30 ADVANCED Tips and Hacks in Logic Pro X!

what's up everybody dang I've been watching way too much Peter McKinnon I can I think I was pretty good anyways what's up everyone its Nathan Larsson here with another video for your home studio musicians producers artists and songwriters specifically for those of you Logic Pro 10 users or people that are maybe considering getting into using Logic Pro but you want to know what are some of the features you can do within Logic Pro because in this video I'm showing you 30 yes 30 amazing advanced tips tricks hacks whatever it is you want to call them to speed up your workflow and basically show you that logic can do a heck of a lot of stuff and this is only 30 I actually came up with a list of like 50 and I started filming and then I realized this can be a really long video this can be a longer video anyway so you know but hey it's the köppen 19 quarantine what else do we have to do but I'm sure in like you know 2023 people are gonna be watching this and rig me like oh yeah that was the thing that happened anyways I'm gonna stop talking now we're gonna just jump into the da I'm gonna show you what we got going alright so let's just jump in let's waste no time if you open up Logic Pro I've already got some audio and MIDI recorded we'll be taking a look at that here in a minute but the very first thing that we need to do is tip number one and that is to enable advanced editing if you have things in default setting you'll notice this because you only have one tool here in the tool bar window so click command , look at how many options we have here go to advanced in the far right show advanced tools make sure all this is selected now look at what that did to our preferences we have so many more options here it's pretty awesome so advanced editing that's tip number one wise other tips are going to only be possible if you do this so tip number two is now that we have advanced editing enabled we can now use two tools up here which is awesome so is going to automatically have it set as the pointer and the marquee tool you can change these however you like so the far left tool is what it will be just regular so the cursor tool is what you'll typically see but let's just put it at the scissor tool boom now it's just my scissor tool but enable to in order to use this second tool you have to click command and that's it and then now you can start using it so the marquee tool is automatically there let's just do the scissor tool again so and click click click click click and now I could just start splicing up audio super awesome super handy this is especially useful when you are editing now tip number three let's say two tools isn't enough for you I get it you want more options click command comma again let's go back into general go to editing go to right mouse button and then make sure it is assignable to a tool and look at what it just did boom we now have three tools selected let's make that a fade tool and now your right-click will use that third tool so that's tip number three tip number four still talking about some of these advanced tools let's zoom in here to make this next tip a little easier to see let's say you want an easier way to start adding phase at the beginning and the end of all of your regions simple command comma go back to your settings go back to editing within general and then go to pointer tool in tracks provides and you can do fade tool click zones you can also add some other options as well I just like having the fade tool click zones now check this out now when I move my pointer tool at the top of any region at the beginning or end watch this what happens so this is the bracket I can start dragging that audio but as I go up my pointer there you go will change into a fade so we can now make that a fade just FYI you can do that at the beginning and at the end like so sweet now let's talk about tip number five and that is changing your view so it's kind of zoom out here again let's look right up here so right up here automatically by default it's going to show you the beat the bars it's going to show you the tempo the key signature in a time signature but what I like to do is go right down to this drop-down window and open up the custom it makes it a lot bigger now I can see how long my track is and time wise I can see the beats all the way down into the subdivision which is great I can see the tempo again then what the main thing is that I like is I can now see this which is actually the subdivision of the grid itself so when i zoom in here these lines that you can see for the grid those are sixteenth notes because this is set to 16 I could change that to eighth notes I could change it to 32nd notes twenty-four or twelve that would be a triplet subdivision let's just keep it up sixteen for now so boom enabling the custom view is gonna make us a lot better bigger you can also see your CPU the next thing you could do just within this is a little bit of a freebie you can also open up some of these giant displays so you can open up either the giant beat display which is gonna show you the beats you can make this big or small if you have multiple screens you can move this to a different screen you can also do the time display I actually really like this for film scoring alright that moves us to tip number six and that is this right up here the drag feature so right now by default it's set to no overlap and the reason it's set to that is because before if you didn't already have your advanced editing tools enabled it's just gonna have it so that if you start cutting audio it's just gonna automatically delete whatever audio you overlap didn't delete it but it moved it so let's go back if I want to start editing audio here you don't want to have that set instead you want to have the crossfade or X fading which is just a crossfade so let's zoom in here now let's say I want to bump this audio up or something I could