Logic Pro 8 Interface: Software Instrument Track

Video Transcript

"The software instrument track is a little bit different than the audio track. The audio track, you know, it records audio. It holds the audio data. What a software instrument track does is it holds MIDI data. The MIDI data...it goes out of the instrument track. It actually goes through any of the software instrument tracks that you might be using. There's a bunch within Logic. You know what I'm saying. Some people might have native instruments. There's a bunch of different programs you can get through there as well. When going into your session, what you got to do is you can create a software instrument track by either pressing the plus or a copy of the duplicate settings, as long as the prior one is of a software instrument. What I'm going to do is I'm going to add the plus. Now, the plus is going to bring up this window, and I'm going to choose Software Instrument, and press Create. Now, once this is open, it's all math. You're going to set it to right here at the top for the presets within the software instrument. So I can actually go in and choose different types of instruments and record that data. There's a lot of different ones here and it seems -- let's see, let's go with this one."