You can analyze imported samples and can manipulate them using one or more of these synthesis methods. Alchemy provides extensive sample mapping, looping, and grouping facilities that make it easy to create instruments containing hundreds of samples and layers. If you want to create purely synthetic sounds, the additive, spectral, and virtual analog synthesis engines are full-featured, matching or exceeding the power and facilities of many standalone instruments. An Alchemy preset can contain up to four sources, each using one or more synthesis engines.
You can morph or crossfade between these sources. Dozens of modeled analog and digital filters are available, in addition to multiple racks of integrated effect units and an extensive modulation section. Alchemy also features a powerful arpeggiator that can control each source independently and provides flexible pattern modulation options.
If you are new to synthesizers and different synthesis methods, see Synthesizer basics overview. Also see the Logic Pro Alchemy tutorial introduction for detailed tasks on the use of several advanced Alchemy synthesis features.
Before you can design new sounds with Alchemy you need to understand how its different parts fit together, and how each of them contributes to what you hear. The diagram shows signal flow from left to right through the different sound generating and processing modules.
Each sound can contain up to four sources: A, B, C, and D. Each source consists of additive, spectral, granular, sampler, and virtual analog elements. Multiple elements can be active in each source. Each source has three independent filters that can operate in parallel or in series. Lots of long standing bugs have never been fixed in Logic, but with every update new bugs are introduced. Good luck running a session relying on punching into a track. Zoom settings are having random weird problems.
They are all excellent and capable DAWs. However, after using Logic Pro X, it is hard to migrate to any other music software. I find myself able to create music with relative ease that the other DAWs just are not capable of. The MIDI capabilities alone are second to none in Logic and the ability to compose music in all styles makes it the best of the best. Another huge plus is the constant and free updates Apple provides… updates that are really upgrades in the quality and number of plug-ins and soft instruments built into the program.
Composing music or just recording a band is easy with this software. Whether you are into acoustic, jazz, electronica or rock, this software package is the best there is and gets updated constantly by Apple. Apple takes this software very seriously and I commend them for their excellence. Version However, it does have on issue now with Flex Pitch and Flex Tim. Total disaster when only trying to use Flex Pitch and not edit the time.
When you turn off Flex and Follow, all of your time and pitch corrections disappear. I just want to use flex. Nothing can fix this. I have been looking in Apple Forums and trying to find a solution for about a week now. The artifacts that now happen when using flex are so bad the audio almost becomes unusable.
