Apple LOGIC PRO 7.1 Update
1 What’s New in Logic Pro 7.1
This document contains information about the
improvements and changes found in the
Logic Pro 7.1 Update.
The descriptions in this document supersede the relevant sections of the Logic Pro 7
manuals (including the Late-Breaking News.pdf). For the latest information about
product updates, tips, and techniques, visit the Logic Pro website at
http://www.apple.com/logic.
General Improvements
The Logic Pro 7.1 Update introduces the following general enhancements.
Plug and Play of Audio Interfaces
Logic Pro 7.1 supports plug and play for audio interfaces: it’s possible to connect and
switch on a new/additional audio interface while Logic Pro 7.1 is running. An alert
appears when you connect a new device, and will prompt you to select and confirm
the audio interface/driver that you would like to use.
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Changes to Dialogs
A number of enhancements have been made to the following Logic dialogs:
• Sample Editor: Audio File > Save Selection As, Audio File > Save a Copy As. Both
dialogs now allow you to set the desired sample rate, stereo conversion and dither
type for the destination file. The dialogs also feature an additional “Add resulting files
to Audio window” option.
Some file dialogs now
feature additional file
conversion settings.
• Audio window: Audio File > Save Region As, Audio File > Copy/Convert File As: Both
dialogs offer the file conversion menus outlined above for the Sample Editor,
enabling one or multiple selected Regions/files to be converted or copied. The Copy/
Convert File As dialog provides an additional “Add resulting files to Audio window”
option.
• Arrange window: The Audio > Convert Regions to New Audio Files dialog provides
the file conversion menus outlined above for the Sample Editor.
• The global File > Export > Region as Audio File dialog offers an additional “Add
resulting files to Audio window” option.
• Project: The File > Save as Project dialog and File > Project > Consolidate dialogs
contain new Ultrabeat sample handling options. The pull-down menu choices
include: Leave, Move, or Copy. These work in the same fashion as the Audio Files,
Sampler Instruments and Samples pull-down menu options. Please see the
Logic Pro 7 Reference Manual for details.
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Beat Mapping Track
The global Beat Mapping track helps to make the display of audio or MIDI recordings
rhythmically meaningful. It does this by defining the bar positions of existing musical
events without changing their absolute time position, thus preserving their timing.
On occasion, this behavior may not be desirable. As an example, for existing MIDI
events that already fall on musically useful positions, and should remain there when
beat mapping is used for audio recordings.
Such situations are catered for by the inclusion of the new Protect MIDI checkbox,
found in the Parameters area of the Beat Mapping track. Simply activate this checkbox
to keep existing MIDI events at their current positions when using beat mapping.
Chord Track
The chord symbols displayed in the Chord track can now be inserted into the Score
Editor (and printed):
To insert chords from the Chord track into the Score Editor:
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Select the staff that you would like to use for the chord symbols in the Score Editor and
choose Functions > Insert Chords from global Chord track.
Inserted chord symbols are displayed in blue (printout will be black), and can only be
moved within the boundaries of the chord on the Chord track. Double-clicking such a
chord will launch the Define Chord dialog of the Chord track.
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Marker Track
If you create markers from Regions (by dragging a Region from an Arrange track onto
the Marker track or by pressing the From Region button in the Marker track, for
example), the corresponding marker now uses the Region color.
Limited Cycle Dragging
Dragging the Cycle area in the Bar Ruler is now limited to either horizontal or vertical
movements. This ensures that you do not accidentally:
• move the Cycle area if you want to create markers (by dragging the Cycle area into
the lower third of the Bar Ruler or into the Marker track).
• create markers if you want to move the Cycle area.
Note: Press Shift if you want to drag the Cycle area in both directions simultaneously.
Arrange Region Handling
The handling of Regions in the Arrange window has been improved: selected Regions
that overlap with unselected Regions are now shown “on top.”
Additional Key Commands
Logic Pro 7.1 offers several key commands for functions previously only accessible as
menu items.
Global Menu Functions
The following global menu functions are now also available as key commands:
Application (Logic) menu:
• Opening all preferences windows, the Logic Setup Assistant, and the AU Manager
• Initialize All except Key Commands function
File menu
• Project functions: Project Settings, Clean Up Project, Consolidate Project, Rename
Project, Save as Project
• Opening all panes of the Song Settings window
• Save functions: Save a Copy As, Save a Template As
• Export functions: Region as Audio File, Track as Audio File, All Tracks as Audio Files,
Song as OMF File, Song as OpenTL File, Song as AAF File, Song to Final Cut Pro/XML
• Bounce function
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Audio menu
• Import Audio File
• Opening Loop Browser, EXS 24 Instrument Editor, Hardware and Drivers pane,
Surround preferences pane, and TDM DSP Usage window
• Toggle Punch on the Fly
• Toggle Pre Fader Metering
Options menu
• Markers: Create by Regions, Quick Edit Marker
• Track Automation: Toggle Automation Quick Access, Delete Orphan Automation Date
of Current Track
• Movie: Open Movie as Float, Extract Audio from Movie, Extract Audio to Arrange,
Export Audio to Movie, Find Scene Cuts, Remove Scene Markers
Windows menu
The Step Input Keyboard can now be accessed via a key command.
Arrange Menu
The following local Arrange menu functions (Arrange window) are now also available
as key commands:
• Track: Create Multiple, Delete Redundant Audio Tracks
• Region: Unpack Folder (Use Existing Tracks), Demix by Note Pitch
• MIDI: Select all Orphan Aliases, Delete all Orphan Aliases
• Audio: Open in Apple Loops Utility, Copy ReCycle Loop, Paste ReCycle Loop, Search
Zero Crossings
Hyper Editor
The following local Hyper Editor functions are now also available as key commands:
• Create Hyper Set
• Create GM Drum Set
• Create Hyper Set For Current Events
• Clear Hyper Set
Track Mixer
All Filter buttons can now be switched on and off via key commands.
