New features and enhancements

Over 650 new Apple Loops are included in a variety of dance and popular music genres.

The spectral engine in Alchemy now provides 11 spectral effects for allowing creative sound processing in the frequency domain.

Apple Loops can now be dragged into Alchemy and they will automatically conform to the current tempo.

Alchemy now supports MIDI mono mode This allows you to use third-party Expressive MIDI Controllers, including products from Roli and Roger Linn Design.

Alchemy now automatically adjusts the gain when morphing Formants.

The Sound Library now displays content when it's available but not yet downloaded. Individual files or directories can also be downloaded directly from within the browser.

Holding shift while double-clicking on a channel strip EQ slot now inserts a Linear Phase EQ.

Drum kits and software instruments in MainStage now respond to Force Touch and 3-D touch with supported devices.

The following plug-ins have been updated with new Retina-ready interfaces:

Stereo Delay, Tape Delay, Sample Delay, Bitcrusher, Clip Distortion, Distortion, Phase Distortion, Adaptive Limiter, Limiter, Single Band EQ, AutoFilter, Levelmeter, Multimeter, Chorus, Ensemble, Flanger, Microphaser, Phaser, EnVerb, SilverVerb, Gain, Klopfgeist, Test Oscillator

These plug-ins include the following new features: