LOGIC 11 - What just happened?!

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Logic Pro 11 has landed and the big news is AI is everywhere. There are new "session players" who use AI to come up with keyboard and bass parts. This has divided the Logic community! Other parts of the upgrade including a very nice new distortion plugin chromaglow and a perfectly useable AI assisted mastering plugin have been a little eclipsed by the session players. So in this first look, Guy has a look at the new features and and tries to separate fact from hype.
00:00 Hello Everybody
00:31 DAW School Logic
01:28 First Impressions
02:50 Session Players
06:46 Chord Track
08:27 Stem Splitter
12:05 Mastering Assistant
13:28 ChromaGlow
14:53 Final Thoughts
16:34 DAW School Logic Trailer

[@ThinkSpaceEducation]

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[@mrdavies7894]

Great deal, Guy! I hope to see you there, soon!

[@InteractiveRealm]

Just purchased.. been wanting to transition from Garageband

[@banditalley9592]

To adapt a quote... I want AI to do the washing up so I have time to write bass parts, I don't want AI to write bass parts so I have time to do the washing up

[@fedup3449]

yes!

[@paulorobalo7216]

Please elaborate on that, how can I make AI do the washing? I am VERY interested... :)

[@PaulBrownclk-me]

Every company is jumping on the Ai bandwagon as they think its todays rubik cube , the trouble is the consumers don’t even want it. We use logic because we enjoy making music , whats the point if the computer does it for you 🤦‍♂️🤷🏼‍♂️

[@OfficialStevenCravis]

I agree, from a musician composer perspective. I can see objectively how maybe it’s useful for a great singer who doesn’t play keyboard or instruments.

[@gregwill500]

yup its bandwagon bubble for sure driven by suits who are all clamouring to have AI stuff front and centre. I cannot wait for the bubble to burst and for the AI hype to plateau into a useful supportive tool.

[@vladartiomav2473]

Basically AI is just the rebranded Linear Algebra, and has nothing magical of super intelligent to it. But for todays startups it's the best way to get investors. So everybody is really overhyped about it. They make bold promisses, but when you start tinckering theses tools in reality, you find that it's just a tool, which can be very good and very bad, depending on the usecase.

[@dougleydorite]

Is editing making music?

[@christopherecatalano]

⁠@@dougleydoriteit is a part of most mixing engineers' arsenal, so it is a part of recording production methods that most of use to make our mixes sound better, to make arrangement changes. I do it, because I don't want some dumb assed AI bot doing it for me. Creative editing is a part of editing anything: writing, visual art, recording, film, video, photography...I need computers when recording on a computer to make the process more expeditious and interesting, not to do the work for me. Stem splitting is something I want to try for ancient 2 track mixes done on 4 track tape recorders...If it works and gives me a better presentation of my original intention, it might prove to be useful.

[@bryanhitch9383]

Excellent? Diving right in to Daw School. Plus I have one of those Baskervilles....

[@ThinkSpaceEducation]

Great!

[@The_Doc_Rocks]

Having numerous ¼" stereo tapes of songs and other music that we recorded back in the 80s, and all of the 16- and 24-track masters long since gone, the stem splitter actually works really well for those. So far I've only digitized one tape with 3 songs on it, all featuring drums, bass, piano, rhythm guitar, and lead guitar fills, plus of course, vocal. Imported the stereo audio into Logic Pro 11, applied Stem Splitter, and got some very usable stems that were better than I expected. Re-mastered using some modern tools such as Smooth Operator, a couple of Sonible's smart: range of plugins, and APU Adaptive Loudness Compressor, and hey presto - brought them bang up to date. They actually sound surprisingly good. Now THAT is what I would use the Stem Splitter for - not pirating samples from Taylor Swift or whoever. By the way - v11.0.1 was released today, fixing a whole raft of early-reported bugs.

[@SamSergeant]

Without mentioning all the various issues with AI. I just don't think this needed to be a full numbered release

[@ThinkSpaceEducation]

For current users definitely

[@tronam]

The version numbers have felt pretty arbitrary for a while though since they stopped charging for updates… a decade ago. It’s almost hard to believe it has been that long.

[@theend9494]

The best music was made with very little, now crap is being made with so much

[@coleharbak]

Oh hey Sam lol. But yes, you’re very right

[@blackasthesky]

Yeah, it's clearly just a jump onto the hype train, catching the buzzwords.

