This comprehensive three-day hands-on course introduces students in detail to the primary feature set and basic user interface of Logic Pro, the professional music production software. The course demonstrates clearly how to create a fully customized audio and MIDI configuration that seamlessly integrates with your personal home or professional production studio setup. Throughout the course, students will create their own original song from scratch using Logic Pro's comprehensive array of software instruments, the extensive Apple Loops library, and powerful DSP effects and plugins. In-depth lessons provide thorough coverage of MIDI and audio recording techniques, streamlined editing and sophisticated arrangement approaches, user-defined key commands for efficiency, automation features for mixing control, scoring to picture for visual media, and advanced surround sound mixing techniques.
Target Audience:
- This class is designed for anyone who wants to learn music production fundamentals and composition using Logic Pro, Logic Express, or Logic Pro X
- This class is ideal for musicians, producers, and audio enthusiasts looking to create professional-quality sound recordings with Logic Pro and who prefer hands-on, interactive instruction to thoroughly explore its extensive functionality and capabilities
Course Prerequisites:
- Knowledge of OS X or macOS operating system and basic computer navigation skills; basic familiarity with music or audio concepts is helpful but not required
Comprehensive Course Outline:
Make Music with Logic Now
Creating a Logic Pro X Project; Exploring the User Interface thoroughly; Navigating the Project and workspace; Building Up the Arrangement systematically; Mixing the completed Song; Mixing Down and exporting to a Stereo File
Recording Audio
Setting up Digital Audio Recording; Recording a Single Track; Recording Additional Takes; Punching In and Out; Changing Recording Settings; Deleting Unused Audio Files
Editing Audio
Assigning Mouse Tools; Editing Regions in the Workspace; Comping Takes; Adding Fades and Crossfades; Editing Regions in the Audio Track Editor; Editing Files in the Audio File Editor; Aligning Audio
Produce a Virtual Drum Track
Creating a Drummer Track; Arranging the Drum Track; Customizing the Drum Kit
Recording MIDI and Using Controllers
Using a Patch from the Library; Recording MIDI; Correcting the Timing of a MIDI Recording; Joining Recordings into a MIDI Region; Recording MIDI Takes; Punching In and Out; Creating a Layered Sound Patch; Creating a Split Keyboard Patch; Mapping Smart Controls to Patch Parameters; Controlling Logic from an iPad Using Logic Remote; Using Step Input Recording; Processing MIDI Notes with MIDI Plug-Ins
Creating and Editing MIDI
Creating MIDI Notes in the Piano Roll Editor; Creating MIDI Notes in the Score Editor; Importing a MIDI File; Editing MIDI Data in the Event List; Creating and Editing MIDI Continuous Controller
Editing Pitch and Time
Setting a Project Tempo by Detecting the Tempo of a Recording; Using and Creating Apple Loops; Creating Tempo Changes and Tempo Curves; Adding a Turntable or Tape Slow-Down Effect; Making One Track Follow the Groove of Another Track; Changing the Playback Pitch and Speed with Varispeed; Editing the Timing of an Audio Region; Tuning Vocal Recordings
Editing an Arrangement
Previewing the Song; Copying Material to Fill in Parts; Rendering Multiple Regions; Adding and Deleting Sections; Cutting Regions to Remove Silence or Noise
Mixing
Organizing Windows and Tracks; Using the Amp Designer; Adjusting Levels and Pan; Submixing Tracks and Processing the Submix; Using an EQ Plug-In; Using Delay and Reverberation; Using Dynamic Processing Plug-Ins; Using a Few Tips and Tricks
Automating the Mix
Creating and Editing Offline Automation; Recording Live Automation; Using MIDI Controllers; Bouncing the Mix
