Logic Studio
Logic Pro, part of Logic Studio
Developer	Apple Inc.
Stable release	Logic Pro 11.1.2 / (August 6, 2025)
Operating system	Mac OS X
Type	Music production
License	Proprietary
Website	www.apple.com/logicstudio/

Logic Studio is a discontinued professionalmusic production suite byApple Inc. The first version of Logic Studio was unveiled on September 12, 2007.It claims to be the largest collection of modeled instruments, sampler instruments, effect plug-ins, and audio loops ever put in a single application.^[1]

The package containsLogic Pro,Mainstage,Soundtrack Pro,WaveBurner, Studio Instruments, Studio Effects, Apple Loops,Apple Loops Utility, Impulse Response Utility,Compressor, andQuickTime Pro. It also contains 6 content DVDs containing Jam Pack collections, sound effects, surround music beds, EXS24 samples, and impulse response files and a demo content DVD.^[2]

On December 8, 2011, it was announced that the boxed version of Logic Studio suite would be discontinued. Instead,Logic Pro andMainstage would be sold separately on theMac App Store.Soundtrack Pro was discontinued as part of the move.^[3]

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The Apple Loops Utility software is a small companion utility toSoundtrack Pro,GarageBand,Logic Express, andLogic Pro, all made byApple Inc. Apple Loops Utility allows users to create loops of audio that can betime-stretched. Audio files converted to "Apple Loops" via the Apple Loops Utility can also be tagged with their publishing (Author, Comments, etc.) and musical information (Key, Tempo, etc.). Multiple files can be tagged at the same time, a process known as batch tagging. Apple Loops Utility can read bothAIFF andWAVfile formats, but it will convert the latter to AIFF when saved with tagging information.

Compressor is a video and audio mediacompression and encoding application for use withFinal Cut Studio and Logic Studio onMac OS X. It can be used withQmaster forclustering. Compressor is used for encoding MPEG-1,MPEG-2 forDVD, QuickTime .mov, MPEG-4 (Simple Profile), MPEG-4 H.264 and optional (third Party and often commercial) QuickTime Exporter Components to export to Windows Media, for example. Among its other features is the ability to convert fromNTSC toPAL and vice versa, and the ability to 'upconvert' fromstandard-definition video tohigh-definition video with feature detail detection to prevent serious quality losses.

The Impulse Response Utility is used to create customconvolution reverbs.

Logic Pro is a hybrid 32 / 64 bitdigital audio workstation andMIDIsequencer software application for theMac OS X platform. Originally created by German software developerEmagic, Logic Pro became anApple product when Apple bought Emagic in 2002. Logic Pro provides software instruments,synthesizers, audio effects and recording facilities for music synthesis. It also supports Apple Loops –royalty-free professionally recorded instrument loops. Audio effects include distortions,dynamics processors,equalization filters, and delays. The Space Designer plugin simulates the acoustics of audio played in different environments, such as rooms of varying size, or producing theechoes that might be heard on high mountains. Logic Pro can work withMIDI keyboards and control surfaces for input and processing, and for MIDI output. It features real-time scoring in musical notation, supportingguitartablature,chord abbreviations and drum notation.

The application featuresdistributed processing abilities, which can function across anEthernetLAN. One machine runs the Logic Pro app, while the other machines on the network run the Logic node app. Logic will then offload the effects and synth processing to the other machines on the network. If the network is fast enough (i.e.gigabit Ethernet) this can work in near-real time, depending on buffer settings and CPU loads. This allows users to combine the power of several Mac computers to process Logic Pro’s built-in software instruments and plug-ins, and 3rd party processing plug-ins.

MainStage's primary purpose is to serve as a method of centralizing any virtual instruments that users might have installed on their computers that are normally used in Apple'sDAW softwareLogic Pro for use in live performance.

The instruments can then be played using a pre-recorded MIDI file or via a MIDI controller such as a keyboard. MainStage's other features include the ability to play back pre-recorded backing tracks and to function as a guitar and vocal multi-effects processor.

The second version, MainStage 2, was released on July 23, 2009, along with updated releases of many of the other applications in the Logic Studio package.

Soundtrack Pro is a music composing and audio editing application made byApple Inc., which includes a collection of just over 5000royalty free professional instrument loops and sound effects. The program also allows multitrack projects to be exported directly withCompressor settings.

WaveBurner can be used for assembling, mastering, and burningaudio CDs. Audio CDs created with WaveBurner can be played back on any audio CD player, and can be used aspremasters to produce CDs in large numbers for possible distribution.

WaveBurner has several notable features:

• Allows for up to 99 tracks and 99 subindexes per track
• IncludesISRC codes for each track
• Includes copy prevention and pre-emphasis for each track
• Adds UPC/EAN codes for the CD
• SupportsCD-Text
• Create DDP (CD-image)

According to Apple,^[2] one needs to meet the following requirements to install all applications:

• Mac computer with anIntel processor (PPC is supported prior to v9.1.11)
• 2GB ofRAM (4GB or more recommended)
• Display with 1280x768 or higher resolution
• Mac OS X v10.6.8 or later
• QuickTime 7.6 or later
• DVD drive for installation
• 9GB to install all applications and required content
  • Additional 38GB to install all optional content (large content packages can be installed on separate disk):
    • 10GB for Jam Pack collections
    • 16GB for sound effects
    • 6GB for surround music beds
    • 6GB for other optional content

• Logic Express
• Logic Pro
• Logic Control
• Audio Units
• Core Audio
• GarageBand
• Comparison of multitrack recording software

• Digital audio workstation software
• Software synthesizers
• MacOS-only software made by Apple Inc.
• Apple Inc. software

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