[@josecuralegacy]

Having been a professional classic musician, composer, conductor, singer, for four decades now, I have decided to give a try to digital composing, a bit for the fun and a bit for the, why not, chances of opening a new market for my music making. Your channel is one of my favorite learning sources because not only of your amazing knowledge but also because it is clear that for you expertise and boredom don’t forcedly have to walk together. Thanks, Guy, for the knowledge and for the fun!

[@jeffhampton6972]

I really appreciate your insights and approach! Stay charming and bonkers.

[@MonsieurVersatile]

Just to be clear, the Mastering Assistant does work on Intel macs (I have one from 2020) but you only get the Clean preset.

[@annastephenson-knight6048]

Absolutely loved the dog part! Happiness all round.

[@vladartiomav2473]

The stems splitter is pretty mindblowing! I used online services for this and it is quite a bit slower to process, may be because of the queue I'm not sure, but the possibility to do it this fast, locally is really great

[@mkiemkie]

Excellent video - informative and entertaining as well. Thanks a lot! Good to know that all the AI functionality will not work for me right now on my 2020 MB Air. Concerning the "DAW School" course: I hope that it will also be helpful for me (being on Logic X) as well, right?

[@michaelreynolds1177]

I'm from the school of 'if it ain't broke don't fix it'. I'm sticking with Logic 10, I can't see anything in 11 that would change what I do or my enjoyment in writing. But a fascinating and honest review, thanks Guy.

[@paulstoakes466]

Also wait to see what Apple have broken that is yet to appear

[@JanBLarsson]

You are a very honest person, Guy. I'm on PC so this does not apply to me, but I did enjoy the review.

[@skelligringphotographyandw7012]

I wish it did apply to PC users. I'd buy Logic Pro - but wouldn't use the AI bits.

[@somchaisainara9478]

​@@skelligringphotographyandw7012VMware Workstation: VMware Workstation is a virtualization application that allows you to run macOS alongside Windows on your PC. It provides a virtual environment for Mac applications to run smoothly.

[@ronricherson6685]

The AI piano track seemed to emulate early Elton John. Overall, what it creates is mundane, pedestrian, trite, etc. I think it's a big step backwards.

[@chrisbitoun3661]

Even child Elton John would have done a much better job😉

[@StratsRUs]

There's a Billy Joel workaround

[@winfriedmaus]

@@chrisbitoun3661 Don't forget that you're currently engaging with an infant AI - and Apple is the worst company in that segment anyway. In three years, AIs will be more intelligent than Einstein - or Frankenstein, for that matter. When it comes to art, the only remaining advantage of humans will be that we have emotions which AI does not (yet) have. Then, on the other hand, most humans also only have a very low EQ, so that's not really saying much. AI will be able to emulate emotions, though - which is what human sociopaths also only do. In any case, I think five to seven years down the road you will no longer be able to tell whether that symphony that you're listening to was composed by Mozart or an AI. Around the same time, robotics will have reached a level that humanoid robots will be sitting there playing all of the instruments, controlled by said AI. Tesla plans to start selling the humanoid Tesla Bot (to the manufacturing industry first) in 2025 and Elon Musk expects to sell more than one billion (!) units before the decade is over - and he is not the only vendor for humanoids. The so-called singularity will hit us in less than ten years and the world is about to change very radically like it has never happened before in our history. And just for the record, this is not a Doomsday prediction - I do not believe in "evil" AI, AI "just is". But it definitely is time to think about the social impact that these developments will have on us, the humans.

[@whatspadethinks]

I started recording in 1992 using the Tascam PortaStudio's, then the only real choice for newbies of the day back then. I had a 424 4 Track and later the last great cassette PortaStudio the 488mkII 8 track machine. After years with ADATS, desktop DAW's and then on laptop, I began to use the iPad & iOS music production apps exclusively in my home studio since 2015. I love the tactile feel and the ability to record anywhere. I was a little taken by surprise when Guy dismissed Apple's description of what the Stem Splitter could do with old demos etc. watch @ 10:31 . I had many songs that were stereo submixes from my PortaStudio days that I've recorded new parts to. Some turned out nice while others didn't because the stereo rhythm tracks were glued together and made mixing problematic. If the drums just weren't happening, short of compression there wasn't much to do. Stem Splitter is great for instances like that and while I see Guy's point I personally think using some Taylor Swift, et al. track to nab a drum part or backing vox will get old quite quickly. Making old bits & demos into complete songs will prove to be longer lasting.

