Logic Pro X Workflow Tips

Gain critical skills that will improve both the way you work and the way your productions sound.

This Logic Pro X Workflow Tips Course features 4 comprehensive tutorial modules each dedicated to an essential part of a typical music production workflow.

Learn how to get the most out of Logic Pro X when working with MIDI, working with audio and recorded audio, perfecting your arrangement and adding automation.

Working with MIDI

Module 1 – Pts 1-4:

Track Stacks – Track stacks is a great way of creating highly customised stacked synth patches. Discover features that allow you to use multiple synths and effects simultaneously and save stacks for recall in other projects

MIDI Transform – MIDI transform gives you a huge amount of control over parameters within a MIDI region. Learn how you can use MIDI transform to control Velocity within a MIDI region.

MIDI Transform Randomise Pitch – Take things one step further with MIDI transform, in particular MIDI Transform Randomise Pitch. Find out how you can use it to resample both a drum loop and a vocal loop.

MIDI Editing – The MIDI editing drop down menu in the Piano Roll features many options for editing MIDI contained within a region. Learn how features such as Select, Trim & Transpose can really speed up your workflow when working with multiple MIDI regions.

Working with MIDI

Module 1 – Pts 5-7:

Time Quantize – Discover ways in which you can quantize the timing of a MIDI recording. As well as discussing quantize you will also look at the Strength and Swing parameters and how they give you further control over the timing of MIDI notes.

Scale Quantize – Scale quantize is a way of snapping MIDI notes to a particular scale – extremely useful for quickly fixing a poorly played phrase or eradicating any ‘bum notes’ from a recording. Get step by step instructions on how to implement this feature.

Q-Flam – Q-Flam is a way of adding flam to MIDI notes, in this video you learn how you can apply a flam effect to some chords and also how to use Q-Flam to create an arpeggio from the same chord hook.

Working with Audio & Recorded Audio

Module 2 – Pts 1 & 2:

Take Folders & Quick Swipe Comping – In this video we look at how to use Take Folders and Quick Swipe Comping, a hugely intuitive and effective way of dealing with recorded audio and creating that ‘perfect take’.

Punch Recording – In this video we look at the 2 different methods for ‘punch recording’ in Logic Pro X – ‘Toggle Record’ and ‘Auto Punch’, which are both very effective methods for recording over a section of an existing piece of audio.

Working with Audio & Recorded Audio

Module 2 – Pts 3 & 4:

Strip Silence & Trimming Regions – In this video we look at how to use strip silence to quickly tidy up a live recording, saving huge amounts of time editing out background noise or ‘dead air’ from an audio recording. You’ll also discover some handy shortcuts for editing and trimming audio regions.

Groove Templates – In this video we look at how we can extract a groove from a piece of audio, and then apply those groove settings to both MIDI and audio regions, effectively applying the same feel and swing to all tracks within a project.

Arrangement in Logic Pro X

Module 3 – Pts 1 & 2:

Using Loops & Aliases – Discover how both Regions and Aliases work in Logic Pro X and explore the advantages of using either of these methods to effectively sketch out arrangements.

Hide Tracks, Track Stacks, Section Edits – Learn how you can organise and tidy up arrangements using the Show/Hide tracks feature and Track Stacks as well as how effective Track Stacks is for setting up a submix. Then take a look at some very handy arrangement tools – Repeat Section, Cut Section, Insert Section & Insert Silence.

Arrangement in Logic Pro X

Module 3 – Pts 3 & 4:

Working With Track Freeze – When working on a project that is pushing the limits of your computer’s capacity with the CPU at its maximum, Track Freeze can be an effective method for reducing the load, allowing you to continue work on a project without any crashes or glitches on playback. Find out how to use Track Freeze in this video.

Using Varispeed – Varispeed is a very under utilised but extremely helpful tool for auditioning different BPM’s in a project, discover how Varispeed works in this video.

Logic Pro X Automation

Module 4 – Pts 1 & 2:

Automation Modes – A look at how automation works in Read, Latch, Touch and Write modes. Learn how to edit existing automation data using the Trim and Relative modes.

Track And Region Based Automation – Gain a working knowledge of the differences with Track and Region based automation, and the advantages of working with each of these methods of automation.

Logic Pro X Automation

Module 4 – Pts 3 & 4:

Editing Automation – Run through a series of workflow tips for editing automation looking at ‘Snap Automation’, using the marquee tool for effective automation builds, deleting automation, applying curved automation and more.

Recording Automation With A Midi Controller – Learn how to use ‘Automation Quick Access’ and how you can set up a hardware MIDI controller to automate parameters live in Logic Pro X.