Logic Pro 10.7.2 - New features and functions

Stability and reliability

• Resolves an issue where Logic could quit unexpectedly when performing Flex Pitch analysis.
• Logic no longer quits unexpectedly when tabbing to the end of a region after inserting a chord symbol into the Score.
• Fixes an issue where Logic could quit unexpectedly when loading presets in Audio Units plug-ins, or copying tracks that contain Audio Units plug-ins.
• Fixes an issue where Logic could quit unexpectedly when converting imported REX2 files.
• Resolves various issues with Audio Units plug-ins that might cause Logic to quit unexpectedly.
• Resolves an issue where Logic could quit unexpectedly when selecting a new patch while a Sampler window is open.

Performance

• Improves performance and responsiveness when performing Smart Tempo analysis while the project is playing.
• Performance is improved when selecting files in the Audio Import window on macOS Monterey.
• The Logic interface now remains fully responsive when track level meters are displayed.
• Fixes an issue where MIDI notes could stick when played through a Summing Stack using Logic's built-in instruments on Apple silicon Macs.
• Notes created using the Pencil tool in GarageBand for iOS no longer get stuck when played back in Logic Pro.
• Logic no longer hangs when zooming in to the maximum zoom level with the Movie track open.
• Resolves an issue in Autosampler where playback to USB audio interfaces could become distorted.

Spatial Audio

• Muting channels in the Surround Panner now behaves as expected in Spatial Audio.

Accessibility

• VoiceOver now consistently announces the selection state of items in the Project Settings windows.
• The blue highlight now follows selected items in the Preferences windows in VoiceOver mode.
• VoiceOver can now be used to control a channel strip's 3D Object Panner in Spatial Audio projects.

Live Loops

• An alert is now displayed when a Step Sequencer pattern cell is converted to MIDI, warning if the contents require that they be aligned to a single pitch.
• Resolves an issue where Software Instrument Live Loop cells could appear to be empty immediately after recording.
• In full screen view, the Live Loops grid now reliably updates when toggling Ultrabeat cells
• Triggering and recording into Live Loops cells from control surfaces and MIDI controllers now works reliably.

Step Sequencer

• Fixes an issue where playback can pause unexpectedly when recording large amounts of data into an unquantized Step Sequencer pattern in which step 1 has a negative offset.
• Playback of a Step Sequencer region now continues as expected if the MIDI In port of the track is changed while it is playing.

Flex Time and Flex Pitch

• Resolves an issue where audio files might not play after Flex Pitch analysis was performed.
• Analyzing an audio file for Flex Pitch no longer resets existing Flex Pitch edits in the file.
• Flex Pitch curves in the Audio Track Editor now consistently display as expected after an audio file is re-analyzed for flex pitch.
• The Strength slider for Flex Pitch no longer jumps back to 100% after a lower value is set in the Audio Track Editor.
• Flex Pitch data is now displayed correctly immediately after an audio file is analyzed for Flex Pitch.

Mixer

• The Mixer now immediately shows the effect of changing from Post-fader mode to Pre-fader mode.
• The Channel Input Mode button for Software Instrument tracks now displays reliably when the Mixer is set to Tracks view.
• Deselecting all multiple selected channel strips in the Mixer now leaves only the currently focused channel selected in the Track List.

Groups

• All regions of grouped tracks are now selected when selecting a track that's a member of the group.

MIDI 2.0 Support

• The Arpeggiator plug-in now sends the correct note-off messages to third-party Software Instruments and MIDI FX plug-ins when Logic is running in MIDI 2.0 mode.

Plug-ins

• An enabled EQ thumbnail now consistently displays as expected.
• Logic's instruments now consistently respond as expected when playing quarter-tone tunings in Legato mode.
• Adding a second instance of a third-party MIDI FX plug-in to a project no longer causes the track with the first instance to stop playing.

Sampler and Quick Sampler

• Changes to the modulation visualization of controls in Quick Sampler are now immediately visible.

Automation

• Automation for the Tape Stop parameter in RemixFX now remains functional after the play head is manually dragged during playback.
• Resolves an issue where the RemixFX Gate effect did not respond properly to automation.

Logic Remote

• Changes to the length of a pattern region are now immediately visible in Logic Remote on iPhone.
• Logic Remote now displays the Filter On/Off switch for Quick Sampler.
• It is now possible to activate the Filters in the Gate plug-in using Logic Remote.
• Left Delay and Right Delay controls for the Sample Delay plug-in are now available in Logic Remote.
• The Gain and Q-Factor controls in the Single-Band EQ plug-in are now available in Logic Remote.

Control surface and MIDI controller support

• If a newer LUA script for an installed control surface is available, Logic will now use that instead of the built-in settings.
• Logic now retains changes made to the display mode of control surfaces running in Logic Control mode.
• Control surfaces supported by LUA script now send and receive feedback when using MIDI 2.0.
• The Control Surface setup window now displays the correct group number for a selected device.
• Fixes an issue where Novation Launchpad could unexpectedly show closed Track Stacks as being empty.
• Setting a control surface to move the play head by ticks no longer causes the play head to only move backwards.
• Control surfaces now update to select newly created tracks in Logic.
• Changing an assignment control name in the Controller Assignments window now updates the name in the Key Commands window and Smart Controls assignments inspector.
• It is now possible to edit an assignment in the Controller Assignments window if a Smart Controls inspector is also open.

Export and bounce

• Fixes an issue where canceling bounce-in-place of a pattern region could cause the region to become corrupted and uneditable.
• Sound from Remix FX is now included in bounced projects.

Content

• It is now possible to load a channel strip CST file by dragging it from the Finder to the channel strip header.

Impulse Response Utility

• All rows of the level meter in the Impulse Response Utility now update correctly.

Undo

• Fixes an issue where a triple click could prevent additional undo steps from being added.

Score

• The strum up and strum down markings are now displayed as expected in the Tablature Settings window.

Editing

• Notes created with the Brush tool now reliably use the quantize values chosen by key commands.
• Scale and Quantize settings in the Piano Roll no longer reset to defaults when the Piano Roll window is closed and then re-opened.
• The value scrubber in the Position > Operations column of the Transform window now works correctly.
• Selecting a region in the Event List editor now deactivates an active Marquee selection.

General

• Resolves an issue in which MIDI might sometimes be recorded onto an Audio track.
• Fixes an issue where edits to the currently selected and zoomed track could affect another track.
• Auto-punch using Marquee selection now works consistently.
• Fixes an issue where very short MIDI note events could sustain longer than expected when the MIDI 2.0 preference is enabled.
• Previously selected MIDI regions are now deselected after recording a new MIDI region with Overlap mode enabled.
• The Dynamics control in the MIDI Region Inspector now properly limits MIDI values that would exceed the top range of possible MIDI values.
• Musical Typing now remains active if a record-enabled MIDI track is not the focused track.
• Resolves an issue where the Region Delay sometimes could not be set to “ms.”
• Resolves an issue in which using Option + Shift to copy a Marquee selected area unexpectedly divides regions covered by the Marquee original selection.