[@SaveManWoman]

You just took me back to PortaOne days 😢

[@twwify]

Super thank you Guy. I met one of the people that created the original drummer tracks for Apple. Super clever stuff. It seemed intended for people who could not play drums to begin with from what he was saying such as PD users of logic. Can anyone remember the harp gliss that guy recommends ?

[@mattwallis1893]

I used the keyboard player on arpeggio mode to come up with a passable background harp section. Needed some tweaking, but it was a quick hack that saved me time.

[@mattkaz9604]

He's such a great presenter - always good energy and pacing.

[@fluffycritter]

It's been really bugging me how much people are treating the AI tools as if they're the death of creativity, when they're just additional tools that aren't much more than what was there already. And also yeah, why do people keep on not realizing that Logic had a chord track for versions 7-9? I guess most current Logic users only started with version 10 or something so they'd not have known it was there before Apple removed it for unknown reasons. The stem splitter is super useful for making karaoke tracks and I'll definitely be using it for that. It's not terribly useful for the stated purposes. Chroma Glow is something I haven't played with yet but I need to give it a try. I also like the new Session Bass instrument, which IMO is better than NI's Scarbee Bass (due to its incredibly rich and detailed articulations with piano roll articulation integration), although the Session Piano instrument is still a far cry from the NI Piano Collection. And the AI mastering assistant came out in the last 10.x release and I find it super useful for my fast turnaround music production. I've been using it heavily for a while.

[@MarsViolet]

Nah, only the death of HUMAN creativity.

[@kennethjackson4858]

I know you all are Logic users, but I’m learning Logic and is Cubase just a good or should I just stick with Logic? Thanks ahead.

[@fluffycritter]

@@kennethjackson4858 I've used them both and they're pretty similar as far as DAWs go. Cubase actually has a lot of nice features that I wish were in Logic too, like proper MPE support. But Logic has a lot going for it as well. I feel like whichever one is better for you depends mostly on what you want to use it for.

[@BeauStephenson]

Well, probably because that's how they're being marketed and reported on in the news.

[@IlBiggo]

@@kennethjackson4858 Cubase is a nightmare. The whole licensing, keeping up with versions, terrible communication from Steinberg, and actual use of the behemoth is a massive pain in the rear. When Logic was a C-Lab/Emagic app it was incredibly cumbersome and Cubase was the cool way to go, but luckily we're not working on Ataris anymore :D Apple's Logic is an Apple program in almost every sense: it "just works" - until you're stuck with the usual appleism. But in those cases you have a wonderful and helpful community you can depend on.

[@natas-6747]

Aww. What a beautiful dog!

[@830jkl]

The beautiful dog is ai also. Did you hear that bark, it definitely sounded time-stretched. 🤪

[@YT2024Hayward]

What a fun pup! 💚 unconditional love!

[@ThinkSpaceEducation]

he's hilarious

[@DeanWThomas]

Just purchased the course. Looking forward to taking it! Thanks for the video, Guy!

[@David-nu5cj]

The trouble with AI is that it is never going to write the song that you would have written with your own Musical identity. I feel that even though it will be acceptable it is never going to blow you away, as if you had written it in the way you wanted it to sound.

[@ThinkSpaceEducation]

Absolutely right

[@MikeAbsurd]

So is the classic virtual drummer interface feature gone for good? is there anyway of accessing it?

[@fluffycritter]

The new interface does everything the old one did, and it's way more clear about what the different sliders do. It's worth getting used to, IMO. As far as I can tell it's still the same algorithms under the hood. It's not gone, just refined.

[@James__Gregory]

The stem-splitter is awesome, especially if you are a DJ and want to play with a song or remove vocals for re-singing it yourself. It works really well.

[@TheHouseOfVII]

In defence of the Stem Splitter - I've found it quite informative to split out the stems to get a clearer listen to the drums - there's a lot of little programming tricks I hadn't noticed in the full mix. So it's been quite educational - and I'm hoping as time goes by they expand it to be able to pull out more isolated instruments... But I can also see me ripping an acapella for stuff lol.

[@EclectickMusic]

I think it would be good to remember that these new AI featured are more aimed at the new generation of music creators. We can’t expect logic to not implement AI tech whilst other DAWS do so. Apple need sales, if they didn’t add these updates, the DAW sales would largely increase for FL studio and largely decrease for Logic. Ultimately I think these updates are a good thing. Being able to split stems from a splice sample and make even more unique sample based hip hop or electronic music. Being able to have Logics AI to generate a chord progression and melody that can be transported to a completely different sound and flipped into something completely different. With all that said, this update is clearly aimed more at the producers of the hip hop/electronic realms as opposed to that of a music composer. And that’s absolutely fine! There’s a place for all of it.

