Editing Logic Pro (section)

===Creator and Notator===
In 1987, C-Lab released Gerhard Lengeling's MIDI sequencer program for the [[Atari ST]] platform called ''Creator''.<ref name="Sound On Sound Nov 1987">{{cite magazine|last=Russ|first=Martin|date=Nov 1987|title=C-Lab Creator|pages=57–61|url=https://www.muzines.co.uk/articles/c-lab-creator/2538|magazine=Sound On Sound|publisher=|location=United Kingdom|access-date=2021-02-22}}</ref><ref name="Music Technology Dec 1987">{{cite magazine|last=Trask|first=Simon|date=Dec 1987|title=C-Lab Creator|pages=72–74|url=https://www.muzines.co.uk/articles/c-lab-creator/2148|magazine=Music Technology|publisher=Music Maker Publications (UK), Future Publishing.|location=United Kingdom|access-date=2021-02-22}}</ref> From version 2.0 onwards, released in 1988, a version with added musical notation capabilities was also available, called ''Notator'', made with the help of Chris Adam.<ref name="Sound On Sound Sep 1988">{{cite magazine|last=Waugh|first=Ian|date=Sep 1988|title=C-Lab Notator|pages=22–26|url=https://www.muzines.co.uk/articles/c-lab-notator/3970|magazine=Sound On Sound|publisher=|location=United Kingdom|access-date=2021-02-22}}</ref>  A later bundled multitasking utility called Soft Link rebranded the packages as ''Creator SL'' and ''Notator SL''.<ref name="Music Technology Mar 1991">{{cite magazine|last=Waugh|first=Ian|date=Mar 1991|title=C-Lab Creator/Notator V3|pages=42–46|url=https://www.muzines.co.uk/articles/c-lab-creator-notator-v3/791|magazine=Music Technology|publisher=Music Maker Publications (UK), Future Publishing.|location=United Kingdom|access-date=2021-02-22}}</ref>

In the United States, its main rivals at the time included [[Digital Performer|Performer]] and [[Opcode Systems|Vision]], whereas in Europe its main rivals were [[Steinberg|Steinberg's]] Pro 24 and later [[Cubase]].  Most MIDI sequencers presented a song as a linear set of tracks. However, Notator and Vision were pattern-based sequencers: songs were built by recording patterns (which might represent for example Intro, Verse, Chorus, Middle-8, Outro) with up to 16 tracks each, then assembling an Arrangement of these patterns, with up to 4 patterns playing simultaneously at any one time in the song.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Houghton|first1=Matt|title=Play Order Track|url=http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/mar07/articles/cubasetech_0307.htm|publisher=SoundOnSound|access-date=2 December 2014|quote=Like Notator, Vision, and several other of the early MIDI sequencers, it was pattern-based. There was no timeline, no timeline-based looping of selections, and no arrange page. This method was more like a relational database than a modern computer sequencer. Users programmed various parts, comprising rhythms, chords and melodies, then programmed the order and number of repetitions of each of these parts to form songs.}}</ref> This more closely resembled working principles of hardware sequencers of the 1970s and 1980s.

When it was released, Notator was widely regarded by both musicians and the music press as one of the most powerful and intuitive sequencing and notation programs available on any platform.  After the later introduction of competitor Steinberg's [[Cubase]], however, track-based sequencing prevailed over pattern-based, resulting in the eventual greater integration and hybridization of the two methods in later versions of both Cubase and Logic.<ref>{{cite web|title=The Audio Interface Choice|url=http://homestudio-recording.blogspot.com/|website=Home Studio|access-date=6 April 2015}}</ref>  As Phil Hartnoll of Orbital said about a later version of Creator, "Cubase is much better for arranging: you can get an overall picture so much easier. They tried, with C-LAB, with that block arrangement, but I do like to be able to see an overview."<ref name="mz5538-the-magic-circle">{{cite magazine|last=Ward|first=Phil|date=Jun 1993|title=The Magic Circle|pages=56–60|url=http://www.muzines.co.uk/articles/the-magic-circle/5538|magazine=Music Technology|publisher=Music Maker Publications (UK), Future Publishing.|location=United Kingdom|access-date=2021-07-06}}</ref>

