How to Use Logic Pro 8

Series Summary

Are you a songwriter? Do you love to play music? Are you in a band? Well, there are a number of ways for you to get your songs recorded and out in the marketplace—or even just to make copies for you and your friends. In the past, musicians polished their material over and over, until it was radio-worthy. Then they forked out the dough and went into a professional studio to cut a demo or an album. Fast forward a few years and you had the explosion of small home recording devices that could 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, and other desired formats. Our expert will walk you through the operations you need to understand to create audio tracks, lay down drums, keyboard, and a bass part, edit and master them, and mix to a final song. This series is a great way to get your best stuff (or even just riff ideas) down on tape. Get started with Apple Logic Pro today!

Video Transcript

"In this one I am going to show you a few things about how to go into your session and remove certain things that might cause problems like certain things that I have found a problem doing when I first started. They are simple things to fix I just really didn't know how to fix them. Certain thing s like removing gaps between spaces. Really easy by tying them together different things like that as far as editing the velocity of certain notes with in media that I have recorded and the length of things so it doesn't sound a certain way. I can do all of these things with in Logic pretty easily. The other thing that I am going to show you how to do is add some more extra options like sustain peddles to your key board with in your actual key pad using the keys to record media and things like that. So you don't have to actually get a media key board you can also create groups within the audio bin. Which I am going to show you about so you can organize your track and organize your audio files so that officially bring them out, another thing that I am going to show you about is how you can convert audio files certain files certain samples need to be a certain way so that when you bring them in to Logic. So what I am going to show you how to do is if you have it a certain way make it so it is the right way. So you can use it."