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To sum it, you can multi-take on a loop over and over until you’re happy. Then, by simply expanding the window, you can see all your takes and select which one you want to use, non-destructively. Not only that, but, say you liked the first part of the vocal on take six, and the rest of take three. You simply highlight each part of the take and Logic automatically creates seamless auto-fades between the takes and you can collapse the track and voila, it plays through what you’ve selected, all non-destructively. Meaning, you can return to the section as many times as you want and keep changing all of your takes, without editing any audio. It seems like the perfect solution.



Another mention no one seems to be reporting (not even Apple in their press release), which makes me sceptical to see how it really works, is Low Latency Mode. According to the demonstrator, you can switch this button, and it turns off any plug-ins hogging a lot of CPU, to make sure you have the lowest latency possible for your recordings. The amazing thing is, there’s no freezing, or even a delay, involved. It’s just a simple on-off button that activates and de-activates instantly.
This seems like an incredibly handy function for those of us running less powerful machines or laptops, but I’ll keep a cynical approach until I try it myself. I coudln't find a pic for this, but it's just a little button.

I want to mention MainStage, but I won’t get too bogged down in it as there is a lot to it, and you can read that all over the Internet. The most intuitive thing that interested me was the ability to ‘build’ your own interfaces, albeit, limited to what is provided. It reminded me of a kind of Lemur-Rax hybrid and that’s a pretty exciting concept. There is loads more to talk to about this program, but in due course. It has a pretty cool looking tuner though.

At first glance, and I stress ‘first glance’, Logic Studio looks like a pretty awesome package. I mean, they have thought of everything, live performance, post production and heavy influence on new ease-of-use features, it’s a pretty exciting time for Logic users…



Keep glued to FM for a full-on, in-depth review, coming soon…