Although they may have been designed to look like classic pieces of hardware, and certainly taken inspiration from them, Apple’s Logic Pro plugins have traditionally been original designs rather than emulations of specific pieces of classic studio gear. That’s changing in the new versions of Logic Pro for Mac and Logic Pro for iPad, though (v11.1 and v2.1), as both feature a software version of the Quantec Room Simulator.
Released in 1982, Apple says that the original QRS is “the most acoustically accurate reverb ever created”. It was developed by Quantec founder and inventor Wolfgang Buchleitner, and Apple used his original schematics, algorithms and code to recreate its sound as closely as possible.
