12 NEED to Know Logic Pro Tips to Improve Your Workflow w/ SEIDS

hi my name is sides and in this spice  skills lesson we're going to be going   over logic pro tips and tricks let's get started logic pro has this really cool feature called  strip silence which basically works as a   simulation of a Noise Gate so it will analyze  the audio and when it sees long gaps it will   actually cut them without affecting the overall  main signal so let's take this drum loop I have   here and I'm going to press Ctrl X this window  pops up and you can see logic is going to cut   all the quiet spaces so they're individually on  their own you can adjust the threshold if you   want to make it more sensitive or less sensitive  as it sounds but where it was was pretty good now   I'm just going to press OK and Bam it cut it all  for you so if we zoom in you don't have to worry   about logic pro like deleting information like  let's say it cut too much this side you could   just drag him and the information is still there  so it's a really cool way when you're working with   vocals and you're singing and maybe there's some  some click that happened in between your lines you   can just quickly cut them out or if you're using  a jump progression and it has maybe a kick hitting   and a snare hitting it'll separate the audio for  you so you can adjust it as you want so let's say   I want to add another kick here I can just hold  down option and then just move it there it's so   much you can do with it so really cool one control  X strip silence tip number two this is a really   great way to quickly change the pitch of an audio  or a midi so let's listen to this MIDI foreign quickly transpose it up a semitone  all you have to do is highlight it   press option Arrow key up  and it is up one semitone and you can just keep moving it  to whatever pitch you need it at   and you could do the same thing with audio  it's the same way so let me just show you   here's an audio track option Arrow key up and  it's changing the pitch so you can just hear it so as I raise it up you can see it's raising the  pitch of even the job sample so let's say I want   to quickly raise it an octave all you have to do  is press shift option Arrow key up let's listen let's say I want to bring it down an octave  you do shift option Arrow key down and let's   go down one more octave shift option Arrow  key down let's hear what it sounds like so this is super useful and you can also use  this key command right in the piano roll so   let's say I'm going shift option Arrow key  up there's an octave shift option Arrow key   down it's back or just option Arrow key  up or down to raise it by the semitone   tip number three so this one is really cool  let's say you get a sample or an audio from   someone and you don't know what tempo it's  at you have no idea all you have to do is   take the audio track and press command option  plus T and it'll actually detect the tempo of   the audio region and it gives you all this  information here so you can see that it's at   128 half time really useful information I love  this tip tip number four so let's say I want   to move this region to this track all you have  to do is highlight the region you want to move   highlight the track you want to move it to make  sure it's highlighted and then press shift Ctrl   T and then bam it just moves it for you this is  super useful when you're working with big projects   and you want to quickly shift things around tip  number five let me find a drum loop from splice perfect so I'm just going to  download this really quickly   so now what I'm going to do is  I'm going to drag it over here and I'm going to select drum machine designer   and look it put each transient on a separate note  on the midi keyboard so if I was to play it out pretty cool right okay and for the last  tip so let's say you want to access your   VST really quickly instead of having to  go over here clicking on here going to   your instrument and loading it so all  you have to do is press command double   click and it just pops right up this is a  shortcut that's right in logic so let's say   I want to open up the sampler I just do  command double click and Bam here it is so this is what logic looks like when you  first open it up and I'm going to change   some of the settings that I think work a little  bit better you can go over to the top here where   it says logic pro go down to preferences and  then they're all here or one of my favorite   shortcuts is command comma and then preferences  just pops up it's really important to click this   Advanced Tab and make sure all of these are  checked off I'm pretty sure when you first   download logic they're not going to be and we  need these so make sure they're checked off   over here there's two tools what I want to do  is I want to add a third tool so I'm going to   go over to General then I'm going to go over  to editing and then right here it says right   Mouse button I'm going to go down and say is  assignable to Tool so now you can see there   are three toolboxes so basically the first click  with your mouse is going to be whatever tool you   set it to which is this pointer tool the second  one you can access by holding down command and   that's set on the Marquee tool and now the third  tool is the scissors which is the right click tool   this is super useful because let me drag in an  audio or midi track