Logic Operator - Vol 1

Presented by certified Logic instructor Doug Zangar, this in-depth series compatible with Logic 8 & 9, will show you basic and advanced operational tips and techniques that will turbo charge your Logic skills. Learn proper zooming and navigating, control surface setup, markers, Apple Loops, quick swipe and much more.

Zooming and Managing Workspace

• Zoom with Sliders (06:41) - Looks at zooming in and out in the arrange window and other edit windows using the zoom sliders, scroll bars, key commands, mouse wheel plus modifiers, and the playhead.

• Zooming & Sizing (07:07) - Looks at different techniques of zooming and sizing in the arrange window and using multiple instances of the same editor in different screensets with different zooms as well as locking screensets.

• Managing the Workspace (04:07) - Examines ways to toggle on and off or minimize areas of the arrange window to increase the working view of the Arrange area.

• Zoom to Selection (05:47) - Looks at Logic's ways to zoom to selection by using the Zoom tool, regions, events, Marquee tool selection, and locators. It also shows how to take advantage of key commands to assist in zooming in and out.

Navigation

• Navigation with the Playhead (02:59) - Shows how to navigate the playhead using the Arrow tool. It also describes the difference between single and double clicking in the ruler and where to click depending on the ruler view, and shows how to drag the playhead in the arrange area.

• Navigation with the Transport Bar (04:41) - Looks at using Logic transport bar buttons to navigate the playhead in the project. It also shows how to customize the transport bar and use the playhead position fields to move the playhead.

• Navigation with Cycle Regions (07:25) - Looks at using Cycle regions and how to create them in the Ruler from regions, events and markers. Includes tips on navigating within the cycle area and demonstrates the Skip Cycle mode, as well as pertinent key commands.

• Navigation with Markers (03:07) - Learn to navigate using option-click to snap to a marker start, use key commands to move from marker to marker and use the Marker list to navigate.

• Navigation with Selections (04:20) - Looks at the Marquee tool and the Play From Selection command to to navigate in the Arrange window and MIDI editors.

• Navigation with Stop & Go (02:51) - Looks at using two key commands to navigate in Logic. The Stop or Play from Last Position and the Go To Position commands are explained and demonstrated.

Marquee Tool

• Adjusting Selection (07:02) - Looks at using the Marquee tool for playback and goes into creating and adjusting a Marquee selection, as well as demonstrates many helpful key commands.

• Working with a Selection (04:29) - Shows how to edit with the Marquee selection tool and how to use the selection for recording with Autopunch.

Markers

• Creating a Marker Track (04:11) - Shows how to create and delete Markers in the Marker Global track. Shows how different creation methods round up to beats or bars or exactly at playhead location.

• Menu & Key Commands (04:37) - Shows how to create Markers via menu selections and use key commands to create markers on the fly. Also learn how to create a Marker from a cycle area.

• Managing Markers (08:16) - Looks at trimming, moving, naming, copying and coloring Markers and using production notes. It also goes over the Alternate Marker Tracks feature.

Soundtrack Pro

• File to Soundtrack Pro (04:45) - Shows opening a file in Soundtrack Pro from within Logic and gives a brief tour of the Soundtrack Pro interface.

• Edit & Return (05:17) - Shows editing a file in Soundtrack Pro using the Noise Reduction interface and two effects. Returns edited file to Logic project.

Apple Loops

• Creating Apple Loops - Pt. 1 (06:08) - Shows how to create an audio Apple Loop within Logic with tips on how to avoid common mistakes with tempo and loop length. It also shows where the file is located on the hard drive.

• Creating Apple Loops - Pt. 2 (06:49) - Shows how to make a Software Instrument Apple Loop (green Apple loop) with tips on dealing with plug-ins on Aux tracks, setting the key, and how to find the loop in the loop browser and on your hard drive.

• Apple Loop Utility - Pt. 1 (05:03) - Shows how to open an audio region in the Apple Loops Utility program and explores the interface.

• Apple Loop Utility - Pt. 2 (06:37) - Shows how to edit a loop by adjusting transients and save edits. Also deals with batch tagging of files.

• Apple Loop Utility - Pt. 3 (03:35) - Shows how to index loops created in the Apple Loops Utility and workaround for batch tagged files.

Advanced Operations

• Solo/Mute Events & Regions (05:41) - Looks at the Solo/Mute functions at the MIDI event level and at the MIDI and audio region level.

• Solo/Mute Tracks & Channel Strips (07:30) - Looks at the Solo/Mute functions at the track and channel strip level. It shows how the two preferences CPU saving and fast affect these functions.

• Control Surface Setup (05:42) - Covers general setup technique for control surfaces using a Novation Remote. It includes one unique setup action for the Novation. Also covers some general preferences and shows how to assign key commands to unused buttons on the control surface.

• Multi-Out Softsynth Setup (04:29) - Covers setting up the software instrument track for multi-timbral use. Sets up the Kontakt player as a multi-instrument, sets up multi-instrument and deals with Kontakt mixer problem.

• Multi-Out Mixer Setup (04:19) - Shows setting up auxes in Logic's mixer to receive the multi-outs from the Kontakt player. Adds additional auxes to be used for automation and adds them to the track list.

• Multi-Out Volume in Arrange (04:00) - Using volume as an example, demonstrates the problem existing with automating tracks of the multi-instrument and why the additional aux tracks should be used.

• Quick Swipe - Take Folders (04:06) - Shows various ways to create audio take folders including packing a take folder.

• Using Quick Swipe (08:05) - Shows how to use and edit quick swipe to create multiple comps. Looks at naming and coloring takes, deleting comps, and flattening and merging. Also looks at moving takes of folder to clone tracks and independent tracks.

• Audio through the ES-1 (05:02) - Shows routing audio through the ES-1's side chain, setting up the ES-1 to affect the audio and creating a MIDI region to generate MIDI information to trigger the ES-1. Also a quick look at automating the cutoff filter.