Apple’s Logic Pro now saves your takes even if you forget to hit record

Apple’s latest Logic Pro update for both Macs and iPads brings a feature that can rescue you when you’ve just played a perfect take for a song, but forgot to actually hit record. Called “Flashback Capture,” it’s a lot like a gaming feature that lets you retroactively save cool moments by holding down a capture button for a few seconds.

If that sounds familiar to you, Logic Pro already does this for MIDI recordings. Flashback Capture builds on that by working for both MIDI and traditional audio recording sources, letting you recover your recording with a “key command or a custom control bar button.” The feature also works for looped sections, saving a separate take on each pass.

As someone who knows the pain of struggling to reproduce something cool I played on guitar while listening back to a track — or just forgetting to hit record — I can’t express how extremely happy I am that this feature exists. (Hopefully, it works as seamlessly as it sounds.)

In addition to Flashback Capture, Apple says it also improved the quality of audio extracted by Stem Splitter, a feature introduced last year that uses AI to split instruments from a recording into separate tracks for each category of instrument. The company has added support for guitar and piano, as well as the ability to export only specific parts of audio, like when removing vocals to create instrumental tracks or taking out drum and bass to make it easier to remix a song.

Apple also added new sound packs — Logic Pro’s collection of pre-recorded loops. Those include “over 400 dynamic loops, punchy drum kits, and a custom Live Loops grid” for the Mac and iPad versions of the app. The Mac version of the app also gets two new packs all its own, one called Magnetic Imperfections that Apple says “captures the raw, unpolished essence of analog tape,” and the other a collection of guitar tracks recorded by Animals as Leaders guitarist Tosin Abasi.