “Snap MIDI Draw and Automation” in the Piano Roll Snap menu
- Auto Set Locators no longer improperly follows note selections inside of regions
- The Toggle Loop trigger setting in Touch Tracks again works as expected
- The Piano Roll now reliably opens with the visible area showing the notes contained in the selected region
- Undo now reliably works after moving events in the Piano Roll
- Looping regions with Show Drum Names enabled in the Piano Roll no longer causes notes to transpose unexpectedly
- Muted notes in the Piano Roll no longer play when clicked
- Scale Quantize no longer sometimes moves notes that are already in the selected key
- Touching the Ruler in the Piano Roll with a rubber band selection no longer causes visible Time Frame handles to move to the wrong position
- MIDI events clicked in the Piano Roll now output on their set MIDI channel as expected
- The “Delete and Select Next Event” key command now works properly in the Piano Roll
- Using the right/left arrow keys now reliably triggers notes in the Piano Roll when a different track is selected in the Main window
- On/Off buttons in the Environment again operate correctly with a short mouse click
- Environment cabling is now reliably maintained when importing Environment layers not a project
- The Note Head menu in the Environment Mapped Instrument editor is no longer empty
- MIDI Draw automation points now follow the mouse as expected when editing in an independent Piano Roll window
Mixer
- Pre-fader sends are no longer affected by VCA fader changes
- Replacing Drum Kit Designer with Drum Machine Designer on a Drummer track channel strip no longer converts the track to a Software Instrument track
- Audio Device controls no longer sometimes display non-functional buttons for the attached audio interface
- Undoing the deletion of a channel strip in the Mixer no longer leaves the channel strip in a non-functional state
Plug-ins
- Changing the Knee value in the Platinum Compressor no longer causes unexpected changes in sound and metering when switching to the Classic VCA Compressor model
- Multimeter plug-in instances saved in previous versions of Logic now load with the correct settings
- Logic Remote and Controls view in Logic Pro no longer show the RMS/Peak controls for the Compressor models that do not support RMS/Peak
- Songs using Lexicon PCM Native bundle plug-ins no longer exhibit audio artifacts when played back
Accessibility
VoiceOver can once again access audio channels as well as the track header volume and pan controls
Control Surfaces
- Channel names now update correctly on control surfaces when opening or clos track stacks in Logic
- Logic Remote again reliably connects to Logic Pro X at launch when you set the Startup Action to “Ask” in Logic Pro
- EuCon Artist control surfaces can again control a channel’s send level in Logic
Logic Pro X 10.1 is released
Logic Pro X 10.1 Release Notes
Learn about current and previous Logic Pro X updates. Logic Pro X 10.1 is an update to Logic Pro X.
Logic Pro X 10.1 update
New Features
- 10 new Drummers that produce beats in a variety of electronic and hip hop styles including Techno, House, Trap, Dubstep and more
- Drummer provides specialized sound and performance controls for dialing in electronic or hip hop drum grooves
- New Drum Machine Designer plug-in for customizing electronic drum kits
- Redesigned Compressor plug-in features scalable, Retina-ready interface and 7 models including the new Classic VCA
- Retro Synth can now create wavetables from imported audio and is able to stack up to 8 voices
- Note Repeat and Spot Erase modes allow classic drum machine style techniques for creating beats in realtime
- Automation can now be part of a region, not just the track
- Relative and Trim Automation modes extend the options for fine-tuning existing automation
- Manage large-scale mixes more easily with the addition of console-style VCA faders in the mixer
- Mixer now allows remote control of microphone and other input settings for compatible audio interfaces
- Realtime rendering of fades allow them to work with Flex Pitch and speeds up project load times
- The Plug-in Manager now allows you to customize the organization of your menu
- Support for Mail Drop and AirDrop in OS X Yosemite makes it even easier to share your Logic projects
- Expanded sound library includes over 200 new synth patches and 10 Mellotron instruments
- The Piano Roll editor now features a Brush tool for creating or deleting a sequence of notes with single mouse gestures
- Smart Quantize proportionally corrects the timing and length of notes to preserve the musicality of your original performance
- Track Stacks can now be disclosed/undisclosed directly in the Mixer independently of the Tracks area
- New Collapse view option in the Piano Roll Editor lets you see more notes in less vertical space
- It’s now possible to create more than one Drummer track per song
- It’s now possible to copy and paste voices between different instances of Ultrabeat
- There’s a new option in the Drummer Editor action menu that allows you to change the drummer without also changing the drum kit
- Alternatives can now be exported as fully independent projects
- There’s now a button in the Main window to automatically set the vertical zoom to the optimal resolution to maximize track height while keeping all tracks visible
- A new Region parameter allows the playback speed of Apple Loops to be altered from ⅛ to 8x the original speed
- Command-clicking an enabled mute or solo button un-mutes or un-solos all channels if no track is muted or soloed, and command-clicking a mute or solo button mutes or solos all tracks
- There’s now a Kill/Recall Solo button in the track header area that toggles the solo state of all currently soloed tracks
- The Reset Channel Strip command now works for multiple selected channel strips in the Mixer
- Logic now supports the Bravura score font
- There’s a new key command for enabling/disabling the Flex or Follow Tempo Region parameter
- Logic can now import multichannel interleaved audio files and convert them to individual mono files
- When bouncing a project, the default name for the bounced file is now the project name
- The Piano Roll now includes an option to display drum names instead of note names when working with Drummer tracks, EXS drum kits or Ultrabeat tracks
- Time Handles in the Piano Roll allow time stretching/compression on selected notes
- It’s now possible to adjust the position and borders of regions in the Piano Roll time line
- Undo is now available in the Notepad
- Undo is now available for Score Set edits
- A single click now inserts an EQ into the EQ slot of a channel strip
- Logic now supports 50, 5994d, 5994, 60 d and 60 fps frame rates
- There’s now a Track Protect button for the Movie track
- The Repeat Regions/Events key command now duplicates the currently selected region or event without opening a dialog window (the previous behavior for this command is accessed with the new key command Repeat Regions/Events Multiple Times)
- Smart Controls mapped to plug-in parameters are now dimmed when the plug-in is bypassed
- User created Groove Templates are now available from the Time Quantize menu in the Piano Roll
- When dragging objects, the Tooltip now shows both the bar/beat and time position
- The Beat Mapping track now offers a Protect Flex Markers option in the Beat Mapping drop-down menu
- The Copy command now copies selected markers in the Marker List window as text
- When multiple closed Track Stack regions are glued together, Logic now maintains the individual tracks within the stack
- The Convert to New Sampler Track sheet includes a new option for creating ‘1 Shot’ Zones
- Auto backups of Logic projects are now directly accessible from the Quick Looks view
- It’s now possible to specify up to 100 automatic backups per alternative in a project
- Dragging a movie in the Movie Track now moves in increments of one frame and the Option key can be used to position it in smaller increments
- When Logic extracts audio from a movie file, it now creates a time-stamped Broadcast Wave file
- When a movie is added that is longer than the current project, the project is now automatically lengthened to accommodate it
- A region with movie audio sync can now be defined for a movie file
- When exporting audio to a movie, Logic now uses the project sample rate
- When exporting audio to a movie, the length of the selected regions now determines the overall length of the newly created movie
- The contents of the Bounces folder is now excluded when Cleanup Project is used on a folder project
- The Clean Up Project dialog now shows the dates previous operations were performed
Stability
- Logic Pro X 101 includes improvements to stability including, but not limited to fixes for:
- Quitting unexpectedly when analyzing 192 kHz audio files for flex editing
- Quitting unexpectedly when the Mix > Create Automation > Fade-Out command is used
- Quitting unexpectedly when adjusting the start time of a region by samples in the Event List
- Quitting unexpectedly when editing MIDI events in a song created in Mobile GarageBand
- Quitting unexpectedly when importing a MIDI file that contains no note events
- Quitting unexpectedly when adding a Text object to the Environment
- Quitting unexpectedly after performing multiple velocity edits in the EXS24 Instrument Editor
Performance
- Transient detection for Beat mapping is performed faster in cases where the audio file has been divided into multiple smaller regions
- Responsiveness when rubber-band selecting a large number of regions is improved
- Improves the performance of the realtime waveform while recording audio
- The movie now responds more accurately when scrubbing by frames with the Playhead
- Logic no longer shows a spinning wait cursor for several seconds when recording is started on certain computers
- Logic now uses less CPU when idle on Macs running on battery power
Main Window
- When an Apple Loop is added to a new track, the channel strip volume is now set to match the pre-listen volume in the Loop Browser
