Logic Pro User Guide for iPad
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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
- 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
- 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
- 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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- 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
Intro to automation in Logic Pro for iPad
Automation refers to recording, editing, and playing back the movements of faders and knobs and the status of switches. Using automation, you can create changes over time to volume, pan, and other settings in the channel strips or plug-ins. For example, you can use automation to change the volume of an instrument throughout a project, create left-right pan movement and filter sweeps, mute a track during a section of the project, or create a fade-out at the end of a song.
In Automation view, you select an automation parameter to show and edit its individual automation points. The automation curve (the representation of the parameter’s value change over time) is automatically created by connecting those points with a straight line. You can also bend the lines to change the shape of the automation curve.
You can add automation to all track types and even add automation to regions and cells. Logic Pro also lets you embed automation data in Step Sequencer for creating tempo-based automation.
Track automation vs. region automation
Logic Pro offers two types of automation: track automation and region automation. Track automation (available in the Tracks area) applies to the entire track, from the beginning to the end of your project. Region automation (available in the Editors area) is embedded in the individual region. With track automation, if you re-record, move, or copy regions (either to another point on the same track or to another track entirely), the automation data remains tied to the initial point on the track in which it was created. However, with region automation, if you re-record the region, the automation is overwritten; if you move or copy the region (either to another point on the same track or to another track), the automation remains with the region. Region automation is particularly useful when you are automating instrument parameters.
Important: If you create region automation and track automation for the same parameter on a track, region automation has priority. Automation data created in Step Sequencer has priority over region automation.
Writing automation vs. drawing automation
You can create and edit automation in two ways:
You can write automation in real time by adjusting controls during playback to record those movements as automation data using various Automation modes.
You can also draw and edit automation graphically by using various functions and gestures.
Each parameter that can be automated is listed in the Automation Parameter pop-up menu. You can turn off individual automation parameters or turn off all automation parameters on a track.
Automation points vs. MIDI data points
In addition to channel strip and plug-in controls, you can also automate MIDI data.
Automation points: Any parameter value of a channel strip or plug-in control stored as automation data is called an automation point, visible in Automation view of the Tracks area or Editors area.
MIDI data points: You can also automate MIDI events, such as program change, expression, and MIDI control. Those values are referred to as MIDI data points, which look and behave like automation points in Automation view. They are only available with MIDI regions and Session Player regions in the Editors area.
Tip: Using the pinch gesture to zoom in vertically and horizontally helps create and edit automation points. Performing these edit tasks can be easier and more precise with Apple Pencil.
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