Logic Pro 9 User Manual - Help Library - Apple

Welcome to Logic Pro
Logic Pro is a sophisticated, fully featured audio and MIDI application that provides all
the tools you need to create professional-quality music productions.
This preface covers the following:
• About Logic Pro (p. 17)
• About the Logic Pro Documentation (p. 18)
• Additional Resources (p. 19)
About Logic Pro
Logic Pro allows you to record and edit both audio and MIDI, add high-quality effects,
and mix your music in stereo or Surround. The final mix can be exported to one or more
standard audio files, or burned to an audio CD or DVD that can be played on any computer,
home stereo, or imported into other applications and devices.
Some of the things you can do with Logic Pro include:
• Record MIDI information via connected MIDI input devices, such as keyboards, and
play back this information via any connected MIDI device (such as a synthesizer keyboard
or module) or the integrated Logic Pro software instruments.
• Create, arrange, and edit MIDI projects, make use of the powerful Score Editor, then
print musical notation via a printer connected to your computer.
• Edit the timing of audio files—Flex time editing—by shortening or expanding the
distance between transients in the audio.
• Digitally record acoustic and electric instruments or vocal performances into your
projects, and process these audio recordings with a huge array of built-in real-time
effects.
• Make use of the integrated software instruments, including Sculpture, Ultrabeat, ES1,
ES2, EVP88, EVB3, EVD6, EXS24 mkII, over a dozen high-quality GarageBand instruments,
or third-party Audio Units instruments.
• Load projects or channel strips from GarageBand, and enhance them with the additional
processing and editing possibilities afforded by Logic Pro.
Preface
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