[@jnapier99]

Quite pleased to have the new session players; been exactly what I was looking for in plugins and now I've got it right there in Logic alongside drummer. Brilliant.

[@synaesmedia]

So it's basically Band in a Box?

[@yannikhofmann]

Hey Guy, I am currently looking for a new Macbook and need some advice on what to choose. I know I want the new M3 with at least 16GB of ram. However, I am not quite sure whether to go light and get the air or go powerful and get the pro with the m3 pro chip. I am a student so I need something that is portable but can do the occasional logic session. In any case I am looking for something that will last a long time. What would you recommend? Thanks! :)

[@davidseymour6246]

This A.I. b*ll*cks reminds me of those cheesy home organs you could get in the 1970s with their ‘Bossa Nova II’ rhythms and autochord accompaniments. Even in those days you thought “ok, but what’s the point of it?”

[@fluffycritter]

That's a good way of looking at it yeah. It's slightly better than my old PSR-400's arrangement features. Good for whipping up a quick track, not great for full composition. Fortunately for me I do a lot of quickly-produced soundtrack work these days, although honestly I feel like setting up the chord track is more work than just playing a quick piano riff anyway.

[@LeeGee]

@@fluffycritter Are your clients happy with the sort of output the AI is generating?

[@colinjames2469]

@@LeeGee clients are not composers or musicians. Hardly the arbiters of good taste.

[@alexdevcamp]

Point is you can make remixes much easier now with AI stems

[@ArtmanBass]

Not sure about the whole chord, play along AI thing, but I AM loving the acoustic bass instrument by itself (no AI required)

[@jimrogers7425]

I’ve talked with a few who are still on an old trash can Mac Pro who are using Logic Pro 11… just updated their system to Mac OS 13. Right now I’m on Mac OS Monterey because it’s a stable system for all the software I use… I believe that soon enough I’ll try to move to 13 and see what happens.

[@Reactor10k]

Your dog is hilarious 😂

[@Feirin332]

Ugh, I have to choose a DAW and was leaning towards Logic Pro as I have a Macbook Air, however apparently my OS is already too old to run this program. Any other suggestions? If I have to fork out the money for a DAW I will definitely not have enough money to buy another computer. On top of that I would have also liked to take this course but now it seems I won't be needing it. GarageBand and Ableton Live Lite are just not cutting it for me anymore - what should I do??

[@ThinkSpaceEducation]

What style of muisc do you do? Not much you cant do in the full versions of Cubase or Ableton Live

[@GhostWriter_Music]

I have seen videos of people say the bass and keyboard are bad, but I'm thinking about this, its good enough at the moment, you are going to start hearing it all in pop charts, and in the future it will get updates, just like the drummer got,

[@RobertRodriguezMusic]

Some interesting features but definitely not what I expected 11 to be. I’m more interested in comparing the Mastering Assistant to Ozone (though I’m assuming there’s a clear winner there)

[@neilmacmusic]

i love all your videos and your amazing skills and having established Thinkspace Ed! I feel you didn't explore the session players feature more as per other 'tubers one of which showed how you can drop an audio loop in there and the players will groove to it- Also if you convert your audio loop to Midi there are even more changeable options avail....plus the players styles are very tweakable in terms of the intensity , patterns riffs chord and hand positions etc

[@ThinkSpaceEducation]

I think I had a reasonable bash at that but by the time you are deep diving into midi editing you almost could have written it yourself? They are very tweakable though your are right

[@neilmacmusic]

@@ThinkSpaceEducation many thanks for replying wow my response was mainly after watching the review no these new Logic 11 features by KZbinr TheModernCreative where he explores as you rightly point out 'other alternative creative ways' of using the whole ai Players for more unique creative results....thanks again PS loved doing your Music theory course- as a non-theory composer all my life it all finally made sense!

[@oh515]

I would use a different preset on the Grand Piano session track. Sad you didn’t try it out and made some adjustments in general, or tried to use the follow function against other piano or keyboard performances 👍 But you may have tried it out and didn’t find anything to show. Anyway, I found a massive amount of possibilities, and not least together with other software instruments.

[@butchlucha]

The puppy hyper like you, full of LIFE!!

[@TIGUFSUPMET]

Can’t use it on my intel iMac because it won’t work with the Score Editor open! Just becomes so slow and sticky it is unusable. I have been on to Support but no joy.

