Look past Logic Pro 13’s new dark Liquid Glass theme and updated browser, and you’ll find Apple focused on two core technologies, touch and “intelligence” — and two very different upgrades.

Unified Browser with Liquid Glass UI elements. Image above and at top courtesy Apple.

What’s new, what’s different

Despite the big version bump, Logic Pro 13 is not a major departure from past releases. Yes, at first it looks different, since we’ve had years of similar gray-shaded interfaces. Now, Logic sports the ovals spreading across Apple UIs, plus a dark theme that matches its stablemate, Final Cut Pro.

Liquid Glass adds translucency to local menus and makes some adjustments to windows and toolbar buttons.

It is really dark — darker even than Final Cut (though the corresponding version of that wasn’t out yet). It doesn’t follow the system and change to a light theme, either. And there’s no option to change shade.

There’s also a new Unified Browser , which is heavily streamlined for navigation.…