Logic Pro User Guide
- Welcome
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- What is Logic Pro?
- Workflow overview
- Logic Pro project basics
- Advanced tools and additional options
- Undo and redo edits
- Manage Logic Pro content
- How to get help
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- Projects overview
- Create projects
- Open projects
- Save projects
- Delete projects
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- Play a project
- Set the playhead position
- Control playback with the transport buttons
- Use transport shortcut menus
- Use transport keyboard shortcuts
- Customize the control bar
- Change the LCD display mode
- Monitor and reset MIDI events
- Use the cycle area
- Use the Chase Events function
- Control Logic Pro using Apple Remote
- Control Logic Pro projects using Logic Remote
- Preview projects in the Finder
- Close projects
- View project information
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- Overview
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- Before recording software instruments
- Play software instruments
- Record software instruments
- Record additional software instrument takes
- Overdub software instrument recordings
- Spot erase software instrument recordings
- Use Note Repeat
- Record to multiple software instrument tracks
- Replace software instrument recordings
- Record multiple MIDI devices to multiple tracks
- Record software instruments and audio simultaneously
- Use step input recording techniques
- Use the metronome
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- Overview
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- Regions overview
- Select regions
- Select parts of regions
- Cut, copy, and paste regions
- Move regions
- Add or remove gaps
- Delay region playback
- Loop regions
- Repeat regions
- Resize regions
- Mute and solo regions
- Time stretch regions
- Split regions
- Demix MIDI regions
- Join regions
- Create regions in the Tracks area
- Normalize audio regions in the Tracks area
- Create aliases of MIDI regions
- Clone audio regions
- Convert repeated MIDI regions to loops
- Change the color of regions
- Convert audio regions to Sampler zones
- Rename regions
- Delete regions
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- Overview
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- Add notes
- Select notes
- Snap items to the grid
- Move notes
- Copy notes
- Change the pitch of notes
- Resize notes
- Edit note velocity
- Quantize the timing of notes
- Quantize the pitch of notes
- Change note articulations
- Lock the position of events
- Mute notes
- Change note color
- View note labels
- Delete notes
- Time stretch notes
- View multiple MIDI regions
- Split chords
- Automation/MIDI area in the Piano Roll Editor
- Open other editors
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- Flex Time and Pitch overview
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- Flex Pitch algorithm and parameters
- Edit the pitch of audio in the Audio Track Editor or a zoomed in track
- Edit the pitch of audio in the Tracks area when the track is not zoomed in
- Correct the timing of audio regions with Flex Pitch
- Quantize the pitch of audio regions
- Create MIDI from audio recordings
- Change the gain of notes in audio regions
- Use Varispeed to alter the speed and pitch of audio
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- Mixing overview
- Set channel strip input formats
- Set channel strip pan or balance positions
- Mute and solo channel strips
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- Plug-ins overview
- Add, remove, move, and copy plug-ins
- Insert a plug-in on a track using drag and drop
- Activate plug-ins on inactive channels
- Use the Channel EQ
- Work in the plug-in window
- Work with plug-in settings
- Work with plug-in latencies
- Work with Audio Units plug-ins
- Support for ARA 2 compatible plug-ins
- Use the Plug-in Manager
- Work with channel strip settings
- Surround panning
- Use the I/O Labels window
- Undo and redo Mixer and plug-in adjustments
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- Smart Controls overview
- Show Smart Controls for master effects
- Choose a Smart Control layout
- Automatic MIDI controller assignment
- Map screen controls automatically
- Map screen controls
- Edit mapping parameters
- Use parameter mapping graphs
- Open the plug-in window for a screen control
- Rename a screen control
- Use articulation IDs to change articulations
- Assign hardware controls to screen controls
- Compare Smart Control edits with saved settings in Logic Pro
- Use the Arpeggiator
- Automate screen control movements
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- Live Loops overview
