Logic Express 9 Retail [Old Version]

by Apple

Product Features

• Logic Express 9 lets you record, edit, and mix music on your Mac
• More than 70 studio-quality effect plug-ins, including vintage and modern compressors, delays, reverbs, and more
• New Amp Designer plug-in to help you re-create the sound of 25 legendary amps and 25 speaker cabinets
• New Pedalboard plug-in with an assortment of 30 virtual stompbox pedals inspired by the classics
• 36 software instrument plug-ins, including the Ultrabeat drum synth and beatbox, ES2 synth, and EXS24 sampler

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 5.5 x 5.5 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 6.4 ounces
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S. and to APO/FPO addresses. For APO/FPO shipments, please check with the manufacturer regarding warranty and support issues.
• ASIN: B002IYO6N8
• Item model number: MB788Z/A
• Date first available at Amazon.com: October 2, 2001
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (16 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,248 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

Record, edit, and mix your music on a Mac using the new Logic Express 9. Open your GarageBand files and get right to work, or start from scratch with a new composition. Logic Express 9 is a guitar player’s dream, with Amp Designer and Pedalboard, two new plug-ins that re-create the sound of legendary amps and stompbox effect pedals. You can build your own amp model and try any combination of stompboxes. An improved set of music creation tools makes it even easier to capture and develop your musical inspirations. Use the new Flex Time tools to easily manipulate audio timing and tempo. And make music right out of the box with over 100 instrument and effect plug-ins from Logic Studio.

Logic Express 9. Record, edit, and mix music on your Mac.

Top Features

• Perfect for capturing and developing your musical inspirations
• Seamless compatibility with GarageBand files
• Flex Time features that make editing audio timing and tempo easier than ever
• More than 70 studio-quality effect plug-ins, including vintage and modern compressors, delays, reverbs, and more
• New Amp Designer plug-in to help you re-create the sound of 25 legendary amps and 25 speaker cabinets
• New Pedalboard plug-in with an assortment of 30 virtual stompbox pedals inspired by the classics
• 36 software instrument plug-ins, including the Ultrabeat drum synth and beatbox, ES2 synth, and EXS24 sampler

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Product Description

Record, edit, and mix your music on a Mac using the new Logic Express 9. Open your GarageBand files and get right to work, or start from scratch with a new composition. Logic Express 9 is a guitar player’s dream, with Amp Designer and Pedalboard, two new plug-ins that re-create the sound of legendary amps and stompbox effect pedals. You can build your own amp model and try any combination of stompboxes. An improved set of music creation tools makes it even easier to capture and develop your musical inspirations. Use the new Flex Time tools to easily manipulate audio timing and tempo. And make music right out of the box with over 100 instrument and effect plug-ins from Logic Studio.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

33 of 33 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Terrific value, easy to use, October 3, 2009

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Andy (NYC) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Logic Express 9 Retail [Old Version] (DVD-ROM)

I am a hobbyist, not a pro, so keep that in mind as you read this; however, I have over the years used the old Logic when it was made by eMagic, Cubase, and landed on MOTU Digital Performer for a few years. I took a wrong turn and ended up playing with Reason and Live for a while, and then quit altogether. After a few years, I recently picked up Native Instruments Komplete 6, and never having found an ideal DAW, decided to dip my toe in the water with the new version of Logic Express. Having used many packages, I can tell you this is a robust package that strikes a nice balance between ease of use for a musician and powerful features for a producer. The Express version is not defanged, and can happily handle tons of tracks, Audio Units plug-ins (no VSTs), and without reading the manual I could record MIDI tracks, use software instruments, and record audio the same day I installed it. There are some really nice features and if you need the pro version you simply pay the difference for the upgrade, making this pretty exceptional value. I'm still fine with Express, but knowing the upgrade is easily available at no penalty is a nice policy. This is an intuitive and thoughtfully designed piece of software that has definitely reduced barriers for me at least in terms of getting the ideas that are in my head down and playing with them until they sound great.

14 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Powerful upgrade from Garageband, January 23, 2010

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Michael K. Lemmon (Portland, Oregon) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Logic Express 9 Retail [Old Version] (DVD-ROM)

I used to use music software for PC from companies such as Cakewalk. Back then I found many software packages were just very hard to set up and use. I felt this difficulty took away from creativity as I just spent too much time tweaking and too little time recording.

When I switched to Mac, Garageband became my software of choice because, well, it was free. But it was also simple enough to get up and going without taking away from creativity, yet still be a powerful enough tool for what I wanted to create.

Now that I am getting more seriously into composition, I upgraded recently to Logic Express. I also considered Ableton Live (and have the lite version), but Logic speaks to me in many of the ways that Garageband did, yet adds much deeper levels of control. It definitely has just about anything one would need in a full music and audio editing package in terms of tools, effects, mixing, editing.

Logic Express 9 also includes some extremely powerful synthesis instruments. As I work predominantly in the electronic genre, I am very interested in these. But honestly, while extremely powerful, the interfaces for these instruments are very difficult to use and feel very un-Apple (Logic was purchased from another company after all). I'm hoping we'll see some modernization of these in the future.

I've also had some difficulties setting up my MIDI keyboard to have Logic consistently "learn" my keyboard knobs and tying them to instrument or effect parameters. However, when this does work it really lets you "play" the virtual instruments much more expressively than you ever could in Garageband.

There's definitely some Logic-specific interface idiosyncrasies (such as turning on/off or copying effects) that really did make me have to look at the manual. But once you learn some of these they are consistent within the world of Logic. These do feel a bit like unnecessary legacy though.

Overall, I am extremely impressed with how much you get in Logic Express. Once you get past some of the Logic-specific idiosyncrasies, it is a very powerful tool that still lets me create and edit much more deeply, but not get too bogged down in settings.

11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Oh yes, now I got it going, October 27, 2009

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E. Wemmerus "Singer of songs" (Fort Smith, AR USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Logic Express 9 Retail [Old Version] (DVD-ROM)

Experience: Professional Musician for 40+ years, now retired

Studio owner for 20+ years with the last 10 years on the digital side of recording

Singer/Songwriter 20 + year.

I'm a singer/songwriter/guitar player and I need an easy, fast way to get my musical ideas down so I don't lose them. I have been using Logic Express 8 for the last year and a half, which has been a great DAW but I wanted some of the features I saw advertised in the new Logic Express 9.

Well, I just purchased Logic Express 9 about 3 weeks ago and I love it. Apple has upped the ante with Logic Express 9 by an order of magnitude with all the new things I can do with LE-9, that I couldn't do with LE 8. Just the new "Flex Time" and the Guitar Amp/Pedal Board features alone are worth the price of admission. I haven't had time yet to try out all the rest of the new features, but I can tell from what I have tried that it's gonna be a lot easier and faster to get my songs done and out of the studio as a finished piece of music or on a CD that I can sell.

Hurray for Apple, they've done it again !