CONTACT WHO: Apple. WEB: apple.com KEY FEATURES REQUIREMENTS: Requires an iPad with Apple A12 Bionic chip or later and iPadOS 16.4 or later. 663MB available storage space for minimum install or up to 15GB storage space for full Sound Library installation. Includes AUv3 support PRICING: $5/month or $49/year
In writing about the newly released Logic Pro for iPad, perhaps a bigger question than ‘what is it?’ would be instead, ‘who is it actually for?’ Is this a genuine touch-enabled alternative to the desktop version of Logic Pro – and one that could convince huge swathes of musicians to shift wholesale from the Mac to the iPad – or simply a souped-up version of GarageBand for iPad? That is, fine for beginners, singer-songwriters and as a scratchpad for recording ideas, but not a ‘serious’ DAW for professional producers?
Without giving too much away before we’ve even got started, we can tell you now that it’s none of these things. Logic Pro for iPad is better thought of as a completely new music production playground – albeit one that will be very familiar to both GarageBand for iPad and Logic Pro Mac
