Before recording audio in Logic Pro for Mac
You can record vocals, an acoustic instrument, or any other sound using your computer’s built-in microphone or a microphone connected to your computer either directly or via an audio interface. You record sound from a microphone to an audio track.
Before you start recording audio, do the following:
Check hardware connections and settings, making sure that any sound source you plan to use in your session—microphone or mixer, for example—is connected to the audio inputs of your system and is working. You should also check hardware settings such as the system memory requirement and disk space.
Choose the Recording settings in Logic Pro—AIFF, WAV, or CAF—for audio data before recording.
Set the audio recording path, which is only necessary if you want to save recorded audio outside of the project.
Set a different project sample rate if needed, which is the number of times per second the audio signal is sampled.
Set the project bit depth, which is the number of digital bits each sample contains. The higher the bit depth, the greater the dynamic range of the audio data.
Add an audio track, which is used to record a voice, an acoustic instrument, or any other sound from a microphone.
Set the metronome, which plays a steady beat so you can play and record in time, or as a count-in before recording starts.
Enable software monitoring, which allows you to monitor incoming audio through any effects that are inserted into a record-enabled audio track. Many audio interfaces offer a direct or hardware monitoring option, which sends the audio signal being recorded to a monitor output before the signal is sent to Logic Pro. If your interface offers direct recording, you should use it and only use software monitoring if you’re using effects on a record-enabled channel strip.
Check the monitoring level, which controls the playback (or monitoring) level, not the recording level.
Tune any instruments that are connected to your system to ensure that your external instrument recordings are in tune with any software instruments, samples, or existing recordings in your project. You can access the Tuner using the Tuner button in the control bar or in the Smart Controls menu bar (for audio tracks). For details about the Tuner plug-in, see Use Tuner utility and plug-in.