make it cut at the transient and now I can start moving things along it'll automatically create a crossfade I can change the size of that crossfade I can change where that crossfade is you can actually zoom pretty far in here and you can start making all sorts of changes and how that crossfade actually operates which is pretty cool so that's the next thing you should have that the drag feature set to crossfade okay that brings us to tip number seven the snap tool now it should be set to smart that's what I like it set to but if you do not have this turned on you need to make sure that your snap is turned on because this is going to make it possible for you to snap your regions when you make cuts in an intelligent way you can also set this to Barbie division tics frames however however you want to do this you can also change what value whether it's relative or absolute so with smart what this is going to do let's just go ahead and use this as an example it's automatically going to almost kind of snap to wherever it thinks it should be going to so this isn't going to snap to something that makes absolutely no sense it's going snapping somewhere where it actually makes sense whether that's a subdivision like it just did there or on a beat like you just did there you could also change this to division now it's literally gonna snap immediately there and it will not be able to snap anywhere else so this is gonna really help if you want to have very very very specific if you want to have very specific placement and you don't want to have to work as hard logic will actually work for you to do that okay that moves us to number eight another thing that you're not going to have available unless you have the advanced editing enabled go to file project alternatives this is so dope you can actually create new alternatives so let's say for example you're working on this project near thinking I really like this as an acoustic version but I think it'd be really awesome to also make a produced version well you can actually go into here and create a new alternative so I could do o produced version okay let's just do those just logic tips just so that there's no confusion let's let's go ahead and save that it's automatically going to basically create a new project with all the same settings everything the way you just did it but if we ever want to go back rather than having to open up an entirely new logic file we can actually go and our alternatives are saved in here so you could create as many alternatives as you want this is actually also very very useful and that there you go I just switched it it will load and then we've got that open suite you can also do this for mixing so let's say you have a mix version one but then you want to make some really dramatic changes rather than making those changes and losing what you did the first time just create a project alternative and you're all set all right let's jump into some fun stuff here we're gonna talk about how to actually turn your voice into a sampler track the way we're going to do this is open this up into the editor window editor window you can double click on that audio or click II or you can just go up here and click that now what you're gonna need to do is go into file and then you're going to go to audio file detect transients now what this is going to do is detect the transients it kind of makes sense right now what we're going to need to do is make changes because you can see like right here this is just a consonant this is actually the word so we're gonna need to delete some of those so I'm gonna use the eraser tool but let's just listen to this this is just a vocal that I recorded right before this it's terrible I apologize I'm late all right next thing is actually we need to create one we can do it with the pencil tool or you can just actually think you just click it cool wait for you we can move that I'm waiting here for you there's another one right there for you so now that we've done this we've got the transients we can go into our audio right control click and then what we're going to do is convert this to a new sampler track right there which you can do by doing ctrl e ctrl e you want to make sure that it's create zones from transient markers and we're gonna call this a vocal shop all right there we go now check this out Kim have change so now we can start actually playing this essentially so I'm using my MIDI keyboard to do this really crazy things there and of course you can start adding all sorts of effects what I would do if I wanted to turn this into some sort of a focal chop for example I would add you know delay out EQ the crap out of it probably add some Distortion depends on the genre of the song too but that's how you can do this now to edit this I'm not going to get into this in I'm not going to totally get into this but you can go into the actual exs24 go to edit and this will actually show you where everything has been basically mapped on the keyboard so I'm just going to show you this with one example and then you can kind of figure out the rest you can move all of this say up an octave and you can actually grab one of these and drag it there it goes and then now it will actually reap itch that watch this so you can get pretty crazy with that of course if you want to map every single one of these you would need to kind of move this all back but it's definitely doable it's a really cool feature that is built into logic okay so that's how you would make a cool vocal chop let's just get rid of that for now all right time for number 10 and that is flex pitch many of you probably already know how to use flex pitch or know that it's available but for those of you that don't this is definitely one of the awesome advanced features built into logic is the pitch and a pitch corrector so what what you need to do you can do this two ways you can either turn it on up here in the arrangement window but for