Logic Pro for iPad

Name: Logic Pro for iPad
Rating: 4.5 (4497 reviews)
Author: Apple

Professional music creation

Free · In‑App Purchases

4.5K Ratings
Ages

4+
Years
Category

Music
Developer

Apple
Language

EN
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Size

1.3
GB

iPad

Logic Pro for iPad is a professional music creation app that puts the power of the studio right at your fingertips. Tap into a complete collection of sophisticated creative tools for songwriting, beat making, editing, and mixing — all with an interface that’s been designed from the ground up for iPad. Use Multi-Touch to play powerful software instruments with the tap of a finger and interact naturally with intuitive controls. Creative plug-ins like Beat Breaker and Sample Alchemy plug-ins make it easy to cook up beats and explore new sonic territories. Then access a full featured mixer and Mastering Assistant to give you everything you need to create a professional-sounding mix entirely on iPad. Creative Interface Optimized for iPad • Play powerful software instruments and interact expressively using Multi-Touch • Navigate large complex projects with pinch-to-zoom and swipe-to-scroll • Quickly shape and tweak your sound using Plug-in Tiles • Discover powerful features and strengthen your skills with integrated guided Lessons • Roundtrip capabilities let you open projects back-and-forth between Logic Pro for Mac or Logic Pro for iPad* • Create precision edits and detailed track automation with Apple Pencil • Drag and drop multiple files at once from the Files app to quickly build drum kits or add stems to a project • Use Stem Splitter to separate nearly any mixed audio recording into six distinct parts: Drums, Bass, Vocals, Guitar, Piano, and Other instruments** Sound Browser • Quickly access all Logic Pro sounds from a single location • Easily discover inspiring sounds with a predictive filtering system • Use the Sound Library to access an expanding collection of free sound packs • Access your personal collection of samples directly from Logic’s built-in sound Browser • Add Sample Folders from your iPad, external storage, and iCloud Drive Professional Instrument and Effects Plug-ins • Create music with a massive collection of powerful software instruments • Shape your sound using high quality effects like vintage EQs and compressors, high-end reverbs, and creative multi-effects • Build your own guitar or bass rig with Amp Designer and Bass Amp Designer • Expand your instrument and effects library with third-party Audio Units*** • Connect an audio interface or MIDI device to record instruments or microphones and control plug-ins and automatable parameters in Logic**** Beat Production • Radically reshape and reshuffle audio with Beat Breaker, a sophisticated time and pitch morphing instrument • Use Sample Alchemy to transform audio into entirely new malleable sounds • Chop or loop any sample into a playable instrument using Quick Sampler • Build and play custom drum kits using samples and plug-ins with Drum Machine Designer • Create drum beats, bass lines, and melodic parts, and reshape sounds over time using Step Sequencer • Use Live Loops to capture inspiration and quickly build arrangements by mixing and matching loops, samples, and your recordings Session Players • Discover five professional instrumentalists designed to create nuanced performances, responsive to your direction • Bass Player, Keyboard Player, Acoustic Drummer, Electronic Drummer and Percussionist offer a wide range of genres and distinct playing styles Full Featured Pro Mixer • Shape a mix using channel strips with volume faders, pan controls, plug-ins, sends, and precision automation • Deliver a release-ready mix using Mastering Assistant Massive Library of Sounds • Build kits and sampler instruments with over 6,300 samples of drums, vocals, sound effects, and more • Over 5,700 instrument and effects patches • More than 12,900 loops in a wide range of styles * Requires Logic Pro 11.2 or higher and macOS Sonoma 14.4 or higher ** Requires iPadOS 18.4 with Apple A17 Pro chip or later *** Requires compatible third-party Audio Unit Extensions apps from the App Store **** Logic Pro for iPad supports class-compliant audio interfaces or MIDI devices

