Logic Pro User Guide for iPad
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- What is Logic Pro?
- Working areas
- Work with function buttons
- Work with numeric values
- Undo and redo edits in Logic Pro for iPad
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- Intro to tracks
- Create tracks
- Create tracks using drag and drop
- Choose the default region type for a software instrument track
- Select tracks
- Duplicate tracks
- Reorder tracks
- Rename tracks
- Change track icons
- Change track colors
- Use the tuner on an audio track
- Show the output track in the Tracks area
- Delete tracks
- Edit track parameters
- Start a Logic Pro subscription
- How to get help
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- Intro to recording
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- Before recording software instruments
- Record software instruments
- Record additional software instrument takes
- Record to multiple software instrument tracks
- Record multiple MIDI devices to multiple tracks
- Record software instruments and audio simultaneously
- Merge software instrument recordings
- Spot erase software instrument recordings
- Replace software instrument recordings
- Capture your most recent MIDI performance
- Route MIDI internally to software instrument tracks
- Record with Low Latency Monitoring mode
- Use the metronome
- Use the count-in
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- Intro to arranging
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- Intro to regions
- Select regions
- Cut, copy, and paste regions
- Move regions
- Remove gaps between regions
- Delay region playback
- Trim regions
- Loop regions
- Repeat regions
- Mute regions
- Split and join regions
- Stretch regions
- Separate a MIDI region by note pitch
- Bounce regions in place
- Change the gain of audio regions
- Create regions in the Tracks area
- Convert a MIDI region to a Session Player region or a pattern region
- Replace a MIDI region with a Session Player region in Logic Pro for iPad
- Rename regions
- Change the color of regions
- Delete regions
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- Intro to chords
- Add and delete chords
- Select chords
- Cut, copy, and paste chords
- Move and resize chords
- Loop chords on the Chord track
- Color chords on the Chord track
- Edit chords
- Work with chord groups
- Use chord progressions
- Change the chord rhythm
- Choose which chords a Session Player region follows
- Analyze the key signature of a range of chords
- Create fades on audio regions
- Extract vocal and instrumental stems with Stem Splitter
- Access mixing functions using the Fader
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- Intro to Step Sequencer
- Use Step Sequencer with Drum Machine Designer
- Record Step Sequencer patterns live
- Step record Step Sequencer patterns
- Load and save patterns
- Modify pattern playback
- Edit steps
- Edit rows
- Edit Step Sequencer pattern, row, and step settings in the inspector
- Customize Step Sequencer
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- Intro to mixing
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- Channel strip types
- Channel strip controls
- Peak level display and clipping
- Set channel strip volume
- Set channel strip input format
- Set the output for a channel strip
- Set channel strip pan position
- Mute and solo channel strips
- Reorder channel strips in the Mixer in Logic Pro for iPad
- Replace a patch on a channel strip using drag and drop
- Work with plug-ins in the Mixer
- Search for plug-ins in the Mixer in Logic Pro for iPad
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- Effect plug-ins overview
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- Instrument plug-ins overview
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- ES2 overview
- Interface overview
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- Modulation overview
- Use the Mod Pad
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- Vector Envelope overview
- Use Vector Envelope points
- Use Vector Envelope solo and sustain points
- Set Vector Envelope segment times
- Vector Envelope XY pad controls
- Vector Envelope Actions menu
- Vector Envelope loop controls
- Vector Envelope point transition shapes
- Vector Envelope release phase behavior
- Use Vector Envelope time scaling
- Modulation source reference
- Via modulation source reference
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- Sample Alchemy overview
- Interface overview
- Add source material
- Save a preset
- Edit mode
- Play modes
- Source overview
- Synthesis modes
- Granular controls
- Additive effects
- Additive effect controls
- Spectral effect
- Spectral effect controls
- Filter module
- Low, bandpass, and highpass filters
- Comb PM filter
- Downsampler filter
- FM filter
- Envelope generators
- Mod Matrix
- Modulation routing
- Motion mode
- Trim mode
- More menu
- Sampler
- Studio Piano
- Copyright
Edit Step Sequencer steps in Logic Pro for iPad
You can edit individual steps in several ways, including cutting, copying, and pasting steps. You can also repeat a step, decrement or increment the values of all steps in a row, transpose all steps in a pattern by semitones or octaves, randomize values for all steps in a row or all steps in the pattern, and reset steps to default values.
