Logic Pro X: Audio and Music Production

Logic Pro X: Audio and Music Production

Mark Cousins, Russ Hepworth-Sawyer

Language: English

Pages: 424

ISBN: 0415857686

Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub


From initial demos to mixing and mastering, seasoned authors Mark Cousins and Russ Hepworth-Sawyer show you how to get the most from Logic Pro X. By exploring the essential workflow and the creative possibilities offered by Logic’s virtual instruments and effects, Logic Pro X: Audio and Music Production leads you through the music creation and production process, giving you all the tips and tricks used by the pros to create release-quality recordings.

Using full color screenshots throughout, alongside related boxouts that expand on the key concepts, Logic Pro X: Audio and Music Production is an informative and easy-to-read guide to using Logic Pro X.

Key features include:

Production FAQs

– Instructional Walkthroughs and Knowledgebases present information clearly and answer common production–specific problems.

Methods

– Professional techniques for recording and editing in Logic Pro X – whether you’re dealing with real musicians or cutting-edge virtual instruments.

Workflow

– Use Logic Pro X’s tools and functions in an optimal way.

Website

– Access audio examples, samples (Apple Loops), Logic projects, sampler instruments, and instrument patches at www.focalpress.com/cw/cousins

Logic Pro X: Audio and Music Production

covers more than just the software; it will help you make the most out of every recording session and will illuminate and inspire your creative and sonic endeavors!

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most appropriate setting – whether it’s as fine as a Sample, for example, or even Bar and Beat settings to maneuver regions about on the timeline using a keyboard rather than a mouse. Figure 5.8 Using the Nudge feature is a great way of fine-tuning a region’s position. Change the current Nudge value by opening up the contextual menu. 5.7 Resizing and Cutting Regions Having understood how to work with different snap resolutions, let’s start to explore some of the finer aspects of trimming,

with Take Folders, though, the markers aren’t evident on the “top” level but can be viewed and modified once the Take Folder has been expanded. Flexing Multiple Audio Events With a series of Transient Markers placed, you can now start to explore various applications of the Flex Time technology. Probably the first and most immediate application is to resize a region and its contents accordingly. Previously, of course, the act of resizing a region would result in the “edit window” 117 Logic Pro

project in question. You can also browse through, instrument by instrument, using the small + and − buttons on either side of the Sampler Instrument menu. Once a sound has been loaded in, you can then start to experiment with the various parameters settings on the interface. These include basic instrument tools – like volume, tuning, total available voices, and so on – as well as a number of synthesis-orientated features, like a multimode filter (just below the Sampler Instrument menu), three

from other Logic Pro Projects. Apple Loops Browser (Keyboard Shortcut – O) Apple Loops are a range of prerecorded musical segments that are installed alongside Logic Pro X and should be immediately familiar to anyone who’s used GarageBand. Use the Apple Loops Browser as a means of both auditioning and importing these loops into your Logic Project. Project Notes/Track Notes (Keyboard Shortcut – Alt + N) The project/track notes features is a handy way of keeping track of information that needs to

Top Gear, and CSI:NY. He has also had works performed for the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, the East of England Orchestra, City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra, and the Brighton Festival Chorus. Mark has been an active contributor to Music Tech magazine since issue one. He has been responsible for the majority of cover features, as well as the magazine’s regular Logic Pro coverage. As a senior writer, he has also had a strong editorial input on the development of the magazine, helping it become

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