Tips & Tricks Logic Pro.
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Hi all, most course examples are based on Cubase. That's fine of course, but for somebody like me who uses Logic Pro less relevant. To prevent other students from reinventing the wheel I thought I create a Tips&Tricks topic for other Logic users. Moderators, since on the course the next page after the assignment page is usually an "example solution" anyway I hope you don't mind sharing this.
Level 2, editing 1, exercise comping:
- Create new project as per normal, adjust tempo
- select the guitar tracks. In the track window, "functions" dropdown menu, Folder -> Pack folder
- track window, "functions" , folder -> Pack take folder.
- comp the 4 guitar tracks as per assignment
- select the used regions in the pack folder tracks
- Command Option G to normalise levels, select desired level.
- Option drag the pack folder track to create a duplicate track with contents.
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To switch on/off tracks :
- Main menu "tracks"-> configure track header.
- Under "buttons" tick On/Off. Now all your tracks will have the on/off button.
To hide tracks:
Tracks windows upper left area, click the "H" button, it will turn green.
- Now all your tracks will have an "H" button. Click the button of the tracks you want to hide.
- Click in tracks window upper left area the "H" button again, it will turn orange. The individual tracks that you selected the "H" button on are now hidden.
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Module 2, editing 1, exercise sine wave cross fade:
- In tracks window, "drag:" dropdown menu, select X-fade
- In LCD select display mode "time".
- Select regions as per assignment.
- Drag regions as per assignment
- In inspector window on the left hand side select either X(crossfade) OR eqP (equal power Crossfade) depending on assignment.
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Module 2, editing 1, base editing:
- Make initially rough cuts, then precise cuts at waveform crossing as per example video.
- Use the waveform zoon button to enable precise cutting, see screenshot.
- In tracks window, "drag:" dropdown menu, select x-fade.
- drag selected regions to desired tack, Logic will automatically create a crossfade.
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Module 1, editing 1, editing multiple tracks:
- In the mixer window in the channel strip group slot, assign a group number to the tracks that you want to group.
- (If you don't have the group slot, control click on a channel strip, select "configure channel strip components", tick "group".
- In the inspector window on the left of your main logic window, select the group, settings, tick "editing" and "quantize-locked (audio)". See screenshot. Now the individual tracks will have a green "Q" button (transient analysis).
- Now you can group edit regions while maintaining phase coherency, even with flex-time.
- P.S. If you shift-click the group slot in the mixer window you can assign MULTIPLE GROUPS to a track. Now you can vary the settings per group, e.g. if you want to enable group volume change on some channels in the group but not the others.