Use Session Player loops in Logic Pro for Mac
Quickly add drum, bass, and keyboard parts to your project using Session Player loops, a type of Apple Loop that you can customize to fit your project.
Logic Pro includes a variety of Apple Loops powered by the Session Players in Logic Pro. Quickly add beats, bass lines, and keyboard parts to your project by dragging a Session Player loop from the Loop Browser into your project.
Check Logic Pro plug-in latency settings
Before you add a Session Player loop, check plug-in latency settings:
Choose Logic Pro from the menu bar, choose Settings, then choose Audio.
Click General.
In the Plug-In Latency section, select "Playback Pre-roll" or choose Off from the Compensation pop-up menu.
Find a Session Player loop
Click the Loop Browser button
in the upper-right corner of the Logic Pro window or press the letter O on your keyboard. Session Player Loops appear in the Loop Browser with a yellow icon. To show only Session Player Loops in the Loops Browser, select Session Player from the Sound Packs pop-up menu at the top of the Loops Browser.
To preview a loop, click the loop in the Loop Browser.
To adjust the volume of a loop preview, adjust the volume slider at the bottom of the Loop Browser.
Add a Session Player loop to your project
When you’ve found a Session Player Loop you like, drag it into an empty part of the Tracks area or an empty cell in the Loops Grid. Logic Pro automatically creates a new track with a region of the Session Player loop. If the loop contains chords, you can choose to have the chords copied to the Chord track so that they can be followed by other Session Players in the project.
After you add the loop, you can edit the performance using the Session Player Editor and by adjusting channel strip settings. Logic Pro automatically configures all the settings in the Session Player Editor.
Change the default Session Player loop patch
When you add a Session Player loop to a new track, the loop plays back using a default patch. But you can change patches. Select the track with the Session Player loop, then choose a different patch in the Library.
For example, you can add a loop like Arpeggiated Piano 01, then change the patch from Studio Piano to Studio Cellos to hear what the loop sounds like with strings instead of piano.
Add additional Session Player Loops
When you add a loop to an existing Session Player track, the loop plays back using a default patch depending on the style of the loop. For example, if you first added a piano loop to a track, then added a drum loop to that track, the drum loop plays back piano sounds instead of drum sounds.
Adding Session Player loops from different players to the same track may cause the loop to sound different from the preview. The patch changes and the new player will interpret the settings in its own way.