Pattern regions can be edited only in Step Sequencer in Logic Pro for iPad, not in the other MIDI editors. You can convert a pattern region to a MIDI region, which can be edited in the Tracks area and in the Piano Roll Editor.
Cut a step
In Logic Pro, tap the Step Select button
in the Step Sequencer menu bar.Tap the step to select it, tap it again, then tap Cut.
When you cut a step, the step value and edit mode settings are cut, but the empty step remains in the step grid. The order of following steps does not change.
Copy and paste a step
You can copy a step, including all of its step settings. When you paste a copied step, the destination row should be of the same row type (note or automation) as the source row.
In Logic Pro, tap the Step Select button
in the Step Sequencer menu bar.Tap the step to select it, tap it again, then tap Copy.
Tap the destination step to select it, tap it again, then tap Paste.
Repeat a step
In Logic Pro, tap the Step Select button
in the Step Sequencer menu bar.Tap the step to select it, tap it again, then tap Repeat.
Raise or lower the value of all steps in the pattern
In Logic Pro, tap the Page Switch button 
in the pattern controls until you see the Decrement and Increment buttons 
, then do one of the following:
To lower the value of all steps in the pattern: Tap the Decrement button in the pattern controls.
To raise the value of all steps in the pattern: Tap the Increment button in the pattern controls.
You can also continuously change the value for all steps in the pattern by touching and holding either button and dragging vertically.
When the edit mode is set to Step On/Off, tapping the Increment button turns on all inactive steps, and tapping Decrement button turns off all active steps. When the edit mode is set to Tie, tapping the Increment button ties all steps, and tapping the Decrement button unties all tied steps.
Raise or lower the values of all steps in a row
In Logic Pro, tap the Page Switch button in the pattern controls until you see the Decrement and Increment buttons , then do one of the following:
To lower the value of all steps in the pattern: Tap the Decrement button in the row header.
To raise the value of all steps in the pattern: Tap the Increment button in the row header.
Transpose all steps in a pattern
In Logic Pro, tap the More button 
in the step grid header, tap Transpose, then do one of the following:
To transpose the pattern up one semitone: Choose Transpose +1 Semitone.
To transpose the pattern down one semitone: Choose Transpose –1 Semitone.
To transpose the pattern up one octave: Choose Transpose +1 Octave.
To transpose the pattern down one octave: Choose Transpose –1 Octave.
To transpose the pattern to the project key: Choose Transpose to Project Key.
Randomize step values in a pattern for the active edit mode
In Logic Pro, tap the Page Switch button
in the pattern controls until you see the Randomize button 
, then tap the button in the pattern controls.
Randomize step values in a row for the active edit mode
In Logic Pro, do one of the following:
Tap the Page Switch button
in the pattern controls until you see the Randomize button , then tap the button in the row header.Tap the row icon to select the row, tap it again, then choose Randomize for the active edit mode.
Reset step values to default settings
When you create a pattern in Logic Pro for iPad, many Step Sequencer settings, including all edit modes and the playback mode, have a default value. After you change the value for a step, it no longer retains the default value. You can clear steps, which resets all their edit mode values to default values (for the step rate, the default is defined by the row step rate). You can clear a single step, all steps in a row, or all steps in the pattern. You can also clear the values for the currently selected edit mode in a single row, for all note rows or all automation rows, or for steps in all rows in the pattern.
To clear edit mode values for a step: Tap the Step Select button
in the Step Sequencer menu bar, tap the step to select it, tap it again, then tap Clear Step.To clear edit mode values for all steps in a row: Tap the row icon to select the row, tap it again, then choose Clear Row.
To clear edit mode values for all steps in all note rows: Tap the More button
in the step grid header, tap Clear, then tap Clear for Note Rows for the active edit mode.To clear edit mode values for all steps in all automation rows: Tap the More button
in the step grid header, tap Clear, then tap Clear Value for Automation Rows.To clear all steps in the pattern: Tap the More button
in the step grid header, tap Clear, then tap Clear Pattern.
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