Ratings & Reviews

4.5

out of 5

4.5K Ratings

Amazing
05/28/2023

iammane
Not that Apple really needs praise here, but they’ve really knocked it out of the park with Logic Pro for iPad - and this is only the first release. It doesn’t have EVERYTHING from the desktop version, but I think for most folks there’s more than enough here. If you’re already a GarageBand on iPad user and you’re starting to hit walls this is where you want to head. I’ve used many iOS/iPadOS and desktop DAWs over many, many years and the feeling I’m getting when using Logic Pro for iPad is the same feeling as when I first started using Reason. It took a good day or two to really wrap my head around the UI (it’s QUITE different from GarageBand on mobile) but once you do it’s like opening this amazing treasure chest of tools. There’s so many ways to string together instruments and effects chains. When I put a drummer track on a Drum Machine Designer instrument channel the first time it kind of blew my mind (maybe this always worked on Logic for Mac? I don’t know, never used it).You really get the best of all worlds here - flexible MidiFX, a time line, great audio editing, full AUv3 instrument and effect automation. It’s got the playfulness of AUM with the familiarity of a DAW with a timeline.And this is just the beginning…
Amazing
05/28/2023

iammane

Not that Apple really needs praise here, but they’ve really knocked it out of the park with Logic Pro for iPad - and this is only the first release. It doesn’t have EVERYTHING from the desktop version, but I think for most folks there’s more than enough here. If you’re already a GarageBand on iPad user and you’re starting to hit walls this is where you want to head. I’ve used many iOS/iPadOS and desktop DAWs over many, many years and the feeling I’m getting when using Logic Pro for iPad is the same feeling as when I first started using Reason. It took a good day or two to really wrap my head around the UI (it’s QUITE different from GarageBand on mobile) but once you do it’s like opening this amazing treasure chest of tools. There’s so many ways to string together instruments and effects chains. When I put a drummer track on a Drum Machine Designer instrument channel the first time it kind of blew my mind (maybe this always worked on Logic for Mac? I don’t know, never used it).You really get the best of all worlds here - flexible MidiFX, a time line, great audio editing, full AUv3 instrument and effect automation. It’s got the playfulness of AUM with the familiarity of a DAW with a timeline.And this is just the beginning…
Where is “score”?!!
05/24/2023

Sibelinof
Downloaded Logic yesterday and discovered that “score” has been removed from the program! Folks, not everyone is a hip-hop, rap, beats maker (All legit genres that don’t necessarily need a score read out and editor), but those of us who arrange, write for video or film or just prefer a standard notation editor rather than just a piano roll editor, may find this seriously lacking. A piano roll doesn’t give you a quick and easy visual, like notes on a staff do. I use the piano roll extensively when I am fine tuning a feel for a track, but it is horrible for just looking for quick harmonic changes over a broad range of notes. Another thing everyone should be aware of is that Logic is very sensitive to memory overload. I had lots of apps open ( because that hasn’t been an issue with anything else) and I loaded in a project that had nine tracks running each with several plugins on them (no audio, just midi)and I got a system overload warning stating “ The plug-ins in the project are overloading your iPad, or your iPad is low on memory.” I closed all my apps and had no more problems, so beware. I have an iPad Pro with 16gb ram and 1 terabyte of storage, so that really shouldn’t have been an issue. Logic is amazing on most everything else and I have enjoyed using it extensively for at least 7 hours since yesterday (lol). Score editor is a major work flow loss for me, so until that is resolved, my rating will be 3 stars at most.
Where is “score”?!!
05/24/2023

Sibelinof

Downloaded Logic yesterday and discovered that “score” has been removed from the program! Folks, not everyone is a hip-hop, rap, beats maker (All legit genres that don’t necessarily need a score read out and editor), but those of us who arrange, write for video or film or just prefer a standard notation editor rather than just a piano roll editor, may find this seriously lacking. A piano roll doesn’t give you a quick and easy visual, like notes on a staff do. I use the piano roll extensively when I am fine tuning a feel for a track, but it is horrible for just looking for quick harmonic changes over a broad range of notes. Another thing everyone should be aware of is that Logic is very sensitive to memory overload. I had lots of apps open ( because that hasn’t been an issue with anything else) and I loaded in a project that had nine tracks running each with several plugins on them (no audio, just midi)and I got a system overload warning stating “ The plug-ins in the project are overloading your iPad, or your iPad is low on memory.” I closed all my apps and had no more problems, so beware. I have an iPad Pro with 16gb ram and 1 terabyte of storage, so that really shouldn’t have been an issue. Logic is amazing on most everything else and I have enjoyed using it extensively for at least 7 hours since yesterday (lol). Score editor is a major work flow loss for me, so until that is resolved, my rating will be 3 stars at most.
Update
07/15/2024

