Apple released the first major updates of its Logic Pro X DAW and Mainstage live software, but many new features.
What’s new in Logic Pro X 10.1:
- 10 new Drummers for electronic and hip hop styles
- Added dedicated control for hip hop or electronic drum groove composing
- New Drum Machine Designer with sounds and features to customize electronic drum kits for a variety of styles
- New Brush tool in the piano roll editor to create note sequences with the mouse
- New piano roll display options to visualize more notes in a smaller vertical space and easily identify drum sound names
- New time handles for selected notes in the piano roll
- Note Repeat and Spot Erase modes allow for creating rhythms in real time by using classic Drum Machine techniques
- Proportional smart quantize for note length and sync
- Improved Compressor module with a Retina-compatible interface and 7 models, including a classic VCA
- Create wavetables from imported audio and layer up to 8 voices in the Retro Synth
- Automation can now be part of a region
- added relative and trim automation modes
- Added VCA-style faders for large project mixing
- Remote control the mic and other input settings from the mixer, for compatible audio interfaces
- Fade real time rendering is now compatible with Flex Pitch
- Customize the module manager menu
- 200 new patches and 10 classic Mellotron instruments added to the sound library
- Share projects via Mail Drop and Air Drop in OS X Yosemite
Mainstage 3.1 on its side adds some of the new features found in Logic Pro X 10.1, plus a couple of additions:
- Improved Compressor module with a Retina-compatible interface and 7 models, including a classic VCA
- Create wavetables from imported audio and layer up to 8 voices in the Retro Synth
- Customize the module manager menu
- 200 new patches and 10 classic Mellotron instruments added to the sound library
- New Auto Sampler that allows for using hardware synths as sampled instruments
- New shortcut editor to assign and edit user shortcuts
To download these updates, open the Mac App Store app on your computer.
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