Logic Pro for iPad 4+

Not that Apple really needs praise here, but they’ve really knocked it out of the park with Logic Pro for iPad - and this is only the first release. It doesn’t have EVERYTHING from the desktop version, but I think for most folks there’s more than enough here. If you’re already a GarageBand on iPad user and you’re starting to hit walls this is where you want to head. I’ve used many iOS/iPadOS and desktop DAWs over many, many years and the feeling I’m getting when using Logic Pro for iPad is the same feeling as when I first started using Reason. It took a good day or two to really wrap my head around the UI (it’s QUITE different from GarageBand on mobile) but once you do it’s like opening this amazing treasure chest of tools. There’s so many ways to string together instruments and effects chains. When I put a drummer track on a Drum Machine Designer instrument channel the first time it kind of blew my mind (maybe this always worked on Logic for Mac? I don’t know, never used it).

You really get the best of all worlds here - flexible MidiFX, a time line, great audio editing, full AUv3 instrument and effect automation. It’s got the playfulness of AUM with the familiarity of a DAW with a timeline.

And this is just the beginning…

Downloaded Logic yesterday and discovered that “score” has been removed from the program! Folks, not everyone is a hip-hop, rap, beats maker (All legit genres that don’t necessarily need a score read out and editor), but those of us who arrange, write for video or film or just prefer a standard notation editor rather than just a piano roll editor, may find this seriously lacking. A piano roll doesn’t give you a quick and easy visual, like notes on a staff do. I use the piano roll extensively when I am fine tuning a feel for a track, but it is horrible for just looking for quick harmonic changes over a broad range of notes. Another thing everyone should be aware of is that Logic is very sensitive to memory overload. I had lots of apps open ( because that hasn’t been an issue with anything else) and I loaded in a project that had nine tracks running each with several plugins on them (no audio, just midi)and I got a system overload warning stating “ The plug-ins in the project are overloading your iPad, or your iPad is low on memory.” I closed all my apps and had no more problems, so beware. I have an iPad Pro with 16gb ram and 1 terabyte of storage, so that really shouldn’t have been an issue. Logic is amazing on most everything else and I have enjoyed using it extensively for at least 7 hours since yesterday (lol). Score editor is a major work flow loss for me, so until that is resolved, my rating will be 3 stars at most.

Hey guys, the app is not perfect but it’s one heck of a start in the right direction.

My suggestion is to start working with plug-in manufacturers so the people who’ve already bought a Mac version of an audio plug-in. Ken request a validation key to a little checkmark in Logic Pro for iPad, which will automatically down from within the app.

If we have not purchased the Mac app, we can rent or purchase a plug-in from within the app without needing to close the app or install other apps which add complications and crashes.

If anyone can solve this problem, Apple can make away on the iPad pros.
Keep that API internal so performance isn’t based on a third-party plugin developer

You guys could be the ones to democratize plug-in manufacturers that are so outrageously overpriced, shutting out a lot of potential customers.
This could be a new stream, a financial income for the manufacturers of the plug-ins. Like free money left on the table will encourage them to obey your API laws and extra work to make their plug-ins compatible with your strict guidelines to work flawlessly inside of iPad Pro..

I think when you call this logic for iPad, you just have to have plug-ins and external plug-ins. You just gotta have them to be taken seriously.

Furthermore, you would dominate tablet sales because there’d be nothing like it on any other platform, another way of customer lock into the ecosystem.

Your welcome now please execute 😁