learn Logic Pro 7

my name is kristy im a singer song write and i want 2 learn logic pro 7

No other DAW is as self sustained as Logic. You may never need to buy another program/AU/VST.

So far I’ve published an album, which is in the iTunes store. It’s really lacking because it was half in Garage Band and half in LP7. I had about 9 songs get lost in a freak hard drive (and backup) accident. I can’t wait to get better acquainted with more of the plugins and AUs. Anyone know of a good place to get channel strip settings?

Yeah, I agree the Ignite! series sucks. I had Cubase prior to LP7 and I think if I’d have learned to use it properly I’d have liked it but I never could feel the flow of my Cubase Ignite! book. I am liking this book so far, even though about half of the stuff I already knew from playing with it, the stuff I didn’t know is WELL worth it.

So I just got the two Apple Pro Training series books for Christmas. I’m going to try to go through 2-3 chapters a week and eventually get certified! So far I am very pleased with these books. I have the Logic Ignite! book and I didn’t find it too useful, the Apple Pro books are much better in my opinion.

I just finished my first official piece using Logic. It took a while because it had to be ten minutes long (it was my final project for my electronic music class).

check it out here!

I figured I’d chime in and say a few words. 1) Logic makes me giggle, like I have national security secrets or something. 2) GarageBand and Logic are like a bicycle and a space shuttle. 3) If you have access to a student ID the full academic version of Logic Pro 7 is $300. Academic meaning one user, so for the average selfish American, it’s perfect. I’m going to read up on Ultrabeat tonight. I’m also curious where I might find that book you are using?

For my electronic music class I have to create a 10-minute final piece. Most people will be using Garage Band but I am going to force myself to use Logic so (a) I have an advantage over the others and (b) I actually become more familiar with it. So far I am loving Sculpture, the Sample Editor, and I just learned Track Automation which was pretty self-explanatory.

Now my challenge is fininshing this thing by wednesday!

These two features of Logic are astonishing. At first I didn’t think much of The Matrix Editor, it reminded me of old school DOS trackers, so I was fairly at home in this interface. But when they introduced the Hyperdraw, I literally smiled and opened up a bit.

Then when they showed how to use it within the Arrange window, I literally smiled and bounced off my chair. This stuff’s really cool. It has the potential to be a time-eating feature, perhaps not such a good thing afterall! But it has tremendous potential. I’m a bit annoyed that automation curves are not part of Logic 7 Express. I can’t quite afford the Pro price tag right now.

So I’m done Chapter 6 finally, took me just under an hour, not bad, not bad at all. I got carried away entering weird drum patterns using the pencil tool and quantizing them oddly. It was good fun for a while.

But one thingI just discovered about hyperdraw and how it handles loops disappoints me. If you have a region looped for say 4 bars, it’s a 1 bar region though, and you open it in matrix, it shows only the first bar. Which makes sense, any changes to that first bar and they’ll be identical to any other looped areas. Fine. But I’d like to adjust panning throughout the 4 regions independently of the loop, and I thought hyperdraw could do that. instead I have to make duplicate regions and then use hyperdraw. Sort of annoying. Maybe they could make it a feature for hyperdraw to not respect loops but to be track-based instead. Thta would be really flexible! But I’m just venting I suppose.

For a while now I have wanted to get to know Logic 7 better. I bought Logic 5 Big Box bundle almost two years ago, and it sat here, unused. I became frightened of music software, of graphical music software I should add.

Then Garageband came out, I tried it, wrote about 50 songs, computer problem, lost it all, and I totally lost it. So I started writing again, came up to about 20 songs, backed them up, and then it occured to me. I have Logic 6 free upgrade, and for a bit more I can get Logic 7 Express. And so that’s what I got.

But I still could not get myself to start, and it was after buying the Apple Pro Training book on Logic 7, and waiting a month or so to get courage and inspiration, that I finally sat down and started making my way through it.

A wekened later, I’m now on chatper 6 learning about the Matrix Editor, and I can safely say, Logic is amazing. I shouldn’t have waited this long. I really shouldn’t have.

Tonight I hope to complete this chapter at the very least.