Deezbutzstill
This is not beginner friendly at all. I enjoy the DJ APP far more as it’s easy to just insert my own tracks and sample. This is not what I call Apple simplicity. The Final Cut Pro app is enjoyable because it’s a nice cut from the imovie app which was easy to understand without the need of tutorials. I did not enjoy this app at all just way too many things going on for me just seems extremely bunched up I thought it would be a different more enjoyable experience compared to the Mac version since it’s on an iPad but I was wrong,incredibly frustrating app with preinstalled things I just don’t needAfter spending more time with the app it’s not so bad at all but I just still feel like the simplicity is not there. Just to insert your own tracks is cumbersome..I have to drag from my files according to the steps in the Logic Pro manual. I get it it’s an iPad so it makes sense to do that but even dragging it into the app is confusing if you’re a beginner all I wanted to do is sample vocals I wish it moving around the app was a bit more simple for hobbyist. Not a producer by any means but the way I can fly through Final Cut pro but not this app is frustrating
Update
07/15/2024

Deezbutzstill

This is not beginner friendly at all. I enjoy the DJ APP far more as it’s easy to just insert my own tracks and sample. This is not what I call Apple simplicity. The Final Cut Pro app is enjoyable because it’s a nice cut from the imovie app which was easy to understand without the need of tutorials. I did not enjoy this app at all just way too many things going on for me just seems extremely bunched up I thought it would be a different more enjoyable experience compared to the Mac version since it’s on an iPad but I was wrong,incredibly frustrating app with preinstalled things I just don’t needAfter spending more time with the app it’s not so bad at all but I just still feel like the simplicity is not there. Just to insert your own tracks is cumbersome..I have to drag from my files according to the steps in the Logic Pro manual. I get it it’s an iPad so it makes sense to do that but even dragging it into the app is confusing if you’re a beginner all I wanted to do is sample vocals I wish it moving around the app was a bit more simple for hobbyist. Not a producer by any means but the way I can fly through Final Cut pro but not this app is frustrating
Functionality issues abound
08/19/2023

JJR25
Lots of complaints here about missing features and, ridiculously, the subscription model. The price is the price. The biggest issues concern basic functionality. Moving regions is sometimes very difficult. Moving regions will sometimes create an additional identical region where the original region was. Selecting and then working with multiple regions is often an exercise in utter frustration. The icons for selecting and then working with multiple regions make no sense. The “handles” on regions block visibility, particularly against the black background. The toggle between “trim” and “loop” is un-intuitive. Why would anyone think those two concepts have any relationship to each other? Why even call something “trim” when it involves basic functionality that is much more than “trimming”?Part of Apple’s brilliance over the decades is the relationship between design and functionality. Products typically are designed to relate intimately to how people use the product in the real world. This, though, fails pretty badly on that score. The features, particularly new ones like “beat breaker” and “sample alchemy,” are really great. The experience is marred significantly, however, by weird design choices, odd labeling and impediments to work flow. Hopefully these things can be fixed.
Functionality issues abound
08/19/2023

JJR25

Lots of complaints here about missing features and, ridiculously, the subscription model. The price is the price. The biggest issues concern basic functionality. Moving regions is sometimes very difficult. Moving regions will sometimes create an additional identical region where the original region was. Selecting and then working with multiple regions is often an exercise in utter frustration. The icons for selecting and then working with multiple regions make no sense. The “handles” on regions block visibility, particularly against the black background. The toggle between “trim” and “loop” is un-intuitive. Why would anyone think those two concepts have any relationship to each other? Why even call something “trim” when it involves basic functionality that is much more than “trimming”?Part of Apple’s brilliance over the decades is the relationship between design and functionality. Products typically are designed to relate intimately to how people use the product in the real world. This, though, fails pretty badly on that score. The features, particularly new ones like “beat breaker” and “sample alchemy,” are really great. The experience is marred significantly, however, by weird design choices, odd labeling and impediments to work flow. Hopefully these things can be fixed.

This update includes stability improvements and bug fixes

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Jun 24

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