me personally I like just opening up my editor window click on some audio and then turn on flex and it's automatically go to slicing mode go to pitch mode and then boom you can now start manipulating the fine pitch pitch drift vibrato the gain all sorts of really cool things you can also do a right-click and then set all the perfect pitch or set back to original pitch whatever you want to do I have an entire youtube video specifically on how to use flex pitch so I'm not going to get into all over here but I'm just gonna go through and is basically just correct this so we're not listening to a horrible voice oh wait show you why can you look like I'm late easy it's like that's pretty flat this is our tool year [Music] I hope that I can prove that I have change for you this is just very basic I don't know everything could do comedy already sounds a lot better so there you go flex pitch use it the next thing you can do is create track stacks this is really handy let's just I don't know all right cool so I have now a couple different piano parts that I've recorded here so now we've got this going on [Music] okay so that's just the general idea now what I can do just to save on the whole space thing so once you start working on tracks were say you've got you know 80 tracks you don't wanna have to be scrolling through 80 tracks so instead what you can do is you can basically group your tracks together in a track stack without actually grouping them what you can do is highlight all of them and then do right-click or control-click go down here to create track stack or you could do shift command D folder stack it will automatically create it we can just call this pianos so we've got our pianos now and we can unpack that just like that we can actually start working with the entire volume of this as well which is actually quite neat I really do like that so it almost functions like a group and almost functions like an ox channel though it's not an ox channel because you can't actually add any effects but you can't actually group the entire track stack as well so there you go that's tip number 11 tip number 12 I've already done it so I guess I should just show you how to hide tracks so let's say that this is a vocal take okay and you have now created a vocal comp and you want to just export that to a separate track but you still have this vocal take what you can do is mute this and then hit control H and what that's going to do is hide it so now it's been hidden you can unhide by just clicking H so it's still there it's just hidden so if you have a bunch of you know let's say you have a track you've edited you want to keep the edited version with all the cuts and splices before joining up regions those regions into one region just in case you ever need to go back and fix something maybe you start noticing oh you know what I didn't edit that perfectly what I would do is hide it basically turn it off mute it hide it and then I can always go back and look at it but the main thing is it's out of the way which is really quite nice you can also see this a little H up here that's just orange that means that hide has been enabled you can click it to unhide as well so there you go and then we can call this voice yo so that is tip number 12 tip number 13 is the track header configuration you can actual change what you are seeing up here all together which is pretty dope so ctrl-click go down to track header components you can now start really messing with it you can also just go to configure track header and it will actually show you all the different things that you can do so I really like turning on the on and off button because sometimes you want to just turn something off that will actually disable all the plugins and things so it's gonna save you on computer I think it will basically help your computer process so that's the main thing you can actually start using other option views like color your bars groove track track icons and whatnot you can also change your track icons by just clicking right click on the actual icon and then you can go in here and start you know doing whatever it is that you want so you could do like oh this is a female voice which I'm not a female but there you go alright so now with the track header configuration the other thing that we can do let's go back into that and I want to talk to you about what this is because it's awesome you can click freeze and if you hit that button what its gonna do is actually basically make it so that your computer is gonna run through it and lock it where it is with the plugins so that way your computer is not going to be basically using all of that RAM to process that track so say you have a really heavily processed track you've got a bunch of compressors running on it you've got a bunch of eq's delays whatever it is which I mean obviously you could do a lot of this by busing it to save save to your computer but this might just be where you just have one particular thing that has to be processed like crazy or you have a ton of things or you have a sample library that's huge like east-west or something like that you can freeze that track after you know you're done with it to basically save your computer's RAM as far as that goes so that's how you can freeze tracks and what that freezing track actually does ok let's talk about number 10 and that is going back into the audio here we're going to talk about how to actually turn this audio into a MIDI track we already talked about how to make a sampler track but I'm talking about actually turning the audio into a MIDI basically a MIDI track where you can start doing stuff so what we're gonna do is open this up you need to have flex pitch enabled so that's why I told you about flex pitch first so you've got flex pitch enabled what you're going to go to do is edit and then we're gonna create MIDI track from flex pitch data and that is what it will do now it's automatically