Logic Pro 11 is Here! - Full Walkthrough of The Mega Update

[@-KingOfKhaos]

Wherever Kyle is now, he shall always be remembered! Rest in Peace my friend 🪦

[@kevinturvey8213]

he's alive and well and living in garageband!

[@music-from-poland]

@@kevinturvey8213 🤪

[@hunterbetts9614]

Everyone complaining about the virtual instruments doesnt see the workflow utility of it; pros can still use it as a temporary stand in to fill out other parts until youre ready to record the full thing. Been doing that with the drummer for years: lay down something simple while i track to help give me the feel/groove and stay on beat, then when its ready to map drums or record them, do it then.

[@NoiserToo]

I agree, and great for creating stand-in tracks whilst composing. I’ve been using Drummer like this for years, I am excited to see how the other session players can be utilized.

[@antonpatzner9932]

The keyboard parts are so generic 😂. Useless. Just write good parts

[@NoiserToo]

Agreed, the weakest of the trio.

[@pamphletamine7979]

I made a full EP last weekend while noodling with it, and changed all the sounds and it sounds really good. Now waiting for the Rhymer to do his parts. It's a good experiment.

[@beatpoetbeats]

Hey Chris, at 39:09 the new bounce feature is awesome! Bouncing Synths when wanting to use Midi was an extra pain, and this now solves it! But, a lot of times I want to perform a filter sweep, or some kind of pitch bend or modulation when bouncing to audio. The fact that it brings the volume down of the focus track and solos it, makes it not so fun or musical to do this kind of thing. Anyway to stop that behavior that you know of?

[@MyronDavismd]

R.I.P. Kyle and the other LPX drummers. You will be missed

[@NateTheMeh]

Is Darcy still around??

[@mrufino1]

@@NateTheMehthey’re all still there, just no more names, just styles.

[@NateTheMeh]

@@mrufino1 fire, the actual functional improvements to it are incredible, it basically is what I dreamed of years ago.

[@buzzm526]

😂

[@kingofdjembe]

It was good to identify who they were obviously referring to (John Bonham, Travis Barker, etc.) and which style. But it sounded a bit "toyish" and unprofessional at the same time.

[@kybrdguy]

Apple STILL won’t update the mixer so we can simply move channels around. Maybe in another 10 years…

[@austonhardy5172]

Such a simple thing. I hate it.

[@nogoogleplus]

You can move channels around, just have to do a work around by adding everything to the tracks window and moving things there….pia but doable….do a search

[@LogicKidroy]

Or just within 6 months! 😅

[@mikedr1549]

I literally spent 10 minutes creating a down and dirty backing track with bass and keyboards and drums and I have to say - it sounds really good! I love the direction they're going here.

[@Jamminn555]

Best explanation and walkthrough of Logic Pro 11 on the internet so far, Chris. Thanks so much! Benjamin

[@nickpmusic]

Just tried the Stem Splitter and it’s freaking awesome

[@timoheinrich8763]

It sounds pretty bad in the example in the video, tho. Even Chris doesn't say "it sounds awesome" - which are words he usually isn't shy to use.

[@DocKaosBeats]

It's grayed out and won't let me use it for some reason but oh well it's all good

[@_DanielGarcia]

@@DocKaosBeats If I'm not mistaken it is a feature only available for computers with M1's and above...maybe thats why?

[@DocKaosBeats]

@@_DanielGarcia Oh wow thanks for letting me know I'm over here doing everything to try and get it to work 😅

[@SamHocking]

It's pretty bad by modern MSS standards. I do AI Stem Separation for a living and wouldn't use it, i'd say it sounds like a basic/old demucs 4-stem model comparable to where the MSS industry was 2-3 years ago, things have moved on quite a lot.

[@jazzbird9955]

This was wonderful for a newbie to the Logic Pro 11. thanks. I am a songwriter and have better knowledge of music theory than skill at playing an instrument. this will help me immensely at putting my songs to music.

[@rallefreifahrt]

As a guitarist - this is a dream! Especially the drummer update that fixes everything I always wanted!

[@claireika]

As usual a great presentation Chris but all this 'band in a box' stuff saddens me. It is amazingly clever but in years to come will anyone know how to play a real instrument or understand music theory? Or how to do the sound design stuff that ChromaGlow does at a flick of a mouse? That said I will no doubt update to Logic 11 just for the Chord bar and streamlined external instrument routing!