- There is now an option that allows the looped portion of looped regions to have a darker shade than the parent region
- The cycle locators in the LCD now reliably show the cycle state in projects originally created by earlier versions of Logic
- The “Slice at Transient Markers” command now works on regions up to 256 bars in length
- Tracks set to follow a Drummer track that is enabled as the Groove track now update as expected when changing the Swing parameter in the Drummer editor
- Dragging the Zoom tool over the lower half of a track no longer sets the visible area to include the track below
- Global edit operations, such as the “Insert Silence between Locators” command, now are applied to hidden tracks
- Long regions with fades applied now resume playback as expected when overlapped by a shorter region
- Logic now automatically applies crossfades when cycling to reduce clicks in audio regions at cycle start and end points
- The Patch Library can now be used to browse and assign patches to the right-hand channel strip in the Tracks area Inspector when it’s selected
- Replace mode recording onto a Take Lane of a group track that is clutched no longer removes that track from the group (this allows group comping to work as expected once the group is reactivated)
- Dragging the right edge of a region to the right in songs that start before 1111 no longer results in unexpected jumps in the region border
- The Zoom to Fit Selection command now includes the looped portions of looped regions
- Logic no longer fails to record when the SMPTE start time is 00:00:00:0000 and there is a Record pre-roll
- Creating a MIDI track with a device configured in Audio MIDI Setup now behaves as expected
- Option-clicking on Inspector parameters such as Transpose or Velocity again resets them to default values
- Changes made to fade values in the Region Inspector by scrolling are now updated immediately during scrolling
- Performing Undo after creating a Track Stack no longer removes plug-in settings from the tracks used in the Track Stack
- When a Take Folder is disclosed, other non-disclosed Take Folders no longer show empty outlines in the Take Lanes
- Logic again presents a dialog asking if a time signature change should be added after using the Cut Section between Locators command for a section whose borders do not both fall on the start of a bar
- Bounce Track in Place now includes all regions on a MIDI track that contains MIDI takes
- Using the Split by Playhead command no longer causes a looped region earlier in the same track to unexpectedly extend to the beginning of the split region
- Deleting a Track Stack summing Aux no longer deletes tracks that had originally been part of the stack, but were subsequently moved out of it
- Adjusting the anchor position on an audio region no longer causes the length to change slightly
- Enabling automation view no longer causes an auto-zoomed track’s vertical zoom to increase
- Clicking Learn to learn controller assignments in the Toolbar no longer causes all buttons in the Toolbar to dim
- The overview on a closed Track Stack is now shown correctly in projects whose start time isn’t 1 1 1 1
- Reorganizing the order of tracks within a Summing Track Stack no longer causes some the tracks to route to the wrong bus or output
- When recording MIDI, Logic now captures notes played up to 1 bar before the first downbeat
- Logic no longer shows a File Not Found error when renaming an audio file that’s stored outside the project folder in the Project Audio window
- When the locators are set to start at 1 1 1 1, the Insert Silence at Locators command no longer adds an unneeded 4/4 time signature and changes the LCD display to -9 1 1 1
- The “Split by Playhead” command no longer moves SMPTE locked regions when performed at high zoom levels
- Maximizing a floating Transport no longer causes it to stretch to the full width of the screen
- Creating a new Software Instrument track no longer causes Logic’s global tuning to reset to A440 if it’s been changed
- Catch Playhead Position is again properly disabled when a Marquee selection is made
- Command-clicking the lower half of the timeline again toggles Auto Punch
- It’s again possible to delete the right portion of a region divided by using Marquee selection
- Logic’s real time waveforms are now accurately positioned when audio recording is started after playback has begun
- Logic now reliably uses the selected instrument when using the Drum Replacement feature
- Audio added to the Project Audio window is now reliably shown in its correct position, as determined by the sort method selected in the window
- Record enabling a track no longer opens the Bounce window if an Output track is selected
- Regions created by performing Strip Silence now retain any Region Gain setting applied to the original region
- The “Project Cleanup” command now preserves assets used by other projects in the same project folder
- Smart Snap now works correctly with /8 based signatures and at high zoom levels
- Settings for the Metronome are now saved as expected in Templates
- Join Regions per Tracks again works properly when some of the regions in the selection do not require merging
- Selection of regions via Shift-click and Command-click now works reliably in projects that contain track stacks
- Custom graphs and ranges set up for Smart Controls are now retained when the Smart Control is copied
- When an Alternative is created after a project has been edited, Logic now shows a dialog offering to save the current Alternative
- When Catch mode is enabled in the Marker List, double-clicking a marker now properly opens that marker instead of the one currently under the Playhead
- Changing a project’s frame rate no longer causes SMPTE-locked regions to change positions
- When a project is saved with a movie open in full screen mode on a second display, the movie now displays in full screen mode when the project is opened
- Prelisten of audio files in the All Files browser now continues when using the arrow keys to navigate between files
- Clicking on the Piano Roll tab in the Main window now properly sets the focus to the Piano Roll editor
- A single audio track packed into a folder and then moved to to a different audio track, now plays on the new audio track as expected
- Logic Control control surfaces are more reliably detected at launch
- Logic now reliably retains audio recordings that are part of a project but not currently used in a take when the project is saved for the first time
- The “Join with Select Regions” recording option now works as expected when dropping into recording while playing
Editors
- The Option key can now be used with the Scissors tool to divide a long note into a set of equal length shorter notes
- The Event list now immediately updates to show notes copied into the Score or Piano Roll editors
- Edits to notes performed in the Event List are now immediately reflected in the Piano Roll
- Deleting an event definition in the Step Editor now selects the next event definition
- It’s now possible to select a group of events in the Step Editor by Shift-dragging over them with the pointer
- The Finger tool can now be used to move events in the Step Editor
- When a region is moved in the Tracks area, its position in the Step Editor bar ruler is now immediately updated
- The MIDI In and MIDI Out buttons in the Event List and Piano Roll now synchronize between the two editors as expected
- The timeline in the Step Editor now updates immediately when the Division format is changed in the LCD
- Right-clicking in the MIDI Draw area of the Piano Roll no longer causes selected regions to be de-selected
- MIDI Draw in the Piano Roll now reliably shows labels for all MIDI controller types
- The Paste command is again available in the Piano Roll contextual menu
- When multiple regions are selected, double-clicking a note in the Piano Roll again restricts the view to only the region containing the note, and a double-click on the Piano Roll background restores the previous view
- When Step Input is active for an editor, key presses on the computer keyboard no longer lead to unexpected note entry when the Musical Typing Keyboard isn’t open
- Pressing Control-Shift while dragging notes in the Piano Roll now allows movement in increments of single ticks
- Simultaneously editing values on multiple selected Staff Styles now reliably maintains the relative values
- Edits are now performed at the correct Playhead position when the “Split by Playhead” command is used in the Piano Roll on a region whose left border has been changed
- The position of cuts for regions divided with the Scissors tool at high zoom levels is now consistently accurate
- Undo now works as expected after editing time and key signatures
- A Piano Roll with Link mode turned off no longer loses focus when a region at a different position is selected
- Sharp notes now properly retain their pitch when pressing Enter to confirm an edit in the Event List
- Notes on the Piano Roll now continue to display if the Global Track header or an item in a Global Track is selected
- Pasting events whose type is filtered in the Event List now works correctly
- Double-clicking a note in the Event List editor no longer causes the pitch to change
Automation
- Changing the automation mode for a group of Aux channels selected in the Track Mixer now works reliably when some of them are assigned to tracks in the Tracks Area
- Changes made simultaneously to the automation display of multiple tracks are now immediately visible in the Tracks area
- A tooltip showing position information is again shown when moving an automation or a MIDI Draw point in the Tracks area
- In Write mode, automation is no longer written for MIDI plug-ins when plug-in automation is disabled in automation preferences
- A long click on a horizontal MIDI Draw automation line no longer unexpectedly changes it to a vertical line
- When a region is copied at the same position from one track to another using the same channel strip, Logic no longer asks whether automation should be copied
- When adjusting velocity in MIDI Draw, the velocity now displays as expected in the Tooltip