going to set to whatever your preset instrument is now it's going to be pretty inaccurate especially if you're like me and you sing out of pitch you have to add all these cuts and little chops so this is basically all the chops that I made in vocal in the pitch so you can just get rid of that and then just elongate and then we can just go in here and edit this now this is pretty far out of rhythm so we could quantize you know however you want to do this but the main thing and the main benefit of doing this is let's say that you have some sort of an idea that you want to record and usually record like a dududu like a doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo and now I want to take that and turn it into like a piano line or a synth line or whatever but maybe you don't have a piano accessible maybe you don't play the piano you want a quicker way of doing it than just you know opening up your MIDI and it's kind of like drawing stuff trying something like that I don't know if that sounds right or not it's instead you can just literally take that audio that you record it and just literally convert it into a MIDI track which is super super cool all right let's talk about this other really awesome feature this is tip number 16 how you can either slow down or speed up audio using the fade tool yeah you heard me right I'm actually gonna change the fade tool to this tool and this just go flip-flop these okay so what you can do let's just solo this vocal out is you can you know add your fade let's just add a really big fade here just to show you what this would do now normally mm-hmm that's what it would do mmm really slow fade you can change the shape of that fade you know easy so [Music] okay but if you right-click on the line right here where that is that fade look at that you can actually do a speed up and check this out yeah it's awesome [Music] okay now you might be like why on earth would I need to do this on a vocal you probably wouldn't want to do it local I'm sorry that I think that's actually pretty funny let's but what you might want to do maybe you want to do at the end of something like let's say you've got like this whole guitar deal drum deal where it's like rock to you when you want to have like the drop like that you can add that fade and then set it to slow down at the end yeah and then you can make it at a different speed that I do not even I've done everything yeah so you can do all sorts of cool things but [Music] the other thing you can do is actually do this on a master track so say once you've already finished mixing and everything you want to have this as an effect that's happening at the very very end you could literally pull in your master track and you could do that so this is a really really cool effect that you can do within logic with the fade tool of all things which is kind of weird but pretty awesome now let's get into tip number 17 talking about different ways to edit the velocity of your MIDI so when we go in to our MIDI we can open up into the editor window for piano roll you can see it's all color coded based on the velocity now the first thing is you could obviously just play this in but what happens if after you play it in or even if maybe you don't play an instrument and you are just literally typing in your your penciling in your your MIDI it's gonna sound super artificial and real unrealistic if you're not really making an effort with the velocity because velocity is how you get realism with MIDI instruments in particular especially you're talking about like piano or drums definitely strings all those things so the first way of doing this because I'm gonna show you many so the first thing you can do is click here and you can go down here you have velocity you can actually manipulate the velocity right from here this is a super easy way of doing it you can select multiple and you can do the same thing now it's gonna do this in relative manner so it's not actually to make these all the same notice that they're not the same but it's gonna change them in a relative manner okay that's the first way you can change it by doing the velocity basically tool down here the other way is you literally can use the velocity tool so I suppose I already had it there is the third tool velocity tool here do command and you literally just click this is so fast I love doing it this way the other way is you can go into your lists into your event let's just click on the MIDI here and they can actually open up right here your velocity is right there you can also see the velocity right in here now this is kind of a weird way of looking at it but it's definitely another one of those ways you can look at it if you want to have kind of a wider view see quite a bit of different things and finally the last option is by opening up your MIDI automation which is actually the next tip so let's talk about the next tip tip number 17 may the automation and I'm going to talk about how you can do the note velocity in here as well so you just open that up here it's gonna open up a whole other tab you can actually change how big or how small this is automatically it's gonna have it set to no velocity check that out so you can actually click the note and see which note this corresponds to or you can just click on the little whatever you want to call it the little line here and you can start moving this around which is pretty cool or you can literally just set all of them to the same by clicking the line itself by not clicking the dot but clicking the line this could change everything in that chord that sounded at the same time to be that way so that's one of the reasons why you want to do is this versus just using this if you won't want to set everything to the same you can actually automate your MIDI right within here you can use obviously if I talked about no velocity this sustain pedal so if you don't own a sustain pedal you can actually automate that