Logic Pro for iPad Explained

Are you ready to take the plunge and start making music on your iPad? Then you absolutely need this course! Logic Pro expert Eli Krantzberg walks you through an incredibly comprehensive Logic Pro for iPad video tutorial course - from setting up your audio interface to recording, VIs and audio, mixing, using automation and effects, programming beats/using loops, and much more! By the time you're done, you'll be armed with the knowledge to create a full-fledged professional-sounding production anywhere you are! These videos are for new Logic Pro for iPad users.

QuickStart

• Setup (05:01) - See how a pass-through charging hub is used to power the iPad Pro as well as a connected audio interface and MIDI keyboard controller and learn how to set up where your Logic Pro for iPad projects will be stored.

• Creating a New Project (07:41) - Discover how to navigate the New Project and Recent Documents choosers, audition and load additional sounds, set basic project settings, and manage projects once they are created.

• Interface Overview (04:54) - Get familiar with the main areas used for controlling playback, editing, arranging, and mixing in the Logic Pro for iPad graphic user interface.

• Tracks Area QuickStart (05:11) - Take a look at some of the main functions and areas of interest in the Tracks Area.

• Browser QuickStart (05:02) - Learn how to browse and search for patches and drum kits and either replace or add the sounds to your project.

• Inspector QuickStart (06:32) - Explore the track, region, and default inspector parameters and see how quantizing is set in the defaults as we create our first software instrument recording.

• Getting Started with Apple Loops (06:50) - Learn about the different types of Apple Loops and see how to bring them into your projects.

• Editors (05:32) - Take a brief look at the Drummer and Piano Roll editors, Plug-Ins area, and Mixer to get an overall idea of some of the editing and mixing possibilities available in Logic Pro for iPad.

Step Sequencer

• Creating a Beat in the Step Sequencer (04:08) - See how the step sequencer is used to create beats (patterns) by tapping and editing in a grid of multi-functional steps.

• Editing Rows & Setting the Step Rate (03:51) - Learn how to reassign sounds to rows and set the overall pattern step rate.

• Step Sequencer Edit Modes (08:38) - Explore the various creative ways to edit events triggered by a step using the step sequencer edit modes.

• Step Sequencer Playback Modes (06:46) - Discover a wealth of creative pattern variations achieved by changing the playback direction or rotating any or all of the step sequencer rows.

• Saving, Loading, & Browsing Patterns (04:41) - Learn how to transpose, save, search, and load patterns in the Pattern section of the Browser and how to save them as Pattern Templates. These include pattern, row, and step settings but with an empty step grid that you can use as a starting point for creating new patterns.

• Intro to Automation in the Step Sequencer (02:02) - Follow along as an ES 2 instrument's filter cutoff value is modified within a step sequencer pattern.

• Recording in the Step Sequencer (03:46) - See how to record directly into the Step Sequencer and capture note velocity, length, and quantize all in real time.

• Step Record Patterns in the Step Sequencer (02:15) - Watch as step record is used in the Step Sequencer to create patterns that would be difficult to play in real time.

• Editing in the Step Sequencer (06:54) - Discover ways to cut, copy, paste, repeat, duplicate, and clear either steps or entire rows, how to use the Step Sequencer Inspector, and how to adjust display options.

Recording

• Recording Software Instruments (05:58) - Learn how to record software instruments in cycle mode and either merge the contents of each new pass or create multiple takes within a take folder.

• Working with Takes (04:12) - See how to choose, rename, delete, flatten, unpack, pack, auto colorize, and quantize individual takes within a take folder.

• Introduction to Quantizing (05:50) - Watch how to record multiple software instruments simultaneously and explore the timing nuances achieved using the quantize strength, swing, and range parameters.

• Play Surfaces (07:35) - Discover how to use Play Surfaces to play and control the various software instruments in your project by touching the screen of your iPad.

• Drum Pads Play Surface (05:20) - Learn how to work with the Drum Pads Play Surface and take advantage of the note repeat functions for trap-style hi hat parts.

• Chord Strips (06:39) - Explore this brand new tool in Logic Pro where tapping the Chord Strip play surface plays (customizable) chords and bass notes related to the song key in various inversions.

• Intro to Editing (05:52) - Follow along as a section of the region created in the last video is copied to a new track with a bass instrument. A bass part is created from it by deleting the chord notes, lengthening the bass notes, and transposing the instrument.

• Fretboard Play Surface, Replace Mode, & Customizing the Control Bar (07:22) - Explore the fretboard play surface, see how to customize the display and controls that appear in the control bar and use replace mode to correct mistakes in a recording.

