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9Logic Pro Instruments
Instruments overview
Logic Pro Instruments introduction
Logic Pro provides an extensive suite of software instruments that can be used in your
productions.
Sample-based instruments include Alchemy, Sampler and Quick Sampler. These enable you
to create and play back recordings of acoustic instruments. Alchemy provides extensive
sample manipulation and resynthesis options that can result in sounds that bear little
resemblance to the source. Also included are sample-based string and horn plug-ins that
offer a variety of individual and grouped instruments with multiple articulations. See Studio
instruments.
Specialized percussion synthesizers and instruments include Drum Synth, Ultrabeat, Drum
Kit Designer, and Drum Machine Designer. Ultrabeat combines several percussion-oriented
synthesis engines and a step sequencer, making it a powerful tool for the creation of new
sounds and beats. Drum Machine Designer is a track instrument that directly integrates
and interacts with the Logic Pro Mixer and Step Sequencer.
Four vintage instruments emulate the classic B3 organ, Rhodes, Wurlitzer, and Hohner
electric pianos, the Hohner Clavinet, and the Mellotron. See Vintage B3, Vintage Electric
Piano, Vintage Clav, and Vintage Mellotron.
When it comes to synthesizers, you have a huge range to choose from. These include
simple plug-ins such as ESP, ESM, ESE, and EFM1. More advanced options include Retro
Synth, ES1, and ES2, up to the extremely sophisticated Alchemy and Sculpture instruments.
Alchemy provides several synthesis engines that you can use alone or with each other to
produce a staggering variety of sounds. It features extensive modulation options, built-in
arpeggiation, and sequencing.
Sculpture is a modeling synth that you can use to recreate physical instruments or to
create instruments that don’t exist. It has a number of unique modulation facilities and can
generate a huge array of sound types.
Rounding out the collection are the External Instrument and Klopfgeist Logic Pro Utility
instruments, and the EVOC 20 PolySynth vocoder. This instrument tracks incoming MIDI
notes and processes audio signals to create classic robotic voices and choirs that follow
played note and chord pitches.