right in here which is super super handy to get more realistic pianos in particular but some other things you can do you can manipulate the modulation you can manipulate a bunch of different things you can and you can actually set your MIDI controls to different things so you can actually map this out which will talk about it a bit you can do pitch Bend all sorts of things so like I've done a video on how to make strings how to use like the Logic Pro Studio strings you use modulation to affect the expression of the strings so you would be doing that right in here in the automation of the MIDI itself so there you go that's tip number 18 midi automator okay that brings us to tip number 19 which is creating CC controls okay so if you have a MIDI controller and you have options like knobs that you can control your DAW with you can actually program these to specific things so for me I'm using the Native Instruments Komplete Kontrol s88 let's say that you want to map this to different things or you don't have a controller that has any sort of integration with what you're using very easy thing I would do is for example filtering I could do a low-pass filter and do like a sweeping filter of some sort - maybe fade in this piano part for example and let's say that I actually want to map that using my MIDI controller very simple way of doing that first of all you have to create the plug-in that you want to use then you need to actually click and move whatever parameter it is that you want to move so I want to be moving the actual selection of what frequencies I'm gonna be panning with or sweeping with then we're gonna go to logic control surfaces learn assignment for high cut frequency the other way you can do this is command L for learn yeah so we're gonna go into learn mode you need to now move whatever it is that you want to control that so for me it's a knob let's click to learn mode again there he goes now I've been moving this now sorry I don't have a camera showing this but I'm sweeping with the knob that I have assigned it to this is really okay yeah think of sue that has assigned something else so there we go we now have this assigned so now what I can do is you know I could even record that in but so that's how we can do that we can sweep through and start messing around with the CC control that way you can do however many controls you have on your MIDI keyboard to do that that then brings us to how could we actually automate that after we've recorded say you've already recorded something in the you say oh you know what I just realized I really want to have this you know high pass filter or low pass filter happening at the beginning how can I do that well notice that if I start doing this just by playing it let's make this smaller so we're gonna start it way down here [Music] it doesn't save it because we've already recorded this audio so it's not gonna say if what I just did the way you do this is go into your if you don't have your inspector when it will open all but if your inspector window go down here it's gonna automatically have a set to read but what you want to do is set to latch now this is gonna mean that any single thing that you change from the moment I hit the play button to the moment that I stop it's going to remember in automate so check this so let's go ahead and start with filter this way you can see it in the actually see the graphic equalizer right down there okay so I've just done that and then now that I'm done I'm gonna set that back to Reed now check this out you just remembered it if I open up my automation by clicking a go to use it will now show me what I just did boom super super cool so that is latch if you have it set to right mode it's gonna give you a little warning and if you're in right mode that means that when you record something it will remember what you recorded if you have it on latch modis yeah so there are two different modes that way you can play around it to figure out which what you want to use for me I typically like using latch because then I can do all my automation after I've recorded something a lot of times I don't even know what I want to do automation wise until after I've already recorded it in the first place so there you go latch and right don't forget to set it back to read when you're done moving on to the next thing and that is a really cool feature where we can create channel presets our own channel presets save the settings in our channel so like this vocal here I can go so let's just let's just do this let's create a new audio track let's say that I just recorded the same little piece of audio that I did listen here I have change for you so there's no there are no plugins on this so vocal settings yeah so we can just do that there are no plugins on this so let's say that I already have something that I know I really like using like a set a preset that I can start with of course you can go into here and you can find presets that logic has made but for me a lot of times I like creating my own presets so let's just say that I start with like an EQ let's do I'm just gonna create one real quick and show you let's say I would want to do you know a high-pass filter anyway I've got all these plugins now so what I can do is go into settings and I can save this channel strip setting as whatever it is that one and then now I can save this logic tips setting whatever it is that I want to do I'm not going to do that because it's not actually a setting so that is how you can work with the channel strip settings all right next thing tip 22 let's talk about creating custom templates because here's the thing for me you know I'm writing a lot of music and working on a lot of projects and for me I'm getting into a lot more writing for licensing purposes and so I need to be able to crank out tracks really quickly and I just cannot start with an empty project anymore and just start building the whole project it just takes