12 NEED to Know Logic Pro Tips to Improve Your Workflow w/ SEIDS
Summary
TLDRIn this Logic Pro tutorial, Sides shares essential tips and tricks for music production. He demonstrates the 'Strip Silence' feature to eliminate gaps in audio, and the quick pitch change method using keyboard shortcuts. Sides also explains how to detect tempo, move audio regions efficiently, and customize the workflow with tools and preferences. He concludes with a guide on using the fade tool to smooth out audio transitions and the importance of MIDI settings for better playback.
Takeaways
- 🔍 'Strip Silence' is a feature in Logic Pro that acts like a Noise Gate, cutting out long gaps in audio without affecting the main signal.
- ✂️ You can easily adjust the sensitivity of the 'Strip Silence' feature and recover cut audio by dragging it back if needed.
- 🎵 A quick way to transpose audio or MIDI by a semitone or octave using keyboard shortcuts like Option + Arrow keys.
- 📊 Logic Pro can detect the tempo of an audio region with the Command + Option + T shortcut, providing valuable information for producers.
- 🔄 Shifting regions between tracks is simplified with the Shift + Ctrl + T shortcut, making project management more efficient.
- 🥁 The Drum Machine Designer can place each transient of a drum loop on a separate MIDI note, enhancing creative possibilities.
- 🔌 Accessing VSTs quickly in Logic Pro is made easy with Command + Double Click, speeding up the workflow.
- 🛠️ Customizing tool settings in Logic Pro, such as assigning the third mouse click to the Scissor tool, can streamline editing processes.
- 📉 The Fade tool can be used to create smooth transitions at the start or end of audio clips, avoiding clicks or abrupt stops.
- 🖌️ Color coding tracks and regions in Logic Pro helps in visual organization and quick identification during mixing or composing.
- 🎹 The MIDI 'Chase' setting, when turned off, allows for playback of MIDI notes when pressed in the middle of a chord, improving the user experience.
Q & A
What is the 'strip silence' feature in Logic Pro and how does it work?
-The 'strip silence' feature in Logic Pro is a tool that functions like a noise gate. It analyzes audio and cuts out long gaps of silence without affecting the main signal. It's useful for removing unwanted quiet spaces in audio tracks, such as between vocal lines or in drum loops.
How can you adjust the sensitivity of the 'strip silence' feature?
-You can adjust the sensitivity of the 'strip silence' feature by modifying the threshold setting. This allows you to make the feature more or less sensitive to quiet spaces in the audio.
What happens if Logic Pro cuts too much audio with the 'strip silence' feature?
-If Logic Pro cuts too much audio, you can simply drag the cut section back into place. The information is still there and can be restored without any loss.
How can you change the pitch of an audio or MIDI track in Logic Pro?
-You can change the pitch of an audio or MIDI track by highlighting it and using the keyboard shortcut 'Option + Arrow key up' to transpose it up a semitone. You can continue pressing the arrow key to change the pitch to the desired level.
What is the keyboard shortcut to quickly raise the pitch of an audio or MIDI track by an octave?
-The keyboard shortcut to quickly raise the pitch by an octave is 'Shift + Option + Arrow key up'.
How can you detect the tempo of an audio region in Logic Pro?
-You can detect the tempo of an audio region by selecting the audio track and pressing 'Command + Option + T'. Logic Pro will analyze the region and provide you with the tempo information.
What is the keyboard shortcut to move a region to another track in Logic Pro?
-The keyboard shortcut to move a region to another track is 'Shift + Control + T'. You need to highlight the region and the track you want to move it to before pressing this shortcut.
How can you put each transient of a drum loop on a separate note in the MIDI keyboard using Logic Pro?
-You can do this by dragging the drum loop into the Drum Machine Designer in Logic Pro, which will automatically map each transient to a separate note on the MIDI keyboard.
What is a quick way to access a VST in Logic Pro?
-A quick way to access a VST in Logic Pro is by using the keyboard shortcut 'Command + double-click' on the desired instrument track. This will instantly open the VST.
How can you customize the editing tools in Logic Pro?