- Engaging the mute switch on one automation lane no longer mutes automation on other lanes
- Undo now works correctly when used after opening Automation lanes
- It’s now possible to use the up and down arrow keys to navigate the track list when Automation lanes are disclosed on some tracks
- Setting an automation mode for an Aux in the main window Channel Strip Inspector now creates a track for the Aux in the Tracks area
- A single click in MIDI Draw no longer creates multiple automation points
- It’s no longer possible to place two automation points for the same parameter in a track on the same clock tick
- When automation is enabled for the first time in a project, the power buttons for track automation now default to On for each track
Flex
- Flex pitch now works in areas of audio regions where fades have been applied
- When the flex mode is changed on a track, flex is no longer enabled on regions where flex had been disabled
- When the delete key is used to remove a flex marker in one track of an editing group, the corresponding flex markers in other tracks in the group are now reliably deleted as well
- Edits applied to split stereo audio files no longer remove or corrupt existing flex edits on those files
- Resetting manual flex pitch edits no longer causes all flex pitch values to disappear in the Tracks window
- Double-clicking a flex pitched note in the Tracks area now resets its pitch as expected
- When a flex pitch edit is applied to a note in a Take, the pitch values displayed for other notes in the Take are no longer incorrectly displayed as having the same value
- The Create MIDI Track from Flex Pitch Data command now works reliably on the first try
- Undo after gluing two flex pitched notes together now works as expected
- Flex pitched notes now continue to display reliably after the region containing them is divided
- Key signature changes no longer cause unexpected transposition of flex pitched audio tracks
Fades
- Edits applied to fades are now audible during playback
- Flex edits applied to regions with fades are now audible during playback
- When switching Project Alternatives, Logic no longer plays fades incorrectly
- It’s now possible to change the Fade type in the Region Inspector when multiple regions with fades of different lengths are selected
Drummer
- The Follow option in the Drummer editor now works as expected when the track followed contains take regions
- Extending a looped Drummer region to the right over another region no longer removes the beginning of the second region – instead, the loop ends at the start of the new region
- Transform is now available on Drummer regions converted to MIDI on the Drummer track
- New Drummer channel strips set to Surround no longer default to “No Output”
- It’s again possible to open a Drummer track that has been converted to audio with the “Bounce > And Replace all Tracks” command in the Audio Editor
Global Tracks
- Highlighted text fields in Global Tracks pop-up windows now maintain proper alignment when the window is resized
- Beat Mapping using “Tolerate missing or additional events” now works with time signatures of 3/4, 5/4, and 6/4 as well as 4/4
- Deleting beat markers on the Beat Mapping track now reliably deletes the corresponding tempo events
- The Eraser tool now works reliably when deleting beat markers in the Beat Mapping track
- The beat mapping track now always shows a handle at the beginning and end of a region, whether or not there is a detected transient at those positions
- Markers are now displayed in the timeline when the Global Marker track is not visible
- When the starting time code for a project has been changed from the default, copying an Arrangement Marker no longer resets the project’s starting timecode to 00:00:00:0000
- If the Marker track is hidden, renaming an Arrangement marker no longer causes it to be shown
- The Marker Track now maintains its set height when a screen set is recalled
- Tooltips are again displayed when moving or copying Markers and Arrangement Markers
- It’s now possible to show/hide individual global tracks after adding a movie to a project
- Switching from one Tempo Set to another while pressing Option now copies the first Tempo Set
Import
- When importing tracks from another project, the import sheet now shows individual tracks within Track Stacks by default
- Importing an XML file with a different frame rate into Logic Pro no longer causes an unexpected SMPTE offset
- Lyrics with non-standard ASCII characters in MIDI files now import correctly
- When importing long MP3 files, Logic no longer creates AIFF files that are larger than necessary
- It is again possible to drag and drop a movie from the Finder to the Movie track
Export/Sharing
- Logic now remembers the last settings used to export audio to a movie
- Improves reliability when exporting Music XML for songs with a large number of tracks
- Regions that start after 1 1 1 1 are now handled properly when exported to Music XML
- Logic now retains chapter markers from imported movies after audio has been exported to the movie
- It’s again possible to share to iTunes directly from the Bounce window
- Logic now creates properly configured key signatures in exported MIDI files
- Settings made in the Bounce window are now retained the next time Bounce is used
Score
- Duration bars are now available for independent notes in the Score window
- Step Input now creates whole notes of the correct length
- Tied notes shorter than a dotted 32nd tied to a tuplet can again be displayed
- The staff shown in the Staff Styles window now reflects the key signature that results from changes to the Transpose setting
- Independent notes are now displayed correctly on drum tracks
- In the Score it is no longer possible to create a beat grouping whose sum exceeds the total number of beats in the time signature
- The cursor for the alternate (Command key) tool in the Score now reliably shows the tool when the Command key is pressed
- If Interpretation is enabled and a note of shorter duration than the current display quantize setting is dragged to the staff, interpretation is automatically defeated for the dragged note, so that it displays as intended
- The Undo Quantization key command and menu item again works in the Score
- Adding a new Drum Group assignment again works as expected in the Score window
- The Staff Style editor now immediately updates to show newly added staves
- Undo now works as expected after editing brackets and lines in the Staff Style window
- The Fix Displayed Note Positions & Durations command no longer causes notes to shift position
- It is now possible to use Command or Shift to select multiple markings in the Chord Grid Editor
- Clicking in the background of the Score with the Zoom tool after zooming now reliably returns to the previous zoom setting
- The Camera tool in the Score now properly captures lines and ties
- The Sonata score font now works as expected with Logic Pro X on OS X Yosemite
- The edit handles for slurs and crescendos are now easier to click
- Double-clicking a chord extension now opens the Chord Symbol dialog
Key Commands
- When editing key commands, Logic now correctly warns for all conflicts with an entered key command
- The Hide Selected Track key command now affects all selected tracks
- The various windows key command “Mute Notes/Regions/Folders” now works in the Step Editor
- The key commands to move and adjust Marquee selections now behave correctly when used on Take regions
- The key command to toggle the Loop Browser now works correctly when the bottom portion of the Loop Browser has focus
- Unused audio files are now properly highlighted when the Select Unused key command is used
- The key commands for Set Quantize Parameter to Next/Previous Value now work as expected in the Piano Roll editor
- The key commands for FWD by Transient and RWD by Transient are now assigned by default to Control + and Control – respectively
- There’s now a key command to toggle the Musical Grid between bars and beats, and SMPTE time
Plug-Ins
- Notes in high octaves now loop reliably in all EXS instruments
- When in MIDI Mono Mode, EXS24 now responds to channel pressure independently per MIDI channel
- The Recall Default plug-in setting now works with the Delay Designer plug-in
- It’s now possible to dynamically hide or show parameters in the Scripter plug-in
- The Arpeggiator plug-in’s Pattern name now instantly updates when changes are made to the selected pattern name, or a pattern is loaded or deleted
- The Power button in a MIDI plug-in window can now be mapped to a Smart Control
- Audio Unit MIDI plug-ins now play back at the correct tempo when the project sample rate is set to something other than 441 kHz
- Scrolling numerical values with the mouse in the Channel EQ again works as expected
- Ultrabeat and EXS24 now remain in sync when the project tempo is changed during playback
- When Logic’s playhead is moved while playback is stopped, the playhead in an inserted Melodyne plug-in now updates to show the correct position
- The Gain plug-in no longer introduces clicks when switching between mono and stereo, or swapping L and R
- The text showing the db value for the Output Gain slider on Amp Designer displays as expected
- In the Pitch Shifter plug-in, changing the Stereo Link from Inverse to Normal no longer causes some of the unprocessed signal to sound when the Mix setting is 100%
- The Ensemble plug-in now outputs audio to the left channel in single voice mode
- Removing a multi-output Software Instrument track now also removes its associated Aux channels from the Mixer
- The text for the Show/Hide all Plug-in Windows menu now correctly matches the current state of the plug-in windows
- Custom I/O labels now show up correctly with the External Instrument and I/O plug-ins
Synchronization
- Logic now properly distinguishes between and supports 24 fps and 23976 fps time code
Accessibility
- Voiceover now works when the Tab key is used to jump to the Smart Controls Editor
- Plug-in slots on channel strips are now accessible with VoiceOver
- Edits to region names, looping and region borders are again possible using VoiceOver
Logic Pro X 10.0.7 ; an extensive update!
