Logic Pro 11.1 Review (They FINALLY Listened!)

[@Non-Doctors-Music]

Thank you, Chris. Really useful as you gave the contexts.

[@musole7104]

Thanks Chris!

[@maxreinsch]

That the company is listening is the greatest news (I backed up before upgrading Mac OS to Sequoia because of plugin compatibility, though it was all good). Many thanks again Chris 😁

[@chris_bouchard]

Thank you for this. Updated early but had missed some of these. Being able to remove the mastering assistant is the one I'm happiest to learn about. Next biggest pet peeve is the panning button when working with stereo panning, not balance. Wish they would just give us 2 knobs or something, as well as the option to set stereo panning as the default instead of balance.

[@artprojectsnz]

Excellent summary yet again bro

[@kingofdjembe]

Another big update in my opinion is that you can now scroll zoom to the pointer. If you still want to zoom like in the previous versions to playhead or selected region, you can still use command + arrows.

[@saafindia]

❤

[@hankfowler8194]

Thanks Chris. I discovered, which you most likely knew, that if you have an audio Apple loop with multiple chords in it you can open the chord track, drag that loop on the chord track and it will paste those chords there. So then any session player will be in the correct chord while playing.

[@kingofdjembe]

Do you know if it's possible to add chord data when creating an apple loop? Seems like I can only choose key and tempo.

[@matt_nyc_audioengineer]

Ya, I felt bad for Speaker Food too. They are a great company! I know I'll still use it because it's what I'm comfortable with but not much of a need for it anymore.

[@cosmicsimonmusic]

When Logic uses all efficiency cores and has a wet/dry knob for all plugin inserts I'll switch from Reaper, for mixing that is.

[@recordman555]

I'm running Logic 11. I like it. A few things though: My Mac is about 5 years old. Is that why ChromaGlow is not available? Next - I would like to see Apple pay more attention to the Step Sequencer. For example, when choosing an event, all available 'rest' times should be available. Also, each keyed event should have an articulation value choice - ie, staccato, legato, etc. AND velocity values - why do they rely on an external controller? Why can't the velocity be numbered at the time the event is entered - AND - why do note values extend only to a Whole Note? At any time , during a song, an instrument may need to hold a note up to 4 measures - or more. Apple - can you address this? I have an old Technics keyboard ( KN 1000) , whose Step Sequencer function is way ahead of Logic. Problem is - the MIDI protocol between Logic and that old keyboard is non-existent. This would be such a simple code for Apple to write into Logic. Let's get it done!

[@kingofdjembe]

Yes ChromaGlow and stem splitter are only available on apple silicon processors (M1 and later), so macs before 2020 won't have it.

[@amd5471]

Moving mixer tracks is great, but automatically creating tracks in the tracks area when doing so sucks. I wonder how long we'll have to wait for a toggle to turn that off?

[@anarchy0208]

Hi Chris, are you running Logic Pro on Sequoia or Sonoma?

[@whosyabobby]

Bruh. Why can't I add a plugin in-between other plugins instead of having to move everything down individually?

[@matsfrommusic]

I have to say, and sorry for repeating my issues with Logic, but I honestly couldn't care less about any of these updates. I can't believe I'm alone absolutely hating the black tooltip window when hovering over midi notes so it's impossible to see where to move the notes, or that the height of the ruler is so small it makes me dubble clicking the cycle ruler just above it instead, to start a song at a specific position, or that the sampler doesn't have an EQ for individual sounds (frankly that's crazy), or that the user interface of the default synths are just terrible and uninspiring. You see where I'm going with this right? These are not features I wish Logic had, they are all incredibly annoying user errors, and often recurring too, ok EQ in the sampler technically isn't but, Oh well, maybe next time :)

[@kingofdjembe]

A workaround can be to shift+click where you want the playhead to be. That doesn't work on a region though. I use the brackets a lot too (with shift they jump by 8 beats I think). As for individual EQ for each sample, as far as I know only Ultrabeat has it. Or maybe Sampler with multi outputs ?