Logic Studio: Soundtrack Pro 2.0 - Technical Specifications

Additional Information

Minimum requirements to install all applications

  • Mac computer with a 1.25GHz or faster PowerPC G4 processor (PowerPC G5, Intel Core Duo, or Intel Xeon processor highly recommended)

  • 1GB of RAM (2GB or more highly recommended)

  • Display with 1024-by-768 resolution (1280-by-800 or higher recommended)

  • Mac OS X v10.4.11 or later

  • QuickTime 7.3 or later

  • DVD drive for installation

  • PCI Express, ExpressCard/34, USB, or FireWire based audio interface recommended

Surround requirements for Logic Pro and Soundtrack Pro

  • Mac computer with dual PowerPC G5 processors or an Intel Core Duo or Xeon processor

  • Multichannel audio interface

Available disk space

  • 7GB to install all applications and required content

  • Additional 39GB to install all optional content (large content packages can be installed on separate disk):

    • 10GB for Jam Pack collections

    • 16GB for sound effects

    • 6GB for surround music beds

    • 7GB for other optional content

Contents

  • DVD containing Logic Pro 8, MainStage, Soundtrack Pro 2, Studio Instruments, Studio Effects, WaveBurner 1.5, Compressor 3, Impulse Response Utility, Apple Loops Utility, QuickTime 7 Pro, and required content

  • Six content DVDs containing Jam Pack collections, sound effects, surround music beds, EXS24 samples, and impulse response files

  • Demo content DVD

  • Printed and electronic documentation

Precise Audio Control

  • Nondestructive, sample-accurate editing of audio files

  • Support for up to 24-channel files, including mono, stereo, and surround

  • Action-based editing to modify, reorder, suspend, or delete any audio edit, plug-in, or process

  • Audio Effects and Audio Units plug-ins can be applied to supported audio files as Actions

  • Audio Effects and Audio Units plug-ins can be applied to supported audio files as real-time effect chains

  • Real-time effects applied to audio files can be rendered to Actions

  • Intelligent analysis, repair, and restoration functions for:

    • Clicks and pops

    • Power line hum

    • DC offset

    • Phase

    • Clipped signal

  • Integrated multichannel file editor

  • Audio time stretching without affecting pitch

  • Ambient Noise Print to quickly replace unwanted noises from location recordings

  • Background Noise Removal including noise print

  • Sample ruler units in sample value, normalized, percent, and decibel view

  • Snapping to ruler ticks, zero crossings, markers, and adjacent clips

  • Support for bit depths up to 32-bit float

  • Support for sample rates from 2kHz to 192kHz

  • Support for AIFF, WAV, MP3, CAF, BWF, SDII, NeXT, QuickTime, and STAP (Soundtrack Audio Project) file playback

  • Saves files nondestructively as STAP files or destructively as AIFF, WAV, SDII, QuickTime, CAF, or NeXT

  • Export mixes as AIFF, WAV, NeXT, SDII, MP3, AAC/Podcast, Dolby Digital Professional (AC-3), or using Compressor

  • Selection history

  • Waveform and customizable frequency spectrum views with linear and logarithmic display

  • Frequency selection and editing in frequency spectrum view

  • Animated waveform feedback

  • Mini-waveform view

Advanced Sound Design

  • Processes including:

    • Fade in/Fade out

    • Normalize

    • Amplitude adjust

    • Silence

    • Invert

    • Swap channels

    • Mono conversion

    • Channel reordering

    • Resample

    • Generate silence, white noise, pink noise, sine wave, sawtooth wave, square wave, or triangle wave

  • Support for Audio Units plug-ins

  • Audio Units presets available to all Audio Units-compatible applications

  • More than 6000 sound effects, music beds, and music loops, including over 1000 in surround

  • Powerful media search engine

  • Support for Apple Loops, AIFF, WAV, MP3, AAC, CAF, and ACID sound and music libraries

Professional Multitrack Audio Editing

  • Single window with customizable tab panes

  • Customizable window layouts

  • Dynamic tab panes with quick show/hide functionality

  • Resizable video window tab

  • Multitrack Timeline with tracks, busses, submixes, and master in stereo or surround

  • Multiple multitrack and audio file projects open at once

  • Mixed sample rates supported in multitrack projects

  • Time- or beat-based tracks

  • Ruler in HH:MM:SS, seconds, samples, frames, drop frame, non-drop frame, beats

  • Loop clip transposition

  • Loop clip speed adjustments (quadruple, double, normal, half, quarter)

  • Adjustable automatic and manual crossfades

  • Fade selector for customizing fade in, fade out, and crossfades

  • Tape-style and sample repeat scrubbing

  • Rolling edit tool

  • Native and custom timecode spotting

  • Multitrack recording of mono, stereo, and multichannel files

  • Lift & Stamp tool to selectively copy plug-in sets from one clip to another

  • Lift & Stamp effect sets can be saved as presets

  • Lift & Stamp EQ matches the EQ characteristics of one clip to another

  • Automation parameters can move with clips or lock to absolute time

  • Pull up/pull down of audio and video to all common standards

  • Customizable clip and track colors

  • Clip locking in multitrack

  • Clip disabling in multitrack

  • Momentary mono switch

  • Automatable master tempo, master volume, master effects, and key

  • Automation of most mix and effect parameters with read, touch, and latch modes

  • Pre- and post-fader send busses for application of common effect plug-ins to multiple tracks

  • Output bussing for single fader control of multiple tracks

  • Support for multichannel audio output devices

  • Time, duration, podcast, beat, and end-of-project markers

  • Powerful browser for locating content quickly

  • Multipoint Video HUD

  • Tool HUD

  • Timecode HUD

  • Numeric Clip offset

  • Bin with access to multiple projects, media files, markers, and clips

  • Spotlight-style searching in Bin

Advanced Take Management

  • Multitake recording with take editing in Multitake Editor

  • Multitake Editor allows comps of multitake recordings and other audio files

  • Combine individual phrases from different takes

  • Automatic, customizable crossfade between phrases

  • Single-click take selection

  • Adjustable transition boundaries for multitake comps

  • Final comp functions as stand-alone clip while retaining access to all takes

  • Slide phrases within edit boundaries

Surround and Stereo Mixing

  • Discrete 5.1 mixing, bussing, and routing

  • Console-style mixer with full stereo and surround meters on every track, bus, submix, and master

  • Surround panning of mono, stereo, and surround audio files

  • Mono, stereo, and surround files can be combined on same track

  • Support for multichannel surround files

  • Surround Panner HUD with automatable controls for rotation, width, collapse, center bias, LFE balance, and individual speaker disabling

  • Surround and stereo panner automation data simultaneously available on each track

  • Automatic surround to stereo fold-down option

  • Support for True Surround and multi-mono effects

  • Control surface support (Mackie Control Protocol)

Integrated Workflow

  • AppleScript scriptable (executable from Soundtrack Pro, Final Cut Pro 6, or as AppleScript droplets for batch processing)

  • Automator actions for creation of complex multiapplication workflows in Mac OS X v10.4 or later

  • Support for video formats up to HD resolutions

  • Integrated video tab

  • Output to SD and HD1 video monitors (via FireWire or PCI card)

  • HD1 or SD output using Digital Cinema Desktop2 to second Apple Cinema Display

  • Send and receive MIDI timecode and beat clock for synchronization with hardware and software

  • Integration with Final Cut Pro 6, DVD Studio Pro 4, and Motion 3

  • Round-trip audio file editing with Final Cut Pro 6 and Motion 3

  • Support for Final Cut Pro 6 scoring markers

  • Conform tab to conform audio edit to new Final Cut Pro 6 edits

  • Conform visual interface for highlighting changed areas

  • Accept or reject changes across entire project or selectively on a change-by-change basis

  • Podcast track to create audio-only, enhanced, or video podcasts

  • Support for chapter, artwork, and URL markers on video and audio podcasts

  • Export presets and customizable post-export scripts

  • OMF import

  • AAF import and export

  1. HD requires a Power Mac with 1GHz or faster single or dual processors and 1GB of RAM or any Intel-based Mac with a minimum of 1GB of RAM.

  2. Digital Cinema Desktop requires a dual-port AGP card with second display.