SOFTWARE AND HARDWARE REQUIREMENTS
Logic Pro 10 or 11: Overview, Highlights, Innovations, and Misconceptions
Connecting and configuring your devices
Choice of equipment according to your budget and your needs
Configuring and optimizing your Home Studio
Software Preferences and Settings
Downloading and managing sound libraries
PROJECT MANAGEMENT IN LOGIC PRO
Creating and configuring a new project
Managing Logic Pro Modes (Simplified or Expert)
Preferences and settings for the software and your projects
Tempo, metronome, count-in, time signature and key configuration
Instant backup, folder, package
THE LOGIC PRO INTERFACE
The different windows
Main and secondary tools, Zooms, keyboard shortcuts
Console Strip, Track, Region Inspectors, Using Help
The library, patches, modules (plug-ins), sounds
Logic Pro browsers (Apple loops, lists, etc.)
MIDI, Audio Editors and Session Player
The mixing table
Command and display bar, the toolbar
MIDI IN LOGIC PRO
Instrument Track: Creating, Customizing the Track
MIDI Recording
Setting the metronome, count-in and latency
Choose an instrument, a sound, a patch
Recording modes: Live, step, folder, autopunch
Editing: Tools, Piano Roll, Score Editor and Step Editor
Quantization, resizing, velocity, legato, expression, modulation
MIDI automation
THE LOGIC PRO SESSION PLAYER
The Session Player; Logic Pro's virtual instrumentalists
Acoustic Drummer: Choosing a drummer, modifying elements, editing the game, swinging and humanizing
Bass and Keyboard Player: Choosing a Sound, Articulations, Playing Mode and Variations
Structure
ULTRABEAT
Ultrabeat interface, sounds and styles of the 100 drum kits
Beat-Making: Internal sequencer, full view mode and pattern mode
Accent, Velocity, Gate and Swing parameters
Introduction to Step Sequencer associated with Ultrabeat, Pattern Regions
THE APPLE LOOPS
Loop Types: Audio, MIDI, Patterns and Session Player
Organization, filters and search by instrument, styles and sound
Browser, tempo, length, keys, modifications
Creating, saving and archiving personal Apple Loops
Building an arrangement with Apple Loops
DIGITAL AUDIO RECORDING
Recording: pre-amp, AD/DA conversion, latency, buffer and monitoring
Project Settings: Sample Rate and Bit Depth
Track-by-track recording and multi-track recording
Managing Autopunch and Replace modes
Take files and alternate tracks
Cycle Mode
EXPLORING KONTAKT
Kontakt is your gateway to an unparalleled treasure trove of virtual instruments. More than a sampler, Kontakt has powered two decades of blockbuster film scores and chart-topping hits, along with thousands of incredible instruments.
AUDIO EDITING IN LOGIC PRO
Take comping: audio editing and export
Editing tools: Selector, resizing, fade, crop...
Using Flex for Timestretch/Warp
Audio quantization and transient management
Flex Pitch: Correcting pitch and creating harmonies
Insert silences
CONFIGURING GLOBAL TRACKS IN LOGIC PRO
Layout: Structure of the arrangement
Markers: Landmarks and navigation
Alteration: General tonality and time signature
Tempo: Tempo changes in global tracks or the list editor
Chord tracks associated with Player Bass and Piano sessions
THE LOGIC PRO MIXING DESK
The different console slices
Track header components, mute, solo listens (tracks/region)
Panoramic management
Organize Track Stacks, Groups, VCAs
Bus and auxiliary management for routing
Insert and/or auxiliary processing and effects
AUTOMATION
General techniques for adding dynamics to your mixes
Recording automations: Read, touch, latch and write
Track/Region Automation and Automation Editing
Assigning Controllers to Automation Parameters
SHARING AND EXPORTING A PROJECT
Backup: folder or package, archiving, backup, Time Machine
Normalization and pre-mastering
Export to the correct format depending on the final media