When musical inspiration strikes are you prepared? So, you’ve got a musical idea and you want to put that idea in Logic the last thing you want is to lose that potential hit track while setting up your workspace and create the number of tracks etc you need! There’s no need to start from scratch each time you launch Logic when you can start straight your own template that can help you to transfer your ideas from your head onto your Mac … Continue Reading

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Logic Pro 9 comes bundled with a huge number of loops and presets and patterns for it’s drum synth/sampler, Ultrabeat and the EXS24. One of the problem with using loops (and even your own recordings) in your projects is the lack of variation. In some styles of music having the same beat throughout your song might sound great… but what if it eventually grates on the listener? Well, one solution is in the mixing stage. Using automation to emphasize … Continue Reading

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Recording audio. Whether you are a seasoned guitarist, a hobby vocalist or even an electronic musician, at some stage you’ll want to record audio into Logic. In the second part of this series that’s exactly what we’re going to do – explore the basics of setting up and recording audio into Logic. Before we get started, I’d recommend checking out the first in this Complete Beginners Guide to Logic here.

Recording audio in Logic 8 or 9 is quicker and easier than previous … Continue Reading

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How To Use Apple Logic Pro

So you’ve just opened that shiny new Logic Pro or Logic Express box and spent the last 4 hours or so installing it on your Mac… what next? If you’re completely new to Logic and/or the world of DAWs (Digital Audio Workstations) then this beginners guide series is designed are for you!  How to use Logic Pro.

At a glance you may find Logic’s interface to be a bit intimidating. Even if you … Continue Reading

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Aahhh!.. The beauty of Logic… don’t worry I’m not about to break into a sonnet or something! Rather today I want to share my 5 favourite key commands (new Logic users may prefer the term ‘shortcuts’). Yes, so back to the beauty of Logic… Well, I make no secret that being highly user customizable is without doubt one of the reasons I love using Logic so much. A large part of this is being able to customize and alter practically every menu function … Continue Reading

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If you use Multiple-Outputs in Ultrabeat or EXS24, or you like to send to Auxiliary channels, then today’s tips may be extremely useful!

Adding track automation to tracks in the Arrange window is a straight forward process. Either press “A” on the keyboard to view Automation or choose View > Track Automation.

From here, you can choose to draw automation on your track of choice offline or use one of Logic’s Automation modes to record track automation in real-time.

So, what do you do … Continue Reading

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In Logic 9 you can make fine adjustments (at sample level) to audio regions within the Arrange area or the Sample Editor. Many people overlook the Sample Editor, partly because most of it’s editing functions are Destructive. That means functions such as applying reverse or fades in the Sample Editor will write those edits to the original audio file permanently. There are times when this is not desirable!

For example, one of my first paid jobs using Logic 5 or 6 involved recording … Continue Reading

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Most people agree that since Apple took over development of Logic from Emagic the GUI interface has become more pleasant on the eye. Apple have done a lot more than add eye candy to Logic 8 and 9 of course, but this is naturally the most apparent change at a glance. There’s no pleasing everyone though when it comes to matters of color and design. And if spending hours staring at Logic’s hundred shades of gray brings you down, you may wish to … Continue Reading

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  Connect The Dots Vector Synthesis on the ES2 Exposed!        by Steve Horelick

In this sound design blog I’m programming the vector points in Logic’s esteemed ES2 soft synth.  We musicians are expert vector creators, by our very nature, because melodies, in a sense, are a kind of vector.  A note, by itself is a point in space.  String a bunch of those “points” together in time (with their individual pitch, loudness and timbre as their magnitudes) and it’s a perfect example of a vector.  However, … Continue Reading

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If you haven’t already, and you want to improve your editing workflow in Logic I’d recommend reading a recent blog post: 5 Amazing ways to use Logic’s Marquee tool. OK. You’re back… So, having read about the incredibly flexible Marquee tool you surely must be thinking that the humble Scissors tool will become a rusty and unwanted item in your Logic toolbox.

Well, let’s briefly compare these two tools: The Marquee tool can select parts of regions…. multiple regions even, split regions, copy, … Continue Reading

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