Ultimate Beginner's Guide to Logic Pro

Name: Ultimate Beginner's Guide to Logic Pro
Rating: 4.0 (86 reviews)

Learn how to go from a complete beginner to a fairly solid level of knowing Logic Pro

Created byRichard Williams

Last updated 5/2016

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What you'll learn

Learn how to navigate, record, and edit notes
Learn how to adjust tempo, audio, loops and volume automation
Learn the basics of Logic's Synthesizers and effect plugins

Course content

4 sections • 22 lectures • 5h 1m total length

1- Basic Setup14:20
How to setup basic key commands(keyboard shortcuts) and basic functions like navigating around in Logic - NOTE: Download the "Richard Logic Key Commands" zip file
2- Record, edit, cut and loop midi note regions14:17
Record, edit, cut, and loop MIDI note regions in Logic Pro; quantify, adjust velocity and volume, and duplicate notes with option-drag.
3- Loading Instruments, Regions14:29
Load instruments in Logic Pro through three methods, compare library and effects options, and master region manipulation with copy, highlight, solo, and mute features.
4- Loops, audio, creating/layering a simple song13:51

5- Score editor, Step Input Midi14:32
6- Piano sustain pedal, Tempo automation, loops14:43
How to use the pedal for a piano, Tempo automation and loops
7- Loops, Crossfading audio, Composing to video, Beat mapping14:47
More on loops, crossfading, composing to movie picture, and beat mapping
8- Volume automation, Orchestral midi examples14:34
Master volume automation in Logic Pro using curves, pencil, and marquee tools to sculpt orchestral swells, pan settings, and region versus track automation for realistic string performances.

9- Loading and using ES2, EXS 24, ESM Synthesizers14:22
You'll learn how to navigate and load Logic instruments, as well as the basics of the synthesizers themselves
10- ES E, ES P, EFM1 Instruments13:34
Explore two beginner synthesizers in Logic Pro, mastering oscillators, waveforms like sawtooth and square, filter cutoff and resonance, velocity, ADSR envelopes, and FM synthesis with unison and fine tuning options.
11- ES 1, ES 2 Instruments14:51
12- EVB3, EVOC PS, EVP 88, EXS24, Klopfgeist, Test Osc Instruments13:20
13- Sculpture, Ultrabeat Instruments13:34
More on more synthesizers

14- EXS24, MOTU Ethno/Symphonic Instrument, MachFive 2 Instruments13:57
Explore advanced instrument libraries in Logic Pro, including EXS24, MOTU Ethno/Symphonic Instrument, and MachFive 2; learn to load, unzip, manage multi-channel instruments, and apply core effects.
15- East West Orchestral Library, Freezing14:27
Explore EastWest Play's orchestral library, load instruments with articulations, use key switching and DSF modulation to shape expression, and streamline Finale-to-Logic workflows with track freezing.
16- Multi timbral/multi channel with East West, East West Choirs, Word Builder14:06
17- East West Choirs and Word Builder, Hollywood Strings13:49
Explore word builder and East West Choirs in Logic Pro by leveraging dynamic mind, phonetics, and the environment window to craft realistic soprano, alto, and choir textures with Hollywood Strings.
18- Word Builder, Recording multiple takes of audio/midi14:23
Learn to set up Logic Pro for recording audio and MIDI with multiple takes, use take folders, and build a final comp by selecting and crossfading the best parts.
19- Groups, Echo, Delay, Distortion, Amps - Plugin Effects12:10
Master auto punch recording and track groups to streamline editing and automation. Explore delays, echo, distortion, amps, and compression to shape tone and dynamics.
20- Compressor, Noise Gate, EQ, Fuzz-wah, EVOC20, Ringshifter, Phaser12:51
Learn compressor basics—threshold, attack, release, and ratio to tame peaks—plus noise gate and multi-band options; shape tone with EQ, filters, phaser, ring shifter, and flanger.
21- Pitch Correction/Shifter, Reverb, Denoiser, Gain, Aux tracks/sends11:55
Master pitch correction and a pitch shifter in Logic Pro to auto-tune notes to a major scale, and route via aux tracks with Space Designer reverb.
22- Last lecture! Electro example with lots of different Automation types8:17
Learn how to use aux buses in Logic Pro to group tracks, apply and automate effects like low-cut and high-pass filters, and shape techno mixes.

Requirements

Get a mac with Logic 8 or 9. Logic X works as well but it has some new features. The basics are the same though.

Description

As a film composer, I had to learn Logic the hard way- thousands of hours of tutorials, years of trial/error, and more questions than I ever wanted to ask. So here, I've put together a super condensed version of what I have learned so far. It's 5 hours of some of the most packed material for a beginner of Logic pro. The first hour is probably the most important where I go over the most basic functions. After that I explain what the effects and such do and how they affect the sound.

This will really save you a ton of time if you go through it. It goes over the most used hotkeys and functions to help you create music, along with an overview of the instruments and effects including a few third party plugins like East/West orchestra. They're all videos, so just sit back, open up your Logic session and take good notes!

Who this course is for:

This course is meant for anyone who has never used Logic or a similar DAW program or knows just the basics. This will get you up to speed real fast!
This course is probably not for those that are already pro Logic users, though if you're intermediate I'm sure you'll learn some new tricks

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1 - The Very Basics4 lectures • 57min

2 - Score editor, loops, tempo editor, Volume, composing to Video4 lectures • 59min

3 - Basics of Synthesizers in Logic5 lectures • 1hr 10min

4 - Advanced features with third party plugins/instruments9 lectures • 1hr 56min

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