Logic Pro User Guide for iPad
- What’s new in Logic Pro 1.1
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- What is Logic Pro?
- Working areas
- Work with function buttons
- Work with numeric values
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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
- 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 Drummer region or a pattern region
- Rename regions
- Change the color of regions
- Delete regions
- Create fades on audio regions
- 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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- 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
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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 release phase behavior
- Vector Envelope point transition shapes
- Use Vector Envelope time scaling
- Use the Mod Pad
- 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 and highpass filter
- Comb PM filter
- Downsampler filter
- FM filter
- Envelope generators
- Mod Matrix
- Modulation routing
- Motion mode
- Trim mode
- More menu
- Sampler
- Copyright
Create automation with Step Sequencer in Logic Pro for iPad
Instead of creating automation points along a timeline that, connected, form an automation curve, you can create automation in Logic Pro for iPad using Step Sequencer.
The concept of Step Sequencer in Logic Pro is based on classic hardware step sequencers with rows of configurable switches and knobs used to generate repeating musical patterns or drum patterns. Instead of storing notes in a series of steps along the row, you can assign a row to a specific automation parameter, and each step in that row then contains a single value for that automation parameter. See Pattern creation basics.
Creative use of Step Sequencer automation
The steps in a Step Sequencer pattern represent a specific time grid (for example, 16th or 8th notes), and storing specific values for an automation parameter (for example, pan, volume, or filter cutoff) in those steps makes it easy to create tempo-based automation. That means you can easily change the value of an automation parameter based on the bar/beat grid of your project. You need to create those automation patterns only for one bar and then extend that pattern region to repeat that pattern or move it on the track lane to any other position where you want to perform that automation.
For example:
Create 1/4 note steps for the Pan parameter to alternate left and right pan positions on the beat.
Create 1/16 note steps for one bar for the Volume parameter to decrease the level with each step gradually.
Create 1/8 note steps for two bars for the Resolution parameter of the Bitcrusher plug-in and set each step to a different value.
Create 1/2 note steps for the cutoff frequency of a synth to close and open the filter over two bars periodically.
Add automation steps to a pattern region
The following steps assume that you already have a pattern region in your project.
In the Tracks area, tap the pattern region to select it, and then tap the Editors button
in the view control bar.The Editors area shows Step Sequencer.
Tap the Add button
above the row headers to open the Row Assignment menu and choose Automation > Main > Pan.You can choose any other automation parameter from the menu.
On the new row, for example, tap the 1st, 5th, 9th, and 13th step to turn them on.
Tap the Row disclosure arrow
to show the Value attribute.Drag the value of the first and third selected step up to +63 and the second and fourth value down to -64.
The pattern region plays back with the pan position jumping left and right on each downbeat.
Control track stacks with an automation pattern region
Placing a pattern region on the main track of a track stack controls its subtracks based on the Step Sequencer automation.
Tap the disclosure arrow
in the track header of the track stack.All the subtracks are displayed below the main track.
Tap the track lane of the main track, then tap again and to open its menu, and choose Create Pattern Region.
With the pattern region selected, tap the Editors button
in the view control bar.The Editors area now shows Step Sequencer.
Follow the steps described in Add automation steps to a pattern region.
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