Logic Pro X 10.5 - Apple Pro Training Series: Professional Music Production, 1st edition

Published by Peachpit Press (September 18, 2020) © 2021
David Nahmani

Title overview

Record, arrange, mix, produce, and polish your music with this best-selling, Apple-certified guide to Logic Pro X 10.5. Veteran producer and composer David Nahmani uses step-by-step, project-based instructions and straightforward explanations to teach everything from basic music creation to sophisticated production techniques.
 

Learn to populate, trigger, and record Live Loops into cells, record audio and MIDI data, create and edit sequences, and edit regions in the Tracks view to build an arrangement. You'll create both acoustic and electronic virtual drum performances using Drummer tracks with Drum Kit Designer and Drum Machine Designer. You'll use Quick Sampler to create an instrument from a single sample to create stutter effects and vocal chop, and explore ear candy production techniques, such as parallel processing and turntable start and stop effects. You'll use Logic Pro X MIDI FX and Smart Controls to control software synthesizers from a MIDI controller or an iPad. You'll harness the power of Smart Tempo to make all audio files play in time. You'll stretch vocal notes and correct timing of recordings with Flex Time, and you'll explore Flex Pitch to tune a vocal recording. Finally, you'll mix, automate and master the song, processing your tracks with EQ, compression, delay, reverb and other effect plug-ins to achieve a professional sound.

  • Downloadable lesson and media lessons take you step by step through real-world, hands-on exercises.
  • Accessible writing style puts an expert instructor at your side.
  • Ample illustrations help you master techniques fast.
  • Lesson goals and time estimates help you plan your time.
  • Key Command lists summarize keyboard shortcuts used in each lesson to speed up your workflow.

  • This is the only Apple-authorized book for Logic Pro X 10.5, the latest release of the flagship Apple audio editing software
  • Best-selling Logic Pro book fully revised for new Logic Pro X 10.5 interface and new features by internationally recognized expert and author, David Nahmani
  • Project-based approach is compelling for the hands-on audience for this topic

Completely revised and updated for Logic Pro X 10.5 released May 2020. 

Table of contents

Getting Started

Lesson 1  Producing Music with Logic Now!

Lesson 2  Producing a Virtual Drum Track

Lesson 3  Using Effect and Instrument Plug-ins

Lesson 4  Recording Audio and MIDI

Lesson 5  Sampling Audio

Lesson 6  Performing with MIDI Controllers and Logic Remote

Lesson 7  Creating Content

Lesson 8  Integrating Your Workflow

Lesson 9  Editing Pitch and Time

Lesson 10 Mixing

Appendix  Keyboard Shortcuts (Default for U.S. Keyboard)

Author bios

David Nahmani is the founder of LogicProHelp.com, the largest online community of Logic users. As an expert Logic Pro consultant and teacher, he has worked for Steve Porcaro (Toto, Michael Jackson), Toby Gad (Beyoncé, John Legend, Fergie), Coco Morier (Britney Spears, Selena Gomez), Matt McJunkins (A Perfect Circle), James Valentine (Maroon 5), Mark Pontius (Foster the People), the Record Plant in Los Angeles, the Winter Music Conference in Miami, the Grammy foundation, ASCAP, Apple, and many more. David wrote and produced songs published by Cleopatra records, Metropolis records, MTV, and Decca/BMG. He coproduced a song on the last Pop Will Eat Itself album and engineered three classical albums for the Bernard Calmel orchestra in Paris, France.

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