[@alphabeets]

Gotta love his interjections like “that’s awesome”.

[@NoteBeam]

This is great! Thank you for giving us such a thorough explanation of these new features. I have to say though, for myself, I liked the old drummer better. The new session drummer, I find harder to control and it's a lot easier to just play directly into a midi drummer for the purpose of a temporary placeholder to be tweaked later. As for the "session" bassist and piano, they may be a good start for initiates but if you are a seasoned musician you can get better results playing the parts yourself, even if you have to do a lot of editing or quantizing. IMHO Although, I have to add that the articulations of bassists is a nice touch. (pun intended!) Meanwhile, the best thing in 11.01 is probably ChromaGlow! What a great feature! I may have to re-do some of my mixes now lol . . .

[@queenjesseen]

Thank you! So easy to understand. I'm going to use this as my walkthrough video when I create my first track in Logic Pro 11.

[@wrekabuddy]

Excellent run through of logic's new features. Explained "Session player instruments" very well.

[@rspatel9655]

Omg Chord track is awesome, workflow goes rocket with this ❤❤❤

[@jordan.na.dzielni]

Yeah, I've been waiting for it ever since I started using Logic!

[@mrufino1]

So far the update seems cool. I don’t see myself using the keyboard or bass session players, but I’ve loved Logic drummer for writing since i started using Logic. Yes, there are things that could be different, but I still feel most comfortable working in Logic these days.

[@gslide06]

Me too. Did you notice any difference in the quality of the drums or the same?

[@mrufino1]

The drums themselves are the same, but it looks like they may have been mixed differently (which of course can be changed). I was playing around with the retro rock producer kit this afternoon to see what they did. It was interesting to see how the stock plugins were used in a way I don’t usually approach drums. Chromaglow definitely is used on the drum presets now. The only thing i changed was using little labs ibp on each producer kit channel to do some phase adjusting, and there was an improvement to my ears. Subtle, but definitely an improvement.

[@LaFamiliasEmpire]

Key board session player is great tho. But love ya insight bro

[@imprss]

ChromaGlow as a parallel processing send is gonna be incredible

[@notdeluded6235]

It's what we've wanted for so long, a saturation plugin. It looks good, looking forward to trying it.

[@junter2003]

What I was waiting for: Displaying bus labels instead of 'Bus1', 'Bus2'... Drag and drop channels in the mixer. Select colors for full tracks. Plugin Search. Plugins in the library to the left. Improved plugin versions ... lot of ideas and basic improvements, maybe Logic Pro 12.

[@ErnestoComposer]

I think you can already label the bus sends, I’m pretty sure I’ve seen a WLPR video on it. The others are great ideas

[@junter2003]

@@ErnestoComposer Yes, you can label the bus sends but globally, same labels for all songs, there's a configuration option to do it. In other DAWs you can label with a simple double click as you wish in every song.

[@clintyoung9902]

Get PlugSearch 4. It now’s allows you to save I/O label templates. Game changer!!

[@Odihmantich]

MIDI LFOs not just on instrument tracks, and MIDI routing not just to instrument tracks…

[@akirathedon]

This plugin does plug in search, I have no idea how I ever lived without it speakerfood.com/pages/plugsearch-4-product-page

[@theblowupdollsmusic]

Just the video was looking for. Thank you for taking the time to put this together. I would love to see a video of you covering the new electronic drummer patterns and features.

[@VLKV_loves_you]

chroma glow bypass is insane! that's definitely $$$ saved from previous plugins

[@pacificastudios]

A Big Thank You Chris! I really appreciate all the hard work you do, to make using Logic easier for us.

[@privatedomicile6627]

I’m not opposed to ethical AI or generative functions, but it really feels like they went so hard on it that this hardly feels like a major update to me. Especially considering the 10.X updates we’d been getting recently. I’d really like to see some move love to Live Loops personally. It needs some love to be up to speed with Live and Bitwig.

[@scott.johnson]

Great info on this update. Thank you! "It goes to eleven."