- Start and stop cells
- Work with Live Loops cells
- Change loop settings for cells
- How the Live Loops grid and Tracks area interact
- Edit cells
- Edit scenes
- Work in the Cell Editor
- Bounce cells
- Record a Live Loops performance
- Change Live Loops grid settings
- Control Live Loops in Logic Pro with other devices
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- Overview
- Add notes
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- Part box overview
- View score symbols
- Select score symbols
- Add notes and rests
- Add notes and symbols to multiple regions
- Add key and time signature changes
- Change the clef sign
- Add dynamic marks, slurs, and crescendi
- Change note heads
- Add symbols to notes
- Add trills, ornaments, and tremolo symbols
- Add sustain pedal markings
- Add chord symbols
- Add chord grids and tablature symbols
- Add bar lines, repeats, and coda signs
- Add page and line break symbols
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- Select notes
- Move and copy notes
- Change note pitch, duration, and velocity
- Change note articulations
- Quantize the timing of notes
- Restrict note input to the current key
- Control how ties are displayed
- Add and edit tuplets
- Override display quantization using tuplets
- Add grace notes and independent notes
- Delete notes
- Use automation in the Score Editor
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- Staff styles overview
- Assign staff styles to tracks
- Staff Style window
- Create and duplicate staff styles
- Edit staff styles
- Edit staff, voice, and assign parameters
- Add and delete staffs or voices in the Logic Pro Staff Style window
- Copy staffs or voices in the Logic Pro Staff Style window
- Copy staff styles between projects
- Delete staff styles
- Assign notes to voices and staffs
- Display polyphonic parts on separate staffs
- Change the staff assignment of score symbols
- Beam notes across staffs
- Use mapped staff styles for drum notation
- Predefined staff styles
- Share a score
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- Environment overview
- Common object parameters
- Customize the Environment
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- Fader objects overview
- Use fader objects
- Play back fader movements
- Work with object groups
- Fader styles
- Fader functions: MIDI events
- Fader functions: range, value as
- Fader functions: filter
- Vector fader
- Special faders overview
- Cable switchers
- Meta event faders
- SysEx faders
- Work with SysEx messages
- Special functions
- Ornament objects
- MMC record buttons
- Keyboard objects
- Monitor objects
- Channel splitter object
- Physical input objects
- Physical input objects
- MIDI click objects
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- Key commands overview
- Browse, import, and save key commands
- Assign key commands
- Copy and print key commands
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- Global Commands key commands
- Global Control Surfaces Commands
- Various windows
- Windows Showing Audio files
- Main Window Tracks and Various Editors
- Live Loops Grid
- Various Editors
- Views showing Time Ruler
- Main Window Tracks
- Mixer
- MIDI Environment
- Piano Roll
- Score Editor
- Event Editor
- Step Editor
- Step Sequencer
- Project Audio
- Audio File Editor
- Smart Tempo Editor
- Sampler
- Step Input Keyboard
- Tool key commands in Logic Pro
- Touch Bar shortcuts
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- Working with your control surface
- Connect control surfaces
- Add a control surface to Logic Pro
- Automatic assignment for USB MIDI controllers
- Grouping control surfaces
- Control Surfaces preferences overview
- Modal dialog display
- Tips for using your control surface
- Control surfaces supported by Logic Pro
- Software and firmware
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- Learn about Effects
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- Learn about Amps and Pedals
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- Bass Amp Designer overview
- Bass amplifier models
- Bass cabinet models
- Build a custom combo
- Amplifier signal flow
- Pre-amp signal flow
- Use the D.I. box
- Amplifier controls
- Bass Amp Designer effects overview
- Bass Amp Designer EQ
- Bass Amp Designer compressor
- Bass Amp Designer Graphic EQ
- Bass Amp Designer Parametric EQ
- Bass Amp Designer microphone controls
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- Use MIDI plug-ins
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- Arpeggiator overview
- Arpeggiator control parameters
- Note order parameters overview
- Note order variations
- Note order inversions
- Arpeggiator pattern parameters overview