[@johngrey4325]

Can Logic 11 be setup to look and function exactly as 10? That is, can you pick and choose what of the new components you have to see or deal with? Or do some of these AI features gum up the screen no matter what? And even if they don't, they still reside in and create extra bulk for the program, right?

[@bladenovak]

Sir? Sir. Your vibe is very cool.

[@SamuelTelson]

Cool!

[@agorgedslug]

I've just bought Cubase 13 after having been a Logic user for about 15 years. Is there a DAW school for Cubase, or is one coming soon? Many thanks, Greg

[@ThinkSpaceEducation]

thinkspace.ac.uk/courses/daw-school-how-to-use-cubase/

[@defaultHandle1110]

Cubase 5 ? Really - ah the last nicely hacked version, yes ? But you should get Cubase 12 or 13. If you can get a student licence it’s cheaper.

[@agorgedslug]

@@defaultHandle1110 Ha yes faux pax, Cubase 13, and DORICO 5 😜

[@TheEndOfThings]

@@ThinkSpaceEducationLove the videos and varied content. Any plans for ProTools DAW school? I notice most of the video content is for Cubase/Logic.

[@edmondveniste3185]

I have an old song that I lost files too and I remember getting soo mad since I have an old demo This update is defiantly gonna be massive to me cause Ill have to use the stem splitter

[@1madcats]

Guy, I think your dog really just wants to get on with using Logic!!🤣🤣

[@TheMixClub]

ok i not gonna comment on logic.. you had me with the dog O.... My boy has a massive Great Dane that loves to play and blacked my eye with his tail. LOL.. God vide.. man. be safe...

[@PiperbonesJ]

So what are the things you wanted to see Logic phase into Logic 11? Curious minds. Sorry if you answered this in another vid...I'm new to your channel. Love the big pup.

[@markbutcher4100]

So was band in a box circa 1990 AI?

[@atp19xx]

I'd say we are still in year XX "After Intelligence"

[@Blitterbug]

I wanted SO BADLY to see what happens when you up the Complexity slider at 2:53 from its paltry 1/3 setting! And perhaps even the Feel and Humanize (sic) knobs also. Perhaps the AI accompaniment wouldn't sound so dreary and plodding? Just a thought, Guy!

[@dominicmcareavey2675]

It's my song Tim's mixing in the course! (Shameless Plug) lol

[@cuhurun]

Hi, Guy. On a bit of a tangent. I've run out of memory in my laptop and was wondering, what brand of mass storage device do you use for music production ? I know it's got to have ultra-fast transfer rate and that obviously limits the choice, so I thought I'd best ask the maestro. Cheers !

[@ThinkSpaceEducation]

Memory and disk space two different things - which are we talking about here?

[@cuhurun]

@@ThinkSpaceEducation : That would be disk space (not very computer savvy here).

[@LeeGee]

@@cuhurun All the main brands are pretty much the same in my experience. I have Corsair, Western Digital, Samsung, and they are all fine. Talking of RAM (memory), it is cheaper now than ever, a really good time to get as much as your motherboard will allow.

[@pop_polizei]

@@LeeGee Cheaper than ever, unless you want more RAM in your Mac...

[@cuhurun]

@@LeeGee ; Thanks, Lee. I use a 32gb laptop for my music so an external device will be simplest. Will take a look at the brands you recommend. Best regards.

[@Mike-rw2nh]

I’m one minute in and I suspect Barbara Woodhouse has gone into a spin cycle in her grave. 🤣 Fantastic channel!

[@ThinkSpaceEducation]

Barbara Woodhouse!!! A name fmor the past. Try Graham Hall

[@DavidHughesss]

@@ThinkSpaceEducation I had to Google it to get it.

[@Eduaro2U]

Thanks for possibly the most astute, accurate and objective review of this DAW. Unfortunately Logic (similar to all other DAWs I'm sure) has a large and dedicated fan club who are more than happy to mindlessly dive head first into Apple's rabbit hole of highly controlled bling. Ooh-Aah-ing all over the useless and pointless trinkets. I was similarly afflicted (a bit at least) - until I discovered REAPER!

[@orderd29]

Oh my word! I didn't think I could love you any more than I already do, and then you go and show the footage of you and the dog.

