Overview
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Start making music with Logic Pro X. Learn basic drum programming in Logic Pro—including recording, quantizing, sampling, and slicing—and beat-making with Drummer and Arpeggiator.
Syllabus
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Introduction
- Welcome
- What you should know before watching this course
- Using the exercise files
- Choosing the drum kit
- Rehearsing the beat, cycling in Logic, and recording the kick and snare
- Understanding Logic regions and quantizing effectively
- Creating easy drum fills by MIDI time compressing
- Using capture recording
- MIDI time compressing for quick drum fills
- Separating your kick and snare by note, pitch, and output
- Going deeper into the Drummer Editor
- Customizing the feel, ghost notes, and hi-hat performance details
- Making electronic beats with Drummer and Ultrabeat
- Tightening the kick and snare with Follow Rhythm
- Learning the basics of the drum machine
- Sound designing your kits
- Old-school step sequencing
- Making stutter vocal effects using Ultrabeat's step grid
- Making stutter vocal effects with a sidechain
- Changing the pitch of Apple Loops
- Changing the feel of Apple Loops
- Making, tagging, and indexing your own Apple Loops
- New Apple Loop features in Logic Pro X
- Finding your tempo
- Time stretching audio
- Slicing up your samples
- Building a useful EXS instrument from a drum loop
- Flexing vocals
- Flexing to quantize audio
- Slicing on transients to regroove beats
- Flexing to change project tempo
- Creating gate effects with the Slicing Flex mode
- Creating effects with the Tempophone and Speed Flex modes
- Making groove templates
- Advanced quantizing
- Beat mapping a live performance
- Experimenting with your tempo using Varispeed
- Fattening your sound with drum replacement and doubling
- Using MIDI Transform for a human-drummer feel
- Tightening the feel with the groove track
- Warping your beat with Space Designer
- Creating turntable- and tape-machine-style speed fades
- Packing drum loops into a take folder
- Sidechaining the compressor with your kick
- Vocoding in Logic
- Discovering Arpeggiator
- Going deeper into Arpeggiator
- Exploring Chord Trigger
- Designing sounds with Modulator
- Creating sounds with Transposer and Velocity Processor
- Creating riffs with Scripter and Note Repeater
- What's next?
