Sam Towner

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What Is
Logic is a Digital Audio Workstation, which allows you to input MIDI data
Logic?

through a MIDI keyboard or piano roll, import audio files, or make recordings of
instruments or vocals. Once these inputs have been done, there are arrays of
different correctional and creational edits you can do to the region of data, which will
be explained in this guide. In short, Logic is a home studio on your computer.

The Piano
What is
MIDI data is musical notes that you create through the use of a MIDI keyboard
Roll
MIDI?

or drawing in the piano roll. A MIDI keyboard is a normal keyboard (usually with a few
knobs, drum pads, and faders on), which links to your computer through a USB
connection. Rather than getting sound directly from the keyboard itself, the notes
you play go into logic, and play through the instrument you have set to that channel,
and out of the speakers or your headphones. You can record or draw MIDI in, and edit
it in almost anyway thinkable. Each note can have a different velocity, lengths,
volumes, and with or without pitch bend, just to name a few of the possibilities.
However, it is sometimes hard to record in perfect timing, even with the metronome
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line you want to change, and the curve tool will allow you to bend

Lets Break Down Some

Features From The Last
Section:

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Automati
on

Automation is a feature that looks

more complicated than it is. By
doing the keyboard shortcut a,
you can open up the automation
feature. Automation is simply
changing the effect or volume of a
channel through the
representation of a line. In the
screenshot to the left, the dark
green, first line of automation is
with regards to the EQ. When the
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numerous
instrument options
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or correctional
dynamics to the mix. Lastly, the final orange layer changes
the
intensity
of
and many
sub-options.
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edit the channelthe
strip
channel. Additionally, the lines dont always have to be
straight.
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it,
and
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your
Audio
equalisation.

Channels
By clicking on the + in the
red circle one
again, the same drop down menu will
appear. This time, you want to select the
Audio option. If you are using the channel
to record, you want to use input 1, or if
you are using it to import and audio file,
you want to change the input to no input
and deselect the record enable option.
Once the channel is set up, click record to
record the audio. If you want to import
and existing audio file, use the keyboard
shortcut Command Shift I, and select the

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When double clicking one of the grey bars under inserts in the Inspector, the menu to the right open

The Transport
Bar

Conclusi
on

This is found at the

bottom
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project.
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were
to make
a radio
advert
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had
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incorporate most
the arrow that
brings
you
back
to
the
beginning
of
your
project
when
clicked.
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feature in logic. We had to use existing audio files and record out own, and use
following buttons
are instruments
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stop,
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be cut and
clicked, the edited,
button on
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enabled

this
is
the
metronome.
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the
left
is
the the mix
and over lay them on top of music we made. We also had to balance
solo button, so
and
loop.
In the
darkofgrey
is the project
settings.
You
can dominating
change the parts of the
that
certain
parts
the box,
mix werent
cancelled
out by
other
BPM (Beats mix.
Per Minute), and change the bar layout. You can also see how much CPU is
being used while working.
You can
also our
see advert
the amount
of time
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On the whole,
I think
went well:
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ideas
flowed
the time function.
able to execute them to how we thought of them. Listening to them again after
bouncing, I feel like we could have included vocal effects to make them pop and be a
bit more interesting, but other than that I feel that we captured our product well, over
an array of genres.
I think I can improve my Logic skills by adding more variation in my work rather
than sticking to a mental template and experiment a bit more rather than playing it

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