8/31/2023 0 Comments Reverse audio logic pro x 2017![]() ![]() Here, it’s best to err on the side of “the best you can afford”, as the cheaper ones can sound very nasty indeed, introducing all kinds of weird noises into the signal path which are very hard to live with.įrom the Logic Pro X menu, select Preferences/Audio to tell the software which sound devices you are using. If you need jacks for plugging in electric guitars etc, it’s best to use an audio interface, which usually also includes MIDI ins and outs. But a quality USB microphone such as the Blue Yeti can be had very cheaply. You’d be surprised at the quality you can extract from the Mac’s built-in microphone, and this can be used at a pinch. ![]() The benefits are system-wide, so all your audio, from iTunes downloads to iPlayer etc will be routed to the DAC.įinally, for those wishing to record vocals and other “real-life” instruments, the very least you will need is a microphone. It’s also possible to use an external DAC via USB. To tell the Mac to change from headphone out to digital out, use the Audio MIDI set up utility found in Applications/Utilities. Given that the Mac sound chips are designed down to a price, the sound quality of the built-in instruments (and effects) are dramatically improved if this can be fed into the DAC of your favourite sounding CD player. The 3.5mm headphone jack on most Mac laptops and iMacs from at least late 2007 onwards doubles as an optical digital out. To monitor your work, you could get away with the speakers on the Mac, but it’s possible to feed the headphone out socket to an analogue input on your hi-fi amplifier. Type in the first few letters of “trumpet”, choose one of the options, play the keyboard, and hear the new sound (or patch, to use the studio vernacular). There’s even a handy index-searching facility. The icon is top left and looks like a drawer with filing cards in. Enable a track to record, play the keyboard and you’ll hear the sound it’s chosen. (Most of us would call it a song, but Apple call it a project.) Choose Software Instrument, type in the number of tracks you wish to create, and Apple will present you with tracks all configured to the default Electric Piano sound. Plug it in, and when you fire up Logic Pro X, it will ask you some basic questions about the project you wish to create. Mine is a very cheap (£49 in 2007!) M-Audio 49 key thing that works via USB. Sooner or later though, you’ll want a quick way of inputting your own tunes, and for this you need nothing more than a cheap controller keyboard. Creators of electronica could have hours of fun just by dragging and dropping loops into the arranger window. It will emulate different amplifier set-ups or classic microphones and much much more besides. Logic Pro X contains everything you need to get started right from the moment you download it – from hundreds of professional grade built-in sounds, a virtual mixing desk, hundreds of loops, and effects from filters to compressors to delays to reverbs. Alas, most of us don’t have this luxury, but modern software, such as Logic Pro X is very good at fooling listeners into believing just that. A quick Google would doubtless reveal umpteen pre-made MIDI files but it’s much more fun – and creative – to start from scratch myself! Now in an ideal world I’d have my own fully equipped recording studio, and a house band who pick up real instruments and play them. I am currently working on creating the backing tracks for a local amateur production of “Grease”. I can spend hours creating music on a computer for nothing more than my own pleasure, and I used to be so nervous about playing my creations to other people that I had to leave the room while they listened – preferably over headphones so I didn’t have to over-hear it myself! Over the years, however, I’ve found many ways to get my music heard in the real world, mainly via my interest in amateur dramatic productions. Having said that, this will be a long article, but read it and keep referring back to it.Ī quick word about me. I hope this workflow will prove useful for all budding musicians, and that it entertains you more than wading your way through one of the many enormous books on the subject. ![]() ![]() So much of what I say here will apply to pretty much any software package, as it’s more about a philosophy, rather than “click this, then click that”. What follows is a method of music creating using Apple’s Logic Pro X recording software, but over the last 20 years I’ve used other brands of software, including Trax (a MIDI only software package that I used with Windows 95, but which will run on Windows V2.0!!), Cakewalk Home Studio, Sonar and when I switched to Mac, various incarnations of Logic from v8 onwards. This entry was posted in Tutorials and tagged Apple Logic Pro X Software Tutorials on Jby Mark Pearce (updated on June 9, 2017) ![]()
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