Logic Pro X 10.0.7: Release notes
Logic Pro X 10.0.7 is an update to Logic Pro X. Logic Pro X is a new paid version of Logic Pro.
Logic Pro X 10.0.7 update
New Features and Enhancements
- It is now possible to insert the current values of volume, pan, and all active sends of selected tracks as automation points at the playhead position. The new functions are accessible as a menu option or key command.
- It is now possible to paste track automation data at the Playhead or Marquee selection location.
- A new MIDI Project Setting allows MIDI CC 7 (volume) and MIDI CC 10 (pan) messages to control the instrument plug-in instead of the channel strip.
- The output of Auxiliary channel strips assigned to Tracks will now generate audio files when using any of the following Export menu options: "Region as Audio File," "Track as Audio File," or "All Tracks as Audio Files."
- Logic now supports up to 24 processing threads on computers with 12 cores.
- All menu items related to Snap, Alignment Guides, and "Snap to Grid" settings have been consolidated into the Snap menu in the Main window.
- It is now possible to activate/deactivate multiple plug-ins on a channel strip by vertically click-dragging the mouse over their power buttons.
- An auto-saved version of a project now contains the Undo History of the project from which it was derived.
- It is now possible to install the Logic content to an alternate system drive even if the Logic application is not installed there.
- Activating Auto Punch with a key command or Marquee selection now automatically adds the Autopunch button to the Control Bar.
- It is now possible to use modifiers with the Velocity Slider in the Piano Roll and Score Inspectors to change its behavior in the same way as the Velocity tool. Holding Option allows velocities for notes to continue to be changed even when other notes have reached there minimum or maximum MIDI velocity value. Option-Shift sets all notes to the same velocity value.
- The Scissors tool now works on arrangement markers.
- It is now possible to drag a Summing Stack into a Folder Stack.
- It is now possible to use the Beat Map feature with a track that has Flex enabled.
- Flex Transient Analysis can now be aborted by pressing Command-period.
- When a Transient Marker is inserted near the position of a previously deleted transient in the Audio File window, the marker will now only snap to the position of the deleted marker if the Option key is pressed while inserting it.
- It is now possible to create more than 32 Folder Track Stacks in a project.
- It is now possible to adjust sliders in the Mixer when controlling Logic via screen sharing, Apple Remote Desktop, or other VNC clients.
- It is now possible to access the Recent Projects menu while the Open Project dialog is active.
- It is now possible to remove the Master Output track from the Tracks area.
- The master track of a Track Stack can now be designated as Groove Master.
- Audio waveforms are now visible under automation on the master track of a Track Stack.
- The Track Import window now shows plug-in preset names.
- When Logic imports Final Cut Pro X XML, it now organizes audio tracks according to their assigned roles in Final Cut Pro.
- Audio is now exported as 24-bit in projects exported to Final Cut Pro X XML.
- When importing XML files that contain multiple projects from Final Cut Pro X 10.1 or later, Logic Pro X now offers a dialog to pick a specific project to import.
- The 1/2 Note head symbol is now available in the the Score Part Box.
- The Catch Playhead button is now available in the Score when the Advanced Tools preference is disabled.
- It is now possible to load ".caf" format files into Space Designer with the Load IR file selector.
- There is now a new key command to trim the start of a region to the end of the previous region in the track.
- There is now a dedicated Piano Roll section in the Key Commands window. This includes commands for "View Mode: One Track," "View Mode: Selected Regions," and Toggle View Mode.
- There is now a key command for “Detect Tempo of Selected Region.”
- There is now a key command for “Adjust Tempo using Beat Mapping Track.”
- The timeline in Logic Remote now changes color to indicate Logic is in Sync mode.
- It is now possible to use the Option key to insert a mono plug-in between two existing plug-ins on a stereo channel strip or vice-versa.
- The Velocity Processor MIDI plug-in now displays note-on as orange dots and note-off events as blue dots in the compression curve window.
- Command-click on a vector point can now be used to modify the times of all subsequent points in the ES2 Vector Envelope.
- The Distortion II plug-in now offers a Distortion Output Level and Mix control.
Stability
Logic no longer sometimes quits unexpectedly when:
- Using the Option key to toggle all the disclosure triangles in the Project Audio window.
- Dragging audio from the Project Audio window to the Tracks area.
- Defining custom bank messages for a Multi Instrument in the Environment.
- You insert a blank recordable DVD while Logic is running.
- Changing the audio buffer size while the Audio Editor is open in Flex Pitch mode.
- Selecting a font in the Number & Names panel of the Score preferences.
- Deleting a group in the Project Audio window.
- Undoing a flex edit.
- Using the Glue tool on flex pitched notes after having switched from the Audio File Editor to the Audio Track Editor.
- Performing undo and then redo in quick succession on an EQ in the Smart Controls.
- Performing Undo after deleting a comp or take.
- Closing a song while importing a MIDI file.
- Enabling phase-locked editing on a group.
- Using the Pencil tool in the Audio File editor.
- Importing a long MP4 (AAC) file.
- Changing a channel strip input from stereo to mono.
- Disabling Core Audio.
- Playing a Drummer track while downloading and installing new content.
- Performing undo after certain operations.
- Pasting channel strip settings in the Mixer.
- Dragging a MIDI region over the Score editor.
- Hot-plugging an Apogee Duet to a computer running OS X Mavericks.
- Importing a patch that includes a Track Stack.
- Adding AAC files containing Audio Transport Stream Data (file type “.adts”).
Performance
- The Channel EQ no longer causes unexpected CPU spikes in live track mode on MacBook Pro with Retina Display.
- Logic no longer becomes less responsive after making several adjustments to the size and/or position of a floating Transport window.
- There is no longer a delay opening the list when clicking in a Send or Output slot on a channel strip.