-You can customize the editing tools by going to 'Logic Pro > Preferences > General > Editing' and assigning different tools to the right mouse button under the 'Right Mouse Button' section.
What is the 'fade click' tool in Logic Pro and how can you use it?
-The 'fade click' tool in Logic Pro allows you to add a fade-in or fade-out to the beginning or end of an audio region. You can use it by hovering over the top right or top left corner of the region and dragging the fade icon that appears.
How can you set the track color in Logic Pro to help with visualization?
-You can set the track color by going to 'Logic Pro > Preferences > Display > Tracks' and choosing 'Auto Assign 96 Colors'. You can also set the region color to match the track color for easier visualization.
What is the 'MIDI Chase' setting in Logic Pro and why is it important?
-The 'MIDI Chase' setting in Logic Pro determines whether MIDI notes play when you click in the middle of a chord. Turning it off allows the notes to play, which is useful for avoiding silent gaps in the middle of chords.
Outlines
🎛️ Logic Pro's Strip Silence Feature
This paragraph introduces a feature in Logic Pro called 'strip silence' which functions like a noise gate. It analyzes audio to detect and cut out long gaps without affecting the main signal. The script demonstrates how to use this feature on a drum loop with the Ctrl+X command, allowing for adjustments to the sensitivity threshold. It also explains how to restore cut audio if needed, and how this tool can be useful for editing vocals or drum progressions by separating audio and allowing for easy adjustments.
🎼 Quick Pitch Transposition in Logic Pro
The second paragraph discusses a method for quickly changing the pitch of audio or MIDI in Logic Pro. By highlighting the MIDI or audio and using the Option + Arrow keys, one can transpose the pitch up or down by semitones or octaves. The script includes a demonstration of how to raise or lower the pitch of a MIDI file and an audio track, and mentions that the same technique can be applied within the piano roll for precise pitch adjustments.
📊 Detecting Tempo with Logic Pro
This section covers how to determine the tempo of an unknown audio sample in Logic Pro. By using the Command + Option + T shortcut on an audio track, the software can detect and display the tempo of the audio region. The script provides an example of how this feature can be utilized to gain valuable information about the tempo, which is particularly useful for producers working with samples or tracks with unknown tempos.
🔄 Efficient Track Management in Logic Pro
The fourth paragraph focuses on efficient track management within Logic Pro. It explains how to move regions between tracks using the Shift + Ctrl + T shortcut after highlighting the region and the target track. This feature is highlighted as particularly useful for rearranging elements in large projects quickly and efficiently.
🥁 Utilizing Drum Machine Designer and VST Shortcuts
This paragraph demonstrates how to use Logic Pro's Drum Machine Designer to place each transient of a downloaded drum loop on separate MIDI notes, allowing for playful and creative manipulation. It also introduces a shortcut for quickly accessing VST instruments by using Command + double-click, streamlining the process of loading and using instruments within the software.
⚙️ Customizing Tools and Preferences in Logic Pro
The final paragraph covers customization options in Logic Pro, such as setting up additional tools and preferences for a more personalized workflow. It explains how to assign a third tool to the right mouse button for quick cutting, and how to use the Marquee tool for various editing tasks. The script also touches on the fade tool for smoothing out audio transitions and how to set track colors for better organization and navigation within projects.
Mindmap
Keywords
💡Logic Pro
💡Strip Silence
💡Threshold
💡Pitch Transposition
💡Tempo Detection
💡Region
💡Drum Machine Designer
💡VST
💡Preferences
💡Marquee Tool
💡Fade Tool
💡MIDI Chase
Highlights
Introduction to Logic Pro tips and tricks for music production.
Explanation of the 'Strip Silence' feature simulating a Noise Gate to cut long gaps in audio.
Demonstration of adjusting the threshold sensitivity in 'Strip Silence'.
How to restore cut audio segments without losing information.
Using 'Strip Silence' for vocals and jump progressions to separate audio.
Quick pitch change technique for MIDI and audio using keyboard shortcuts.
Method to transpose audio or MIDI by an octave using specific key commands.
Detecting the tempo of an audio region with Command Option Plus T.
Efficiently moving audio regions between tracks using Shift Control T.
