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
MIDI In/Out settings in Logic Pro for iPad
Bluetooth MIDI Devices
Tap Bluetooth MIDI Devices to open a dialog for setting up your external Bluetooth MIDI controllers to use with Logic Pro. There are two pages for settings, Connect and Advertise:
Connect: Use the Connect settings to configure your external Bluetooth MIDI controllers to send and receive MIDI signals to and from Logic Pro. Each device is listed along with its status, for which there are three options:
Not Connected: Logic Pro receives a pairing signal from the device, and you can tap Not Connected to connect the device.
Connected: The device is currently connected (paired), and you can tap Connected to disconnect it.
Offline: This is a previously connected device that is currently not available. Once a pairing signal is detected, the status changes to Not Connected.
Advertise: Use the Advertise settings to configure how Logic Pro is recognized by other Bluetooth devices.
Name field: The name of your iPad is displayed by default, but you can tap the field and enter a different name that other Bluetooth devices will see.
Advertise MIDI Service switch: Turn Advertise on or off to have your iPad be discoverable by other MIDI Bluetooth devices.
MIDI Input Devices and Ports
Any MIDI device that can send MIDI messages and is recognized by Logic Pro is listed under MIDI Input Devices and Ports with a switch to turn the device on or off. Only devices that are turned on can be used in Logic Pro and displayed in the MIDI Input pop-up menu in the Track inspector.
Various types of MIDI devices are recognized in Logic Pro:
Network Session 1: This option represents the network connection you create in the Audio MIDI Setup app on a Mac to send MIDI between Logic Pro for Mac and Logic Pro for iPad.
Logic Pro Virtual In: Receive MIDI data from any app on your iPad that supports this virtual MIDI bus, such as GarageBand for iPad. Third-party iPad music apps might display this option as a selectable MIDI output.
Internal app: Most iPad music apps that can send MIDI data internally between apps are listed automatically when you open them on your iPad.
Bluetooth connection: Any Bluetooth MIDI device needs to be added manually in Logic Pro in the Bluetooth MIDI Devices dialog.
Physical connection: A MIDI device that is Core MIDI compliant is automatically displayed in the MIDI Input Devices and Ports list if you connect it to the iPad’s Lightning or USB-C port.
The MIDI Input pop-up menu in the Track inspector lets you choose which MIDI device to use as the input for an individual software instrument track. See Record multiple MIDI devices to multiple tracks.
Note: The Play Surface option is always available in the MIDI Input pop-up menu. To connect and disconnect Bluetooth devices, tap Bluetooth MIDI Devices to open the Bluetooth MIDI Devices dialog.
Add Bluetooth MIDI devices
In Logic Pro for iPad, tap the More button
on the right side of the control bar, then tap Settings 
.Tap App Settings, tap MIDI on the left, tap In/Out, and then tap Bluetooth MIDI Devices to open the Bluetooth MIDI Devices dialog.
Tip: You can also tap the MIDI Input pop-up menu in the Track inspector of a MIDI track and choose Bluetooth MIDI Devices to open the dialog.
Tap Connect at the top (if it’s not already selected), then tap a row with the status Not Connected, indicating a device ready to be connected.
The status next to the device name changes to Connected; tap Connected when you want to disconnect the device.
Tap Done or swipe down to return to the MIDI In/Out settings.
The MIDI In/Out settings now lists the connected devices.
Remove offline Bluetooth MIDI devices
You can remove any previously connected device (marked as Offline) from the list.
In Logic Pro for iPad, tap the More button
on the right side of the control bar, then tap Settings .Tap App Settings, tap MIDI on the left, tap In/Out, and then tap Bluetooth MIDI Devices to show that dialog.
Tap Connect at the top (if it’s not already selected), then do either of the following:
Swipe left on an offline device, then tap the red Forget button that appears.
Swipe all the way to the left on an offline device to remove it immediately.
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