[@jimhall5393]

You’ve got this so right Guy. I have had a very long creative career here in NZ, my first computer DAW was the awfully ambitious Total Music on my 128k Mac thru Notator and every version of Logic including scoring movies in Logic running locked to Pro Tools when Logic’s TDM implementation was pretty dodgy but Logic 11 really is taking the piss. It’s a step up from Band In A Box……but only a small and unnecessary step up. It will bring Logic to the masses of amateur dabblers but the only way Composers/Producers who do this for a living will use these supposed AI session musicians is likely to be in desperation or if they use them in ways totally different from which they were intended. Tim Cook is basically announcing to the world that Apple is giving up on the professional world. The fact that the program doesn’t utilise the power of the more recent Apple CPUs and in actual fact runs slower on an M4 than an M1 is telling us that the basic EMagic code behind the DAW is never likely to be updated is telling us that audio-wise Apple is the new Digidesign. Time to have another go at Studio One even for a 70 year old semi-retiree! Love your work Guy.

[@markaitkenguitar]

Thank you. I really appreciate you rummaging through this stuff because I’ll never use it. I’m just stuck in my ways and I’m not engaging this future landscape.

[@830jkl]

If the original logic ‘drummer’ is also considered ai, then I’ve used it as a tool on a song and released it. I’d like to add that I’ve also used melody sauce 2 on a couple of songs, yet I don’t consider myself a lazy producer. 🎹♥️

[@matthoskins7988]

I'm not a logic user...Cubase FTW! ..... I'd like to think folk will break this...creatively....and I'm thinking on the lines of say, Brian Eno and a DX7 or other artists who perhaps use instruments in a way that is not intended .... fascinating stuff :)

[@AndrewLeSynt]

Hei Guy, long time no see :) greetz from 🇨🇭🇨🇭🇨🇭🇨🇭🇨🇭🇨🇭🇨🇭🇨🇭

[@plamentsvetanov]

I really need a decent score editor in Logic. Because what they give us is abysmal. I am sick and tired of having to wrestle with it - only to eventually export a midi file and edit that in Sibelius or MuseScore...

[@markbutcher4100]

Surely writing a chord track choosing the variations and instruments is more creative than just using loops?

[@ThinkSpaceEducation]

sort of - it just seems so bland - loops have character

[@shotsi673]

@@ThinkSpaceEducation like most tools it provides a foundation obviously. It’s a tad shortsighted to suggest that anything will provide a “final” idea first up, don’t you think?

[@chevman1115]

Chromo glow wont show up on my Apple mac book pro

[@PeterHuisman]

I have totally used stem splitter for demo recovery!! But…. I can see how some people would use it for piracy related stuff.

[@ThatOtherMikeyGuy]

I’m a mediocre keyboard player, so I can see how the auto pianist could be quite handy in a non-featured rôle. I’m, actually a pretty good bassist but I had a lot of fun with the Session Bassist too - it came up with fills and licks I wouldn’t have considered, so it’s a good way to breaking yourself out of compositional ruts. I didn’t immediately take to the removal of the handy little percussion loops that I used to use all the time, you can still sort of get to them through Session Drummer but they don\t seem, for now at least, as immediately useful as they once were. The splitter is handy for, as you say, cannibalising records to get at little elements to steal. The kin of music I make has been doing stuff like that since Grandmaster Flash. Other musicians have been composing variations on other composers’ ideas since the Baroque era, so I’m not as exercised about that as some people seem to be. It’s just a better tool for doing an old job. Chromaglow is nice. I can see it becoming a cliché before long, then spending a few years in the long grass before finding its proper place - like the wah-wah pedal or the D50. But what I REALLY came to say is: That ‘It’s Not Unusual’ pastiche is spot-on. So well-observed and executed. You should send it to Sir Tom!

[@InspelaRecords]

Logic Pro 11 is the most ‘meh!’ update to Logic, ever! I’ve used it for 22 years (when it was still Emagic) and I’ve never seen such a disappointing update as this before. ChromaGlow and Stem Splitter are cool, but I don’t want Logic to turn into ‘Band-in-a-Box’, for anyone old enough to remember that from the ‘90s! In contrast, Steinberg ALWAYS gives you more of what you need in their Cubase updates IMHO and I’m so glad I’ve switched back to it now and left Logic behind. Great video. Really enjoyed its honesty!

[@wulfenii64]

Hey Guy, I just noticed recently that Dolby has something called Atmos. Has that been incorporated into Logic yet?

[@ThinkSpaceEducation]

Yes its been there for a while and there are some atmos enhancements in 11

[@wulfenii64]

@@ThinkSpaceEducation excellent!

[@sourcefor]

I can see helping me come up with ideas but why would I want anything to create music for me!?

[@ghost-user559]

What do you think a sample or loop is?