[@AntonCorazza]

After however many years, we finally get logic pro 11 and there isnt a single new feature that excites me

[@soureel]

Great stuff, but what about a Guitar Session module? I play piano and keys, not a lick of guitar. I'm sure I'm not the only keyboard player out there.

[@chrisbjornn]

Great but curious as to what prior sessions will sound like, hopefully old sounds are retained for old projects that are revisited.

[@NoiserToo]

Was a just thinking the same thing…. I am almost afraid to open a prior completed project.

[@makegamemusic]

Just installed, said it was updated 1 hour ago, but only when I searched for it in the app store, just so you all know (unless they're staggering it per region)

[@hammingus]

Same here. Checked it several times during the day. Last time more or less an hour ago and t wasn't there. Now it is :)

[@zachkester3]

Chris you're the goat. Thank you for the rundown, because this is insane!

[@FGuerrier01]

Hey Chris! Thank you very much for your teaching!

[@Noldy__]

Having used Cubase chord track feature, Logic's seems like it wasnt well thought out. I mean, in Cubase it can analyze a track. Weird that they have all these AI features and can't even have the chord track auto analyze audio. Anyway, its a free update.

[@birdcallprrr5837]

This

[@terje6522]

Logic has had a chord track before and I used it all the time, but it disappeared, now a long time ago. It could also be filled automatically based upon analysis (not very good, still useful start(. The chords from the chord track could be inserted as chords in the score. The base note of the chord could be used for transposition of patterns. (I never used)

[@phil-wallace-braveheartz]

Hi Chris. I have followed your channel for years and years and am an absolute fan of what you do. If I have to find out how to do anything in Logic you are always my first port of call. However in this video you didn't mention that if you have an intel mac a lot of these features don't work. I watched the video with growing excitement and couldn't wait to upgrade and use the fantastic things you'd highlighted it was only when I went to look at the upgrade that another blogger mentioned the intel mac issue. It would have been good if you had said this at the start of the video. I am, always and will still be a fan of what you do and appreciate the time and effort you put in:-) It may be worthwhile an update to your video for all of the intel users. Take care Phil

[@chorroboymusic]

I’m glad because you seem look happy with new logic pro, which hadn’t made major updaete for a long time and given you new material.

[@JohnnyHands]

Drummer Ghost Notes: I noticed that those 16th-note ghost notes (that “slow down” the groove of a straight-8th-notes beat) can be eliminated by turning Ghost Notes to zero (7:35). So many computer-generated drum patterns want to add those ghost notes for some reason. This control may not be brand new to Logic Pro 11 Drummer, but it is a good thing. It means overplaying Drummer-track drummers can be reined in (otherwise, you’d need to convert the track to MIDI and weed those 16th notes out manually.)

[@StefanBoeykens]

As a guitarist and composer I’m really looking forward to expand my songs with the session players. But I do have a full band where we can play it all live, if some of my songs make it into our set. We’re already using click tracks and some backing tracks. I did love drummer in Logic 10 but the custom pattern control feels like how I wanted that extra control which I never succeeded to get with follow track.

[@NoiserToo]

Thank you, Chris…. A fantastic overview of the new and exciting updates.

[@wildnotemusic]

Can you put in chords in real time? Like if I'm playing with a midi controller, can I analyze and add the chords in tempo? Love that they've added in a chord track, this is super helpful for improvising in logic!

[@SagiBraitner]

ARA Support? Searching Plugins? Better flex algorithms? Moving track in the Mixer? Updated browser? Parallel processing like Ableton? Grouping plugins and saving them as presets? Apple DO NOT Listen. We got shitty AI features that will be usable for children, a saturation plugin that we have 100 of and a stem splitter that we can find online for free. 0% Attention to the professional users = Time to switch.

[@molem348]

Agree 100%

[@dalehawkins7187]

I agree. Not worth upgrading to me. The AI players are kind of a joke, especially the pianist. It's getting a little bit embarrassing to be honest. It's starting to look like a playskool DAW, and definitely not a professional grade tool.

[@ScottSmithMusic]

Whoa! Great job showing us all the goods under the hood, Chris! I appreciate it big time. Thank you!

[@hybrid11theory75]

What a pity that most of these features only work on newer macs with their own chips. I upgraded in 2019 to a very powerful iMac i9 (still runs like a powerhouse) and now they locking big features in one of the most used DAWs behind their own chipsets... this is super frustrating and makes me think about my next purchase.....

