Logic Pro 8: Recording Live Instruments Over a Beat

Video Transcript

"Now I'm going to show you how to record a live instrument over a beat, or it could be a vocal. But with a live instrument, we're going to take our input in an audio channel and specifically set everything up so that we can record this input in, we're hearing the beat in the background because it's already been sequenced down here. So here, our audio file, our instrument file is going to show up. You can still loop it as if it's a sequence file, but what you're going to want to do is set it up so you have your own individual track. Make sure it's aligned in your environment window. Start your playback of your material and then whoever's recording will hear what's going on and be able to record along with it, as long as you have it record enabled and muted, so you don't hear your latency. You're going to be recording and getting the material that you recorded right where you want it, and it should line up with the other beat going on. Now if this is a vocal, it's the same thing. Just have to make sure and check the levels you have, as well as with an instrument. If you have a good level, you're going to be able to mix it in with the beat, and you're going to be able to add different effects to make sure it sounds similar to the prefabricated sounds you had already sequenced together."