I wanted to like this. I love the idea of recording onto iPad. It eliminates the need for a computer and the numerous latency and other complicated issues that come with it. Unfortunately, it didn’t end up working out due to my tc electronic go twin interface seemingly biting the dust after less than a year of use. If you’re listening Apple, forget all the midi implementation and drum sequencing. I just need something that records audio, is multitrack, and outputs a wav file. Equalization and compression are just bonuses that come along for the ride. I don’t need anything else, and I certainly don’t want to use a computer, when it should (and does) work better for iPad. I don’t blame Apple for the interface issue, but it’s time to figure out a usb a to lightning solution that goes beyond just cameras, as I also have a behringer uphoria umc1820, which has its own power supply. Perhaps the usb c iPads handle this better. I don’t know, mine is lightning. I wanted this to work so badly. It just didn’t.
Title says it all. I won’t be using this app. That you think Logic is worth any type of subscription is beyond me, Apple.
Logic was the first DAW I ever purchased and, at $200, I considered it a steal. I felt confident that, by moving forward with Apple, I would be working with a company that puts the artist first (I know, seems silly now). In retrospect, how could I expect a company so consumed by profit to actually step outside of the corporate norm? Remember, this is an entity so greedy that they intentionally designed their phones and products to fail, leading consumers to re-up, however premature. Any of the Fortune 500 would be just as happy to gouge our wallets. And what better model than ‘pay me endlessly if you want my product.’ Man, f*&^k these people who consistently rob the people that generate their wealth. Sorry Apple, I know you won’t miss my measly $50 a year but hopefully many more take this stance and steer clear of this evident corporate greed (downright robbery, if you ask me). FYI I’d happily pay a flat rate of $150 (this couldn’t be worth as much as desktop version) and be done with it.
Although Logic has a lot more settings and instruments than GarageBand, when I loaded less than 30 instruments in my project, a message that said “CPU Overload” kept me from being able to play my song. I have an iPad Air 4th gen. With a decent amount of storage, so I thought I wouldn’t have too many problems, but I think the effects and settings I can add to my instruments were too much for my iPad to handle.
This is just what I have been experiencing, and I’m not exactly sure what the issue is. However, if I wonder if anyone else has been experiencing the same thing as me. I think I’m going to reach out to Apple to see if there is any solution for this reoccurring problem.
BUT OVERALL LOGIC PRO MOBILE IS AWESOME
Update: Plugins working better. Not happy with the lack of a simple MIDI learn (that I could find). In that respect, Cubasis 3 is still cleaner and easier to use.
How is Cubasis 3, a third party app in direct competition with Logic's DAW features, able to host inter-app and all my AU plugins while Apple's own product chokes when it tries? I'm sure the Official Response would be that the plugin devs need to fix their wares, but... ahem... myriad other apps work with them perfectly. Maybe your team should get in touch with Steinberg for advice. Thank god Cubasis is fantastic. And NanoStudio. And AudioBus. And every single other music app that works as advertised. How about free subs until LP actually works? I was thrilled like everybody else in the whole entire music-nerd universe when LP finally appeared on iPad. Right now I'd rather use GarageBand. Or Voice Memos. Or an Etch-a-Sketch.
I’m a recording artist, producer, and engineer who has used logic on desktop for a decade. Overall I am thoroughly impressed with logic on the iPad. I love sliding around audio with my finger or creating eq curves by a touch. The stock sounds are truly impressive. My only two complaints thus far is I wish it had the ability to load a saved chain/template. For someone who records vocals I hate having to re add in all my plugins one by one instead of just loading up a saved channel strip. Also I wish it had the ability to choose parts of different takes like I can on the desktop version. It’s a bit tedious having to slice the audio then pick different takes as opposed to the slider on desktop to merge different takes. Also with my interface I notice a slight delay even on the fastest sample rate when recording with effects. Wish the m1 I’m sure the issues will be resolved in the near future and once they are I can record exclusively on my iPad. Great job
I think it’s wonderful this app has finally been brought to iPad and I like that it’s not a one-to-one clone of the desktop version but more thought out for a touch interface. The layout isn’t necessarily intuitive but it’s pretty fast to figure out and the included lessons are great.
Sure, it’s still missing a few things (please bring Flex Pitch soon 🤞) but for a v1 I’m extremely satisfied and hope that this brings more attention, innovation, and competition to iOS music production from plugin vendors and other DAWs.
As for the subscription—I like it. I think the monthly pricing makes some of the more advanced Logic Pro features more accessible to people who want to track ideas and explore their musical side but don’t necessarily have the resources for a large upfront investment. If my kid is serious about wanting to get into music production, I’m a lot more likely to pay $5 for a couple months on the iPad she already has than I am to buy her a MacBook Pro, Logic Pro X, and all the hardware and plugins that she’ll inevitably want for a hobby that might not stick.
Bottom line, I think it’s a great value for the initial feature set and I can’t wait to see where we go from here.
Logic Pro at version 1.0 is a terrific starting point for a real “pro” DAW on iPad, and I think it reflects that the music software market for iPad is ready to go to the next level.
One star deduction because there are some noticeable gaps between Logic Pro for iPad and really any desktop-grade DAW. Some of these gaps are down to limitations at the OS level, some due to the inevitable “90% complete” nature of a 1.0 release, and some that are hard to understand. For example, file handling is obtuse and difficult to work with, with no concept of “Save as…” or versioning or template functionality. It’s easy to inadvertently lose or damage existing work.
That said I think Apple has a solid foundation here and I’m hopeful we’ll see improvements at a regular cadence.
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…
I’m an audio engineer and a Logic Pro lifer. I use Logic Pro everyday and I took the news of this release with a healthy dose of skepticism. I wasn’t immediately sure how the user interface would translate and had my doubts about a DAW in an iPad.
Fifteen minutes of poking around the app and those doubts have been put to rest. This thing is amazing! Automation is an absolute breeze ( especially with a stylus). Surgical cuts and leveling can be a bear to do with a mouse or a trackpad. The ability to physically draw your automation curve is a massive time saver and I got some great natural sounding results in short order.
This is a legit DAW in an iPad. Meaning we can have access to a studio anywhere you can hold a tablet. This opens up a great many exciting creative avenues and will be a welcomed addition to my toolbox. Thank You!
I love this app is amazing but there are some things to be improved in order to pay monthly like more sounds presets, I don’t care too much about samples because I can add my samples through files but we need more sounds for alchemy. Please add more sounds presets like those in Spire by Reveal Sound and Serum. Please add a multiband compressor for mastering like Sonible plugins or the multiband like Fabfilter. Also if you can make it more easy to copy and paste, maybe if you can hold with one finger and drop a sample with the other finger so you can clone or copy paste a sample that would be amazing. Other than that the app is great and I love that is doesn’t load CPU that much as my MacBook. But please give us more sounds presets I would even pay more for membership
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