- Logic no longer becomes less responsive when working for long periods with Flex Pitch.
- The Drummer track now reliably maintains proper timing if it is selected with Low Latency mode enabled.
- Control points in the Transposition track now move more fluidly when edited.
- Scrolling a channel strip fader in the Inspector with a mouse wheel now adjusts its value at the correct resolution.
- Comping takes is now more responsive when Flex Time is enabled.
- Playing a Touch Instrument in Logic Remote no longer sometimes leads to hung notes in Logic Pro X.
- Improves responsiveness when dragging tempo events in the Global tempo track.
- Songs with a very large number of regions now play back as expected.
- Logic’s performance has improved when previewing notes in the Score, Piano Roll, and Event List for regions on a track other than the one selected.
- Multi output Software Instruments with complex routings no longer sometimes cause Logic to become briefly unresponsive when starting playback.
- Logic now reliably creates thumbnails to the end of the video track with long movie files.
- Selecting Channel Strips in very large projects is now faster.
- Improves compatibility with ProRes movie files on OS X Mountain Lion v10.8.5.
- When scrolling over an open Take folder at high zoom levels on OS X Mountain Lion v10.8.5, there are no longer unexpected spikes in CPU usage.
Automation
- Clicking on an event in the Score no longer sometimes selects the wrong events.
- It is now possible to paste automation at the playhead or marquee selection area rather than only at its original position.
- All MIDI Draw data created by moving track based automation to a Region now appears on the Region and in Piano Roll as expected.
- Volume automation moved from a track to a region is now displayed in the Tracks area MIDI Draw view as expected.
- It is now possible to use MIDI Draw for an event type that does not yet exist in the region.
- When track based automation is moved to a region, the region now immediately switches on MIDI Draw to show the automation in the Track area.
- When region automation is moved to a track, the automation now starts at the beginning of the track.
- MIDI Draw now reliably creates Surround Diversity and Surround Angle fader events in regions.
- It is now possible to make a Marquee selection over region loops when automation is visible.
- MIDI Draw data is no longer shown on additional automation lanes when the main automation lane is set to “Off.”
- MIDI Draw no longer incorrectly displays a ramp between isolated Pitch Bend events.
- When switching between MIDI takes, the MIDI Draw area now properly updates to show the currently selected take.
- Option-clicking a MIDI Draw point again selects all following MIDI Draw points for the region.
- MIDI Draw points inserted with the Pencil are now reliably placed at the clicked position.
- Audio no longer glitches when editing automation while playing back.
Score
- It is now possible to deselect a voice in the Staff Style window by Command-clicking it.
- The floating Part Box window in the Score no longer shows overlapping elements when first opened.
- Clefs in the Staff Style window now scale properly when viewed on a Retina display.
- Rests in Mapped Drum styles are now correctly positioned with their associated drum groups on the staff.
- When printing a score part with Advanced Tools disabled, Logic no longer prints the track name twice.
- Changing the split point of one voice in a multi-stave Staff Style now properly affects the other voices assigned to the same channel.
- Page view of scores in songs created in Logic 9 now retain their proper paper size when opened in Logic Pro X.
- Scores printed as PDF files now render properly when viewed in Adobe Reader.
- The cursor now reliably shows the correct tools when editing the score in linear display mode.
- It is no longer possible to give a new Score Part Box a name that is already in use by another Part Box.
- The font names for Jazz Cord and Swing Cord fonts now display correctly in the Root Font and Chord Extension Font display in the Chords & Grids panel of the Score settings.
- The staff display in the Staff Style editor now shows the proper key signature for transposed styles.
- It is now possible to change settings for multiple selected staves in the Staff Style edit window at the same time.
- Pasting a compound time signature in the Signature track no longer corrupts the time signature display in the Score.
- Filter buttons on floating part boxes in the Score now remain visible when the part box is resized.
- Tap to click on a trackpad now works with the Pencil tool in the Score.
- It is again possible to insert a bar line at the end of a region in the Score.
- The pencil tool again works in the Score when assigned to the right mouse button.
- In the Score, selected notes in loops now show the selection color.
- The Part box is no longer empty when first opened in a stand-alone Score window after recording.
- The print border no longer sometimes changes unexpectedly when printing to PDF from the Score.
- When Select All is used within a Score Set, the selection is now properly limited to regions within the Score Set.
- Tooltips no longer sometimes obscure the guidelines when inserting elements into the Score.
- The bar positions of SMPTE locked notes now update properly in the Score after the tempo is changed.
- Pressing the Control key now allows for finer granularity when editing Duration Bars in the Score.
- Undo now works after pasting Staff Styles.
- Undo now works after changing the Low or High note value in a Staff Style.
- In page view, the Score now correctly updates to reflect a different paper size selected in the Page Setup window.
- Track names are now reliably shown in Page View when the track contains overlapping regions.
- Drag handles now remain visible at all zoom settings when dragging parts into the Score in linear view mode.
- Adding special bar lines next to added clef or signature changes in linear view mode no longer causes the bar lines and clef or signatures to overlap.
- The mouse cursor now reliably shows the currently active tool in the Score.
- The Score now displays as expected after scrolling vertically at high zoom settings.
- Copy/paste of notes across multiple staves in the Score now works properly.
- Custom colors defined in the Score Layout window are now recalled properly when Logic is relaunched.
- The text cursor is now easier to see in various fields in the Score window.
- The Display Level button in the Score now follows the entire Score hierarchy when an Instrument Set is in use.
- The cursor now displays the Length Change tool when held over the end of a Duration Bar in the Score.
- It is again possible to assign no clef or a drum clef to non-mapped score styles.
Plug-Ins
- Importing plug-ins to a track no longer unexpectedly changes the input source on the track.
- The pitch of notes held when using Sculpture or ES2 are no longer sometimes shifted when using non-Equal Tempered tunings.
- Moving the Delay slider in the Note Repeater MIDI plug-in while notes are repeating no longer results in hung notes.
- The cycle length in the Arpeggiator plug-in now reliably updates when set to Grid mode.
- Recall Default now works with the Delay Designer plug-in.
- Recall Default now works properly with Audio Unit plug-ins.
- It is now possible to activate bypass on plug-ins that are not currently available.
- When the I/O configuration of a plug-in is changed, its editor no longer opens.
- The timing of multi-output software instruments is now maintained when latency inducing plug-ins like the Ad-Limiter are used on the main output.
- Audio files created by the "Export All Tracks as Audio Files" command now maintain proper sync in projects where high latency plug-ins are used in Summing Stacks.
- The Expander plug-in no longer sometimes introduces audio crackles with certain source signals.
- With Beat Sync disabled, the Course Rate control in the Auto Filter plug-in again behaves as expected.
- Audio now plays reliably from tracks in which there are two Tube Burner pedals inserted in the Pedalboard plug-in.
- VoiceOver now works reliably to activate Smart Controls for the Vintage Clav and Vintage B3 Organ plug-ins.
- Improves the behavior of Smart Controls when used with Voiceover.
- The stand-alone Smart Controls window now properly remembers its last state when reopened.
- When editing vector points in ES2 in loop mode, all envelope values are now properly shown as percentages when the envelope is time-synced.
- Shift-clicking can again be used to insert a vector point in the ES2 Vector Envelope.
- In the ES2 Vector Envelope, the Delete Selected Point contextual menu item again works as expected.
- EXS instruments created in EXS24 MK I no longer exhibit unexpected random velocities when played.
- Logic no longer changes a user-assigned track color when swapping Software Instruments.
- Space Designer’s Filter and Density controls now remain active when the plug-in window is opened more than one time in a session.
- Projects with multiple Ultrabeat instances now play back with reliable timing when the Process Buffer Range is set to Small in the Audio > Devices preferences.
