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RANDOM APPLE MEMORY Logic Pro

With Logic on board, the Mac became a recording studio essential. Charlotte Henry looks at how the double act became such a hit

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Anyone can make music with a Mac and Logic Pro. And pros can create real masterpieces.

L ogic Pro sits at the heart of both pro and home studios the world over. It is an advanced digital audio workstation and sequencer that enables you to record, loop, and edit MIDI and other audio. Having started its life in the 1980s as a MIDI sequencer for the Atari ST platform called Creator, it became Notator when music notation capabilities were added. The real genesis of the software we use today came when, in 1993, programmers who had worked at C-Lab, the company responsible for this older software, founded a company called Emagic and launched Notator Logic. This incorporated sequencing capabilities and ‘Notator’ was ultimately removed from the software’s title.

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