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548Logic Pro User Guide
Work with plug-ins
Overview of plug-ins in Logic Pro
Logic Pro includes a large collection of built-in effects and instrument plug-ins. It also
supports third-party plug-ins in the Audio Units format. Logic Pro also includes a Plug-in
Manager that can be used to activate, deactivate, and organize both the built-in plug-ins
and Audio Units plug-ins. Plug-ins can be broken down into the following categories:
Audio effects: Can be inserted in audio, instrument, aux, and output channel strips.
Logic Pro offers a range of digital signal processing (DSP) effects and processors that
are used to color or tonally shape existing audio recordings, software instruments, and
external audio sources—in real time.
MIDI effects: Can only be inserted in instrument channel strips. Logic Pro offers easy
access to real-time MIDI processing formerly only possible via the Environment.
Software instruments: Can only be inserted in instrument channel strips. Logic Pro
offers a range of software-based instruments that include innovative synthesizers, a
powerful sampler, and authentic re-creations of vintage instruments, that can be used
in real time.
GarageBand instruments: Can only be inserted in instrument channel strips.
GarageBand instruments are accessed by pressing and holding Option when clicking an
Instrument slot. They appear in a submenu called “Legacy.
You can use selection-based processing with audio effects.