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With over 200 new features and enhancements, the new Logic Studio delivers everything musicians need to write, record, produce, and perform on a Mac. The center of Logic Studio is Logic Pro 9, which makes it easier than ever to create your own compositions. Produce and play nearly any sound imaginable with a huge collection of effects, instruments, and loops, including the new Amp Designer and Pedalboard plug-ins. Use MainStage 2 to perform live with the instruments, amps, effects, and sounds you used to make your tracks. Logic Studio also comes with applications and utilities that expand your creative options into audio post-production and mastering, including Soundtrack Pro 3, WaveBurner 1.6, and more.

User Reviews about Logic Studio Retail

This suite comes with a great set of software synthesizers and sequencing tools. I was very disappointed to see it missing three features that I think any DAW should have: FLAC file support, RIAA equalization for playback of gramophone records, and beat-matching for mixes. With more record studios looking for submissions in the FLAC file format, producers using Logic Studio will have to look to 3rd party utilities to convert their bounces. Luckily, the lack of RIAA equalization can be overcome with a 3rd party Audio Units plugin for anyone spinning or digitizing vinyl. If you're trying to produce a good dance mix, the lack of flexible beat-matching tools will make this task nearly impossible.

If you're on a 64-bit system and have more than 3GB of RAM, be sure to get the latest update from Apple after you install the retail package in order to get the new 64-bit version of the suite. Another tip, a company called KB Covers sells USB keyboards labeled specifically for Logic Studio use - KB Covers KB Keyboard for Logic Studio Pro/Express. Additionally, KB Covers makes rubber keyboard covers for Macbook Pros of most major countries that effectively re-labels your laptop for Logic Studio specialization. -- Good product, but missing critical features

I have one complaint with Logic Studio: the Soft Synths don't have built-in arpeggiators.

Yup. That's it.

This is the most brilliantly intuitive, well-designed, powerful, and awesome-sounding audio software I've ever used. To be clear, I'm a performing musician, composer, and arranger, not an engineer. But from my perspective, Logic Studio gives me all the overhead I see myself needing for a long, long time. Apple's soft synths are the best I've ever used (lack of arpeggiators aside), and, of course, Logic makes it easy for you to use third-party soft synths as well. The recording, looping, and sequencing, mixing, and effects capabilities are intuitive and all sound great.

However, the reason I bought Logic Studio 9 after using Logic Pro 7.2 academic for a couple years is Main Stage. I play keyboards live in a rock band for a living, and using Mainstage has allowed me to get all the sounds I've ever wanted, with great flexibility and real-time control. I've used keyboards by Yamaha, Nord, and Roland, and have loved them all for different reasons, but Main Stage can do everything I ever would have wanted any of the others to do for a fraction of the price and with much more mobility (my M-Audio midi keyboard is lightweight and compact). Long story short, Logic Studio rules. -- The best audio software

An absolutely amazingly powerful music & audio production suite. Previous versions have received criticism for being rather buggy and I would have to agree with that. But with version 9, Apple has clearly listened to and taken action on the things that their customers want. I use Logic primarily in a home studio composing and producing music as an amateur. I have many years of pro recording experience behind me but am not a professional audio engineer or music producer these days.

Amp Designer is a powerhouse production tool and is an incredibly valuable part of this suite. The genuine tonal characteristics are fantastic and extremely fun to use. Pack that with some very nice sounding effects presets and you've got the ability to record with a limitless palette of guitar sounds. A real plus if this is part of your skill/talent set. I think the Apple engineers outdid themselves with this super plug-in. Having this included in Logic makes it an incredible value. I would give fives stars to Amp Designer alone and would easily have paid half of the price of Logic just for this plug-in. It's that cool!

The built-in instruments and samples are rather good. Some are stellar, most are OK, and some are, umm... rather unique. But the variety is an asset, even if the size of the library is daunting. Connecting to virtual instruments and VSTis is a dream. Rewire is nearly seamless (although Logic will want 100% control over your rewire apps).

Please remember that Logic Studio is just the toolset. A great engineer or musician it doesn't make. It just gives you an outstanding set of tools to do the job and makes things easier and super fun to use. If you plan on recording (or use MIDI and Virtual Instruments) and want to monitor performance in real time, you are going to need a high quality audio interface with ASIO drivers. There are dozens available to fit a variety of needs and budgets. This isn't a fault of Logic, this is just the way software-based Digital Audio Workstations work.

The sonic quality of Logic is great. There's clean & clear control over your sound. Some wonderfully modeled effects for dynamics, modulation, reverb and delay (and more) are built in. It's clear that careful attention was paid to these plug-ins. They sound great!

Your sound will only be as good as your weakest link. So, if you're recording with a microphone make sure you have a good signal path up and including to the audio interface. Good mics and pre-amps are not things that any software is going to emulate. Garbage in - garbage out (although it will be somewhat shiner).

There are way more features of this suite that I've not not tapped into yet and some that I'm sure I"ll never use. But all in all it is the most powerful software based music production suite and DAW I've used to date. -- Worth every penny

After having used Cakewalk, Sonar and ProTools, I was ready for a change when I bought my mac mini from Amazon. After reading that Coldplay, Bjork and Radiohead (to name a few) swear by Apple Logic, and seeing that I can master in Dolby Surround, I put forth my $500 and got this software. Whereas you open ProTools and are welcomed to NOTHING (always a blank, gray screen), Apple Logic uses a series of professional wizards to load exactly the set up you WANT and NEED. Like most Apple products, the sophisticated software is plug and play and DOES NOT crash. Simply an amazing attribute. It immediately recognised my ancient MobilePre USB card and works flawlessly.

Apple Logic is actually what you secretly hope for in a music production software, it makes you sound like a GENIUS. With just a crummy mouse, I promise that you'll have looped beats busting in your headphones in 10 minutes. The Piano Roll ACTUALLY WORKS. You get an array of effects and more guitar pedals than you can ever afford (this aspect is worth the $500 alone) that have actual virtual analog knobs and switches that actually work like the real thing. You can elongate and shorten vocal tracks and the design of the software contains excellent pitch control that makes your cracked, awful voice sound amazingly polished. A little tweaking and you won't hardly recognise yourself. For training I highly recommend using the free Lynda.com website. In fact, if you are on the fence about this product, simple watch the free Lynda training videos and you'll be sold.

Don't listen to the moody reviews that grumble that Apple Logic is just a pumped up version of Garage Band. That's absurd. They have nothing in common other than both being easy to use.

THANKS APPLE! THUMBS UP. WAY UP. -- Daunting but amazing

this product has everything that a music producer is looking for..everything is right there in one box, and it comes with all the extra sounds and software. the program is alittle hard to use at first but you get used to it after awhile. great product -- Logic is amazing