- Use Live mode
- Use Grid mode
- Arpeggiator options parameters
- Arpeggiator keyboard parameters
- Use keyboard parameters
- Assign controller parameters
- Modifier MIDI plug-in controls
- Note Repeater MIDI plug-in controls
- Randomizer MIDI plug-in controls
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- Use the Scripter MIDI plug-in
- Use the Script Editor
- Scripter API overview
- MIDI processing functions overview
- HandleMIDI function
- ProcessMIDI function
- GetParameter function
- SetParameter function
- ParameterChanged function
- Reset function
- JavaScript objects overview
- Use the JavaScript Event object
- Use the JavaScript TimingInfo object
- Use the Trace object
- Use the MIDI event beatPos property
- Use the JavaScript MIDI object
- Create Scripter controls
- Transposer MIDI plug-in controls
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- Learn about included Instruments
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- Alchemy overview
- Name bar
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- Alchemy source overview
- Source master controls
- Import browser
- Source subpage controls
- Source filter controls
- Source filter use tips
- Source elements overview
- Additive element controls
- Additive element effects
- Spectral element controls
- Spectral element effects
- Pitch correction controls
- Formant filter controls
- Granular element controls
- Sampler element controls
- VA element controls
- Source modulations
- Morph controls
- Master voice section
- Alchemy extended parameters
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- Logic Pro Quick Sampler overview
- Add content to Logic Pro Quick Sampler
- Logic Pro Quick Sampler waveform display
- Use Flex in Logic Pro Quick Sampler
- Logic Pro Quick Sampler Pitch controls
- Logic Pro Quick Sampler Filter controls
- Quick Sampler filter types
- Logic Pro Quick Sampler Amp controls
- Logic Pro Quick Sampler extended parameters
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- Sculpture overview
- Sculpture interface
- Global parameters
- Amplitude envelope parameters
- Use the Waveshaper
- Filter parameters
- Output parameters
- Use surround range and diversity
- Assign MIDI controllers
- Extended parameters
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- Ultrabeat overview
- Ultrabeat interface
- Synthesizer section overview
- Filter section controls
- Distortion circuit controls
- Glossary
Logic Pro Alchemy morph controls
Source components are shown only in advanced view. Click the Advanced button to switch to advanced view, then click the Morph button to view and use the morph controls.
The morph controls determine how the four Alchemy sources interact. There are two basic types of interaction.
XFade: In a crossfade, all active sources play simultaneously, and the X and Y knobs control the mix between them. This is equivalent to turning the Amp knobs in each source to attain the desired mix. If you crossfade from a source with a high Coarse Tune setting to a source with a low Coarse Tune setting, the high source fades out as the low source fades in. In the middle of the crossfade you hear both sources.
Morph: In a morph, a single sound is generated with parameter values determined by interpolating between the settings of all four sources. If you morph from a source with a high Coarse Tune setting to a source with a low Coarse Tune setting, you hear a single sound during the morph. The sound tuning falls smoothly from the high value to the low one.
Morphing provides more scope than simple crossfades between sources. It also allows cross-synthesis, where you can combine different aspects of different sound elements. For example, you could apply the formants or other characteristics of an additive source to the spectral element of another source. See the tutorials found in Logic Pro Alchemy elemental morphs overview.
Only certain parameters, notably all parameters controlled with a knob, can be morphed. Morphed parameters are indicated by a green arc around the control. Parameters that are morphed and have a modulation assignment show both an orange and green arc around the control. Parameter settings are shared across all morphed sources, which means that changing a parameter in one source results in the corresponding parameter being changed for all morphed sources.
Note: Parameters that do not directly participate in the morph, including most buttons and pop-up menus, are indicated with a lock icon displayed at the top left of the control (the lock icons are shown only in source subpages). Where there is a parameter pairing of an On button and a pop-up menu, only the button shows the lock icon. Neither parameter participates in the morph.
