Pro–level music tools come to iPad

Free for 1 month; $4.99/month; $49/year FROM www.apple.com

NEEDS iPadOS 16.4 or later and a device with A12 Bionic chip or later

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Apple has been trying to convince us for a number of years that an iPad can replace a Mac for professional creative work, and in a handful of cases like art and graphics that’s arguably been true. For music production however, serious Digital Audio Workstations (DAWs) haven’t made the leap to iPad, with the notable exception of Steinberg’s Cubasis. Perhaps in an effort to remedy this, Apple has created Logic Pro for iPad. Light years more powerful than GarageBand, it’s also not a direct port of Logic Pro for Mac. Instead, Apple has created a supremely powerful app that will be familiar to existing users but is completely reworked for the touch interface.