way too much time so what you can do is basically create your own template with your own instruments that you like built-in so like for me but what I might do is have like three different pianos I would probably add a bunch of other instances of kontakt-5 I probably load up some drums I'd probably load up signal which is a pulsing engine that I like the point is I'm trying to make is I could literally create a project with 50 tracks and then I can even start creating my own bus channels and everything with effects that I like using as a preset template so then when I start going in I'm like okay I'm gonna need to write something that's gonna be an instrumental track I might have a preset for that very purposes that very purpose so what you can do is go to file let's just say I'm gonna save this as a preset you go to file and then you can go to save as template and then we can literally now save this as a template and then when you open up logic and you go to template you're like what kind of project you want to open you can have your own templates built this is extremely helpful extremely valuable tip number 23 let's talk about metronome settings so up here we have our metronome options so this would be the count in but you've got this little bar this little drop-down window if you didn't know it you just have to hold down this is going to change what your pickup is or what your counting is so normally it's gonna be set to one bar you could set this to two up to six bars you can even set it to quarter note half note three quarter notes or whatever it is that you want to do you can change the settings then you can turn on the metronome right there that means it's gonna be playing while you play while you just play it anyway you can you can do click only during the count in click while recording quick click while playing I don't usually like that but you can go into your metronome settings right there and you can do all sorts of really cool things you can actually set it so it happens on the subdivision and whatever the division is set up here which is sixteenth note that's what it's gonna be doing and you can change the note that that's at the velocity so Tik Tok Tik Tok Tik Tok you can change the tone of the metronome the volume of the metronome and again I do not know why my metronome is not working right now so I apologize I can't show you right now probably have to reset something so anyway that is metronome settings I know that seems really simple but honestly this is super helpful like for me I just finished a track where the tempo was really slow and my singer was having a hard time keeping everything in time and so I was like okay you know what I think I need to do is I need to make it so she can hear the subdivision so she can hear the eighth note I did that and then boom it just fixed everything and then also just changing the pitch of that so it's so it's different that's gonna help her hear that a lot better as a singer or as guitarist or whatever it is that you're doing and tracking alright tip number 24 let's talk about some things you can do within the inspector window with the region a so let's open up a piece of audio just click on it go to your inspector window now you've got this little drop down region and track let's click on region there are sand then go to more so you see all of this you can actually do a whole bunch of things so that's slowed down we did at the end we can actually change what the curve is is gonna be in here we can do the slowdown we could do change it back to a fade-out and then we can change how that slowdown is going to work you can see it changing if you're looking at that region over here you can see that changing so you can actually manipulate all of that within here as well the other thing you can do is reverse stuff in here let's change that affects the scissor tool so let's just say I want to reverse this one little piece of audio here for some reason that right there is the well that that of course you wouldn't want to do that with the vocal like that but um you can do with any instrument really but for me the where I'm using a lot of the reverse instruments is in the percussion like I'll take a kick drum and then I will reverse it or a snare so you get that really cool sound I do this with pianos like I might record like a really high piano sound and then I'll reverse it to have some really cool effects that way but you can do that all right within here that's how you would reverse something tip number 25 five more left we only got five more left we're almost done let's talk about how to create your own loops let's just say that this little deal right here let's say that we want to create a loop out of this we can literally just go to add to loop library it's literally that simple but this is actually really quite handy oh man I really spelled peony Oh oh my gosh I did that multiple times that like slips in idiot so soft piano a minor progression and then we can do this minor a minor so we can we can you know obviously kind of put this in however we want but I do want to make sure that this is saved as a piano sound and then we can create that loop and it's gonna bounce that loop and it will save it within the loop library in here or then I can search for a soft piano there does no I did a different key because I think I yeah because I had that's right so I have this set as C major in here because I didn't change it so it's automatically gonna reap itch this so just FYI that's gonna happen but what's cool about this is I am not using a built in logic plug-in for this but I can still use it as a loop which is really really pretty nifty you can also do one shots for this so let's say that I recorded something like cool creative drums sound like for me I really like using brushes and then playing brushes on like wood surfaces gets this really cool sound then I'll put a mic right up there let's say that I start