[@jamesnyers1721]

This update will help a LOT of people to escape the dreaded 8 bar loop and actually help them to finish songs. All these tools help the build of the structure of a song. Even if at the end we don't use the session players in the final mix.

[@magick1969]

Tons of bugs and very few useful features pertaining to external analog gear and what have you aside, as an Apple Engineering alum and NeXT alum I cannot figure out why Apple hasn't updated the ePub version for the Guide, Instruments and F/X Plugins yet.

[@michaelvarney.]

28:00 you can also have session instruments follow the chords in any MIDI instrument you program.

[@LeeWilsonProjectStudios]

I am enjoying the logic experience; this is why I bought the daw that is for Apple users ❤

[@CompletelyLawless]

Does Logic Pro 2 support 7.1.4 output over MacBook Pro HDMI or is that an OS limitation? I want to mix Atmos into a 7.2.4 Anthem receiver and theatre but was running up against a lot of Mac hardware limitations.

[@dhorbhor2902]

Hi Chris, awesome video! Thank you! In minute 37 you talked about new project menu and other features, I can't see that menu options, or courses, etc, how can I have same view as you?thanks

[@Mr_A_Mia]

Thank you chris. Can we finally type search our plug ins in LP11?

[@castorkat4868]

What are the Mac systen requirements for the new update . Will the updates all work with intel based Mac ?

[@extractaudio]

Yes, but some features require Apple Silicon.

[@CyrusShameliOfficial]

I am truly happy that Logic Pro 11 is finally here

[@obscaded]

The "Bypass Below" feature, That's Nice... !

[@sizzlemann]

These are all wonderful additions but none I'll use. Still not fixing basic functions (ie moving a channel in the mixer mode). Apple, please fix the basic functions before adding stuff no one asked for!

[@christophertodman]

hey Chris. I don't usually get excited about compressors but this new compressor seems amazing. Are there any 3rd party ones that sound as good as this with getting results this fast?

[@dannysoletmusic]

Rest in power Kyle!

[@Getsmore]

My biggest problem is I spent $5200 on my MacBook Pro to have eight gigs of V ram, 8 TB of storage, 64 dram and they can’t use the feature. I really want.. That makes me see although I’ve been an Apple fan and I have 11 products from them and have been faithful for years, that I have to buy something new to get this technology. That’s not cool. I also have the iPad Pro 2020 and it doesn’t have the same feature the AI feature.

[@jqmusicman4382]

Thanks so much Chris for the great intro. I hope the naming clarity of Logic Pro "Eleven" means an end to clueless Logic Pro "Ten" experts mistakenly referring to their software as Logic Pro "Ex"! 🤮

[@skyborax5159]

love this update. i do wish they had added a way to automate varispeed. guess the technology just isn't there yet. maybe they can make AI work on that instead of replacing jobs?

[@electguitarz]

Routing Midi internally! FINALLLY!!!

[@premium670]

Fr. This should be a no-brained in any daw

[@nstycrv]

Chris, can you do an update: lets say I have a piano or bass part (midi or audio) and want to have the AI Session Players accompany the piano or bass or both. Is there a way to do it without having to put each chord in one by one?

[@marianosaulinofilmcomposer]

Hi Chris, great update from WLPR!! BTW, do you know if plugin/ track search is possible with this new version?

[@vitaminfian]

Most excellent Chris. Thank you 🙏🏻

[@tomcangemi1045]

Thanks Chris - as always very good presentation. Was wondering if any of the new AI features are limited to Apple silicon on the Mac.

[@staticmx]

great job chris!!! excellent walk thru!!!

[@djkaiserz]

Ok…waiting for this for a long long time . Time to pay for Live

[@AFRoSHEENT3ARCMICHAEL69]

Oh 12 is so sweet

[@DamnDraa]

IM LOSING MY MIND WITH EVERY POINT YOURE TALKING ABOUT. This Chromaglow is INSANE.

[@alphabeets]

No jazz or swing or bossa nova or more traditional styles?

[@terje6522]

No. But you can adjust the parameters to get some useful styles generated. Bossa Nova certainly. I've tried various jazz swing, medium tempo and ballads.