- A plug-in inserted on the 16th slot of an audio channel strip or the 15th slot of a Software Instrument channel strip now remains visible.
- The percussion controls in the Vintage B3 now respond as expected to knob movements from the Native Instruments B4d remote control.
- The mapping of value to position for the Organ sliders in the Smart Controls window is now consistent with the sliders in the Vintage B3 Organ.
- In the Mixer, it is now possible to drag a plug-in from one channel strip to another when there is an External MIDI channel strip between the source and target.
- One shot samples triggered in EXS24 no longer play back with clicks when Rewire Live Mode for Rewire is disabled.
- All plug-in windows now reliably open after changing the order of plug-ins in a channel strip.
- The Scripter plug-in now reliably triggers notes when playing back outside of an active cycle zone.
- The meters in stereo instances of the Adaptive Limiter plug-in now show independent levels for the left and right channels.
- Tuned taps in the Delay Designer plug-in now reliably play in sync.
Flex
- Flexed regions no longer sometimes show waveforms in the wrong positions.
- Flex Markers no longer unexpectedly change positions when moving them in songs that contain tempo curves.
- Logic no longer sometimes incorrectly shows that an audio region is flexed in songs that contain tempo changes.
- If Flex is enabled, Logic now properly includes manually added transients when an audio region is converted to a sampler track.
- Flex Pitch controls are now available in the Tracks area and Audio Editor immediately after Flex Pitch is enabled for a track and analysis is complete.
- Setting a Flex Mode now applies to all selected tracks.
- It is again possible to cancel flex analysis before it completes.
- The Transposition Track now works with flex-pitched regions.
- Flex mode now gets enabled for all tracks in a group even if Group Clutch enabled.
- The Audio Track editor now reliably shows all notes when scrolling with Flex Pitch enabled.
- Logic no longer sometimes hangs when adjusting notes in Flex Pitch.
- The Flex Pitch grid is now displayed for all takes in the Track Editor even when a Software Instrument track is directly above the selected Audio track.
- Logic now offers the option “Do not show again” in the alert dialog that reads "This region contains inactive flex markers, which will be deleted if you perform the edit."
- If a Flex mode has already been set, clicking the Flex drop-down menu will correctly highlight the currently selected Flex mode.
- When dragging a region from one track to another, the region "Flex and Follow Tempo & Pitch" checkbox settings are now maintained as expected.
- Transient detection is improved with quieter source material.
- When Flex is bypassed on a Take folder, the Follow Tempo checkbox is also now disabled.
General
- Resolves several issues with Snap introduced in Logic Pro X v10.0.6.
- "Snap to Relative Value" now reliably works at all zoom levels with Smart Snap enabled.
- Adjustments to the left border of a region now use relative snap when that option is enabled.
- When Alignment guides is enabled, Snap to Absolute value now works with Cycle.
- Alignment Guides now work as expected when Snap is set to Off.
- The track icon picker now activates with the first right-click or Control-click.
- Toggling the Tracks Inspector no longer sometimes activates Alignment Guides.
- Logic no longer incorrectly shows an alert that the content must be installed the first time it is launched on computers purchased with Logic pre-installed.
- The Capture as Recording key command no longer creates odd length regions when used in songs with time signatures other than 4/4.
- The Hide Step Input Keyboard key command again works as expected.
- The Nudge Region to Nearest Beat option in the Adjust Tempo using Beat Detection dialog now works as expected.
- The Snip at Playhead Position key command no longer sometimes causes notes in the new righthand region to shift to the beginning of the region.
- Logic Pro X no longer displays the error “Could not open source file” when opening certain MP3 files.
- Logic now properly includes time signature, key signature, and tempo events when moving Arrangement markers.
- Undoing the repositioning of an Arrangement Marker now correctly moves affected automation back to its original position.
- Command-dragging one arrangement marker over another now replaces the previous marker as expected.
- Colors assigned to arrangement markers now take effect as soon as the color is clicked in the Color Box.
- It is now possible to use the Marquee stripe to delete a section within the area encompassed by an Arrangement Marker.
- Using the "Split at Playhead" command on the last arrangement Marker in a song now properly sizes the arrangement marker to the right of the Playhead.
- When an arrangement marker is split, the new marker to the right now maintains the same color and name as the original.
- Arrangement markers can no longer be inadvertently moved by mouse clicks in an empty area of the Arrangement track.
- Copying Arrangement markers no longer creates extra tempo events.
- The Beat Mapping track now continues to display properly when it is resized after other Global tracks have been resized.
- The Beat Mapping Track no longer disappears if Global Tracks are shown while it is already visible.
- Deleting a connection in the Beat Mapping track now correctly also deletes its associated tempo event.
- Tempo events created in the Global Tempo track now reliably display in the Tempo list.
- Setting one track of a phase-locked edit group as Groove Master or Groove Follower now reliably shows all members of the group as being enabled.
- Time signature changes are now reliably displayed in the timeline.
- Logic no longer re-downloads basic content that has already been downloaded by MainStage.
- Arrange Folders now reliably display as expected in the Mixer.
- Double-clicking on the icon for a folder channel strip in the Mixer now opens the folder.
- Commas may now be used as decimal separators when typing values into controls on the Mixer.
- It is now possible to drag regions vertically without an unexpected horizontal shift when "Snap to Grid" is enabled in the Tracks area.
- Recording a new take over multiple existing regions again works as expected.
- It is now possible to create an empty MIDI region on a track hosting an Auxiliary channel strip.
- Shift-click to delete a take selection again works reliably.
- Region Gain now works as expected when applied to comp segments in a Take folder.
- When a take selection is disabled and then re-enabled, the change is now properly reflected in all tracks that are part of the same group.
- Logic no longer unexpectedly re-extends a shortened Take folder when the folder is dragged vertically to a different track.
- When recording in Cycle mode, Logic no longer creates an automatic comp when a take encompasses only part of the Cycle range.
- When regions are packed into a Take folder, regions from the same track are now placed on the same sub-track in the Take folder.
- Fixes an issue in which it was sometimes no longer possible to change the length of a Take folder after performing several other Take folder length edits.
- Take regions no longer unexpectedly shift horizontally when dragged vertically from one sub-track to another when the "Limit Dragging to One Direction In: Tracks" preference is enabled.
- Copied Take folders are no longer missing their contents in certain rare situations.
- Regions on audio tracks inside a folder now are reliably placed on their proper tracks when the folder is unpacked.
- The key command “Select Previous Section for Realtime Comping” now works correctly when used while recording multiple takes in Cycle mode.
- When Bounce-in Place is used with a channel strip that contains a plug-in that performs a mono to stereo conversion, Logic now creates a mono file if the option to bypass plug-ins is selected.
- Regions created with "Bounce in Place" are no longer sometimes given random names.
- Addresses and rare issue that could cause some MIDI notes to play back at the wrong pitch.
- In Link mode, the Piano Roll now reliably shows the contents of the selected region.
- The Event Float window no longer loses focus after a selected note has been edited in the Piano Roll.
- The "Split Events by Playhead" command now works reliably with multiple notes in the Piano Roll.
- Editing notes in the Piano Roll with multiple regions selected no longer sometimes results in notes being inadvertently moved from one region to another.
- Closing the local inspector in the Piano Roll editor no longer leaves a blank area on the right side of the editor.
- Opening MIDI Draw in the Piano Roll no longer offsets the keyboard into the editing area.
- When adding notes in the Piano Roll with the Pencil, newly created notes again have the same Velocity as the last edited note.
- It is now possible to lasso notes in the Piano Roll editor using a Wacom tablet when Logic’s Right Mouse Button preference is set to something other than Assignable to Tool.