creating little one shots with that or like like I'll do that I'll do sweeps with brushes just to add these really cool effects I can actually record this stuff and start saving them as one shot so you go to this to do that kind of whites got confused for a second so add to loop library we could do a one shot so it's gonna ignore the tempo maintains a fixed duration good for sound effects and drum hits okay and then you could just do that as a one shot and you can start pulling in that audio in any project so this is super super handy stuff alright tip number 26 to kind of wrap this up and that is the Logic Pro compressors watch this we can go to audio effects let's just open up a compressor now this is what you'll see right pretty straightforward but what a lot of people don't realize is that you have all of these options here for different types of compressors yeah they actually modeled out different compressor types is just gonna be showing you the Platinum digital version right at the beginning now why does this matter does it even really actually matter yeah it does because they actually do sound radically different so here's just the default Platinum digital so we'll kind of start compressing here let's say I want a little bit harder compression here so this is really dramatic compression you can really hear that pulled pumping almost cuz that's how that sounds but let's go to like this studio Fe T this is a really kind of more punchy [Music] [Laughter] [Music] they've got a VC a studio VC a classically I love this this is actually very similar to my the Native Instruments one here now you can't control the ratio in this one but they sound actually kind of similar you can of course you know just the distortion the point is that these do sound a lot different for different purposes and so of course you can go in here and use presets it's gonna change what type of compressor it's gonna use but you can use all these different compressors so that's something I think a lot of people do not recognize is that you do have way more than just one compressor option built into logic so there you go tip number 27 let's talk about editing in groups so let's just say for example that this right here was guitar and we recorded it with maybe a DI and then one that was ant or something we're not amped miked let's just say that this is an acoustic guitar or we've got two mics so we've recorded this on two separate tracks with two different inputs now if you want to edit this if I start making a cut on one it's not gonna make a cut on the other this is a huge problem so if I want to start editing things or if I want to move it around we need to find a way to lock these together the way you would do this it's quite simple and this going to open up the mixer window here go to group create a new group let's just do Group one we'll call this guitars even though this is not guitars now you need to open up your settings editing quantize locked audio you need to make sure this is selected now check this out now it's gonna move everything together if I make it cut on one it makes it cut on both so if you are editing drums for example you have to do this because you've got you know however many different mics all in the same drum set you need to make sure that you are setting it this way so you can make those edits accordingly so of course then you can start you know messing with the volume parameters any of the other parameters that you want set which you can set those parameters in here in the settings as far as what has changed so automation will be changed volume whether you mute it if you pan it you can select that but these are not selected automatically but you get the idea alright next thing number 28 we've only got three more let's say that we want to start manipulating this audio from the midea so I got this really soft nice piano part let's just get this so there's no panning watch this if I want to turn this into audio rather than MIDI you can do this by doing sorry control command B control command B this is gonna direct bounce of the track and then you can either create a new track or replace it I dip eclis like creating a new track it's going to go through run its deal and now we actually have audio for this this is also quite nice because one we can actually start manipulating the audio itself in here so let's make a cut right there let's grab this let's do the very same thing I told you about with reversing let's reverse this let's make this smaller let's put this right at the beginning so now at the very beginning this is what we're gonna get and then I probably want to add yeah I want it out of fade and then we can even do like all sorts of really cool things where you could maybe do like a stutter deal dicka dicka the point is is that you can start manipulating the audio itself here one of the biggest times one of the main reasons I would do this is actually for percussion like I've got damaged by Native Instruments and there are loops and in there that like I want to just take a little snippet of and so what I'll actually do is play out the loop with MIDI print it out as audio doing it this way and then I will start manipulating just the audio because with MIDI I actually don't have that control that I would have by actually balancing it to audio let's talk about tip number 29 and that is color coding this is probably seems basic but honestly this saves me so much time by color coding so for me this is something I do and all my projects what you do is go to your track here go to assigned track color you can start doing that and then of course you can do it to the regions as well so for me I like having my piano be yellow my vocals are usually either a blue or a pink depending on if it's male or female drums are always gonna be like darker color like kick and bass are always like a deep purple or a dark purple strings or brown so for me I have my own color coding