Importing and mapping drum loops to MIDI using Drum Machine Designer.
Quick access to VST instruments with Command Double Click shortcut.
Customizing Logic Pro settings for a better workflow.
Enabling advanced editing features in Logic Pro preferences.
Adding a third tool to the toolbox for quick editing tasks.
Using the Fade tool for smoothing out sound transitions.
Tip on setting track colors for easier navigation in projects.
Using project settings to ensure MIDI chords play in the middle of notes.
Final thoughts and sign-off from the presenter, Sides.
Transcripts
hi my name is sides and in this spice skills lesson we're going to be going
over logic pro tips and tricks let's get started
logic pro has this really cool feature called strip silence which basically works as a
simulation of a Noise Gate so it will analyze the audio and when it sees long gaps it will
actually cut them without affecting the overall main signal so let's take this drum loop I have
here and I'm going to press Ctrl X this window pops up and you can see logic is going to cut
all the quiet spaces so they're individually on their own you can adjust the threshold if you
want to make it more sensitive or less sensitive as it sounds but where it was was pretty good now
I'm just going to press OK and Bam it cut it all for you so if we zoom in you don't have to worry
about logic pro like deleting information like let's say it cut too much this side you could
just drag him and the information is still there so it's a really cool way when you're working with
vocals and you're singing and maybe there's some some click that happened in between your lines you
can just quickly cut them out or if you're using a jump progression and it has maybe a kick hitting
and a snare hitting it'll separate the audio for you so you can adjust it as you want so let's say
I want to add another kick here I can just hold down option and then just move it there it's so
much you can do with it so really cool one control X strip silence tip number two this is a really
great way to quickly change the pitch of an audio or a midi so let's listen to this MIDI foreign
quickly transpose it up a semitone all you have to do is highlight it
press option Arrow key up and it is up one semitone
and you can just keep moving it to whatever pitch you need it at
and you could do the same thing with audio it's the same way so let me just show you
here's an audio track option Arrow key up and it's changing the pitch so you can just hear it
so as I raise it up you can see it's raising the pitch of even the job sample so let's say I want
to quickly raise it an octave all you have to do is press shift option Arrow key up let's listen
let's say I want to bring it down an octave you do shift option Arrow key down and let's
go down one more octave shift option Arrow key down let's hear what it sounds like
so this is super useful and you can also use this key command right in the piano roll so
let's say I'm going shift option Arrow key up there's an octave shift option Arrow key
down it's back or just option Arrow key up or down to raise it by the semitone
tip number three so this one is really cool let's say you get a sample or an audio from
someone and you don't know what tempo it's at you have no idea all you have to do is
take the audio track and press command option plus T and it'll actually detect the tempo of
the audio region and it gives you all this information here so you can see that it's at
128 half time really useful information I love this tip tip number four so let's say I want
to move this region to this track all you have to do is highlight the region you want to move
highlight the track you want to move it to make sure it's highlighted and then press shift Ctrl
T and then bam it just moves it for you this is super useful when you're working with big projects
and you want to quickly shift things around tip number five let me find a drum loop from splice
perfect so I'm just going to download this really quickly
so now what I'm going to do is I'm going to drag it over here
and I'm going to select drum machine designer
and look it put each transient on a separate note on the midi keyboard so if I was to play it out
pretty cool right okay and for the last tip so let's say you want to access your
VST really quickly instead of having to go over here clicking on here going to
your instrument and loading it so all you have to do is press command double
click and it just pops right up this is a shortcut that's right in logic so let's say
I want to open up the sampler I just do command double click and Bam here it is
so this is what logic looks like when you first open it up and I'm going to change
some of the settings that I think work a little bit better you can go over to the top here where
it says logic pro go down to preferences and then they're all here or one of my favorite
shortcuts is command comma and then preferences just pops up it's really important to click this
Advanced Tab and make sure all of these are checked off I'm pretty sure when you first
download logic they're not going to be and we need these so make sure they're checked off
over here there's two tools what I want to do is I want to add a third tool so I'm going to
go over to General then I'm going to go over to editing and then right here it says right
Mouse button I'm going to go down and say is assignable to Tool so now you can see there
are three toolboxes so basically the first click with your mouse is going to be whatever tool you