Morph controls
Morph type buttons: Choose one of four crossfade or morph modes.
XFade XY: This mode crossfades levels between all four sources.
Use the X knob to control the mix levels of sources A and C versus sources B and D.
Use the Y knob to control the mix levels of sources A and B versus sources C and D.
XFade Linear: This mode is useful for setting up crossfades based on Velocity or KeyFollow.
Crossfade from source A to B to C to D as you increase the X knob value from 0% to 100%.
The Y knob is not shown in this mode.
Morph XY: This mode is like XFade XY, but all parameters of the sound are morphed. Regions of each source encompassed by corresponding warp markers are time-aligned in the morph. See Logic Pro Alchemy zone waveform editor.
All/Elements buttons: Use All to view and edit the X/Y values for all active parameters. Use Elements to view and edit the X/Y values of five parameters.
X/Y knobs: Edit the X/Y values for all active parameters. Y values are not shown in “linear” modes.
Additive knob X/Y: Set the morph value for active additive sources. Also controls VA morph position if the VA element is active.
Spec/Gran knob X/Y: Set the morph value for active spectral or granular sources. Also controls sampler morph position if the sampler element is active.
Pitch knob X/Y: Set the pitch morph value between active sources.
Formant knob X/Y: Set the formant level morph value between active sources. Also controls morphing of the source filter knobs.
Envelope knob X/Y: Set the envelope morph value between active sources. These controls morph the timing of the sound. In cases where source A has a short attack and source B has a long attack, for example, the length of the attack varies as you change the X knob.
Auto Gain button: Enable to match source levels, resulting in smoother morphs.
Fixed Pitch button: Turn on to lock the root note to a pitch that doesn’t change, regardless of morph position movements. Turn off for the best morphing quality.
Auto Align button: Enable to automatically align all morphed sources. As an example, Auto Align corrects the timing of words of four spoken voice samples saying the same phrase in each of the four morphed sources. Auto Align is automatically turned off when you set warp markers manually.
Morph Linear: This mode is like XFade Linear, but all parameters of the sound are morphed. Regions of each source encompassed by corresponding warp markers are time-aligned in the morph. See Logic Pro Alchemy elemental morphs overview.
All/Elements buttons: Use All to view and edit the X value for all active parameters. Use Elements to view and edit the X values of five parameters.
Source group buttons: Choose source group A-B, C-D, or A-B-C-D. Morphs affect only the chosen group of sources.
Additive knob: Set the morph value for active additive sources.
Spec/Gran knob: Set the morph value for active spectral or granular sources. This also controls the sampler morphing position if the sampler element is active.
Pitch knob: Set the pitch morph value between active sources.
Formant knob: Set the formant level morph value between active sources.
Envelope knob: Set the envelope morph value between active sources.
Auto Gain button: Enable to match source levels, resulting in smoother morphs.
Fixed Pitch button: Locks the root note to a pitch that does not change, regardless of morph position movements. Turn off for higher morphing quality.
Auto Align button: Enable to automatically align all morphed sources. Auto Align is automatically turned off when you set warp markers manually. For example, Auto Align corrects the timing of words of four spoken voice samples saying the same phrase in each of the four morphed sources.
Morph square: Display and edit the current X/Y morph position. Drag the point to change the X or Y value, or both.
Morph XY mode: When the Elements button is on, five colored points represent the following parameters: Additive (blue), Spec/Gran (orange), Pitch (green), Formant (purple), and Envelope (yellow). Drag each point to change the corresponding X and Y values.
Morph Linear mode: When the Elements button is on, five colored points represent the following parameters: Additive (blue), Spec/Gran (orange), Pitch (green), Formant (purple), and Envelope (yellow). Drag each point to change the corresponding X parameter value for the active source group: A-B, C-D, or A-B-C-D.