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Apple Logic 10.5 FREE

The arrival of Logic Pro X 10.5 – which Apple calls the “biggest update to Logic since the launch of Logic Pro X” – has no doubt come as a welcome distraction for Mac-based musicians.

And there’s certainly plenty of enticing new stuff in Logic Pro X 10.5 (free for existing users) to get excited about, as the fruity tech leviathan makes obvious but positive moves towards bringing its blockbuster DAW in line with more, shall we say, progressive contemporaries such as Ableton Live, Bitwig Studio, FL Studio and even Native Instruments’ Maschine.

To that end, the most architecturally seismic new feature is the not wholly unexpected introduction of the Live Loops system, as already established in the iOS version of Logic’s junior sibling, GarageBand.

This brings Live/Bitwig-style non-linear ’cellbased’ loop recording

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