How to Auto Create Drums in Apple Logic Pro

Series Summary

Are you a singer/songwriter? Do you love to play music? Are you in a rock band? Well, there are a number of plans for you to follow to get your album recorded and in the hands of a receptive audience. In the past, musicians polished their material over and over until it was radio-worthy. Then they forked out a lot of green to get time in a professional studio to cut a demo or an album. Fast forward a few years and you have the explosion of small home recording devices that can be purchased for a reasonable price. The profusion of material that was generated from this development was astounding. Now, in the next generation of the home recording saga, we have stepped into the Digital Age with both feet. Anyone with a computer, a bit of recording software, a USB interface, an instrument, and some patient ingenuity can make a recording that would border on professional quality.

In this free music recording software video tutorial, learn how to use one of the latest programs for bands and musicians: Apple Logic Pro. This software allows the user to record a song from beginning to end, bounce tracks, master, and do a final mix down to CD, mp3, or other digital format. Our expert will walk you through some of the advanced operations you need to create a professional quality recording. Tips include how to auto create drum, bass, and guitar tracks, how to loop and sample, matrix editing techniques, pitch correction, how to use automation, how to freeze tracks—and other valuable Logic lessons. Take the time to watch these carefully and apply them in your next recording session. You might be surprised at the results…

Video Transcript

"This is Bill Macpherson for Expert Village. Okay in this first clip, we are going to create a looping drum track and we are going to do that with our auto create track. So the first thing we want to do is select our first track and we are going to make it an audio instrument, audio instrument 1 and for the instrument we are going to choose EXS24 which is a very powerful sampler. Has some preset sounds in there. We are going to choose a drum kit. We are going to bring up the Hip Hop Kick. It will take a moment to load, close that window. Make sure is record and able. You should be able to hear it when you hit your keyboard. Okay so what we want to do is we want to set up auto create. So we need to go to file, song settings and recording. Another easy way to get to that is right on top of your record button. Just click and hold and also brings up a menu and you can bring up the record window. Now here you want to select auto create tracks in cycle record and make sure that auto mute in cycle record is off. You also want to make sure that the merge is also off. Close that window. Now we want to set up a 2 measure loop here. Now if you go up in your time line and just click and drag, how many measures you like and over here, is a loop button. You click that will turn it on or off. You want it on. Now it is set up the loop and when we hit record what is going to happen, is it will create a new track every time it loops through the 2 measures. "