- An independent Piano Roll window now reliably opens to the currently selected region.
- Pasting MIDI notes to a track at their original position no longer creates a region that starts at beginning of the track.
- Option-clicking a group of selected notes in the Piano Roll no longer changes the selection.
- New automation sub-tracks created on External MIDI tracks are now correctly assigned to MIDI CC7.
- Clicking bypass on a channel strip send on the Mixer now also bypasses the same send for all other selected channels.
- When bouncing a track from within a Track Stack, the bounced file’s volume is no longer affected by the master track volume.
- When selected notes are muted in the Score window while working in Tracks view, the regions containing them are no longer muted.
- Routings of tracks inside Track Stacks are now properly maintained when the Track Stack is packed into a folder and the folder is then moved to a different position.
- Recording audio to a Track Stack and then switching to another track no longer sometimes leads to the new recording being placed on the original Track Stack.
- Track Stack Patches are again saved and recalled reliably.
- Bus assignments are now consistently maintained when importing Track Stacks into a new empty song.
- It is now possible to import/replace a track within a Track Stack.
- Changing the patch on a Track Stack no longer unexpectedly mutes other tracks that are assigned to the same Group.
- Overview regions on closed Folder Stacks and Folders now appear muted when their respective Mute buttons are activated, or other tracks are soloed.
- Patch changes sent to a Summing Stack that is inside a Folder Stack now work as expected.
- When a Summing Track Stack is created from existing Patches, Logic now maintains the existing Smart Control layout for each sub-track of the resulting Track Stack.
- After removing a sub-track from a track stack, other remaining sub-tracks are properly maintained when saving the track stack as a patch.
- Using the arrow keys to navigate the overview regions on Summing Stacks now works correctly.
- It is again possible to create a Summing Stack within a Folder Stack.
- Using the Repeat Section between Locators command no longer opens all closed stacks in the song.
- Pasting a Marquee selection from inside a folder or in a song that starts earlier than 1 1 1 1 no longer places the pasted region early by an offset equal to the original selection’s length.
- The key command to activate MIDI Step Input now has no effect when used in windows that do not allow MIDI input.
- The Event list now reliably shows a vertical scroll bar in cases where the available screen space is not sufficient to show the entire list of events.
- The Event List now immediately updates event positions when the regions containing them are moved.
- The Track Inspector now properly updates to reflect incoming MIDI program change messages.
- Controller assignments from control surfaces with the MIDI input port set to Any now work as expected.
- When using the Marquee tool in a Track Editor, it is no longer possible to inadvertently extend the Marquee selection to tracks beneath it in the Tracks area.
- Logic again reliably updates track names, volume, and pan values on the V-Control iPad controller app.
- It is now possible to activate the Project Setting for sending CC7 and CC10 messages when a song is loaded.
- Chase Notes is no longer sometimes unexpectedly disabled.
- Chase now works as expected with non-note events when used with Environment objects that channelize MIDI data.
- The Repeat Regions command now works correctly when the Adjustment parameter is set to Seconds.
- The "Join Regions per Tracks" command now completes as expected in cases where some tracks contain muted regions.
- The Control Surface Setup window now shows the correct icon for the Novation AutoMap Mixer.
- Improves the display of plug-in parameters on Mackie C4 control surfaces.
- The Project Audio window now properly sorts audio files by size in projects that include compressed audio files.
- The playhead position now remains within the song start and end positions when scrubbing the position display in the Control Bar with the mouse.
- When dividing a MIDI region with the scissors, the Split option now correctly shortens all overlapping notes on the left side of the cut.
- The Play Region button in the Editor window is no longer shown for muted regions.
- It is again possible to perform edits in the Audio Track Editor in songs where the song start is at a position before 1 1 1 1.
- The playhead in the Track Editor now behaves consistently with the playhead in the Tracks area when “Scrubbing with audio in Tracks area” is not enabled.
- Opening a Logic 9 song that contains a movie with a file format not supported by Logic Pro X no longer results in multiple error dialogs.
- Changing the SMPTE start position in a song no longer results in an incorrect SMPTE time display in the LCD.
- The units for time in the LCD panel are again localized as expected.
- The counter in the LCD and stand-alone Transport window again change to show the current edit position when moving a region or event.
- When recording past the current end of a song marker, the LCD now continues to display the current playhead position.
- It is now possible to type in tempo values that include decimal points with the LCD display mode set to Beats & Project.
- The Time display in the LCD now changes to show the region position when dragging a region.
- Mapping a Smart Control button to Solo on a channel strip no longer incorrectly maps it to Mute instead.
- When using Selective Track Import, it is now possible to import plug-ins from Output channel strips.
- Drummer now properly generates a beat after a Drummer region is lengthened with the Trim > "Fill within Locators" command.
- Importing a Drummer track with contents from another project now again properly creates Drummer regions instead of MIDI regions.
- When using Selective Track Import, it is now possible to import plug-ins, routing, or sends from a stack without importing the contents of its tracks.
- Moving an audio region from one track to another no longer causes the Follow Tempo check box to be activated.
- Setting a quantization value for an audio region no longer disables the Match Groove Track button for all tracks.
- The key signature at the beginning of a song is now reliably included when using the Repeat Section command.
- When regions are glued, their respective Gain settings are now maintained in the resulting region.
- The Musical Typing Keyboard and Onscreen Keyboard once again react to notes playing back from the selected MIDI track.
- Resolves an issue introduced in Logic Pro X v10.0.5 in which alternative tempo sets other than set 1 did not playback as expected.
- Click-holding a region no longer sometimes results in inadvertent position shifts to the left or right.
- When a region is bounced in place to a new track, only the new track is selected after the bounce has been performed.
- External MIDI channel strips are now drawn correctly in the All view on the Mixer.
- Region borders no longer snap to unexpected positions when using the Junction tool with alignment guides enabled.
- Clicking in the ruler now reliably repositions the Playhead to the clicked position.
- Disabling the Clip Length setting in the Region Inspector now works as expected.
- SMPTE locked regions now show the SMPTE lock glyph when selected.
- It is again possible to use the Control and Shift keys to reduce the grid when using the Option key to drag-copy regions or notes.
- Pitch Bend data now displays reliably in the Step Editor.
- The Step Editor now updates to show the correct position of its contents when the left border of a region is dragged to the right.
- When a Patch is defined as the default, the Smart Control mappings are now included as part of the default.
- Regions selected in the Tracks area are now also reliably selected in the Project Audio window when Project Audio is opened after the selection has been made.
- The correct mouse cursor now appears when hovering over plug-in slots for tracks that were frozen with the Pre-Fader mode enabled.
- Changing the Grid value in the Step Editor now works when more than one lane is selected.
- The Solo Tool now works on audio track 32 and higher.
- Virtual MIDI ports created by other software now reliably appear in Logic Pro X as expected.
- Channel strips in the Environment now correctly show the automation state.
- Quick Help now reliably opens in the correct window.
- The Project Settings and Preferences panels no longer obscures open Font Picker of Color Picker windows.
- Double-clicking the Key Limit value in the Track Inspector no longer unexpectedly changes its value.
- All Inspector controls are now disabled properly when a track is frozen or protected.
- Clicking on the Settings insert on the secondary channel strip in the Inspector no longer selects its track in the Track List.
- The Key Commands window no longer stays on top when switching to another application.
- Logic no longer shows a “Key Command preset changed” message when the system keyboard input setting is changed.
- Logic no longer incorrectly shows an alert “Please quit ReWire application first” whenever the Logic Pro X menu is accessed.
- Opening a setting or preference window no longer closes the Color Picker.
- The tooltip display now shows both "bars/beats" and time when dragging objects if the Secondary Ruler is visible.
- Custom labels for stereo inputs now display reliably in the Create New Track window.