[@sourcefor]

I don’t use loops I make my own if need be! I don’t need anyone to create for me

[@ghost-user559]

@@sourcefor That truly depends on what genre a person makes. If you make hiphop beats samples and loops are the foundation. If you make orchestral music then sample libraries are essential unless you personally commission an orchestral. If you make rock and folk, then obviously its not essential at all. But drum machines and the like have been used for decades. People said the same thing you said about synths “they are not even real instruments, why would I want a machine to make music for me”. Still no one gains any “credibility points” with an audience for doing things the hard way. A person can choose to splice tape if they wish, or even press their own wax for a vinyl. In the end the audience cares about the results.

[@sourcefor]

I get it I used to use a lot of loops and edit them to my needs! To each his own! It’s all good , express yourself!

[@redlester]

I can't go beyond 10.7.9 as I'm stuck on Monterey with my trash can Mac Pro. I don't see any reason to upgrade my computer for this. I'm still waiting for them to allow us to colour tracks White or Black, like I can in Ableton! Am assuming Logic 11 still doesn't allow that. (While sceptical about AI and agree with many of the comments on here, the new AI Remove tool in Adobe Lightroom is absolutely incredible and works really well. It can have its uses.)

[@IvanGretskii]

For the Stem Splitter I would have to disagree on the piracy concerns… I mean there will be those who abuse it but for me it’s great news bc I’ve a bunch of old tracks which I bounced and as I learned music production, they don’t sound this good to me anymore. And since all of them I lost the access to due to hard drive failure, this feature allows me to remaster the tracks without having to record everything from scratch. Even though it’s a very particular case, I know some people who could make use of it in a similar way! 11:26

[@thecreativeguitarlounge]

Guitarist who doesn't play keys or drums here. My first impression of the new bits was that the session players were pretty crap out of the box. After a bit of mucking around though I find that with quite a lot of tweaking (not really how one tends to think of A.I.) the drums and keys at least can get you decent results - especially if you use them to play other samples. The bandmate function in EZdrummer 3 is far more "A.I" I would say in that you feed it a couple of bars of something and it analyses the tempo/style and presents you with a range of song part beats that will work. I do love the mastering and saturation plugins and as you say its all free.

[@jnapier99]

However, the bandmate function in EZdrummer is only as good as your midi library so quite limited without spending on (a lot of) midi packs.

[@thecreativeguitarlounge]

@@jnapier99 True but you can also edit the chosen parts although again, this kind of defeats the idea of A.I. to some extent

[@jnapier99]

@@thecreativeguitarlounge - you can export midi and edit drummer's output as well 👍

[@thecreativeguitarlounge]

@@jnapier99 Yep and the editing tools for drummer in 11 are much improved.

[@jumpsneak]

Never clicked so fast on a video

[@homeofcreation]

In a couple of years you just have to type in "car chase", "first kiss" or "grandma dies" and you get your cue.

[@JohnSmith-pn2vl]

why would you type you can just think the thing

[@AndrewTSq]

So it basicly does sounds like any arranger keyboard since the 90ies. That is progress :)

[@ryanknaggs]

Hi Guy, I would never use AI with my composing. I do not like AI. I truly know that composing music and being creative belongs to me, not some algorithm. It's fun that Apple put so much work into an AI model for Logic, but again. I'll make sure I compose in the style of "Me". :) Thanks for showing this. It's great that they have a free upgrade, but I'll stay with Cubase.

[@SirWhiteRabbit-gr5so]

What a cute cat!

[@DamienDae]

3:53 That's the point, I don't play the piano but if I want to add a keyboard track, that comes in handy. Does it sound great? Maybe not but it gets me something I couldn't do myself and it's more flexible than loops (do people actually use the loops provided with Logic?). Now if you are a keyboard player and you are willing to send me a midi file of the tracks I need, I am okay with that. 😉

[@thomaslthomas1506]

I updated it. As I had a client who did a project in Ligick 11. It is absolute bloatware. I am so glad I switched DAW's.

[@mesmerson7387]

I just dont know what to think about Logic upgrades... Sometimes is like wow this is great. Sometimes i miss how easy was and the upgrades where in musical skills and hardware implementations. Thats was all you need and maybe not full endless options and messy user's interface

[@mjpaynewales]

I am actually using it to split old demos out.

[@grahamcampbell167]

Makes me want to go back to quarter inch tape!

[@twwify]

It’s odd that they haven’t seemed to have updated the score editor in any way.

