Apple has announced that Logic Pro is now available for iPad with new design and functionalities for enhanced touch workflow.
Dubbed by Apple as ‘The ultimate music studio. At your fingertips’, Logic Pro for iPad features Multi-Touch allowing users to create music with dynamic software instruments and control hundreds of plug‑ins intuitively.
According to the website, features include…
Touch to Play
Play expressive software instruments with the power of touch. Tap the keys on a virtual piano, trigger drum pads with precision, and turn iPad into all kinds of musical instruments.
Plug-in Tiles
A compact view puts the most essential controls for your plug‑ins at your fingertips. Swipe to see all the plug-ins on your track at a glance and double‑tap a tile to access full controls.
Project Navigation
Quickly and intuitively navigate large sessions with touch. Pinch to zoom your view, drag and drop regions, and swipe across the track header to reveal basic mixing controls and make quick adjustments on the fly.
Garageband Import
Open your Garageband for iOS projects in Logic Pro for iPad and let your creativity fly with pro features and workflows.
Apple Pencil And Keyboard
Transform your tracks with detailed automation and precise edits using Apple Pencil. Supercharge your workflow by adding a Magic Keyboard or Smart Keyboard Folio for powerful shortcuts.
Browser
Logic Pro for iPad’s browser allows you to quickly view available instrument patches, audio patches, effects plug‑ins, samples, and loops and audition each sound. Users will get access to an expanding collection of royalty‑free loops, samples, and instruments by downloading free sound packs inside the app and a predictive filtering system makes it easier to find the sound you need.
Creative Features Include…
Beat Breaker
The time and pitch morphing functions of Beat Breaker let you swipe and pinch to radically reshape and shuffle sounds instantly.
Quick Sampler
Chop, flip, or transform audio samples or loops into entirely new playable instruments.
Step Sequencer
Program drum patterns, bass lines, and melodies, and even automate plug‑ins with just a few taps. Add variations like randomized steps, velocity, note repeat, and more.
Drum Machine Designer
Build the perfect custom drum kit for your song by applying samples and unique plug‑ins to any drum pad. Drum Machine Designer is also integrated with Step Sequencer, making it easy to build beats quickly.
Live Loops
Capture inspiration and quickly build arrangements by recording, mixing, and matching musical loops and phrases. Tap the individual cells to trigger loops and find combinations that work well together to create song sections in real time.
Mixing
Pro Mixer
Command a full‑featured mixing console complete with channel strips, volume faders, pan controls, plug‑ins, sends, and precise automation.
Touch Controls
Multi‑Touch controls add a pinch of intuitive magic to your mixing process. So go ahead, touch that dial.
Track Stacks
Consolidate multiple related tracks into a single track and quickly create submixes with Track Stacks.
Roundtrip Compatibility
Easily move your Logic Pro projects between Mac and iPad to create in the studio or out on the road.
Audio Unit Extensions
Tap into compatible third‑party instruments and effects right in your Logic Pro projects. Download apps from top developers like Eventide, FabFilter, and Moog Music on the App Store.
Studio Hardware
Plug in your favorite gear using compatible third‑party audio interfaces, MIDI interfaces, and controllers from leading manufacturers like Apogee, Focusrite, Novation, Universal Audio, and more.
Ableton Link
Sync playback tempo with hundreds of Link-enabled apps and devices.
Side Chain Routing
Channel audio from different sources such as software instruments or loops through a variety of effects, like compressors, for more dynamic and harder‑hitting mixes.
Pricing & Availability
Logic Pro for iPad is available as a monthly subscription for just $4.99 or a yearly subscription for $49. You can activate a one‑month free trial after installing Logic Pro for iPad from the App Store.
You can install Logic Pro for iPad on any iPad with the A12 Bionic chip or later and iPadOS 16.4 or later.