Logic Pro: Advanced MIDI Techniques

Ready to level up your MIDI game in Logic Pro? You're in the right place! In this Logic Pro video course, MIDI guru Larry Holcombe will show you plenty of helpful techniques and skills that can transform your workflow and greatly improve the sounds you're getting out of your virtual instruments. You'll learn handy tips like using the Chord Trigger and Transposer to quickly sketch out a chord progression and methods for increasing the realism in drum parts by adding ghost notes, to name but a few. By the time you're through with this MIDI course, you'll feel much more familiar with the MIDI elements in Logic Pro and will be able to take advantage of many time-saving and quality-improving tools on every new song. These Logic Pro MIDI videos are designed for Logic Pro users with a basic Logic Pro and MIDI familiarity.

Videos
• MIDI FX Drum Fills (08:01) - This video introduces the series and also investigates using the note repeater MIDI FX plugin to generate hands on glitchy drum fills.
• Time Handles (03:03) - We discuss the time handles feature next. This provides a way of stretching or compressing MIDI within the piano roll for quick MIDI editing.
• Mapping Drum Pads (03:59) - Next up, we map a collection of samples to drum pads using Logic's drum kit designer. This way, we can use our hardware controller's drum pads to create live sounding drum grooves.
• Step Sequencer Melody Tips (09:57) - This video is concerned with creating sequenced melodic passages with automation changes using pattern regions. This can be a powerful way of making interesting arpeggios and melodic sequences.
• MIDI Transform & Step Input (10:33) - Next up, we investigate some of the most important functions within the MIDI transform window. We also demonstrate the step input option for inputting MIDI notes.
• Advanced Arpeggiation (14:53) - This video covers the different ways we can use the arpeggiator MIDI effect. This includes creating single note melodies and also sequencing chords using the arpeggiator.
• Chord Trigger & Transposer (08:48) - We cover the chord trigger and transposer in this video, which can allow us to create chords with one finger on the keyboard. These can, with the transposer, be locked to a scale making coherent musical parts easier to achieve.
• Realistic Drums & Ghost Notes (08:55) - In this video, we demonstrate adding to the realism of drums using snare ghost notes and also pushing and pulling drum parts off the grid.
• MIDI Articulations (15:33) - Next up, we continue to look at MIDI articulations for the bass, strings and brass studio instruments. This greatly enhances the kind of realism that can be achieved from these instruments especially when combined with dynamics modulation via a MIDI controller.
• Generative Techniques (09:28) - Finally, we have some fun using MIDI FX to create a generative part which we then convert to a MIDI region. This can help kiss goodbye to the dreaded waters block!