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Jumpstart Logic Pro 10.6

By : Jay Asher
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Jumpstart Logic Pro 10.6

By: Jay Asher

Overview of this book

Logic Pro is Apple’s flagship application for music creation, found in many professional music studios across the globe. It is a powerful digital audio workstation that comes with all the software tools that you need to create music that sounds great. In the previous version, Logic Pro 10.5, Apple had added impressive features to what was already a full package of tools, loops, FX plug-ins, and software instruments. Providing a comprehensive introduction if you’re new to Mac computer music creation, this practical guide will show you how to use Logic Pro and have you up to speed in no time. You’ll not only understand what Apple’s Logic Pro software can do but also get hands-on with using it to accomplish various musical tasks. The book starts by getting you up and running with the basic terminologies. As you progress, you’ll explore how to create audio and MIDI musical parts. To build on your knowledge further, the book will guide you through developing an automated mix. In addition to this, you’ll learn how to bounce mixes and audio files for distribution. By the end of this book, you’ll be well-versed with Logic Pro and have the skills you need to create professional-quality music.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)

Project Settings

Under the File menu, navigate to Project Settings | General.

There is a new project setting for dynamic loading of plugins as you need them, which you may find helpful for large projects, and it is on by default. If you don't want this, go to General | Opening Project | Only load plug-ins needed for project playback, and uncheck it. Unless you save it as a template though, you will have to keep doing this, which, frankly, I wish were not the case.

For now, we can leave the Project Settings. Because I am just going to record a vocal and a MIDI piano part, I will delete the other tracks from my Track List.

Setting levels

I am going to get a bit geeky here for a minute and talk about how Logic handles incoming signals. Logic has a floating point architecture, which means it adjusts its headroom automatically to incoming signal, so that any channel strip can go into the red without creating digital distortion, except the Stereo Output.

When you are...