New Logic Studio: Logic Pro 9 - Flex Time + MainStage 2

The new update for Logic Studio looks great.

The new Flex Tool lets you push audio around with your mouse by clicking and dragging anywhere on the waveform. Select from rhythmic, monophonic or polyphonic modes for editing solo vocals, rhythm guitar or multitracked drums with Flex Time. You can Quantize Audio and use Varispeed to speed up or slow down an entire multitrack project. Speed Fades can sound like DJ turntable-style starts and stops.

There's a new Drum Replacer. Convert to Sampler Track will turn an audio region into a sampler instrument with a MIDI track to trigger it so you can edit and resequence it. Bounce-in-Place speeds up bounce time. Notate with guitar tab and chords. There are over 450 warped impulse responses for Space Designer giving you more ways to freak out your sound.

For guitarists, there is an Amp Designer and Pedalboard that work well with the upcoming Apogee GiO USB audio interface & foot controller.

MainStage 2 has a new Playback plug-in to let you play live to a backing track. There's a Loopback looper for live performance. The MainStage update adds Multimapping of controls, group controls, full ReWire support and recording functionality.

Looking forward to using all these new tools in the new Logic Studio. Thank you, Apple!