system this just makes it so like if I have a huge project which most of my projects do end up being 5280 tracks I can scroll through and I know exactly what my instruments are based on color so this is actually really really handy so color coding is super nice within logic and then finally the very last thing is logic remote so for logic remote we're gonna have to jump out of here and I'm gonna show you with the actual camera logic remote okay so we're gonna go in and jump into this final tip I'm sorry the audio sounds a little weird because I'm now using a different mic because I usually am using the mic for my phone and we're gonna be using my phone for this in just a second the very first thing is is that there are two different logic remotes you can use you can use it for the tablet which is right here you can also use it for the phone which we'll get to in a second but let's take a look at the tablet version first first thing is you always you have to download it so just go to logic remote in the app store and then open it up now you need to be connected to the Internet that is the first thing you have to be connected to the Internet both with your device and also with your computer to make sure that you can get this set up so it'll connect so when you're looking at it on the iPad you're gonna be able to see the whole mixing window which is pretty handy if you have a lot of tracks you'll be able to slide through see them so you can you know mess with the faders here you can do all sorts of cool things you can change your automation mode which is pretty cool because you can actually do the latch feature using this remote as your device essentially which is really quite handy you can create you can set your loop now you can actually move around in the session I'm going to do it on here you'll be able to see it on the screen if you tap the top here you can actually start moving around and this will move the playhead which is pretty sweet so you can actually start there we can play it we can record from here so this is really nice because one you can actually use this as a surface for mixing for like leveling if you really like having that you know fader control and whatnot you can do that you can use this for latching which is actually really handy because if you're mixing a vocal for example you're gonna want to automate that vocal so you can't just set it to latch mode and then use this to automate the vocal rather than using your mouse or using a cc control so there are a lot of really cool things you can do within here the other thing is you can actually open up if I believe you have have it on a MIDI instrument yep if you have it on a MIDI instrument you can actually start playing stuff you can turn this team so you're gonna have all of the stuff that's in that key can also I believe pull up yeah so you can pull up your smart controls you actually have the piano so you actually play the piano in here this is pretty cool so you can turn on drum pads as well so this is really handy if you want to actually pull up like a drum sample you can play it straight on through this here now let's talk about how to actually use the phone version because the phone version is different so now we are looking at the phone version now with this it's a much different view this is basically like looking at the track inspector on Logic so you're only gonna see the track the master and you can do some things you can enable recording automation solo mute and then if you click the top here you're gonna be able to obviously start moving around within the session itself which is super handy I use the phone version mostly if I'm recording an instrument that requires me to be like behind a microphone like guitar acoustic guitar vocals those types of things where I don't want to have to be going back and forth between clicking our for record and the spacebar for stop you can just use this you're gonna click the record button right there and then obviously stop and you can move around where you are by the way if you have markers set these will show up in here so typically I use markers not the arrangement version of the markers basically so I can actually title my markers move it around now if you switch it to this view you're gonna get a slightly different view we're gonna get a few different options now you can customize all of this right within you gotta sleep play stop go back or cool word play from a specific selection you can save which is quite nice actually you can create a new audio track show/hide automation toggle zoom and on a track all sorts of different things this is not meant to be a video teaching you how to use this but the main thing is that this is a really incredible feature that logic does have and I do recommend you use it especially if it's just you in your studio by yourself recording stuff this the phone version in particular is super super helpful thanks so much for sticking with me all the way to the end I mean that's incredible this is a pretty long video so congrats to you for those of you guys that are interested I do have a new course on editing fundamentals is not a logic only course this is if you really want to take your productions to the next level a lot of what I showed you in here had to do with editing and I have an entire course actually teaching you how to every edit every single type of instrument and it's super awesome you can check out that link in the description down below once it's live now make sure you smash the like button the people actually say smash the like button now make sure you punch the like button no smash the like button you know what just click the like button if you liked this video make sure you subscribe for more videos like these comment what was your favorite tip we'll see you in the next video bye

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Length: 47min 57sec (2877 seconds)

Published: Fri Mar 27 2020