so I drag it in here and now   let's say I want to cut right there all I have to  do is hover and you can just press a right click   and then it just cuts it for you this is super  useful when it comes to editing so you can put   it on any third tool you want and you can just  see all the different options here but really   I just use it for the scissor tool for the second  tool just hold down command and then you can see   the Marquee tools here and there's a bunch of  things you could do with the Marquee tool like   if I just grab that option and then I just drag  that part over and it just Clips it over for me   and now we're going to open up preferences again  so command comma open up preferences we're already   here on General and editing and now I want to  do Fade tool click zones so click that and now   you can hover over just the top right corner and  you can just add in a fade or you can hover over   the top left corner and just add in a fade  so I'm going to find something in splice a   little bit more melodic so you can hear how this  feature Works let's take a listen here quickly   perfect so I'm just going to drag in these low-fi  melodic chops and a quick bonus tip is that if you   hover on the bottom right corner and press option  that little icon appears and you can just drag it   right on the grid so it just puts it right on the  grid for you so now going back to our original   tip the fade click so basically all you have to  do is hover over the top right corner and then   you see that icon appears and you can just drag  it so here's what it sounds like with that on foreign so it fades to silence right and  this is what it sounds like without it oh and this is also really useful because  you hear how when we didn't add it it just   clicks at the end so the fade tool is  really useful even if you do just slightly no click so let's listen to the beginning  you can also do the same thing without it so if you just hover over the top left  corner there's the icon drag and let's listen so this is a really cool tool to smooth out  some sounds another cool thing you can do with   this if you press Ctrl click you can select  speed up so let's listen to how that sounds pretty cool right we can also do  it at the end so I'm just going to   hover again drag it over then do control  click and slow down let's listen to it okay now let's open up preferences one more time  now we're going to go over to display we're going   to go over to tracks and here are some settings  that I'd like to change every producer has their   favorite way and their favorite tools to produce  so if you're using a track pad or a Magic Mouse   this button is really useful let me show you using  this Magic Mouse so I'm going to click it off and then if you just hold two fingers you can  see the bar as you're going at where we're at   so that's pretty useful for editing and producing  okay let's go back to preferences press command   comma open up preferences we're in display we're  in tracks and now I want to set the track color   that when I open up different audio tracks or  software tracks it's gonna color code it for me   so you can go over here track color push down  and then you can decide if you want to do auto   assign 24 colors or Auto assign 96 Colors Let's  go with 96 colors and then I also like to select   region color to be as track color I'll show you  what this does basically when you open up the   mixer you'll see that there's a color here if  you do them individually you have to set them   both but I want them to both be the same so it's  just easier to visualize okay so I'm gonna X Out   of Here and Now if we go up to this button  and say add new tracks just for this example   let's add 10 tracks it doesn't matter if it's  software or audio click create just for the   purposes of this I'm going to copy and paste it so  you can see the different colors and it did it for   us in rainbow colors so super useful and just  so you can see what I mean with the mixer you   can just press Command 2 to open up the mixer  and it auto did the colors for us so let's say   you want all of these tracks to be pink because  these are all the background vocals so what you   can do is press shift click option C and then  let's select this pink and there you have it   they're all pink so this is useful just to group  instrument vocals drums just so you can easily   navigate through your project when mixing or  composing for this one I'm actually going to   record in a piano part so let me just record  in some chords really quickly nothing fancy foreign okay so if we play in the middle of the chord nothing happens no sound comes out which is  really annoying right so what you can do now   is we want to open up project settings so  this is different than preferences so you   can go over to file and then go over  to project settings or you can press   option p and it opens up logic settings  so now we're going to go over to MIDI   Chase and make sure this button is clicked off  notes now let's listen and hear what happens did you guys catch that if you play in the  middle of a midi chord it actually plays so this is a super useful setting  I hope you found my logic pro tips   useful again my name is sides and  I'll see you next time stay creative

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Id: 57VI7apjx2o

Length: 12min 16sec (736 seconds)

Published: Sat Jan 21 2023