https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/logic-pro-x/id634148309?mt=12

What's New in Version 10.2
• Introducing Alchemy - the ultimate sample manipulation synthesizer

- Next generation synthesizer plug-in with multiple sound generators including; additive, spectral, formant, granular, sampler, and virtual analog
- Over 3,000 presets for all types of electronic music including electronic dance, hip hop, rock, and sound for picture
- Integrated keyword preset browser for finding the right sounds quickly
- Performance controls like the Transform Pad make it easy to explore and reshape sounds
- Combine up to four synth modules to create complex multi-layered sounds
- Virtual analog oscillators produce authentic recreations of iconic synth sounds
- Wide selection of modeled analog and special effect filters for producing sounds with vintage character and tonal complexity
- Create animated, dynamic instruments using over 100 modulation sources that include flexible LFOs, AHDSR and MSEG envelopes, and step sequencers
- Manipulate and combine samples in new ways using a collection of morphing and resynthesis tools
- Import EXS24 instruments or create your own using a robust set of sampler features
- Apply independent arpeggiators to each of the 4 sound sources to transform simple chords into elaborate performances
- Integrated effects rack with reverb, modulation, delay, compression, and a range of distortion effects

• New tabbed Transform Pad and X/Y Pad Smart Controls for Alchemy instruments
• Share directly to Apple Music Connect*
• Adds support for Force Touch trackpad
• Create custom track icons with your own image files
• 1,000 new Apple Loops from a variety of popular instruments and genres including EDM, Hip Hop, Indie, Disco, Funk, and Blues
• Expanded MIDI clock options improve sync compatibility with external MIDI devices
• Multiple additional enhancement and stability improvements

* Requires Apple Music Connect account

 

Opps, I mean Logic Pro X - 10.2

 

Create custom track icons with your own image files

Finally. It's a little thing but I've really missed this since leaving LP9. I had just finished making little icons of all my synths and instruments for use in LP9 when I upgraded to LPX.

Expanded MIDI clock options improve sync compatibility with external MIDI devices

Another worthy bit of news . . . Yay!

 

Wow, alchemy integrated in logic, awesome news !

 

Well at least we don't have to crack alchemy.....

 

fantastic they've incorporated alchemy so quick. and not having to wait for a new paid version. came as a point update

kudos :D

 

Oh come on man! They came up with Final Cut Pro X all by themselves and that was a complete . . .
. . .
. . . disaster.

 

The "introducing Alchemy" part had me confused. I thought it was strange that Apple was allowed to call their new sampler instrument, or EXS24 upgrade, "Alchemy"! Alas no, they are "introducing" something that's the world has known about for years. Somehow I had missed the news that Apple acquired Camel some time ago.

 

well at least we still have alchemy to use and have been using for years, so i am confident the money we put into it wasn't all to waste... i am wondering if logic will get the lovely phat/space combo too...

 

Integrated Alchemy...wow. well done apple. Didn't see this coming. I expected a new plugin to be developed by Camel Audio or them helping in the development of apple branded plugins. Logic became that much better!

 

if logic got an ableton live style drum rack/simpler combo, i would consider using it... (i hate ultra beat)

 

You can still use exactly what you paid for. I too own a license for Alchemy as well as most of the expansions and they still work in even the latest version of Windows and the latest version of OSX. If you (or anyone for that matter) bought it for something that it might become, then you're a fool. In addition, version 1 was at the end of it's development cycle. There wasn't going to be any more 1.** releases. Ben himself has stated that and that they were working on V2 which was going to be a paid upgrade.

 

As for the update...looks like a great update. The new skin on Alchemy looks cool as well....somewhat Linplug Spectral(ish)

 

I HATE Ultrabeat. SMH. That thing is stiff. If it was anything close to Drum Racks, I'd be maining Logic pro X.

 

Yep, thats why i use maschine in logic as you would ultra beat.

 

Don't Let Ultrabeat Scare You Off… the options are endless for a replacement

 

NO FUCKN WAY!! alchemy???

you people were right.


Yeah, Ultrabeat is a beast, but it is awkward, ugly, and I dont know, its just way the fuck easier to use ableton... like on ALL accounts. I'd purchased Logic a year and a half ago... learned it, became rather proficient with it, then, to switch things up for a bit, a went back to Live... and, of course, was able to do a gazzilion-times more things, and way faster. Have stuck with Live ever since.

Although I continue having problems with various tracks sounding out of time, and slow, or sometimes fast... which is a complete nightmare... so the past couple days Ive been bouncing things down and shifting them forward or backward to get things sounding right.

EDIT:

WOw, no shit... Alchemy DOES look like linplug. Much, much better looking. Despite buying Alchemy, I have always hated how it looked, along with basically all camel stuff. Alchemy looked incredibly generic. Looks better.

 

Last edited: Aug 25, 2015