Logic Pro User Guide for iPad
- Welcome
- What’s new in Logic Pro for iPad
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- What is Logic Pro?
- Working areas
- Work with the menu bar
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Normalize audio regions in the Tracks area in Logic Pro for iPad
- 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
- Analyze the chords in an audio or MIDI region with Chord ID
- 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 editing regions and cells
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- Piano Roll Editor overview
- Select notes
- Add notes
- Delete notes
- Mute notes
- Trim notes
- Move notes
- Copy notes
- Repeat notes
- Shorten overlaps
- Force legato
- Lock note position
- Transpose notes
- Change note velocity
- Change release velocity
- Change MIDI channel
- Set articulation IDs
- Quantize timing
- Quantize pitch
- Edit Live Loops in the Cell Editor
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- Intro to Step Sequencer
- Use Step Sequencer with Drum Machine Designer
- Chords and pitch in Step Sequencer
- 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
- 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
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- Effect plug-ins overview
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- Instrument plug-ins overview
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- ES2 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
- Use macro controls
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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 and trademarks
Beat Breaker tips in Logic Pro for iPad
These techniques are starting points to help you get the most out of Beat Breaker. Because each slice stores its settings independently, the possibilities for combining modes across a single pattern are extensive. Experiment freely.
Create a stutter effect
Add four equal slices to your pattern using the Slice Editor strip.
Tap the Repeat button to select Repeat mode.
Tap the second and fourth slices and set Repeats to 4 on each.
Play back the loop. The first and third slices play normally while the second and fourth stutter.
Tip: Increase the Repeats value or add more slices to intensify the effect. For a more subtle result, try setting Repeats to 2 instead of 4.
Rearrange your audio into a new rhythm
Add multiple slices to your pattern.
Tap the Time button to select Time mode.
Tap the second slice, then drag the Input Beat value to push its playback position to a different point in the source audio.
Repeat across your slices to reorder the audio. The original recording remains unchanged. Beat Breaker plays it back in the new sequence you define.
Layer effects across slices
Create a pattern with six or more slices.
Tap the Time button and adjust the Input Beat values on the first two slices to reposition them in the source audio.
Tap the Repeat button and set Repeats to 4 on the middle two slices to create a stutter effect.
Tap the Volume button, tap the final slice, and drag Slope down to the right to fade out the last section of the pattern.
Play back the loop. Each section of the pattern behaves differently, while the whole remains a single cohesive effect.
Keep your bass intact while applying effects to a full mix
In the Main Editor, set the Bypass Below field to around 200 Hz.
Build your pattern as normal. Frequencies below 200 Hz, including kick drum and bass, pass through unaffected while Beat Breaker processes everything above.
Adjust the Bypass Below value to taste.
Start from a clean slate
Tap the Pattern Slot Edit button
to enter Pattern Slot Edit mode.Tap a Pattern button, then tap Recall Default. All slice effects are reset to their default neutral values, giving you a clean starting point for a new pattern.
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