Binding: CD-ROM
Brand: Apple
EAN: 0885909196050
Format: CD-ROM
Weight: 25 hundredths-pounds
Label: Apple
Manufacturer: Apple
Model: MA810LL/A
Packaged Height: 80 hundredths-inches
Packaged Length: 530 hundredths-inches
Packaged Weight: 5 hundredths-pounds
Packaged Width: 530 hundredths-inches
Platform: Macintosh
Platform: PowerMac
Platform: Mac OS X
Publisher: Apple
Release Date: 2007-09-12
Studio: Apple
Feature:
- Makes it easier than ever to translate musical inspiration into professional productions
- Includes all the functionality of Logic Pro 8 except for four high-end professional features--surround, TDM/DAE support, distributed audio processing (DAP), and support for high-end control surfaces
- 36 instruments from Logic Studio, including Ultrabeat drum machine, EXS24 Sampler, and ES2 synth
- 70 effects from Logic Studio, including Guitar Amp Pro, Ringshifter, and full-featured Pitch Correction
- Hundreds of channel strip settings and thousands of royalty-free Apple Loops so you can make incredible-sounding music right out of the box
Product Description:
Logic Express 8 delivers the power, precision, and professional toolset of Logic Pro 8?including a redesigned interface that allows musicians to write, record, edit, and mix with unparalleled speed and ease. Logic Express includes all the functionality of Logic Pro 8 except for four high-end professional features?surround, TDM/DAE support, distributed audio processing (DAP), and support for high-end control surfaces. Logic Express 8 comes with an expanded collection of professional instrument and effect plug-ins from Logic Studio, as well as channel strip settings and plug-in settings that allow you to begin making music immediately with professionally designed sounds. Logic Express is the ideal application for professional musicians and producers who want to get into the world of Logic for $199, as well as GarageBand users who are ready to take their music to the next level. This version allows an existing owner of Logic Express 6 or 7 to easily upgrade to Logic Express 8. Network-based save and share, to use your settings and key commands on any Mac More than 100 instruments and effects from Logic Studio New instruments and effects from Logic Studio, including Ultrabeat and Guitar Amp Pro New channel strip settings and plug-in settings created for Logic Express, for a wide range of high-quality sounds System Requirements - Mac computer with a 1.25GHz or faster PowerPC G4 processor, Mac OS X v10.4.9 or later Existing Logic Express 6 or 7 installation required
Customer Reviews:
 Excellent music composition software, 2008-08-24
I do only amateur MIDI-based music composition, no audio recording. Thus I can't comment on the latter. For the former, however, Logic Express offers all the tools I need to edit MIDI-events, and access to the tools will feel natural to anyone already comfortable with the Mac-way of doing things. Garageband's capabilities as a MIDI-event editor are rudimentary, where as Logic Express's capabilities are extensive. This was the main reason that I left Garageband and switched to Logic Express.
For amateurs with little knowledge of the concepts of a software instrument and the choosing of its parameters to create a sound, Logic Express can appear to be formidable even though thousands (especially if you buy the assorted Jam Packs) of parameter choices are built-in. Understanding the software instruments in order to create your own sounds will require study and experimentation if you are new to this.
The only editing that appears to be absent from Logic Express (I've only seen it in the application, Vision, that died many years ago after Mac OS 8 was retired) is scale transformations; that is, given something written in a major scale, being able to semi-automatically transform it into a minor scale, or even esoteric scales, such as Phrygian, Lydian or Mixolydian.
And lastly, perhaps an unnecessary note of caution: just as you can't write a novel with Microsoft Word unless you have a story to tell and understand how to tell it, you can't write music with Logic Express (or any other music creation program) unless you understand enough about music to do so.
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