Logic Pro 9 On Mountain Lion Supports Airplay

Written by danski on . Posted in OS X Tips

Logic Pro Airplay Support

If you’re running Logic Pro 9 on OS X Mountain Lion, and you have an Airport Express set up as a client on your (wireless) network, you can now choose ‘Airplay’ as an Output Device in Logic Pro’s Audio Preferences. This allows you to stream the audio that’s coming from Logic Pro straight to the Airport Express, to which you connected a home stereo or powered analog speakers.

It seems that I can’t stream the audio to my Apple TV – at least not yet (I’m on a mid-2010 Macbook Pro). That’s a bit of a shame, since for many of us TV is an important medium.

Changing the Sound Output in Mountain Lion’s System Preferences doesn’t help: when Logic Pro’s Output Device is set to ‘Built-in Output’, it will play over that output, regardless of the output you’ve selected in System Preferences.

Hopefully this will be addressed in a future update.

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  • Stelio

    Is the sound compressed with Airplay?

    • http://logicblog.info danski

      Stelio, if I remember correctly, audio will be compressed using Apple’s lossless compression technology.

      • Stelio

        Cool! thanks for your answer :)

  • bartek

    how is Logic behaving under Mountain Lion?

    • http://logicblog.info danski

      Hey Bartek,

      No problems here. Haven’t tried all of my third-party plugins though! Cheers.

    • gm

      mostly ok, though there are some glitches I’ve come across so far .. weird ones that weren’t happening before the upgrade.. like the cursor doesn’t change (loop, scissors etc) if the main window is not running in the first space… and some hangs where it keeps playing, but a quick restart of logic sorts that. Otherwise, mostly ok

      (mid 2012 13″ macbook pro)

  • Paul Katzman

    I believe Logic’s audio output device preference always overrides what you have chosen as the system output in System Preferences. At least it does for me, on Lion, and did on Snow Leopard (both w/Logic 9).

  • Eric

    Just off the top of my head as a maybe crazy idea – if your ATV is jail broken you might be able to use XBMC to get the sound to your tv. I am still learning about XBMC so maybe it won’t work. Anybody else know?