Logic Pro User Guide for iPad
- What’s new in Logic Pro 1.1
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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
- 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 Drummer region or a pattern region
- Rename regions
- Change the color of regions
- Delete regions
- Create fades on audio regions
- 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
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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 release phase behavior
- Vector Envelope point transition shapes
- Use Vector Envelope time scaling
- Use the Mod Pad
- 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 and highpass filter
- Comb PM filter
- Downsampler filter
- FM filter
- Envelope generators
- Mod Matrix
- Modulation routing
- Motion mode
- Trim mode
- More menu
- Sampler
- Copyright
Use Apple Pencil with Logic Pro for iPad
You can use Apple Pencil with Logic Pro for iPad for various tasks.
Key focus
Similar to an external keyboard, when Apple Pencil is connected, Logic Pro displays a frame around the working area that currently has key focus.
Basic one-finger gestures
Any gesture you perform with one finger (tap, double-tap, touch and hold, or drag) can also be performed with Apple Pencil. This provides more precise editing when you’re drawing automation curves or adjusting regions and note events.
Handwriting
Instead of using your keyboard to enter text in a text field, you can write with Apple Pencil in that field, and Scribble automatically converts your handwriting into typed text. You can use it to name tracks in the Tracks area and in Step Sequencer, or to name tracks, regions, cells, and Mixer groups in the inspector.
Important: Scribble has to be turned on in the Apple Pencil settings of the iPad Settings app.
Double-tap on Apple Pencil side
A double-tap on the side of Apple Pencil toggles between two edit modes, automatically selecting the corresponding button in the menu bar. This function is supported in the Tracks area, Live Loops grid, Editors area, and Mixer.
Logic Pro uses two memory locations to dynamically store two edit modes, and by double-tapping, you recall one or the other.
Active edit mode: This is the currently selected function button. Tapping a different button (with your finger or the Apple Pencil), changes the edit mode reflected by the highlighted button.
Previous edit mode: This memory location stores the edit mode that was previously active when you used the double-tap on Apple Pencil.
Apple Pencil hover
With iPad Pro 12.9‑inch (6th generation) or iPad Pro 11‑inch (4th generation), Apple Pencil (2nd generation) can interact with Logic Pro by hovering over the screen without touching it. See Preview tools and controls with Apple Pencil hover on iPad.
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