logic guide unit 32

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Logic

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Logic Arrange Window

Arrange area, surrounded by white frame


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Firstly, you need to open logic by clicking on the logic icon on the task bar. This will then open up logic and for

you to create an EMPTY PROJECT. You then need to go up to the top left hand corner to FILE and select NEW.

Doing this will open up a new box and you need to double click EMPTY PROJECT. Another box will appear and if

you want to use the instruments already in logic you need to select SOFTWARE INSTRUMENT. The AUDIO button is for instruments or equipment

you have plugged in such as a

microphone. You will then have to

select the number of AUDIO

TRACKS you wish to record on,

for example 6.

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Next, you need to select the MEDIA

button in the top right hand corner which houses all the logic instruments. There will be several

different folders containing all the sounds. The MEDIA list is sometimes open when you

create an EMPTY PROJECT, to close the MEDIA list, click on the icon.


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After this, you will need to decide which instruments you wish to use. Make sure you have selected

an audio track to add an instrument to. An AUDIO TRACK is a strip in the ARRANGE AREA where

you are able to listen back to, record and edit what you have put in. To select instruments or sounds,

search through the MEDIA list to see what different sounds there are or you can search for a

particular instrument such as CELLO to do this, go to the search bar at the top of the MEDIA list and type in what you are looking for. To hear the

particular sound, just double click it and the AUDIO TRACK in the arrange area will change to

that instrument. To hear it, press the keys on the MIDI keyboard and if you wish to change it,

simply search for another instrument and double click until you find the sound you are looking

for. Once you have decided on a particular instrument/sound, you can click on the next AUDIO

TRACK and search through the MEDIA database to find the instrument/sound youre looking for.

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If you wish to add another AUDIO TRACK, go to the upper left hand corner to

where it says GLOBAL TRACKS and there will be a + in a box. This box allows you

to add in more tracks and more instruments to your project.

If you want to have the same instrument twice, a quicker way of doing this instead

of searching through again is to click the box next to the box with just the + sign which has a smaller + and two overlapping boxes and click. Make

sure you have selected the AUDIO TRACK you want to duplicate otherwise you may have two copies of a

track you dont want. Once you have set up the instruments and sounds you wish to use, you can start to

play around with the midi keyboard and input what you want into logic.


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To open the piano roll, you need to double click the AUDIO REGION. You will notice that the NOTES you have played into logic take theshape of

a rectangle, some may be slightly different lengths and different colours. The lengths may be different due to you holding down a note slightly

longer or letting go a bit too soon. The different colours correspond with the velocity, how hard you pressed down when playing the note. If the

note is a blue or green then this mean you pressed down softly, but if the note is yellow, orange or red, this means you hit the keys a lot harder.

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Once you open up the piano roll, the first thing you will want to sort out is the timing. To do this, you need to QUANTISE. This means to make sure

that the notes are matched up to the correct points in the bar, but

you may want to move some notes around after this. To

QUANTISE you need to go to the top of the piano roll box and you

will see a Q button, go to the button to the left of it. This brings up many different options as to how many beats you wish

to have in a bar then select the option you want, for example 1/16 note. You then need to highlight the notes you have just

input into the piano roll by clicking just before the first note and dragging over until all are highlighted. You may notice the

notes get slightly darker when you highlight them. Then click the Q button next the drop down menu and this will move the

notes into the correct position. To zoom in and out of the piano roll box, go to the bottom right hand corner where you will

find two arrows, one vertical, and one horizontal. The vertical arrow will make the notes thinner and fatter and the

horizontal arrow will make the notes either squished together or very spaced out. By using these arrows you will be able to

move the notes to a more accurate position.


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If you want to move notes one by one then first click and hold the note and drag to where you want it to be. If you want to move more than one or

all the notes, click close to the first note to be moved and click-drag over the notes you want to move together. When you have selected them, they

will have a slight tint to them as seen before. When the notes are where you want them, take your finger off the mouse and click and hold the first

note and drag to

the position you

and them in.

When you are

happy with this, let go and click away.

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If you want to make notes longer then hover over the very end of the rectangular note and the mouse will

change to a bracket with two small arrows pointing in opposite directions, click and drag the end to make

the note longer or shorter. If the velocity needs changing, making the note softer or louder, you need to click

on that note or highlight the notes and then press the ESC button on the non-musical keyboard. This will

bring up a drop down list of options used to manipulate the notes. To change the velocity you need to scroll

down until you find a box with a V inside it. Select that option, click and hold the note or notes and drag up

to increase velocity or drag down to decrease velocity or if you want to play about, for example press the

FADE tool.


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The FADE tool will allow different instruments or sounds to fade in or out. To bring up the FADE tool, press the ESC

button like before and select FADE. Select which end you want to fade (the start will fade in and the end will fade out)

and hover over the edge until you see the mouse change. Then click-drag towards the middle or where you want the

fade to begin or end. To get the mouse back, press the ESC button and select the top option.