Channel Strip Settings Menu
The following key commands have been added:
• Next/Previous Channel Strip setting
• Save/Copy/Paste Channel Strip setting
Note: Logic Pro 7.1 also features the new, more general “Next/Previous Channel Strip
Setting or Plug-in setting or EXS Instrument” key commands.
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Snap and Drag Menu
All Snap and Drag menu entries can now be chosen via key commands.
Audio window
Groups can now be created or deleted via corresponding key commands.
New Key Command Warning
In circumstances where an existing local key command combination is used when
assigning a new global key command, the following warning message will appear:
“This shortcut is already assigned to key command xxx in key command class yyy, which
has higher priority than key command class zzz.” You have three options: Cancel,
Replace, or OK. Cancel does not alter existing assignments. Replace will replace the
existing shortcut assigned to the chosen key command combination with the selected
function. OK will assign the key command combination to the selected function while
retaining the existing key command/function.
Important: There is a hierarchy of key command classes, which are not merely
separated into global and local key commands. As an example, there is a key command
class that applies to all windows that display Regions. This class has higher priority than
global key commands, but a lower priority than local (Arrange, Score, Matrix, and so on)
window key commands.
XML Import
The XML import procedure now allows you to retain the sample rate of audio files used
in your Final Cut sequences. If you import sequences that use audio files with different
sample rates, the following dialog appears: “The selected Final Cut sequence contains
audio files with different samples rates. The current Logic sample rate A requires x
audio files to be converted (xxx MB disk space required). Switching the Logic sample
rate to B requires y audio files to be converted (yyy MB disk space required).” You can
then choose if you would like to change or keep the sample rate of your Logic project.
All Final Cut sequence audio files that use a sample rate that differs from the selected
one are converted.
Note: In Final Cut, a sequence is an arranged series of video, audio, and graphics clips,
edit information, and effects, combined to create a movie. This is unrelated to the
former use of the term “sequence” in Logic, which referred to MIDI Regions. Use of XML
to import Final Cut sequences into Logic allows you to exchange at once multiple
audio tracks, with all positional region information, region names, volume and pan
automation data, retained.
Removing Movie Function
The Options > Movies menu now features a Remove Movie function, which allows you
to completely remove a movie from a song or project. All references to the movie in
the project or song are deleted.
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Hidden Menu Bars in Screensets
Logic Pro 7 allows you to hide local menu bars and scroll bars by Option-Commandclicking the title bar.
The Logic Pro 7.1 Update enhances this function. It now also works when using
Screensets: You can save the state of hidden menu bars and scroll bars in Screensets.
Hidden menu bars and scroll bars are also saved when you close a window. As an
example: Hide the menu bar and scroll bars of the Arrange window and close it. When
you reopen the Arrange window, the menu bar and scroll bars remain hidden.
This function is handy in situations where you would like to configure small floating
Environment windows containing Fader Objects, used as switches, for example.
Bounce Dialog
Choosing the CD burner
The Bounce dialog in Logic Pro 7.1 offers a new Device menu in the Burn options, which
allows you to choose between any recognized CD burners connected to your system.
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Start and End Position default values
The default values for the Start and End Position fields in the Bounce dialog now also
take selections made in the Arrange window into account.
This means that the default values are now set in the following way:
• If the Cycle function is engaged, they will be set to the locator positions.
• If a selection is made in the Arrange window, they will be set to the selected area.
• If neither of the above is valid, they are set to encompass the entire Logic song.
Faster Overview Creation
The Overview Creation dialog features an additional option which accelerates overview
creation. This option makes the overview creation as fast as the “foreground” overview
creation of Logic 6 (at the cost of slowing down other operations, but not blocking user
interaction completely).
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Follow Tempo Function
Audio files created in Logic Pro 7.1 can now follow the song tempo (including tempo
changes) and the first key signature set in the Global tracks.
As an example: If you record a bass solo at 100 bpm, you can change the song tempo
to 120 bpm and the bass solo will automatically be played back at the new tempo.
The function works with all audio files that were recorded in, or bounced/exported
from, Logic Pro 7.1. The function only works in the parent song (the song the audio files
were created in). If you drag a file recorded in a given song to another song with the
Finder, the file can not follow the song tempo. Bounced/exported files can only follow
the song tempo, if the “Add resulting files to Audio window” option was enabled in the
Export/Bounce window prior to the bounce/export. Files copied between two songs
retain the ability to follow the song tempo.
The song's tempo information is used to tag the beats in the recording. The function
works best if your audio files match the song tempo as precisely as possible. The longer
your audio files are, the more RAM is required for this functionality to work properly.
If you want your audio files to follow the song tempo and key, you will need to select
the appropriate Audio Region in the Arrange window and enable the Follow Tempo
option in the Region Parameter box. The Follow Tempo option is synchronized for all
Regions that make use of the same audio file.
All audio files that follow the song tempo and first key signature are indicated by the
following symbols in Logic:
Note: The Follow Tempo option does not create an Apple Loop! Remember: Apple
Loops follow chord changes—should you record a solo over an arrangement consisting
of Apple Loops with transposition changes over time, you might want to enable Follow
Tempo for your solo, but you won’t be happy with the double transpositions that will
occur…
To create an Apple Loop, please use either of the following options:
• Choose Region > Add to Apple Loops Library in the Arrange window (also see the
ensuing section). This method sets transients that are based on the song’s tempo
information.
• Choose Audio > Open in Apple Loops Utility in the Arrange window (more
information can be found in the Logic Pro 7 Reference Manual). This functionality
allows you to set the transients manually—independent of the song tempo.
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