[@SteveinJersey1234]

Thanks for this VERY informative video. I'm still a relative newcomer to Logic Pro (and DAW's in general) so please excuse me if I'm asking a question with an obvious answer. But I just wanted to confirm that by finally enabling internal routing of MIDI between tracks, one can now EASILY record the MIDI output of chord generators like Scaler 2 or arpeggiated rhythm generators like Native Instruments' Session Percussionist, rather than just record the simple trigger notes, correct? My understanding is that up until now, the only way to accomplish this was by resorting to using Logic's IAC, environment and/or MIDI stacking capabilities. But doing that was a fairly complex and cumbersome workaround and - from what I've read - prone to instability. So correct me if I'm wrong, but with this new internal MIDI routing now built in, recording the 'true' output of such VST's should be significantly easier to accomplish, as it has been in other DAWs like Ableton and Cubase? I wanted to be doubly sure, as I have actually been tempted to switch to one of those competitive programs because of the lack of this built-in capability in Logic.

[@sun_shine_lover3171]

Wish they added the option of removing the bip it adds to the bounced files

[@RufusMusicOz]

Great Video! Why did they not include multiple movies on a timeline in this update? As a media composer, I find it extremely frustrating that I can't load 2 or more movies on the timeline. Any help on this?

[@krisztianhegedus845]

Do you experience that Logic 11.0 crashes while browsing and pre-listening external audio files in the browser? Btw Im running Logic on 2020 MacBook Pro (intel)

[@UserXxx375]

Also keeps instantly crashing when loading sausage fattener or loading a project where sausage fattener is used. ☹️ Since logic 10.8.1 I got that failure

[@Godsuhn]

Apple!!!! Millions of faithful Logic Pro users, people who have been supporting the brand for decades, and they release this update and say…”Fuck yall, if you want stem splitting and saturation, buy a new computer from us” crazy

[@creatingspacesproducer]

Great video, can you play the new drummer with an e-drum like Roland?

[@geekinginandout]

Thank you soo much. Can you do a classical music video overview? Does it have produce to itunes plugin? This is gonna change america got talent. I just feel it.

[@StratsRUs]

Thanks.It's great timing since I have to buy a new Mac set up. Currently, Jesse is drumming for me, poor guy doesn't know of his demise.

[@surflifeimages]

It sounds like ChromaGlow could replace the Kramer Tape plugin (Waves) but has the addition of HP/LP filters. Maybe use ChromaGlow then put an eq (FabFilter Pro Q 3 or stock EQ) after it for fine tuning the bands? That could be an incredible combo.

[@ifiwantyoutofeel]

my bruther its just a saturater plugin nothing special

[@gslide06]

If anything I'd use AI bass for a quick demo or simply to get some ideas/inspiration on a line I might use. It's cool to have.

[@damion2226]

Thanks Chris. Confused about Chromaglow. Is it not available for iMacs? I can't find it in my plugins.

[@opodendorf]

A lot of Toontrack and Cubase is now in Logic 🙂

[@indianolaguitarman]

Looks like keys and bass don’t offer the choice to follow a regular audio track but instead are constrained to follow the chord chart?

[@ecosimo]

Great video thank you! I have reported a small but annoying Logic Pro 11 bug to Apple. I regularly use Markers. The cycle range does not align to the marker selected when pressing command+U. Have you noticed that? Thank you.

[@RicardoSoeAgnie]

With all respect to the product development teams of DAWs, but what an AI music generator like UDIO can create as end product, is much more intimidating/inspiring than the AI-tricks I've seen so far from all DAWs current updates.

[@ghost-user559]

Except no one has any control over what those do. So they are essentially just sample makers, they can’t actually be guided or directed at all. All you can do is keep rephrasing what you want and realistically it only has so many samples it even learned from. This is a way to “orchestrate” the entire composition and every single note and beat. Combing the two strategies is the actual future, where its fully human driven, and still actually accomplishing the goals of the human artist.

[@neiljohnstone1810]

Hi, Could you let me know where I can find the lessons and tutorials in logic you show at 37:18? Thanks

[@ashevilleguitar]

Chris, you always do a great job, thx 👍

[@gslide06]

@whylogicprorules - do you notice an upgrade in audio quality with the Logic drummer kits or basically the same? Are there any improvements in terms of panning different elements of the kit?