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When recording into logic, you may have pressed a wrong note, so while the piano box is open you will be able to

move it to where it was meant to go. Click the note or notes that are wrong and drag up or down to see and hear if it is

in the right place. If you want to make a note longer, you need to hover the mouse over the end of the note and the

mouse will change to a bracket with two small arrows pointing in opposite d irections. Click and drag the end to make the note longer or shorter

depending on where it needs to be.

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When you have quantised, changed velocity, moved notes, changed sizes you can then start to add in other instruments. If you want to record

something else into another track, make sure that the track is selected, for example, if you have just recorded something into POP CELLO

SWEETENED and you want to record something into

MIXED CHOIR make sure that MIXED CHOIR is selected

in the AUDIO TRACK. You can repeat the process you

have just done by practicing what you want to put in,

recording it, and then editing.


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To save the work you have done so far, go to file, and save as. This then brings up

the save box, where you will be able to name it what you like and save it where

you want it to go.

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To BOUNCE a file, means to stick everything together so that we have 1 media

file, like a song file. To BOUNCE your work you need to go to FILE and down the

list to the bottom where it says BOUNCE and name it what you want it to be

called, save

it as an mp3

file if it does

not have a

video clip with it, save it where you want it to be saved. You have the option of

bouncing the file OFFLINE meaning it creates the sound file as quickly as

possible or in REAL TIME meaning if the track is for example 5minutes and 35

seconds long, it will take that long to create the file.


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Instead of pressing the ESC button each time you need to change the tool, you

could alternatively go up to the top right hand corner and where there is an arrow

tool in the first box and next to it a + in the next. Clicking these will open the drop

down list when you press the ESC button.

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With logic, you can add in a video clip to compose music to. You open up logic the

way you did before by selecting empty project and the number of tracks you want.

To add the video, go to file and scroll down to OPEN

MOVIE you will then have the opportunity to find the

video clip you want to use and add it into logic. When the

video is open, the play, pause, stop, backwards and

forwards buttons will work with the video clip. For

example if you wanted to play the film clip to see if the music goes with it, press the play button and it will play along to

that scene. If you decide you do not want the video clip anymore or wish to change it, go back to FILE and scroll down to

underneath OPEN MOVIE to REMOVE MOVIE and clicking this will get rid of the video clip.


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You can also CYCLE sounds. This means to select or highlight a

section of a track and make it repeat itself over and over again,

for example 14 bars or 2 beats. To CYCLE, you need to click the

darker rectangle at the top of where the audio tracks are

recorded in. You can click and drag where you want the loop to start and end and just like extending individual notes, you can make the loop longer

or shorter. If you want to remove the loop, just click the rectangle once to remove it.

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To help distinguish between different audio tracks, it may be useful to

colour them and change their names. To change the colour of an audio

track, select the one you want to change colour, then go up to the top

right hand corner next to notes and bounce, click the COLORS button. A colour pallet will come up and you just need to select the colour you want

to use. You can do this with all the audio tracks.


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You can change the name of an audio track by going to the

channel strip and select the track you want to rename.

Double click the name of that track and it will change into a

highlighted yellow. You can then start typing its new name.

Once you have typed it in, click away from the track.

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If you do not want to record something in, you can use the PENCIL tool instead. This meansto write in. First, select the track you want to write in,

for example HIP HOP STRINGS. Press the ESC button and the second option down is the PENCIL tool and selecting this will enable you to write in

an audio track. Go along to the instrument you want to write in, for example HIP HOP STRINGS and click where the recordingswould play in. A box

will appear but no notes would be inside the box. Just like the audio tracks that have been recorded in, double clicking it will open up the piano roll.

You again then to press the ESC button to bring up the list and select the pencil tool to start to write in the notes. There is a mini keyboard at the

left hand side to help you see which notes you are writing in and through the midi keyboard, the sound will be produced. To get the mouse back,

press the ESC button and select the mouse.


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In logic, you can manipulate how much sound comes out of each speaker or headphone by using the PAN disks. If you

want the sound or an individual AUDIO TRACK to seem as if it is coming from mostly the left speaker, then selecting the

PAN disk and click-dragging the blue fill down will make more sound come out via the left speaker or headphone while

click-dragging it up will make more sound come out via the right one. The number will indicate how much of the sound is

coming out of each speaker, so if the disks are at 0 then the level is equal, but if the number is, for example, 64 then

that is the percentage that is coming out of that speaker.

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In logic, if you want to copy and paste somethingor you want for example a bass line to repeat itself; you can do

something called LOOPING. This is when an AUDIO FILE, once its been played in, can be dragged along the strip in the

ARRANGE AREA so that it is easier to repeat. To LOOP, you need to go to the top right edge of the AUDIO FILE strip

and hover until the mouse changes to an arrow making a circle. When this appears, click-drag the end of the AUDIO FILE'

up to where you want it to repeat to. You will be able to see what is a copy, as the boxes will appear lighter. If you went

too far or want to undo the LOOP hover over the top right edge until it appears again and drag back to where the

original audio file finished.

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