Testing these tools in depth requires many months of in-the-trenches work, but a cursory look at the features shows that the interface is clear and plenty of fun.
Additionally, the company revamped Logic Pro’s mixer to support metering and panning for speaker configurations up to 7.1.4. Apple has also expanded 13 of its bundled plug-ins to support these surround effects, including new spaces for Sound Designer. Logic Pro now comes with a Dolby Atmos rendering plug-in to visualize these objects in the mix and monitor in multi-channel mode, either using a discrete speaker system or even binaurally in standard studio headphones. To get there, Apple includes a new 3D Object Panner, which you can use to position special effects or even the occasional instrument in three-dimensional space. The idea is that you can create mixes with elevation control, moving objects in the soundscape around and even above you. With Logic Pro, you can now create Spatial Audio mixes and Dolby Atmos files that will play back natively in Apple Music. This finally brings the overall sound quality level of streaming services back to the equivalent of CDs and even surpassing it in some cases. As consumers have already seen, Apple Music now plays back thousands of tracks in these formats, and more importantly, it (along with Spotify and others) now plays music back in lossless encoding. The big news in version 10.7 is the introduction of Spatial Audio support with Dolby Atmos integration. The mixer faders and meters also remained fixed in size, offering little of the configurability you’ll find in other DAWs such as Cubase and Reaper. It’s all a little flatter and cleaner than before, although you still can’t do much with the color scheme. Apple continues to do a ton of tweaking beneath the surface to improve system performance on lesser machines.įor version 10.7, Apple saw fit to refresh the UI again, making its usual incremental and blink-and-you’ll-miss-it changes to the overall look. In a single project, you can run up to a whopping 1,000 stereo audio tracks, 1,000 instrument tracks, and 1,000 auxiliary tracks, and use up to 12 sends per channel strip. If you have an older setup, the program can be set to "only load plug-ins needed for project playback" for conserving CPU power in larger projects in a seamless fashion. The Core i9 MacBook Pro I tested on had 16 available threads. Logic Pro is now optimized for the new M1 Pro and M1 Max processors found in Apple's latest 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pros, and it supports up to 56 processor threads. I tested the program with a second-generation Focusrite Scarlett 6i6, and as expected, I ran into no problems. As long as you're logged into the Apple Store with your account, you can download, install, and run it seamlessly.įor this updated review, I tested Logic Pro 10.7 on a 2019 MacBook Pro 16-inch with a Core i9 processor, 1TB SSD, and 16GB RAM running macOS Monterey 12.01.
As always, Logic Pro doesn't require hardware or software copy protection.
To install everything, including all the packaged synths, instruments, loops, and effects, you need to set aside 72GB.
To get started with Logic Pro 10.7, you need a recent Mac running macOS 11.0 or later and 6GB of free space for the base program.
For example, a single employee may use the Apple Software on both the employee’s desktop Mac Computer and laptop Mac Computer, or multiple students may serially use the Apple Software on a single Mac Computer located at a resource center or library.įor complete details, read the Logic Pro software license agreement. (ii) if you are a commercial enterprise or educational institution, to download, install, use and run one (1) copy of the Apple Software for use either: (a) by a single individual on each of the Mac Computer(s) that you own or control, or (b) by multiple individuals on a single shared Mac Computer that you own or control.
(i) to download, install, use and run for personal, non-commercial use, one (1) copy of the Apple Software directly on each Apple-branded computer running macOS (“Mac Computer”) that you own or control and you have the right to use the Apple Software as permitted by the Services and Content Usage Rules set forth in the Apple Media Services Terms and Conditions ( (“Usage Rules”), and are granted a limited, non-transferable, non-exclusive license: Here's an excerpt from the Logic Pro software agreement: