Apple introduced immediately that it is bringing its flagship skilled artistic apps to the iPad for the primary time. The Logic Pro audio-editing software program and Final Cut Pro video-editing software program are making the bounce to the iPad with multi-touch-optimized interfaces and Apple Pencil assist.
Both apps can be obtainable on the App Store beginning May 23 for both $5 per thirty days or $50 per 12 months. Each can even have a one-month free trial obtainable.
Both apps have extra stringent system necessities than the GarageBand and iMovie apps. Logic Pro will run on any iPad with at the very least an A12 Bionic chip, together with the Eighth-generation iPad, the Third-generation iPad Air, the Fifth-generation iPad mini, and newer fashions. Final Cut Pro is extra demanding and requires an iPad Pro or Air with an M1 or M2—presumably, it is the small quantity of RAM included with older iPads that retains them from operating software program that a lot slower Macs have managed to run for years.
The iPad variations of Logic Pro and Final Cut Pro do assist some degree of cross-platform compatibility with the macOS variations, however boundaries stay. Logic Pro initiatives assist “roundtrip capabilities” that make it potential to use Logic Pro for Mac to open and edit initiatives created on an iPad and vice versa. Final Cut Pro initiatives created on an iPad may be exported to Final Cut Pro for Mac, nevertheless it would not appear potential to export initiatives from the Mac to an iPad as a substitute.
If you have created initiatives with the iOS variations of iMovie or GarageBand, you can too import them into Final Cut Pro or Logic Pro for the iPad to hold engaged on them with the extra superior apps.
Final Cut Pro and Logic Pro are a few of Apple’s final paid software program after the corporate made macOS upgrades free a decade in the past and adopted swimsuit with the previous iWork and iLife app suites just a few years later. Unlike the iPad variations, the Mac variations of Logic Pro and Final Cut Pro X are nonetheless obtainable for one-time funds of $200 and $300, respectively.