Both are independent applications and you can purchase and install one or the other or both. It also works with a separate companion program, called MainStage that will appeal to musicians who play live. Logic Pro X may be purchased and downloaded from Apple’s Mac App Store. The sound library includes 1548 patches, 3647 Apple Loops, 848 sampler instruments, 30 drum kits and over 2,000 presets for instruments, patches and plug-ins.

Logic comes with 67 effects plug-ins, including Pedalboard (with 35 stompboxes), and 18 software instruments. The mixer supports up to 255 audio channel strips, 255 software instrument channel strips, 255 aux channel strips, 64 busses and 99 MIDI tracks. Logic Pro X supports a wide range of control surfaces and I/O devices. I’m going to skip the music side of Logic in this review, in order to focus on its strengths and weaknesses for my needs – film/video editorial. Logic Pro X is without a doubt, a wonderful music production tool, but my focus is video editing. The revamp to Logic Pro X and its integration with Final Cut Pro X, makes this an ideal time to see how well it works as a companion tool for video editors. It holds a unique position as a tool that covers many divergent needs, including audio production and post, studio music recording and mixing, live performance and music notation. There are quite a few challengers to the dominance of Pro Tools, including Reaper, Nuendo and Audition, but the strongest of these is Apple’s Logic Pro X. Nevertheless, if you really need to focus on audio, you need a dedicated DAW (digital audio workstation) application. Most nonlinear editing software includes tools for editing and mixing audio.

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