Notable users of Creator included [[Coldcut]],<ref name="Music Technology Aug 1990">{{cite magazine|last=Goodyer|first=Tim|date=Aug 1990|title=What's That Noise?|pages=30–34|url=http://www.muzines.co.uk/articles/whats-that-noise/417|magazine=Music Technology|publisher=Music Maker Publications (UK), Future Publishing.|location=United Kingdom|access-date=2021-02-22}}</ref> [[Fatboy Slim]],<ref name="Sound On Sound Jan 2017">{{cite magazine|last=Doyle|first=Tom|date=Jan 2017|title=Classic Tracks: Fatboy Slim "Praise You"|url=https://www.soundonsound.com/techniques/classic-tracks-fatboy-slim-praise-you|magazine=Sound On Sound|location=United Kingdom|access-date=2021-02-22}}</ref> [[The Future Sound of London]],<ref name="Music Technology Jan 1994">{{cite magazine|last=Trask|first=Simon|date=Jan 1994|title=Future Talk|pages=16–18|url=http://www.muzines.co.uk/articles/future-talk/7686|magazine=Music Technology|publisher=Music Maker Publications (UK), Future Publishing.|location=United Kingdom|access-date=2021-02-22}}</ref> [[LFO (British band)|LFO]],<ref name="Music Technology Aug 1991">{{cite magazine|last=Trask|first=Simon|date=Aug 1991|title=Deep Vibrations|pages=60–65|url=http://www.muzines.co.uk/articles/deep-vibrations/854|magazine=Music Technology|publisher=Music Maker Publications (UK), Future Publishing.|location=United Kingdom|access-date=2021-03-02}}</ref> [[Clint Mansell]],<ref>{{cite tweet|user=iamclintmansell|number=1254094716817141760|title=Headache music..my rig was MC-303, with AKAI S1000, an Atari 1040 running Creator which would become Logic. As far gear went this was my set up, & a Roland JV 880. I’d had a Nord Lead too but it got burned out when lightning hit our building & I couldn’t afford to get it fixed.}}</ref> [[Nightmares on Wax]],<ref name="mz872-waxing-lyrical">{{cite magazine|last=Trask|first=Simon|date=Sep 1991|title=Waxing Lyrical|pages=36–39|url=https://www.muzines.co.uk/articles/waxing-lyrical/872|magazine=Music Technology|publisher=Music Maker Publications (UK), Future Publishing.|location=United Kingdom|access-date=2021-07-07}}</ref> [[The Orb]],<ref name="Music Technology Jun 1991">{{cite magazine|last=Goodyer|first=Tim|date=Jun 1991|title=Tune In, Turn On, Chill Out|pages=42–48|url=http://www.muzines.co.uk/articles/tune-in-turn-on-chill-out/825|magazine=Music Technology|publisher=Music Maker Publications (UK), Future Publishing.|location=United Kingdom|access-date=2021-03-07}}</ref> [[Orbital (band)|Orbital]],<ref name="Sound On Sound Apr 1994">{{cite magazine|last=Humberstone|first=Nigel|date=Apr 1994|title=Music of Spheres|url=http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/1994_articles/apr94/orbital.html|magazine=Sound On Sound|location=United Kingdom|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081121134724/http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/1994_articles/apr94/orbital.html|access-date=2021-02-22|archive-date=November 21, 2008}}</ref> and [[System 7 (band)|System 7]].<ref name="Music Technology Oct 1991">{{cite magazine|last=Trask|first=Simon|date=Oct 1991|title=All Systems Go|pages=36–42|url=http://www.muzines.co.uk/articles/all-systems-go/885|magazine=Music Technology|publisher=Music Maker Publications (UK), Future Publishing.|location=United Kingdom|access-date=2021-03-02}}</ref>