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Logic Pro 13 gets touch right, but stumbles on “intelligent assistant”
Look past Logic Pro 13’s new dark Liquid Glass theme and updated browser, and you’ll find Apple focused on two core technologies, touch and “intelligence” — and two very different upgrades.
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Lucinate video synth animates and live-codes visuals on Mac and iOS
From the makers of the utterly indispensable iPad app AUM (among other things), Lucinate is a real-time visual environment for macOS and iOS, based on Apple’s Metal technology. You can approach this as a ready-to-play, Ableton Link and Link Audio-enabled video synth. And when you want to hack or make your own shaders, you can live-code those, too.
Organismi OR—1, free for iPad: breathing, stochastic pattern generator
OR—1 is an artful, generative MIDI sequencer maker. It’s free for iPad as an AUv3, with a desktop macOS version available for €19.99. And it’s an exquisite experience feeding these into synths.
Logic has new granular, Beat Breaker features; here’s how to use them
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Elastic OSC, Plaits-derived poly, is now a macOS and Windows plug-in, too
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