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Apple has announced the next update to Logic Pro X, its professional music production and recording program. The v10.4.2 update’s key feature is the inclusion of what Apple calls smart tempo, which allows for automatic tempo detection across the entirety of a project. The update also comes with a variety of new plug-ins, sound libraries, and loops.

Logic’s new smart tempo is probably going to be of most interest to musicians. With smart tempo, you can record naturally into the program without a metronome or click track, and then Logic can automatically map your tempo across the entire recording. There are three new EQs modeled after coveted API, Neve, and Pultec hardware made from the 1950s through the 1970s: Vintage Graphic EQ, Vintage Tube EQ, and Vintage Console EQ. Phat FX is a nine-module multi-effect plug-in with a customizable X/Y pad that can add warmth, crunch, and out-there distortion, and Step FX is an eight-module step sequencer that easily lets you add complex rhythmic movement to tracks. With Phat FX and Step FX, a strip at the bottom of each displays all of the plug-in’s modules and lets you rearrange the order to affect the chain of how a sound is processed.

The Sound Library can be relocated to an external storage device
Smart Tempo can analyze tempo data across multi-track recordings to define the Project Tempo
Imported multi-track stems can follow or define Project Tempo
Smart Tempo now analyzes the tempo of MIDI performances recorded without a metronome
Alchemy provides drag and drop hot zones that let you select re-synthesis and sampling options while importing audio
Alchemy allows numerical editing of parameter values
Dragging one automation point over another now aligns them vertically
New mixer mode allows channel strip fader and pan controls to be used to set send level and pan
Automatic Slurs can be applied to selected notes in the Score Editor
Add a photo to track or project notes to help remember key session details or studio hardware settings
This update also contains numerous stability and performance improvements