Logic Pro
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Logic Pro is an Audio and MIDI software sequencer (a digital audio workstation) which runs on the Mac OS X platform. Originally created by German software developer Emagic, Logic Pro became an Apple product when Apple bought out Emagic in 2002. A cut-down version, Logic Express, is also available from Apple, and their Soundtrack Pro product can also use Logic plugins. GarageBand also uses the Logic sound engine, though it's meant for a much less professional class of user.
History of the Logic sequencer
Logic started life as the MIDI sequencer Emagic Creator on the Atari ST platform in the 1980s (the ST was an early favorite among MIDI users during the mid-80s). As the program advanced, and Music Notation was added,it was named Notator Logic, and then clipped to Logic. With increasingly powerful computing hardware becoming available to users throughout the 1990s, succeeding generations of the Logic software were released with ever more powerful inbuilt audio processing tools, and compatibility with Steinberg VST format. New versions of Logic do much more than simply send and receive MIDI messages, and Logic's effects and add-on synthesisers have become well respected tools for composers and producers worldwide.
Over its history, the program evolved into a full digital audio workstation for both Mac and Windows; after the Apple acquisition, however, support for the Windows version was dropped and Apple now treats Logic Pro as one of its flagship software applications for the Macintosh platform.
Discussion Forums
The Logic User's Group, or LUG, is a 10+ year old community of 20,000+ professionals and newbies that started life as Emagic's official Logic forum and has today grown into the biggest Logic community on the net. The LUG launched new custom forums in September 2005 as an alternative to the advertisement-filled YahooGroups forums: http://logic-users.org/forums
Logic Pro Help is a friendly community that publishes tips and tricks, news and provides fast answers to all your Logic questions. It also offers a file sharing section to exchange Plug-in and channel strip presets between users, as well as other documents.
The official discussion forum is moderated by Apple and critical messages are often removed making it a less than ideal place to discuss bugs and problems with other users. In addition, Logic support is now not as easy to attain or as direct as it used to be, making the established Forums more useful than ever for resolving issues or getting answers about Logic.