[@musicproductionvideos5019]

Can Logic "punch in" audio (while playing along) and have it loop record? Every time I try... it stops recording on the next loop. Thanks

[@soundburger4003]

Logic ROCKS! Thanks Chris!

[@GodzillaGoesGaga]

Damn. Can9t wait tomget this and play. Looks like there’s a lot of stuff to understand!

[@TheKLBBand]

I am also missing the ones on the top above the region. Can I share a screen shot here?

[@randypiano11]

Awesome Chris! Thanks for

[@theelectricmule]

Thanks Chris! Good as always! I took my wounded Mac Mini M1 in today because of endless crashing... probably caused by VST's not working with the latest Sonoma and the Apple techie said THERE WAS A NEW SONOMA TODAY... 14.5.1... makes sense with a new update in Logic! I think Apple is flushing out the wannabes. I notice some of the developers like Waves are requiring updates to be paid for in order to use them with Sonoma updates.

[@ANewCreation408]

Is there a way to use your own drums and bass sounds while using Drummer or the Bass sessions?

[@musicbyshooty]

10 to 11 I would’ve expect more relevant updates and features. This is rather upgrading previous tech and adding features that others been doing for quiet a while. Stem splitter is great, within the project a huge deal, but many developers have software for free that do that, so yet nothing new. Still considering if I really need to update MacOS from Ventura for the 11th version of Logic Pro…

[@sound__shifter]

10 years, major release, and this is all we got, I have never been more disappointed, they could fix so many things,,, but thanks for the fast video update :)

[@notdeluded6235]

WTF? Look at all the updates we've had, some truly massive shit along the way. This really is a major release, a huge step up. What are the competitors doing? They're relying on folk using third party plugins!

[@pavvel9884]

Like what? What do you want fixed? Why are you complaining about a totally free update?

[@ThePdeHav]

Agreed

[@EnergyzerTV]

@@notdeluded6235 a lot of things within logic still kind of rely on third party plugins. Plugin browser? Better Sample library? modern looking synths? (ES2 IS very capable, but we live in 2024 now not the late 90s). Good update just there's a lot more important things they could address first

[@ThePdeHav]

@@pavvel9884it’s not totally free. You paid for it once upon a time. Apple has pivoted their computers from the music, art, design and architectural uses in lieu of a new direction: targeting yummy mommies who’ll pay $ for an new Mac Studio pro and 8k monitor, on which they can edit photos of their precious little darlings. To conform to this new direction. LPX has been pimped out with gimmicks to appeal to the non musician. They’ve even said so themselves. Take a look at the annual report. LPX is being v game-afield for these reasons

[@Fourstringbow]

ARA support still lacking, and lots of people reporting problems with Rosetta. I'll wait a while to upgrade and hope Apple fixes these issues.

[@kingmediapro]

Thank you for sharing!!!

[@polyphonicclix]

Anyone tried to run a LogicX drummer track in Logic 11 yet? What happens? PS - Excellent video as always!!!

[@mervynhill2585]

Logic 11 gives the option of converting the existing Logic X track to MIDI or translating it into a new '11-style' Drummer track. However, note that the Drumkit will have changed to one of the revised kits for both the MIDI and Drummer tracks, so if there are 'tweaks' in the Logic X kit, they won't be retained in the new versions of the track. I recommend 'bipping' the Logic X Drummer track before opening in Logic 11.

[@paazpad7522]

Hi thanks for the video ! But ChromaGlow and Stem splitter not available on Intel mac...

[@Morgana7262]

They upgraded all the stuff I never thought anyone actually uses and automated the creative process on the most weak "garage band" type features. The only reason I would download this is a new distortion saturation effect?

[@simongregory3114]

Forget Logic, where did you get that awesome shirt?

[@JudeIsBeast]

37:34 how do you access lessons and the artists packs on screen like yours? Mine is very limited. Sorry, I’m a rookie lol

[@Chromexus]

Hard to see why to update if you are not into any of the session player stuff or the ai stuff ( consistently get results i do not care for with the 10.8 ai mastering), Stem splitter maybe and/or chroma glow- that's about it.. seems like LCD stuff to me ( lowest common denominator) certainly if you are into avant garde or space music just not a lot there