set it to which is this pointer tool the second one you can access by holding down command and
that's set on the Marquee tool and now the third tool is the scissors which is the right click tool
this is super useful because let me drag in an audio or midi track so I drag it in here and now
let's say I want to cut right there all I have to do is hover and you can just press a right click
and then it just cuts it for you this is super useful when it comes to editing so you can put
it on any third tool you want and you can just see all the different options here but really
I just use it for the scissor tool for the second tool just hold down command and then you can see
the Marquee tools here and there's a bunch of things you could do with the Marquee tool like
if I just grab that option and then I just drag that part over and it just Clips it over for me
and now we're going to open up preferences again so command comma open up preferences we're already
here on General and editing and now I want to do Fade tool click zones so click that and now
you can hover over just the top right corner and you can just add in a fade or you can hover over
the top left corner and just add in a fade so I'm going to find something in splice a
little bit more melodic so you can hear how this feature Works let's take a listen here quickly
perfect so I'm just going to drag in these low-fi melodic chops and a quick bonus tip is that if you
hover on the bottom right corner and press option that little icon appears and you can just drag it
right on the grid so it just puts it right on the grid for you so now going back to our original
tip the fade click so basically all you have to do is hover over the top right corner and then
you see that icon appears and you can just drag it so here's what it sounds like with that on
foreign so it fades to silence right and this is what it sounds like without it
oh and this is also really useful because you hear how when we didn't add it it just
clicks at the end so the fade tool is really useful even if you do just slightly
no click so let's listen to the beginning you can also do the same thing without it
so if you just hover over the top left corner there's the icon drag and let's listen
so this is a really cool tool to smooth out some sounds another cool thing you can do with
this if you press Ctrl click you can select speed up so let's listen to how that sounds
pretty cool right we can also do it at the end so I'm just going to
hover again drag it over then do control click and slow down let's listen to it
okay now let's open up preferences one more time now we're going to go over to display we're going
to go over to tracks and here are some settings that I'd like to change every producer has their
favorite way and their favorite tools to produce so if you're using a track pad or a Magic Mouse
this button is really useful let me show you using this Magic Mouse so I'm going to click it off
and then if you just hold two fingers you can see the bar as you're going at where we're at
so that's pretty useful for editing and producing okay let's go back to preferences press command
comma open up preferences we're in display we're in tracks and now I want to set the track color
that when I open up different audio tracks or software tracks it's gonna color code it for me
so you can go over here track color push down and then you can decide if you want to do auto
assign 24 colors or Auto assign 96 Colors Let's go with 96 colors and then I also like to select
region color to be as track color I'll show you what this does basically when you open up the
mixer you'll see that there's a color here if you do them individually you have to set them
both but I want them to both be the same so it's just easier to visualize okay so I'm gonna X Out
of Here and Now if we go up to this button and say add new tracks just for this example
let's add 10 tracks it doesn't matter if it's software or audio click create just for the
purposes of this I'm going to copy and paste it so you can see the different colors and it did it for
us in rainbow colors so super useful and just so you can see what I mean with the mixer you
can just press Command 2 to open up the mixer and it auto did the colors for us so let's say
you want all of these tracks to be pink because these are all the background vocals so what you
can do is press shift click option C and then let's select this pink and there you have it
they're all pink so this is useful just to group instrument vocals drums just so you can easily
navigate through your project when mixing or composing for this one I'm actually going to
record in a piano part so let me just record in some chords really quickly nothing fancy
foreign
okay so if we play in the middle of the chord
nothing happens no sound comes out which is really annoying right so what you can do now
is we want to open up project settings so this is different than preferences so you
can go over to file and then go over to project settings or you can press
option p and it opens up logic settings so now we're going to go over to MIDI
Chase and make sure this button is clicked off notes now let's listen and hear what happens
did you guys catch that if you play in the middle of a midi chord it actually plays
so this is a super useful setting I hope you found my logic pro tips
useful again my name is sides and I'll see you next time stay creative
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