Apple released today Logic Pro X 10.3.2 with some major new features and improvements. This free update includes three new drummers who can play percussion in the styles of Pop, Songwriter and Latin. Beside this new feature, Apple also updated the Alchemy Synthesizer with very interesting new features like additive effects which expand the options for filtering and modulating sound.
Available here: Apple Logic Pro X
New features and enhancements
- Includes three new Drummers who play percussion in the styles of Pop, Songwriter, and Latin.
- Add new Drummer loops to your song and then customize them with performance controls.
- The pitch of an audio region can now be transposed or fine-tuned.
- Alchemy includes an automatic time align feature for improved morphing.
- New additive effects in Alchemy expand the options for filtering and modulating sound.
- There is now a key command to Copy Section Between Locators (Global), which copies all content between the locators regardless of selection.
- In Flex Pitch, there is now a contextual menu item to reset all Flex Pitched notes in all currently selected regions.
- Adds support for creating momentary buttons in Scripter.
- The Surround Panner and Surround Balancer have been updated with new Retina-ready interfaces.
- In the Arpeggiator, it is now possible to adjust the lengths of individual steps in the pattern grid.
- Option-clicking a MIDI Monitor object in the Environment now clears the contents of all MIDI Monitor objects in the project.
- There is now a key command to Toggle Help Tags.
- Pressing Option while showing or hiding Track Alternatives now toggles the setting for all tracks.
- It is now possible to link L and R controls for Dual Mono plug-ins.
- There is now a key command Remove Fades.
- There is now an Audio > General preference to reserve lowered number busses from auto assignment.
- Shift-clicking when closing in a plug-in window now closes all open plug-in windows.
Stability and reliability
- Logic Pro no longer quits unexpectedly after performing Undo after the command Copy Selected Regions to Selected Track on a marquee selection is used.
- Logic Pro no longer sometimes quits unexpectedly when:
- Using the Repeat Regions/Events command after inserting a note with the Pencil tool in the Piano Roll when Link is off and the Library is open.
- Opening a project that contains instances of Camel Audio Alchemy 1.5 and Logic Pro X Alchemy.
- Moving a marquee selected set of flex markers in the Audio Track Editor.
- Selecting a newly downloaded Drum Machine patch while the Musical Typing window and Drummer Editor are open.
- Logic Pro no longer hangs when importing audio into an independent Project Audio window when no other windows are open.
- Logic Pro no longer sometimes hangs when:
- Arrowing between certain patches in the Library.
- Copying several times to the Tracks area in quick succession.
- The Change Gain function is used in the Audio File editor.
Performance
- Improves responsiveness of the graphical user interface especially on Retina or other high resolution displays when doing the following:
- Resizing windows and areas.
- Dragging and trimming regions.
- Opening and closing the Piano Roll editor.
- Zooming and scrolling in large projects, especially those that contain a large number of flex edits or tempo events.
- Stepping through tracks using the up/down arrow keys.
- Adjusting parameters of multiple selected events in the Event List when the Step Editor is also open.
- Selecting grouped tracks with Flex edits using a EuCon control surface.
- Adjusting region borders.
- Adjusting region parameters on audio regions with Flex Pitch active while playing back no longer sometimes leads to bursts of noise.
- Indexing the Apple Loop library is now much faster.
- Performance is improved in Alchemy’s Spectral Editor and other real time displays.
- Dragging regions with a Force Touch track pad no longer sometimes causes the track pad to vibrate unexpectedly.
- Audio quantization in projects that contain a large number of tempo changes is now much faster.
Alchemy
- Alchemy adds five new Additive effects: Saw+Noise, Noise, Comb, EQ, Filter, Strum, Ripples plus additional controls for Pulse/Saw.
- Alchemy adds 12 new synthesized formant filter shapes.
- Alchemy now automatically time aligns sources when morphing.
- Alchemy now offers a Tune control in the Noise section.
- Alchemy’s modulators now have a new On trigger mode, which allows Effects parameters to be re-triggered on all new MIDI notes.
- There are new options in Alchemy’s Note Properties menu, Stepped4, Stepped8 and Stepped16. These options function like the Flip Flop property, but also produce a modulation signal that cycles through equally spaced values between successive notes.
- There is now a setting in the Key Trigger menu in Alchemy’s arpeggiator Cycle Reset, that insures the pattern always starts at the first note at step 1 of the sequencer.
- The Browser in Alchemy now includes Newer Than and Older Than column options to constrain the preset list based on the installation date of the content.
- The default rate for a new instance of the Arpeggiator in Alchemy is now 1/16.
- The maximum number of partials in Alchemy’s Great quality mode has been raised from 128 to 256.
- Alchemy adds 21 new Arpeggiator presets.
- Alchemy’s Additive Effects knobs for Pulse/Saw – Sync, Shift – Pitch and Magnet – Pitch now show semitones when being edited.
- Effects in Alchemy’s Effects Rack are now sorted into categories.
- Copy/pasted modulations now include the full routings assigned to all associated depth knobs.
- Alchemy’s Keyswitching now defaults to KEYSW1 instead of SNAP1.
- Alchemy’s Zone Editor now handles the display of large numbers of Warp Markers by only showing every 10th markers when there are more than 30 markers to be displayed.
- The Alchemy interface now responds instantly to mouse input on wide color P3 displays.
- Alchemy uses up to 40% less memory than previous versions.
- Apple Loops imported into Alchemy now remain reliably in sync.
- When changing from Arpeggiator Snapshot to non Arpeggiator Snapshot and back, the Arpeggiator now is switched back on.
- The sound quality of Spectral Stretch has been improved at low speeds.
- Auto Gain is now set to Off by default in Alchemy’s Morph XY/Lin mode.
- It is now possible to modulate Alchemy’s Keyswitch knob with Arp Mod.
- The last step in the Alchemy Argeggiator/Step Sequencer is no longer unexpectedly tied when a MIDI file is imported.
- In Spectral mode, adjusting the Simplify control in the Cloud Spectral effect no longer cancels the effect.
- Random note property modulators assigned to Keyswitch knobs mapped to samples in Alchemy now properly randomize the keyswitches.
- Setting a Comb Filter’s feedback value to 99% or higher in Alchemy’s Delay effect no longer can lead to uncontrolled feedback.
- FM Keyfollow now scales properly when two notes are played in a patch with the Voice Count set to 1.
- When importing EXS instruments, Alchemy now merges EXS groups that are mapped to the same keyswitch or articulation.
- The browser in Alchemy now retains user choices for column selections when switching from one preset to another.
- The Waveshaper Bipolar button in Alchemy’s Effects Rack again functions as expected.
Drummer
- Switching between Drummer characters during playback no longer sometimes causes Drummer to stop playing until playback is stopped and started again.
- The record button on Drum Machine Designer tracks no longer unexpectedly disables when changing drum kits.
- The Duplicate Track command now works for Drummer or Software Instrument tracks assigned to Drum Machine Designer or Drum Kit Designer producer kits.
- Drum Machine Designer tracks now always appear as expandable Track Stacks in the Tracks Area so that sub-tracks are immediately available for automation or other tasks.
- Option-dragging a Drummer or Software Instrument track that uses Drum Machine Designer now correctly creates a Track Stack containing all the kit pieces.
and much more: complete list of new features inside Logic Pro X 10.3.2
Available here: Apple Logic Pro X
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