• Guitar Strips Play Surface (06:35) - Discover the strumming and muting gestures available when recording software instruments using the Guitar Strips play surface and see the capture recording function in action combined with cycle mode and take folders.

• Recording Audio (07:47) - Discover how audio recording is set up so the iPad records from your audio interface. A microphone is used, and a live shaker part is recorded.

• Electric Guitar Record Setup (03:20) - Learn how to set up a track for electric guitar to monitor through guitar amp and cabinet processing while recording.

• Loop Recording Electric Guitar (04:46) - Hear several passes of electric guitar recorded over the same section live in real time.

• Guitar Punch In & Solo (05:11) - Replace mode is used to correct a part in one of the previous guitar recordings, and multiple takes of a guitar solo are recorded.

Editing & Arranging

• Editing & Arranging (10:01) - Follow along as various features are demonstrated involving edits based on cycle mode, skip cycle mode, gain adjustments to audio regions, piano roll editing, and more.

• Audio Fades (06:07) - See how to trim audio regions with snap to grid disabled and how to use fades to clean up the starts and endings.

• Markers & Section Repeat (06:16) - Learn how to add markers to your arrangement, repeat a section, and work in the Audio Editor.

• Introduction to Sample Alchemy (07:35) - See how to import an external sample into Logic Pro and get a quick flyover of some of the sound design possibilities available in the new Sample Alchemy software instrument.

• Introduction to Quick Sampler (07:41) - Quick Sampler lets you quickly create sampler instruments consisting of a single audio file. Watch as the sample browser is used to locate a sound that's then used as the basis for a new Quick Sampler instrument. Pitch glide and filter modulation are quickly set up, and the newly created instrument is then used to double the melody.

• Editing Functions Overview (05:38) - See a brief round-up of editing tasks found in the contextual menu of audio and midi regions and the Piano Roll note inspector.

• Working with Samples (04:32) - Explore various ways of manipulating samples, including play back at different speeds, reverse playback, transposing, and time stretching.

• Introduction to Beat Breaker (04:37) - Hear how this creatively stimulating plug-in is used to slice up and reorder incoming audio in real time and add stutters, repeats, buzzes, gating, and more.

Mixing

• Track Stacks (07:19) - Track stacks provide a convenient way to organize and control tracks in audio subgroups. Watch as both summing stacks and folder stacks are created to organize the project in progress.

• Working in the Plug-ins Area (06:46) - Learn how to navigate through the Plug-In Area, plug-in tiles, details view, add, remove, and re-order plug-ins, and more.

• Working with Sends (08:07) - See how to route sends from multiple tracks to a common reverb, so that all instruments are placed in the same virtual space.

• Working in the Mixer Pt. 1 (04:41) - Take a look at some of the workflow and display options using both the Setup mode and Mix mode in the Mixer.

• Working in the Mixer Pt. 2 (03:46) - The Mixer is explored in more detail, and the Chromaverb algorithm on Bus 2 is tweaked.

• Introduction to Automation (05:37) - Learn about track automation, region automation, automation modes, how to select automation parameters, the pencil, brush, curve, and stepped automation tools, and more.

• Real Time Automation (04:25) - Watch as the volume levels are automated using touch and latch modes in a few different areas of the arrangement.

• Drawing Automation (04:14) - See how to draw and edit automation points and create a fadeout of the entire mix on the stereo output track.

• Export & Share (08:10) - Learn how to export and share your full mix, a selected range of the mix, export all the tracks, export only selected tracks, and share you Logic Pro for iPad project file.

Live Loops QuickStart

• Introduction to Live Loops (04:53) - Discover the world of Live loops, where you can play your musical ideas back non-linearly in cells and scenes, rather than regions along a timeline.

• Controlling Playback of Live Loops (07:13) - Learn how to set independent quantize start times for the overall grid, scenes, and individual cells, how to use the momentary and retrigger modes, how to automatically create smooth loops in individual cells, and how to use flex and follow to ensure audio recordings play back at different tempos.

• Record to Cells (05:58) - Learn about setting cell defaults, creating unique loop points for individual cells, and recording directly into Live Loop cells.

• Recording a Live Loops Performance (05:08) - See how you can create interesting and imaginative remixes by triggering your scenes and cells in different combinations while simultaneously recording the output, all in real time.

• Transfer (01:47) - See how the project files created throughout this series are transferred to iCloud Drive in order to be accessed on the desktop Mac.