Logic Pro for Mac Technical Specifications

Minimum System Requirements

  • macOS?Ventura 13.5 or?later
  • 6GB of available storage space for minimum installation or 72GB of storage space for full Sound?Library?installation
 Logic?Remote Minimum System?Requirements

iPad: iPadOS?14.0 or later

iPhone: iOS?14.0 or later*

iPod?touch: iOS?14.0 or later*

*Smart Controls, Sound Library navigation, Smart?Help, full mixer and access to plug-in controls are available only on?iPad.

General

  • 2114 definable key and MIDI commands
  • 90 recallable?screens
  • 200-step undo history, including plug-in and mixer editing?undo
  • Full plug-in latency compensation, also for external audio and MIDI?gear
  • 1/3,840-note resolution for MIDI?events

Audio

  • Audio file resolution up to 32-bit/192kHz
  • Audio I/O resolution up to 24-bit/192kHz
  • Maximum project length is greater than six?hours at 96kHz, 13 hours at 44.1kHz
  • Professional dithering algorithms (POW-r, Apogee UV22HR)
  • 64-bit summing engine

Score Editor

  • Up to 16 independent voices per?part
  • Over 4,000 pre-defined chord?grids
  • Tablature supports up to 16-string instruments with any?tuning
  • Articulation Sets for intuitive key switching between articulations on Logic and 3rd party instruments
 Score symbols
  • Notes and rests for various lengths
  • Auto-adapting multi-bar rests
  • Key and time signature symbols
  • Clef signs
  • Slurs and crescendo/decrescendo symbols
  • Various note head types including percussion?styles
  • Accents, bowing marks, fermatas and other symbols that apply to specific notes
  • Phrasing marks
  • Trills and other ornaments, tremolo?symbols
  • Sustain pedal markings
  • Bar lines, repeat signs, and Segno and Coda?markings
  • Chord symbols
  • Chord grids and tablature symbols
  • Page and line break symbols
  • Support for Bravura font
  • MusicXML import and export

Plug-ins and Sounds

Plug-ins
  • 108 effect plug-ins including Pedalboard, which includes 35 stompboxes
  • 28 Software Instrument Plug‑ins
  • 9 MIDI plug-ins
  • 7 instrument and effect plug-ins with support for up to 7.1 surround
  • 14 effect plug-ins with support for up to 7.1.4 surround
  • Custom instrument-tuning system including 97 fixed tuning presets, equal-tempered, custom and Hermode tuning
Sound Library
  • 5,953 total patches for audio, auxiliary, software instrument and output tracks
  • 13,552 Apple Loops covering a wide range of genres
  • 1,250 Sampler instruments
  • 110 Quick Sampler instruments
  • 3,556 Alchemy presets
  • 150 Drum Machine Designer kits with more than 3,066 individual kit piece patches
  • 4,529 plug-in settings for 104 plug-ins
  • 1,060 reverb spaces and warped effects for Space Designer
  • 54 groove patterns for Arpeggiator MIDI plug-in
  • 26 Live Loops grids
  • 4 Tutorial projects
  • 161 patterns and templates for Step Sequencer

Mixer

  • Up to 1,000 stereo audio channel strips
  • Up to 1,000 software instrument channel strips
  • Up to 1,000 auxiliary channel strips
  • Up to 256 busses
  • Up to 1,000 external MIDI tracks
  • 15 inserts for internal or Audio?Units effect plug-ins
  • 8 inserts for internal or Audio?Units MIDI plug-ins
  • 12 sends per channel strip, pre- or post-fader, or post-pan
  • 32 groups for audio, software instrument or MIDI channel strips

Control Surface Support

Additional plug-ins available from third-party?manufacturers
  • Frontier Design Group: AlphaTrack
  • Jazzmutant: Dexter
  • KORG: nanoKONTROL
  • M-Audio: Axiom, Axiom Pro, Axiom AIR, Oxygen
  • Novation Launch Pad: all?models
  • PreSonus: FaderPort
  • Roland: V-STUDIO 20
  • Smart AV: Smart Console
Extensive support via control surface?plug-ins
  • Apogee Electronics GiO
  • Apple Logic?Remote for iPhone and?iPad
  • CM Labs: Motor Mix
  • Custom Recording Light
  • Emagic: Logic Control, XT
  • EuCon protocol support for Euphonix / AVID Artist series control surface systems
  • Frontier Design Group: TranzPort
  • hexler: TouchOSC
  • JL Cooper: CS-32, FaderMaster 4/100, MCS3
  • KORG: KONTROL49, microKONTROL
  • Mackie: Baby HUI, HUI, Mackie Control, C4, Extender, MCU Pro, MCU?XT?Pro
  • M-Audio: iControl
  • Novation: all AutoMap-compatible devices
  • Radikal Technologies: SAC-2k, SAC-2.2
  • Roland: SI-24
  • TASCAM: US-2400
  • Yamaha: 01V96, 01X, 02R96, DM1000, DM2000
  • Comprehensive support for any control hardware via MIDI?Learn
  • SSL UF1, UC1, UF8

Surround and Spatial Audio

Support for a variety of surround channel configurations Surround Formats
  • Quadraphonic
  • LCRS
  • 5.1 (ITU)
  • 6.1 (ES/EX)
  • 7.1 (3/4.1)
  • 7.1 (SDDS)
  • 5.1.2
  • 5.1.4
  • 7.1.2
  • 7.1.4
Spatial Audio Formats

Bed Formats

  • 5.1 (ITU 775)
  • 7.1
  • 7.1.2

Monitoring Formats

  • Binaural (for stereo headphones)
    • Dolby Renderer
    • Apple Renderer (Standard Spatial Audio Profile1)
    • Apple Renderer (Personalised Spatial Audio Profile1 2)
    • Apple Renderer (Head Tracking, Standard Spatial Audio Profile1)
    • Apple Renderer (Head Tracking, Personalised Spatial Audio Profile1 2)
  • 2.0
  • 5.1
  • 7.1
  • 5.1.4
  • 7.1.4
  • Mac Built‑in Speakers3
  • Renderer for Studio Display Speakers4

Compatibility

  • Open projects from Logic 5 or later
  • Open projects from Logic Pro for iPad
  • Open GarageBand songs directly in Logic Pro
  • Support for Core Audio–compliant MIDI and audio hardware
  • Support for Audio Units effect, instrument and MIDI plug-ins
  • Import and Export AAF and XML (Final?Cut?Pro) projects
  • Export Dolby Atmos mixes as ADM BWF64 files compatible with Apple Music
  • Create a project from an ADM BWF64 file complete with surround bed track and all object tracks and metadata
  • Import and export MIDI regions as MIDI files, export MIDI and audio regions as Apple Loops
  • Import and export music notation to MusicXML
  • Play AIFF, WAV (BWF), CAF, SDII, Apple Lossless, eligible MP3 and AAC (non-eligible files will be converted to PCM)
  • Record AIFF, CAF and WAV (BWF)
  • Bounce to AIFF, WAV (BWF), CAF, MP3 and M4A (Apple Lossless, AAC)
  • Burn any bounced audio directly to CD or DVD-A (PCM audio only)
  • Support for Ableton Link synchronisation