If it weren’t for Apple’s misjudged commercial, that depicts a large collection of creative gear being ‘crushed’ into the company’s new iPad Pro – including several musical instruments – the launches of the new versions of Logic Pro (version 2 for iPad and version 11 for Mac) wouldn’t be considered in the least bit controversial.
Combine that marketing mishap with the new software’s heavy focus on AI, though, and you begin to ask yourself a few questions. Does Apple want to rid the world of real ‘stuff’ and leave the iPad as the one remaining creative tool? And does it want to automate the music production process so much that all the user has to do is press a button?
Without giving too much away, we can reassure you that the answer to both of those questions is almost certainly ‘no’, but there’s no getting away from the fact that the new versions of Logic Pro do put AI front and centre. The software has long had a built-in, customisable virtual Drummer, and this has been joined by two new so-called ‘Session Players’ that can take care of bass and keyboard parts.
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