In plugin manager - when you create a folder, you don't need to add the dash to put it on top - you can literally drag the folder to whatever place on the list you want it to be :)
no worries :) also, when you look at the logic original folders - there's another trick - if you create a sub folder, let's say "mastering plugins" and then you create another folder and name it "mastering plugins:compressors" and "mastering plugins:eq" - it will put these 2 folders inside the main "mastering plugins" folder. Just make sure to not have a space between the colon. it need's to be like this "name:1name2".@@CharlesCleyn
the dash still puts it closer to the top which then makes it easier to move higher or lower in the dash section of the list/menu. having it appear at the bottom and then having to drag it upward can be/is usually really annoying bc drop down menus r pretty particular about movement and can disappear or do other time wasting shit and the longer the list/menu is the more room for error and time wasting and me cussing at my computer. :) dash for the win. easier to move afterward.
I'm maybe a bit confused here but I didn't quite follow your freezing of the track? You created a copy that you then bounced to audio and then you froze the original track? All you need to do is freeze the software instrument track. That then creates freeze files (audio files) which then does exactly what you did by duplicating the track and bouncing to audio. By just freezing the software track you only have one button to press to freeze and if you want to go back to it to edit again you just unfreeze it. By doing it your way I'm fairly certain that you'll have the new track you created with the bounced audio on it and then you've possibly created more audio by then freezing the original track. That may not be true I'm not 100% positive on that because you had the track muted but when you froze the track it still had to go through the procedure of checking the entire length of the song the first time you hit play. Once you'd got that bounced audio on the second track though you could just disable the original track but again I believe that's defeating the purpose of how to use the freeze function on a software instrument track. At least that's the way I've always done it. I may be missing something there though?
Two time savers for your time savers: to duplicate a track, including content, hold option and drag the track down. Instead of freezing the duplicated and bounced instrument track, just enable on/off, turn it off and hide it. No additional bouncing needed to freeze it. Turning it off turns off the instrument and FX. I really appreciate your fade shortcut. I always forget that one!
I also prefer turning it off but rather than hiding I move all my switched off tracks to a specific stack (which is also switched off) for easier recall if I need the original
One important thing about freezing tracks: you want the BLUE freeze icon, not the GREEN one. The blue freeze icon freezes your plugins. The green one does not. If it's coming up as the green freeze icon, what you need to do is go to the open up the Inspector window (the "i" icon near the top left) and then select the Track dropdown. There you will see Freeze Mode. You want to select "Pre-Fader" as opposed to "Source Only." Personally, I don't know why the "Source Only" option even exists. It's useless. I also don't know why it randomly pops up for me on certain tracks I try to freeze. But at least I know the solution now so I'm not saving tracks and wondering why I'm not reducing CPU.
Have been using Logic since its inception and before that many other systems as started out on the very first real mainstream systems such as Atari Notator etc Logic is totally fantastic in what it does and all its features. For zooming though I use the Magic Mouse (no idea why so many people don't like them as I could never use anything different personally) and you can just scroll (with modifier keys) to zoom in exactly where you want. Absolutely the fastest way to zoom.
OMG Charles! This was fantastic. I've struggled getting used to Logic after years on another DAW. So many other DAWs allow you to double-click to reset a value back to zero. It has been so frustrating until now! Opt+click! Many of your tips are super helpful for me! One to add that I picked up somewhere is for A/B-ing takes in separate tracks. In some other DAWs, it was fairly east to A/B regions from different tracks. I learned that if you click solo on one (or mute) and then alt+click the second one, it will toggle back and forth between the two you are clicking. Thanks so much for this video! It has been such a time-saver!
@@doubled22495 I wish I could take credit for it, but I can't. I found it on YT. It's really helpful for me, as I still have old habits from other DAWs. Good luck!
One thing that I used to like for switching tools was in Cubase (no idea if they still have it as haven't used that in years) where you'd hold down the CTRL key and the tool palette would pop up right next to your cursor allowing you to choose whichever tool you needed. Was definitely a very quick way to change tools back in the day.
For zoom, I use a apple magic mouse with "option" key program to zoom in/out (swipe up/down on mouse top) and left/right to navigate through project or zoomed region/edit window laterally. Its a lot quicker
Thanks for the magnifier tip! One thing I do is to always use a custom template, and set-up different screen shots (and lock them), and then, to zoom out, I just press the number (in this case, my fully zoomed-out screen is saved as "1", so, no need to use the magnifier to zoom back out.
