Logic Pro X 10.4 update brings over 2000 new features and bug fixes to Apple's audio composition app

Apple has issued another update for Logic Pro X, adding a Smart Tempo feature to combine content regardless of original tempo, as well as a host of new Plug-Ins, more content including drummers and loops, and assorted bug fixes.

The 10.4 update to Logic Pro X, released on Thursday, features the new Smart Tempo tool as its marquee improvement. The new feature, besides just adding advanced tempo detection and mixing, allows users to record audio without using click or drag in audio to have the performance define project tempo, and allows for adding any audio file and conforming it to the project tempo.

New Plug-Ins include ChromaVerb, Space Designer, Step FX, Phat FX, a Vintage EQ collection, new Studio Strings and Studio Horns, and 18 different filter models for Retro Synth.

Added content includes roots and jazz drummers, two vintage brush kits for Drum Kit Designer, more than 800 new loops in "a variety of instruments and genres" according to Apple. and 150 cinematic presets added to the New Visions library.

New features added are the ability to undo mixer and plug-in actions, bookmarking locations in the Files Browser, and a new universal design for controlling articulations.

Logic Pro X requires macOS 10.12 or newer. The application itself requires 1.41GB of storage space, and it sells for $199.99 on the Mac App Store.

11 Comments

roake 820 comments · 10 Years

About 6 years ago

Logic Pro for iPad Pro, please.

mdriftmeyer 7395 comments · 20 Years

roake said:

Logic Pro for iPad Pro, please.

Only as an extension, please. I don't need them wasting time diverting limited engineering resources rewriting the entire code base in ARM64.

georgie01 437 comments · 8 Years

Does anyone know if this latest version supports non-destructive edits to audio files like typical audio editors? I had bought Logic Express years ago and was baffled that it only supported destructive and limited editing of audio files, and that I had to resort to Peak (now defunct) to perform actual audio file editing. I perform edits (cut and paste, etc) with sample level precision and I was never able to do that Logic Express nor the Pro version without it being about 100x more work than other audio editors (if it was even possible).

I’m not intending to complain about it, but the last I heard of Logic it didn’t support this.

SpamSandwich 32917 comments · 19 Years

roake said:

Logic Pro for iPad Pro, please.

Wouldn't that be amazing? I'd be all over that.

raspy39 6 comments · 7 Years

georgie01 said:

Does anyone know if this latest version supports non-destructive edits to audio files like typical audio editors? I had bought Logic Express years ago and was baffled that it only supported destructive and limited editing of audio files, and that I had to resort to Peak (now defunct) to perform actual audio file editing. I perform edits (cut and paste, etc) with sample level precision and I was never able to do that Logic Express nor the Pro version without it being about 100x more work than other audio editors (if it was even possible).

I’m not intending to complain about it, but the last I heard of Logic it didn’t support this.

I only use Logic as a hobby, so I may not fully understand the question, but I’ve used time marker editing of live recordings for years. Of course any midi style devise is also editable. And cutting and pasting is accurate as you could possibly make it. I import a lot of my own recording into Apple loops as well and never had a problem with destructive editing.
I hope this answers your question.