Music Production in Logic Pro X - The Complete Course!

In this Music Production in Logic Pro X lecture, I show you a few tips about how to use Udemy's user interface so that you can get the most out of this course.

In this next lecture I’m going to be talking to you about saving and opening your files. 

It’s really important that you get this right because you don’t want to lose any of your files.  

Just follow these steps that I'll show you in this lecture and you’ll never have to loose any of your Logic Projects again

This next is about the templates available to us on Logic Pro X.

I will give you a quick overview of the genre specific templates such as Hip Hop, Electronic, Songwriter, Orchestral, Muli-track, Music for Picture and also empty project. 

There is also a way that you can customize your own templates.

This next lecture is all about the different types of tracks that we have in Logic Pro X. 

We have MIDI, audio, drummer and a couple of other tracks to allow you to record, edit and make music in Logic Pro X and I will describe to you in this lecture what these tracks are used for in Logic Pro X.

In this lecture we are going to talk about something called musical typing in Logic Pro X. 

Musical typing is where you can play the notes of a musical keyboard by hitting the buttons on your mac keyboard. It’s really straight forward and can be really useful if you want to quickly put down a few notes or if you don’t have a MIDI controller available to you at that moment in time.

In this lecture I'm going to talk about the main Keyboard Shortcuts or Key Commands in Logic Pro X. 

Keyboard Shortcuts or Key Commands are basically shortcuts that allow you to do certain tasks in Logic Pro X from just the hit of one of two buttons on your mac keyboard. They can really come in handy when you don’t want to spend loads of time on the mouse or if you are performing and recording yourself you can just hit a button or two and return to your instrument ready to record.

There are a few keyboard shortcuts or key commands that make editing and recording a lot easier on Logic Pro X. Key command also come in handy if you are performing and recording yourself, then you can quickly hit a few buttons and get back to your instrument rather than searching around on your mouse.

There are the basic ones which work on all Mac applications and there are also a few less obviously shortcuts that might come in handy. 

A few of the keyboard shortcuts have actually changed since Logic 9 and in this lecture I will go over the main ones for you to use when recording, producing and editing music in Logic Pro X.

In this lecture, I'm going to show you something called Screensets.

Screensets basically create shortcuts so that you can open and close new windows on Logic Pro X with the click of one button, rather than constantly opening and closing windows. 

Screen sets are great for when you are in that creative workflow and you don’t want to spend too much time messing around on your mouse. 

In this lecture, I show you a brief overview of the global tracks area and the markers in Logic Pro

In this Music Production in Logic Pro X - The Complete Course lecture we are going to be talking about something called Apple Loops.

Apple loops are pre-recorded bits of audio that are royalty free. This means that we can use any of it in our songs, which is really great and can be really useful. The Apple loops are also great building blocks to get ideas for songs. 

The reason they are called loops is because it’s a bit of music or sound that can seamlessly can go round and round in a continuous loop.

There are two different types of Apple loops, MIDI and audio loops. Audio loops are played in real time where the part is actually played by a musician, i.e. a audio guitar loop. MIDI loops are MIDI information which is put onto a software instrument, such as a synthesiser. 

Logic Pro X has tons of both types of loops that you can use for you songs.

In this Music Production in Logic Pro X - The Complete Course you are going to learn how to navigate around our Apple Loops library in Logic Pro X.

I will show you on screen how to narrow down your Apple Loop search so you can quickly find loops to use in your Logic Pro X projects.

In this Music Production in Logic Pro X - The Complete Course you are going to learn how to Apple Loops into our Logic Pro X project.

In this In this In this Music Production in Logic Pro X - The Complete Cours lecture you are going to learn how to make a groove with Apple Loops.

I will show on screen how to make music through Apple Loops in Logic Pro X.

In this lecture we are going to be talking about the software instruments in Logic Pro X. 

The software instruments are basically the instruments that play the MIDI information and we can play the instruments by typing in the MIDI or performing them with a MIDI controller in Logic Pro X.

In this lecture we are going to look at something called the piano roll editor in Logic Pro X. This is where we can edit MIDI information in the form of notes on a digital piano. 

This is super key for creating your own music via MIDI and is actually really simple to do.

In this next lecture I’m going to be talking about the tool bars and MIDI editing in Logic Pro X.

In this we are going to go into a lot more detail about quantising in Logic Pro X. 

Quantising in Logic Pro X is where we can edit the MIDI information in and move it to eliminate any mistakes that we might have made when performing the parts in live with our MIDI controller or musical typing.

In this lecture I'm going to show you how to compose and edit drum parts to create your own beat in Logic Pro X.

In this next lecture I'm going to show you how to compose and record a bass part to create your own beat in Logic Pro X.

In this lecture I'm going to show you how to compose and edit keyboard parts to create your own beat in Logic Pro X.

In this lecture I'm going to talk about the ES2 synthesizer in Logic Pro X. 

The ES2 synth is a really versatile synthesizer and if you get used to this synth the other synthesizer in Logic Pro X will be really easy to use.

