Logic Pro X Advanced Vol 2
It’s time to power up your Audio Editing skills with Eli Krantzberg as he shows you everything you need to know about the Audio File Editor in Logic Pro X! This series leaves no stone unturned while looking at all the features and functions of Logic Pro X’s powerful Audio Editor Window and provides useful Tips & Tricks making you a Logic Pro X audio editing ninja in no time!
Videos
• Opening the Audio File Editor (04:59) - Explore the various ways of getting into the Audio File editor for fast, easy access.
• Audio File Editor Overview (08:50) - Discover the main areas, tools, and functions necessary to get the most out of the Audio File Editor.
• Display Modes & Playback (09:09) - Learn about absolute and relative display modes as well as several ways to start and stop playback independently of the selected area in the Audio File Editor.
• Navigation (05:05) - Find out all about useful key commands that allow you to quickly move between start and end points of selections and regions, step through next and previous transients, and search peaks and silences in an audio file.
• Selections (05:13) - See how to customize and move selections and how to influence their behavior in relation to underlying region boundaries.
• Transient Based Selections (08:02) - Master Logic's transient-detection function as the basis for establishing and auditioning selections and regions.
• Working with Tempos (07:53) - Find out how to calculate a project’s tempo based on a selection in the Audio File Editor as well as how to transform audio to conform to a project’s tempo.
• Editing Transients (04:48) - Learn how to control the sensitivity of transient detection as well as how to manually create, delete, and re-detect transient markers.
• Anchors Away (05:49) - Explore the use of the anchor as a region's timing reference. Also, learn how it affects placement and position editing in the Tracks Area.
• Moving the Anchor (06:41) - Watch as Eli demonstrates the effect of moving a region's anchor once it has already been placed in the Tracks Area, and see how locking vs. unlocking an anchor’s position influences the timing of the playback.
• Dialogue Editing (11:12) - Follow along to learn some basic techniques to clean up mouth noises and plosives, including how to use Gain Change, Delete, and the Pencil Tool to redraw the waveform.
• Slipping Sync (04:21) - Use the Lock SMPTE Position function in the Tracks Area in conjunction with the Selection -> Region command in the Audio File editor as a means of auditioning different parts of an audio file in context without altering the region position. Eli will show you how!
• Sample Loop Points (03:41) - Discover how to use Logic's Audio File Editor to embed loop metadata into an audio file, and see how the loop points are then recognized when the audio file is loaded into a third-party sampler instrument.
• Region Information (03:49) - Learn how to use the export and import region information functions to imbed region metadata into an audio file so that region definitions can be accessed in multiple projects.
• Reverse FX (06:57) - Explore the Audio File editor's Reverse function and hear how it is used in conjunction with reverb and flanger settings to create an interesting backward effect that is perfectly in time with your source material.
• Phase Invert (05:52) - Hear how the Invert function is used to flip the phase of a snare drum track so that it is in phase with the overhead microphone tracks.
• Trim Fade Normalize (08:36) - See how the trim, fade, and normalize functions are used to create a thirty-second cutdown version of a larger mix.