Logic Remote for Android

It works perfectly fine on GarageBand and LogicX but not MainStage. Please enable it soon 🙏🏽

I don’t use it often, but since Universal Control, I’ve started using the app again. One thing I’d like to see would be pan control for Dolby Atmos. It would be so nice for the special panning to be controlled via the app.

Logic at $200 for a complete DAW was already the best value for a pro & complete system - adding this free controller app which is very smooth in most ways, just adds to that amazingess of what you can get for the $200 Logic purchase - just ten or 15 years ago, this would be $10,000 - $20k to have a system including the touch screen remote app. Logic can also be controlled by all the industry-standard means (MIDI, MIDI Machine Control aka MMC, the Mackie HUI standard, etc) but all these other methods require bespoke programming by a software developer or by the end user (you don’t need to know how to code, it’s just hugely time-intensive to setup manually each parameter). The mixer control - amazing & excellent. I would like to be able to control the zoom (sizing) myself, but banks of 8 works ok. The smart chords - incredible. The downside is you don’t need to learn the chords, how they work, basic music theory so many young ppl will never learn that - but another way of looking at it is that for teaching those concepts, and immediate ability to play music by hand is now super accessible and for the advanced musician who doesn’t ‘need’ them, handy in many cases, too. The smart controls - I couldn’t immediately figure out how to select which plug-in I wanted to control, I’m assuming they’ll work like they do in the Logic main app, which is as much as can be expected for third-party plug-ins, but for built-in plugins, why can’t we have the whole UI here? Possibly I just didn’t figure out how - what I wanted was the Remix FX plug-in & UI which I found was implemented on the mixer screen by pressing [FX] at the top and then you get exactly what I wanted - no latency I can perceive! The keyboard shortcuts - lazy. I doubt this will help anyone’s workflow, the way they’re shown here. Why I feel entitled to harp on this is that these shortcuts on the keyboard are positioned much more sensibly, so if they’re not gonna come up with a sensible arrangement (positioning on the screen) UI for the Mobile, I would’ve far preferred this screen to mimic the actual keyboard shortcuts so that it would help users learn the shortcuts from the keyboard, as they’re way more effective there, compared to switching to this screen, selecting which ‘bank’ , reading all the text and clicking…. Or they could’ve allowed the end-user to customize the layout, drag them around the screen, decide which bank, decide coloring, etc like iOS home screens! The only real issue with this is the issue with Google software / hardware overall - the risk that one day an update of Logic software / Android / Mobile OS / this Logic Remote app will cause it to stop working for a user because of incompatibility with the computer or the Mobile - this would be understandable if Google allowed users to revert to the prior version which works, but they don’t and that’s really crappy. This system works wonderfully right now, I have no idea year-to-year if/when it’ll break. For example, the newer LPX is incompatible with the Waves V9 plugins I’ve been using for years and rely on. I had to setup a brand new Android installation with an older version (10.14 instead of 10.15 Catalina) and setup everything again. So that’s just something to keep in mind and maybe take measures to be prepared for this like making backups of your Mobile and Android, you can do that and you should be able to revert that way, it’s just a lot of work.

This app never connects to logic easily. At this point it’s stopped working all together. This is ridiculous

It connects to Logic maybe 50% of the time. This seems like something Google should be able to do 100% of the time. When it’s connected it’s useful!