Logic Pro 10.8 Updates Explained

If you're a Logic Pro user looking to take advantage of the exciting new updated features in Logic Pro 10.8, you're in the right place! In this Logic Pro 10.8 video tutorial course, Logic guru Eli Krantzberg will take you step by step through all the changes, whether it be brand new features, simple updates, or other changes. From brand new virtual instruments like Sample Alchemy to exciting new plug-ins like Beat Breaker, it's all covered here, so you can be sure you'll get the most out of everything Logic Pro 10.8 has to offer. These videos are for existing Logic Pro users who just want to learn more deeply about the new features added to version 10.8.

Videos

• Welcome to Logic Pro 10.8 (02:04) - Find out about all the new features and workflow improvements covered in this update and video series.

• Overview of Sample Alchemy (07:39) - Explore the inspiring feature set of this new instrument designed to easily allow you to resynthesize a single sample and transform it into a bespoke playable instrument using a variety of intuitive synthesis, playback, and modulation functions.

• Sample Alchemy: Granular Synthesis (09:52) - Hear how this technique invites creative experimentation by breaking sounds down into tiny fragments (called grains) and then manipulating the speed, length, and playback of them. Interesting textures are created when combined with Sample Alchemy?s other playback features.

• Sample Alchemy: Additive Synthesis (08:33) - Discover the sonic beauty and mayhem achieved adding partials and harmonics via Sample Alchemy?s various additive synthesis algorithms.

• Sample Alchemy: Spectral Synthesis (09:37) - Learn to creatively mangle and enhance your sounds using the spectral resynthesis functions in Sample Alchemy.

• Other Sample Alchemy Features (08:42) - Round out your Sample Alchemy chops with some useful snap, modulation, automation, and voice settings that will help you get the most out of your Sample Alchemy creations.

• Beat Breaker Quick Start (06:55) - Discover this new fun and inspiring multi-FX plug-in that reorders incoming audio in real time, allowing you to slice up your audio and rearrange it, including the speed, direction, volume, and number of repeats for each slice.

• Working with Beat Breaker Slices (06:35) - See how to add and remove slices, customize and save patterns, and more.

• Automating Beat Breaker Pattern Changes (05:57) - Discover how automating pattern changes enables you to incorporate Beat Breaker into your arrangements with as light a touch as needed.

• Mastering Assistant Explained (07:35) - Learn all about the new mastering assistant plug-in that analyses and elevates your mixes to meet contemporary publishing standards while also providing customization options to tailor the mastered output to your preferences.

• Mastering Assistant in Action (08:47) - Hear two more examples of Mastering Assistant at work, with various customization tweaks to enhance the analysis with my own personal preferences.

• New Track Sheet & Default Region Type (04:44) - Learn all about the new Track Sheet revamp of the old New Tracks dialogue window and about the new default region type parameter in the Track Inspector.

• Drummer & Track Parity (04:30) - Drummer tracks are now just a software instrument track with the new default region type parameter set to Drummer. As such, Drummer regions can now live on MIDI or Pattern tracks, they can be converted to patterns as well as MIDI, each Drummer region can have a different Drummer type (so you can mix Drummer regions of different styes on the same track), and you can record MIDI onto Drummer tracks.

• New Slip & Rotate Tools (03:56) - Explore both creative and corrective uses of the new Main Window Slip and Rotate tools.

• And More (06:05) - Learn about several other new enhancements to Logic Pro, including the ability to work in 32-bit float format, enhanced MIDI 2.0 Event List display options, enhanced and reorganized scale menu in the scale quantize section of the Piano Roll Editor, mutually exclusive track record enabling, neural pitch detection in the Pitch Correction plug-in, Articulation ID key commands, enhanced dialog and options when deleting tracks in the mixer, Global Track changes, and more.