Progressive House Music Production with Logic Pro

Color your tracks in Logic Pro to visually manage them, color drums together via the mixer palette, and keep regions matching track colors while saving often.

Focus on drums, building a kick beat with the exs 24 sampler alongside hi-hat, claps, and percussion; set the kick to about -10 dB for headroom while looping four kicks.

Load a stereo hi-hat sample and save it as hi hats, then lay out the hi-hats on the third section of each bar, balancing volumes for a clear, even mix.

Create a clap using the excess sampler, then edit a looping midi region. Apply eq and a low-cut filter, layer a snare for punch, and AB test for balance.

Explore basic progressive house chord progressions in the key of F, using F, G, and A minor with note repositioning and added tones—there's no single right way to play them.

Duplicate the bottom notes of your chord progression to form the bass. Load the Logic Pro bass preset, blend with the kick, and tune octave and cutoff.

Create arpeggios from the A minor chord by playing random white-key notes in Logic Pro, then quantize to sixteenth notes and add delay with a low-cut filter.

Add life to your track with a concise piano melody using a Steinway preset from the Access sampler, and enhance it with subtle reverb, modulation, and tremolo.

Add a vocal sample to a track using a stereo exs24 sampler, extend it across a few notes, and shape it with tape delay (52% feedback) and reverb.

Learn to create a side chain in Logic Pro by routing a trigger from the kick to a compressor on the pad, balancing attack, release, and ratio for pumping dynamics.

Create white noise with an initialized analog saw oscillator on a track, adjust release, apply a 6 db cut to reduce lows, then add a sidechain compressor for build-ups.

Create a reverse snare by loading a snare into a stereo sampler, reversing the sample, and placing it before each clap, then fine-tune timing and volume.

Learn to add markers in Logic Pro to label song sections with names and colors, such as drums, chord progression, vocal, piano, arpeggio, and break.

Master basics of mixing for progressive house: set levels and pan tracks for space, cue instruments clearly, and apply minimal EQ to balance highs and lows.

Learn to swing your notes in Logic Pro to add bounce by nudging notes forward, then quantize all tracks with a mid-range swing and swing time signature.

Learn how to bounce your mix to wave or mp3, choose PCM for mastered versions, and set start and end bars before clicking bounce.