Guide to using logic

Once you have opened up logic you will see the 1st thing the software would do is
to tell you to select one of the following.
Audio
Software instrument
External midi
Once choosing one of these three region in this case software instruments you
can add as many outputs and you want, which then allow you to drag and click
different instruments into these tabs.

After this your will click create and now your page should look like this
depending how many outputs you have selected. Here I have selected one which
will look like this.

here is one output which is empty so when you play through your midi keyboard
there will be no signal coming through. To select an output you will need to go to
the top right hand side of the screen and look for a icon which says media. Once
you have selected media you will go along to liabry, which is the 3rd tab across.

Here is the selection of midi instrument which

allows you can chooses from. Once you have
selected one you will get a output signal to
know that your midi keyboard is connected
you should look at the lower left hand side
and look for this.

to know how you have single you should look

for the orange bars at the bottom while you
are playing.
this here shows the signal which the
computer is receiving via midi

Recording via midi

Once you have selected a instrument you will want to record it, to do this make
sure you have the r button which stands for recode selected then proceed tot
he recording guttin on the bottom of the control panel it looks like this.

when you have pressed this button you will notice that
at the bar counter it will be illuminated red then you
can get a bar count in then you can start recording.

Press this button

then you will be
ready to record

here you can see that I have played a melody using via midi. Once you are happy
with the melody you have played in there are many ways you can alter the
section of work you have played In. one of these vial alterations you can make
toy our piece is to quantize. This is where you take the melody and make sure it
is in time. This is a great advantage because it allows all of what you play to be in
time and allows the piece to flow.
To start double click onto the piece you have played and you will see this.
This allows you to see which bits you have plated in time and out of time as well.
To quantize this you will need to highlight the melody and select the quantize
tool.

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Here you can see I have selected the 16th note and then you will have to click the
q which will automatically quantize the track so that it is in time to a 16th note
beat.
There are many tools which you are able to use in logic these allow you to
manipulate your audio in many different ways and allow you to adjust audio
tracks and midi.

The pointer tool

This allows you select midi and audio files ( regions) also allows you to drag and
place your file in exactly where needed. This it your home tool which effectively
means this is a basic toll which enables you to do many basic operations what
the tool without using other tools. This allows you to when in the piano roll to
increase and decrease the pitch of the not and the velocity ow which the note if
played at.
The pencil tool
This tool allows you to add in notes to your piano roll with out having to play it
again via midi. This is very useful because it allows the user to fine tune there
piece of work with out having to record the piece again.
The eraser tool
This tool allows you to delete small sections of work without effecting other
pieces of the piano roll without using it in the piano roll it deletes the section
which you have selected
Text tool
This allows you to rename tracks which then allows you to work with a cleaner
and more visually appealing traces which DE clutters and allows the user to
know exactly what they were doing.
Scissors tool
This tool allows you to crop and cut parts of audio and midi signals this allows
you to keeps the best bits of the what you have played and delete and get rid of
the things which are not as good.
The glue tool
The glue tool allows you to combine two bits of audio together so the when you
move one they move together and they are attached and cannot be undone
unless you re cut it by using the scisors tool.
Solo tool
This tool isolates one track so that you can here is alone with all the other tracks
muted this is much quicker than using the mute tool on individual tracks when
you have a set up of many tracks.

Mute tool
This tool also allows you to isolate tracks so that you can focus on other channels
Using effects

there are many effects which are on logic which can be used in conjunction with
guitars or bass some are more commonly used with other instrument like for
guitar you have a selection of amps to choose from clean vintage amps to high
gain amps.

The EQ is very useful because it allows you to isolate and eliminate certain
sounds just like a normal EQ on an amp. It is a 6 band EQ that can give tonal
variation the best ting for this to for you to explore different sounds you can
create with just changing the EQ.
Also there is a high and low end cut. This takes out all of the height and low end
depending on how much you take off the EQ
Hardware
There are many different pieces of hardware used in conjunction to logic some of
what I have talked about earlier for example midi controlled. There are others
pieceds of hardware which are essential e.g microphone leads, xrl cables studio
monitions
( speakers which run in either mono or stereo)

Saving and bouncing your track

Once you have created and finished your track you will want to save the file and
bounce in. bouncing a track is when you export a a track(s). once this is done it

reduces the amount of computer processing power it takes for the computer to
use because the computer reads a bounced track as one single tack rather that
many different tracks all player at once.
Here is the deference between a unbouced track and a bounced track.
This is an unbouced track which is view in logic you can see that there are
multiple tracks:

this track is the same song it has just been bounced to an audio file viewed in
logic.

to bounce you track you will go file ; bounce track then you will be asked to name
your file. Make sure you add a loop when bouncing your track because otherwise
logic does not know when you stop bouncing the tracks if you do not add a loop
it usually bounces the track up until bar 144 which can leave a huge cap in a file
once the track has finished playing. This only happens on previous logic software
like express and 9

when you want to import a audio file you will have to look to the far right top
hand corner for the media icon which looks like this

Media

When you have selected this

you should select all files the
using the search bar down the
bottom right hand corner of the
page and the drag the file over
to a track creating a audio file
which allows you use
everything from the above
which has been described in the
tools section