Logic Pro Vintage Keyboards Explained
If you use Logic Pro, you may know you already have a formidable collection of vintage keyboard emulations at your disposal. With this Logic Pro video course from Logic expert Eli Krantzberg, you'll go on a deep dive into each, the Vintage B3 Organ, Vintage Electric Piano, Vintage Clav, and Vintage Mellotron, learning the ins and outs of all their tone-shaping parameters, effects, and more. By the end, you'll know exactly how to get the sounds you want from each, along with several useful tips for MIDI hardware control and more. These Logic Pro vintage keyboard videos are designed for new users of these virtual instruments.
Videos
• Vintage Electric Piano: Effects Section (08:48) - Discover the rich, complex, and sophisticated drive, tone, and modulation effects used to shape and enhance the Fender Rhodes, Wurlitzer, and Hohner electric piano modeling in the Vintage Electric Keys instrument.
• Vintage Electric Piano: Details Section (07:40) - Learn how to adapt the sound of the electric piano by controlling decay/dampening, release time, tine inharmonicity, tuning deviations, and more.
• Vintage B3 Organ: Drawbars & Scanner/Vibrato Controls (05:36) - Explore the anatomy of how basic tones are developed on this instrument using the various drawbars and scanner vibrato/chorus controls.
• Vintage B3 Organ: Percussion Controls (04:49) - See how to control the decay and level-based nuances of this effect, which adds either second- or third-order harmonics to the attack envelope of notes.
• Vintage B3 Organ: Drawbar Presets (05:44) - Learn the different ways to edit, switch, and morph between the various drawbar presets.
• Vintage B3 Organ: MIDI Setup (05:21) - Explore the different ways to trigger the upper manual, lower manual, and pedals, either with multiple MIDI controllers or a single MIDI controller.
• Vintage B3 Organ: The Leslie Speaker (08:05) - See how to control the multiple sonic nuances and variations of how the rotating speaker interacts with the organ performance.
• Vintage B3 Organ: Click & Effects (05:46) - Discover the extremely versatile and colorful effects section in the Vintage B3 and how to add a percussive click to each note on and note off.
• Vintage B3 Organ: Expert Panel (06:43) - Explore the options for altering the physical characteristics and timbre of the modeled organ.
• Vintage Clav: Main Parameters (06:56) - Hear the rich and colorful tones generated with the various Honer D6 Clarinet model variations and explore how the filter switches, pickup positioning, stereo and pickup spread, decay, brilliance, and damping controls help shape the sound of this instrument.
• Vintage Clav: Effects (06:08) - Explore the dynamic effects section in the Vintage Claw and learn how to control pedal effects in real time using MIDI hardware control.
• Vintage Clav: Details Page (07:38) - See how to use the controls modeling the strings and hammer parameters to vary the sound either subtly or dramatically.
• Vintage Mellotron (02:38) - Get a taste of what this evocative, early, tape-based playback instrument from the 70s can do.
• Vintage Electric Piano Patches (07:34) - Follow along as three very different Vintage Electric Piano patches are created utilizing inserts, send effects, and other layered instruments.
• Vintage B3 Patches (05:09) - Eli demonstrates how some Vintage B3 presets are customized and set up as bespoke channel strips.
• Vintage Clav Patches (08:18) - Watch as three very different Vintage Clav patches are deconstructed, showcasing the versatility of its applications.
• Coda (01:40) - Learn where to place and how to use the patches created in the last few videos.