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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)

Getting familiar with Drummer and the Library

Open a new project and select Drummer from the New Tracks Dialog window to create a Drummer instrument. While it defaults to the Rock genre, if you hold the mouse down on that field, you will see that there are other choices. For now, let's go with Rock with Open Library checked.

What you now have is a Drummer region, with the Drummer editor open, and in the Library, you will see the genre choices and multiple drummers within each genre with descriptions of the drummers, and in the Sounds section, a bunch of different drum kits:

Figure 7.1: A new project with a Drummer created

NOTE

The "hipper than thou" crowd made merciless fun of the descriptions when Drummer first appeared, but they are accurate and helpful.

The default Rock drummer is Kyle, and he plays a kit called SoCal and a preset called Half-pipe. Notice that with this choice, Drummer changes the project tempo from 120 bpm to 110...