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10Logic Pro Instruments
Alchemy
Logic Pro Alchemy overview
Alchemy is an easy-to-use, yet powerful sample manipulation synthesizer. It offers
numerous real-time performance controls and an extensive preset library.
Alchemy features additive, spectral, and granular synthesis and resynthesis, sampling, and
virtual analog engines. You can analyze imported samples and can manipulate them using
one or more of these synthesis methods. Alchemy provides extensive sample mapping,
looping, and grouping facilities that make it easy to create instruments containing hundreds
of samples and layers. If you want to create purely synthetic sounds, the additive, spectral,
and virtual analog synthesis engines are full-featured, matching or exceeding the power
and facilities of many standalone instruments.
An Alchemy preset can contain up to four sources, each using one or more synthesis
engines. You can morph or crossfade between these sources. Dozens of modeled analog
and digital filters are available, in addition to multiple racks of integrated effect units and
an extensive modulation section. Alchemy also features a powerful arpeggiator that can
control each source independently and provides flexible pattern modulation options.
If you are new to synthesizers and different synthesis methods, see Synthesizer basics
overview. Also see the Logic Pro Alchemy tutorial introduction for detailed tasks on the use
of several advanced Alchemy synthesis features.
Before you can design new sounds with Alchemy you need to understand how its different
parts fit together, and how each of them contributes to what you hear.
At first glance Alchemy may seem complex, but its layout is relatively simple: