In other words, this is, on one hand, the most powerful Black MIDI creating tool ever conceived. You can also right-click and turn selected notes into the active pattern for the brush. You set the rate (via a menu or key command), and even the quantization of the scale, and wherever you drag, you get notes. Drag across, and you can turn notes on – or turn them off. Well, finally we get something that might be worth the wait.īrush Tool lets you use a single mouse gesture to make a sequence of notes. And other competitors (Cakewalk and Steinberg, for instance) haven’t stood still. But as Apple has gradually worked through the rest of Logic, brushing off dust and reworking tools, MIDI editing looks more or less like it always has. Even in 2015, MIDI editing is just a whole lot of what we do. I’m going to try making some tracks this way soon.įinally. Whether this is useful to you or not depends on whether this sparks your creativity, but it could be worth a look. This is of course really relevant to people who are Logic heads, because it means you can do all your production and pattern making without leaving Logic’s familiar track and arrangement workflow. The patterns and parts are routed to Track Stacks for sound generation, which you could assign to a plug-in or MIDI out to an iPad or whatever you desire. Also, if you prefer to use your own sounds – say, a drum synth – you can assign third-party plug-ins as well. You can mix and match patches from different kits, for instance. It’s also possible to transform the sounds.
#LOGIC PRO X COMPRESSOR PATCH#
The sound synthesis tools (EXS and Ultrabeat) are the same, but on top of them is Logic Pro X’s new patch and Smart Controls, plus hundreds of new kit pieces for those engines. It’s more a way to get things rolling, or sketch ideas quickly, then get as detail-oriented and original as you want to finish your track. But this apparently isn’t just a bunch of pattern presets atop the old sounds. Under the hood, Logic is making drum sounds in the preset content the way it has for years – with the Ultrabeat synth/drum machine and EXS24 sampler. Then, you can either use the pattern as-is, or convert them to a MIDI region for editing. There are styles like Techno and House, and yes, “Dubstep” and “Trap.” Like the rock drum pattern generation tools, Drum Machine Designer dynamically creates grooves, fills, and the like, which you can control via both Logic-supplied and user-generated parameter controls. The banner dance music feature here is a set of electronic drum production tools parallel to the assistants we’ve seen elsewhere in the program.ĭrummer, initially touted as a way to make something sounding like a rock record happen automatically, now understands club music. But – heck, you might make some techno with it. They are, as always, implying you might use Logic to do the kind of studio work often associated in this industry with something rhyming with Mavid Glow Rules. The difference is, now Logic seems to have a release that doesn’t seem to be trying to pander to guitarists or first-time producers or GarageBand updaters. But it’s still a Logic and Cubase battle. Well, then Ableton Live and the American dance music boom happened, of course. But dance music was a rivalry between Logic and Cubase, as fierce as Hamburg SV versus St. Sure, studio producers used Pro Tools, film composers used Digital Performer. In those days, the idea of Logic as a hard-core electronic music workstation was actually kind of a default. Remember when more people knew the acronym “IDM” than “EDM,” when the people building Logic were all still in gray, wet Hamburg, Germany instead of Cupertino, California? So, let me take you back to a time before Apple, when they felt differently. It means they don’t always believe that word “Pro” attached to the name. Something about all the cute graphics and loop browsing and GarageBand and iPad and iPhone seems to make them, well, nervous. But let me explain.Įven with a steady stream of updates, I’m not convinced Logic Pro X has entirely shaken concerns from some hard-core producers about serious editing – whether they’re being fair or not. The other half, and maybe the more important half, is about editing. Half that story is about making electronic beats. With version number 10.1, the Logic Pro release out right now sounds like a “yawn, move along” bump.
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