- If the preference to select regions when a track is selected is enabled, all the regions of a selected track now reliably display as selected when the track header is clicked.
- The input level meter for a selected stereo audio track now reacts to both channels of input as expected.
- The check boxes for in Groups inspector now work reliably when the inspector is set to its minimum width.
- It is now possible to scroll the Mixer layer of the Environment window all the way to the right.
- Screensets that contain open plug-in windows are now recalled properly.
- Logic now correctly positions MIDI CC events that are at position 1 1 1 1 when importing Standard MIDI files.
- When importing a Final Cut Pro X XML file that contains only audio, Logic Pro X now properly maintains the correct frame rate.
- Pan automation in imported Final Cut Pro X XML projects again works as expected.
- Logic no longer shows an error “One or more audio files have changed in length” when importing a Final Cut Pro X XML file where the start time is not zero.
- Logic now properly maintains overlapped audio clips in imported Final Cut Pro X XML projects.
- Logic Remote now properly updates its display when the song start position is adjusted in Logic Pro X.
- Logic Remote now correctly shows the Master fader when connected to a Mac running Logic Pro X with Advanced Tools disabled.
- Pressing Command-period now aborts the download of additional content as expected.
Articulation ID?
There are always undocumented changes when updating Apple software.
Some of you out there are eagerly awaiting a new version of Logic Pro. One thing that seems connected to a bigger picture is something hidden inside the Hyper Draw menu.
A certain Articulation ID is visible once you start a new project but if you record or create a blank region it vanishes into thin air
So what does this mean exactly?
I don’t really know but I suspect it’s the answer to Steinberg’s VST Expression.
Interesting times indeed.
Logic 9.1.6 hits the Mac App Store.
Logic Pro 9.1.6 is also available as a free download for existing users.
Use software update or download from [button link=”http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1014″]Apple[/button]
Logic Pro 9.1.6: Release notes
- Last Modified: December 08, 2011
- Article: TS2565
Logic Pro 9.1.6 is an update to Logic Pro 9 (which is part of Logic Studio 2). Logic Pro 9.1.6 is also the version of Logic Pro available for purchase on the Mac App Store.
Products Affected
Logic
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About the Logic Pro 9.1.6 Update
Compatibility
- On OS X Lion 10.7, “Revert to Saved” is now possible after a project has been renamed.
Performance and Stability
- Logic now uses multiple available cores as expected when performing offline bounces.
- Resolves an issue in which Logic sometimes quit unexpectedly when deleting multiple Marquee selected tracks with the Drag Mode set to Shuffle L.
- Fixes an issue in which clicking in an automation lane with the Marquee tool could cause Logic to quit unexpectedly.
- Channel strip level meters no longer sometimes momentarily stop responding when the playhead is moved to a new position during playback.
- Loading a Kontakt 4/5 factory preset in 64-bit mode no longer causes Logic to quit unexpectedly.
- Logic now reliably initializes MIDI ports when Logic is launched by double-clicking a project file, choosing “Open with” from the project file contextual menu, or when using the Load Most Recent Project startup action.
Audio
- Channel strips with pre-fader sends now mute consistently.
- Audio playback while using Prelisten in the Audio Bin now properly updates when changing the selection of files or regions.
- Fixes an issue in which record repeat would delete the wrong take.
Plug-ins and Instruments
- Dropping multiple samples on the EXS editor keyboard and choosing the Contiguous Zones option now correctly results in a chromatic mapping of the samples.
- Using the + key to step through EXS instruments no longer causes Logic to sometimes quit unexpectedly.
- The Key Release Time for a Group can now be set to values greater than 1000 as expected in the EXS editor.
- Fixes an issue in which EXS24 did not play one-shots in mono or legato mode.
- Resolves an issue in EXS24 in which instruments containing zones triggered by key release via a group were susceptible to stuck notes.
- In EVB3, the extended parameter area no longer shows controls already available in the main plug-in window.
- Ultrabeat now properly maintains the set pitch of a previously loaded sample after browsing for a new sample and then canceling.
- Resolves an issue in which auditioning samples in Ultrabeat with Voice Auto Select and “Preview in Voice” active could lead to a sample endlessly looping.
Control Surfaces
- Changes made to a project using a control surface now reliably activate the control surface Save button.
- The Undo LED on Logic Control now correctly lights to show the availability of undo steps.
- Setting parameter assignments on Control Surfaces to fixed values other than 1 now works correctly in 64-bit mode.
General
- Clicking on an unused take after deleting a comp section no longer selects the entire take folder.
- Resolves an issue in which using Auto Set Locators by Marquee Selection with very small Marquee selection lengths could result in the playhead getting stuck.
- Playback now reliably starts from the beginning of the project after using the “Return to Zero” button in the Transport, no matter what Play setting is active.
- With Catch Clock Position active and Cycle enabled, Logic now centers the cycle area if it fits within the current view.
- Fixes an issue in which the visible area in the Arrange window would sometimes jump a few pixels to the left after scrolling to the right on OS X 10.7 Lion.
- Resolves an issue in which using the Fade tool on a region could cause audio regions to be deleted in projects that contain unused audio regions.
- “Bounce – Replace All Tracks” now places regions on the correct tracks in songs that contain MIDI take folders.
- Volume automation now works reliably on all frozen tracks.
- Resolves an issue in which the Hyper editor did not reliably update to show new selections at high vertical zoom levels.
- MIDI editors now reliably update to show the contents of MIDI regions selected by rubber-band selection.
- In the Event editor, the up, down, left, and right arrow keys now correctly navigate between fields while in text edit mode.
- Logic no longer sometimes asks to save changes when closing a song that has not been changed.
- The key commands to select projects now work as expected.
- After using Save As to make a new version of an existing project to a new location, the recording path for the project is now appropriately updated to the location where the new project was saved.
- Resolves an issue in which moving an audio region where the anchor had been set caused the anchor to reset to the beginning of the region if the project contained take folders.
- Fixes an issue in which moving or copying a take folder with the drag mode set to No Overlap could alter the take folder.
Logic 9.1.5 is released.
About the Logic Pro 9.1.5 Update
Compatibility
- Resolves an issue which could cause unexpected feedback in Logic after importing a song from GarageBand for iPad.
- Selecting the “Open Apogee Control Panel” command will now launch Apogee’s Maestro 2 application if a Duet 2 is attached.
Performance and Stability
- Resolves an issue in which Logic might quit unexpectedly when creating a new project.
- Resolves an issue in which Logic might quit unexpectedly when moving audio regions in the Arrange window.
Plug-Ins
- Resolves an issue introduced in Logic 9.1.4 in which LFO sync for some Logic plug-ins did not sound as expected.
- Resolves an issue introduced in Logic 9.1.4 in which automating the Wet/Dry mix control in Delay Designer resulted in zipper noise.
- The EVB3 plug-in now correctly responds to sustain off messages.
- Direct text input of the pitch reference for the Tuner plug-in now works correctly.
General
- Fixes an issue in which performing undo after recording a MIDI take sometimes caused the MIDI track to stop sounding.
- The “Toggle Zoom to Fit Selection or All Contents” key command now correctly recalls the the previous zoom view rather than zooming in on the entire project.
- Resolves an issue introduced in Logic 9.1.4 in which some regions might shift out of position after using the Pack Take Folder command.
- Fixes an issue in which Japanese key command sets were not available if Logic was updated to version 9.1.4 before launching Logic for the first time.
- Resolves a rare take folder issue in which performing undo after deleting a comp section could cause regions in subsequent tracks to shift to the next adjacent track.
- Fixes an issue in which take folders would not sound on soloed tracks if the Track Mute/Solo mode was set to CPU-saving (Slow Response).