[@fluffycritter]

It's almost charming how little Score Editor has changed since I started using Logic 20 years ago, and you can even look at screenshots of Logic 1.x on Atari ST and still recognize most of the UI. But yeah Score Editor really needs some love.

[@STMaloPR]

Guy can we get a new video on daw control surfaces and fader controllers? Last one you made was two years old

[@raymike]

Try converting the session player track to midi, then trashing it to get rid of all that nasty muzac feel.

[@Kingchord2000]

It seems Logic Pro is entering the realm of FL Studio.

[@ickebins6948]

STOP! FL Studio always was the superior product.

[@SproutyPottedPlant]

@@ickebins6948with strange workflow but awesome piano roll?

[@Kingchord2000]

@@ickebins6948 "was" the superior product. Right from the horse's mouth.

[@ickebins6948]

@@Kingchord2000 Well if Logic "is entering the realm" it's not better isn't it?

[@Kingchord2000]

You are absolutely correct.

[@stephenharris1523]

My two English cream golden retrievers are exactly the same.

[@ThinkSpaceEducation]

double trouble

[@Huh8ivviihih]

AI is overwhelming I can't handle it anymore

[@ThinkSpaceEducation]

Take a deep breath. Ill do a video on this shortly

[@ladyville3]

You know what Ai is basically? Math, it's basically linear algebra and calculus. With dedication you could learn these things and be doing your own overwhelming ai. im 44 learning math and programing to learn to do my own ai stuff. Math is the future my friend. want to be more scared go check out a program call synthesizer V pro, lol.

[@victoza9232]

@@ladyville3 Well, that's lovely, but not everyone is math-inclined.

[@fluffycritter]

@@victoza9232 Fortunately the software engineers have done all the math for you.

[@CosmicTeapot]

Don't be, AI is mostly just a buzzword being slapped on everything because it's trendy and it sells well. What it really is is just more advanced computing, but still a "dumb" machine executing code fed with lots of training data. Even the most advanced AI hasn't yet reached the intelligence of an ant. The sort of human-like true creative intelligence people think of when they hear AI is in fact AGI (artificial generalised intelligence) and that doesn't exist yet.

[@ast4127]

Here is a question that terrifies me: A great trained ear sits down a Monday at the record label in a few years and press ”create track” a 100 times. 99% will be bad but one track he/she hears is ”the one”. That takes maybe 2 hours. On Tuesday he/she does the same. Which human is going to compete with that?

[@sirena7116]

The A.I. Thing is just like most of the buzz words of the 2000s, which of course were mostly for marketing.

[@kirtandreamrezzer]

Great observations! Arpeggiators & sequencers have been around for decades, the first attempts at algorythmic generative sequencing in Garageband were even talked about by Brian Eno. If used as inspirational tools, like breaking writer's block they can be fun and useful. Yes, the hype with AI is a bit too much, but it's the same old game of developing generative sequencing. Creative artists just have to balance machines and one's own creative musical voice. Lazy dabblers will always be pooping sonic garbage, like a lot of the the banal stuff that has come out since machines came into the studios. Synths & drum machines can do wonders, some people don't even edit the presets, what to speak of coming up with new sounds or rhythms! True artists will always be curious and find a way to use an old guitar as well as the most advanced machines or software.

[@martinlewis807]

The problem with music created on a computer is that the music can sound repetitive and mechanical if you’re not careful.😊

[@chevman1115]

i find the drums put fills in the wrong spot sometimes

[@IanWaugh]

Well said! Not sold! Sounds a worse upgrade than Cubase 13! More dog please 😊

[@shakeitoff1000]

The fact I didn’t even know there was a Logic 11…

[@ThinkSpaceEducation]

Ha! Now you do but you might wish you didnt - anyway its a free update so go for it

[@SaveManWoman]

If apple’s AI hype are like these products, using database from chartGPT, then Apple has bigger Ai issue than I initially thought when they decided to use someone else’s database.

[@JakeSweeper]

It's only a problem if you can't shut the AI functions off at will.

[@schmargle]

Bonus points for the doggie.

[@QualifiedSoundStudios]

I would have preferred they fix the bugs to be honest. A lot of the time, there will be bugs sitting there for years without being fixed. But this is why I use multiple DAWs.

[@sourcefor]

Yeah bugs include, crashing when duplicating regions with key commands, automation not moved with region anymore, general crashing for no reason I can see!

[@QualifiedSoundStudios]

Yeah. Exactly. I’m working in Atmos and Apple has made it a nightmare. I have work arounds for the workarounds. 😂