Developer(s) | Apple Inc. |
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Initial release | 1993; 26 years ago (as Notator Logic) |
Stable release | 10.4.4 / January 10, 2019; 4 months ago[1] |
Written in | C, C++, Objective-C, Swift |
Operating system | macOS |
Platform | x64 (as of Logic Pro 9.1)[2] |
Size | 1.45 GB |
Available in | English, Chinese, Japanese, French, German, Spanish |
Type | MIDIsequencer and Digital Audio Workstation |
License | Proprietary |
Website | Mac App Store |
Emagic, a software company based in Germany, was known for its early music sequencer called “Creator”. Creator was followed by Notator, which ran on the Atari ST platform. Notator Logic was launched in 1992 for both Atari, Macintosh and Windows. Emagic quickly dropped the “Notator” from the name and was redesigned with a new look and called Emagic Logic. In 2002, Apple bought the software and discontinued all Windows based support for the program. Today, Logic still only exists on the Apple platform and is widely regarded as one of the most popular DAWS available.
Like Notator, Vision, and several other of the early MIDI sequencers, it was pattern-based. There was no timeline, no timeline-based looping of selections, and no arrange page. This method was more like a relational database than a modern computer sequencer. Users programmed various parts, comprising rhythms, chords and melodies, then programmed the order and number of repetitions of each of these parts to form songs.