In this lecture I'm going to talk about the Ultrabeat instrument in Logic Pro X.

Ultrabeat is a drum synthesiser, drum sampler and step sequencer. It's really versatile and once you get your head around it, it's actually quite easy to use.

In this lecture I'm going to talk about the drummer instrument in Logic Pro X. 

Drummer is a brand new feature to Logic Pro X, we didn't have this in Logic Pro 9. 

Logic have recorded several real drummers playing loads of different patterns and in this lecture I will show you how to access the different patterns and also how to edit these patterns for creating your own music in Logic Pro X.

In this lecture, I talk about the score editor in Logic Pro X and how you can use it to change your MIDI data into scores. The score editor is great for making professional looking lead sheets for pop lead sheets, big bands or jazz lead sheets and it can even be used to great classical scores.

In this lecture, I show you how you can quickly edit and create scores in Logic Pro X.

In this Music Production in Logic Pro X - The Complete Course lecture I'm going to show you how to set up the audio preferences so you can recording audio with your audio interface in Logic Pro X.

This lecture is all about microphones. I show you live in a studio with all the different types of microphones. I also tell you what they can be used for and my favourite microphones for recording audio into Logic Pro.

Also attached to this video is a PDF summary of the microphones that I explain in this video.

This next lecture is all about techniques that you can use when recording performers, so that you can get the best possible performance out of performers and get the best recordings for your Logic Pro X projects.

This next lecture is all about multitrack recording and I show you in a studios the basics of setting up a SSL recording desk, so that you can record more than more channel into Logic Pro X.

This lecture will be useful if you would want to start recording a band, or an orchestra or any audio that would need more than two channels. 

In this lecture I'm going to look at recording external synthesizers into Logic Pro X. 

This is stuff like hardware synths or actual physical synthesizers rather than having a synth plugin or a virtual synthesizers. 

In this Music Production in Logic Pro X - The Complete Course lecture, I'm going to talk about automation in Logic Pro X.

So what automation does it allows you to control parameters in your mix across time, so it's stuff like volume, pan, synth effects and plugin effects. 

I will also show you something called live automation which allows you to control the automation in live in real time.

In this Music Production in Logic Pro X - The Complete Course lecture, I show you how you can view Multiple Automated Parameters at the same time and also cycle through them in Logic Pro X.

In this Music Production in Logic Pro X - The Complete Course lecture, you will learn about how you can use MIDI Automation in the MIDI editor in Logic Pro X.

In this Music Production in Logic Pro X - The Complete Course lecture, you will learn about how you can use sustain in the MIDI editor to create a sustain pedal effect in Logic Pro X.

In this lecture we are going to go over the basics of mixing and the mixer in Logic Pro X.

In this Music Production in Logic Pro X - The Complete Course lecture we are going to go over the EQ or Equalizer plugin in Logic Pro X. 

There are various different types of EQ, but in this lecture we are going to go over Channel EQ, which is the most commonly used EQ in Logic Pro.

The Channel EQ is a multiband EQ, which means it provides multiple frequency bands. The Channel EQ has 8 different frequency bands, which include lowpass and highpass filters.

The Channel EQ also has an analyzer where you can view to the frequencies curve of the audio you want to modify. The Analyzer makes it easy to view and actually change the audio in real time.

In this lecture I show you the different ways you can pan in Logic Pro X, which include automating the pan and also live automating the pan in Logic Pro X.

I also show how you can use and access Stereo Pan and Binaural Panning in Logic Pro 10.3.

In this Music Production in Logic Pro X - The Complete Course lecture, you are going to learn about compression and all of it's main functions and features in the main interface.

A compressor is a dynamic plug in, which means it effects the volume of the instrument signal in some way shape or form. It’s not just about making the volume louder or quieter though. A compressor in a nut shell makes the loud quieter and the quiet louder, but there is also a lot more we can do with a compressor.

EQ and compressor plugins really are essential plugins that we need when we are mixing music in Logic Pro X.

In this Music Production in Logic Pro X - The Complete Course lecture, you are going to learn about the different compressor circuit types in this Logic Pro X stock compressor plugin.

In this lecture I explain what Sidechain Compression is and how to use it in Logic Pro Logic Pro X. 

Sidechain compression can be used as a mixing tool to allow the kick drum breathing space and it can also be used as an effect.

In this lecture I show you how and why you can use sidechain compression in Logic Pro X.

This lecture is all about auxiliary sends for reverb. 

Auxiliary sends are great for time based effects so this is for effects like reverb, delay, chorus, flanger and phaser.

If you create aux sends in Logic Pro X it will stop you having to use separate plugins for each track.

In this lecture I'm going to talk about aux tracks and aux groups and in Logic Pro X and using them to control the volume or effects of more than one instrument.

If we're working with big projects with loads of different drums or loads of synths or different vocals, aux tracks or aux groups can really help and in this lecture I show you on screen with me in Logic Pro X how to set them and use them in your projects.