Not sure why you’re bouncing tracks, duplicating, then freezing them…that’s literally what the freeze feature is for….its to “bounce the tracks in place” temporarily to conserve CPU until you want to edit them again. It’s literally why the feature exists and it was actually in Logic before ProTools. Also if you want to turn off anything to conserve processing power there is a power button icon that can be added to you track sidebar that if turned off turns off all processing on that track.
This is why I love logic! I switched from pro tools in 2018 and still pick up lil things here and there and share things I do w others! Your worlflow is very similar to mine it seems! I zoom different tho haha think its from pro tools zoom, always in/out vert/horizontal with +/- with or without cmd. Lately I even started using the num pad zoom with my right thumb so it doesnt leave the trackball
thanks Juliano, I had the cmd +/- workflow built in for a long time as well. The last couple years I'm using option or control+option with the zoom tool - just find it words for me. Btw, if you're coming from pro tools, you know how a lot of producers/engineer use that mouse with the purple ball? I haven't seen many logic producers use that, have you ever tried an alternative mouse to the standard one?
Really great video! I love your content. I want to get more into how to record the sounds in my head, so watching your videos are really helpful. Thanks!
That was great - the plugin-organization one is like Feature Reveal of the Year! (ha). Ditto the 'different comp from the same set of takes' one - just really good. Giving back some tiny bit, I would contribute that when making a comp from multiple takes, is there's a section that you've highlighted from say, Take 1 (the rest being from say, Take 2 etc.), you can click on that corresponding area of the region in other takes and it will auto-select that for exactly that part ,if hat makes sense (i.e., doing my own vocals it's often one or two phrases I'm singing iffily and only need to A/B those to the rest of the comp, not necessarily create a whole new comp (although again, that tip was great! Why did I never ask what those little letters/numbers meant?!).
charles, bro... thank you so much. i have bookmarked a few of ur vids. i am new to logic and these vids r all the things i 'wanna kno and on double speed i have learned so much in a half hour. so much time saved. thank you thank you thank you. subbed. 'gonna check out ur track too. i found it on youtube. i don't support itunes. the sample u shared sounds pro af. i'll check it out in a bit. still binging ur vids hahaha stay up!
Instead of freezing muting and hiding a midi track I'd turn it off. There is a shortcut to unmute every track and if you accidentally use it (like if you accidentally hold command when clicking M to unmute a track, thus unmuting ALL) you will unmute all muted hidden tracks and you will now have unexplainable sound coming in (because yes, you may forget you had hidden track after a while)
Hi Charles! Nice to find you here. What a fun channel! Also, I liked hearing your new singel. I will for sure continue to follow your work! (I don’t like the freeze tool, much rather use the ”on off” button wich is doing the same thing with less hustle.❤
Hey Decranz, thanks a lot for the kind words. You making some music too? Have you noticed on/off be productive with your CPU meter? I'm generally curious because I find freeze has a better effect but there might be other factors at play. I'm generally curious if freeze is better or if on/off is the way to go.
I’ve worked with logic pro since it was owned by . E magic in 1986. Many changes and new features have been added since Apple took over the company but what drives me crazy is that nothing has been done to improve the notation software part. I understand most kids can’t read music so Apple thinks it’s not worth improving that part of the software. I mean just basic things like if you have to repeat signs that logic would play that repeat just like it is written on paper. I doubt logic will ever implement these changes.
There’s SO many overlooked parts that I think could use some love because there’s just SO many damn things in the daw! I totally get where you’re coming from! Hopefully you’ll get that well deserved update
Another thing I really miss with logic is the ability to take say 10 key commands in a row and program them as a macro so that I can shoot them off with one key@@Bittamin
That hack isn't really a hack at all and I'm 100% positive knows it works as it's just standard procedure for anything on the Mac to be ordered with dashed items first. Same as if you used numbers and so on. You can just drag and drop the folder to wherever you want though 😉
I’ve just subscribed to your newsletter , I was wondering though “do you have templates that can help me get started? I’m terrible at being organized and that ruins my creativity 😂
yes but then you can't mix in real time, that's why I like to hide it and have the bounced file be there so I can produce/mix in real time. If you do that with freeze, you have to unfreeze every time you want to move it/change it.
Nice Video but much of those things are documented and NOT kept secret. The problem is that the USER GUIDE is a HUGE document nowadays. The fade trick with the mouse, that one I forgot it existed as I got used to use the fade tool with key commands which is as fast as using the mouse modifier. Nice remind it still there.
Just bounce to new track imstead of x2ing the midi track, I do this then turn off the track and hide it. Guessing u r using bounce in place...theres a whole set of bounce shortcuts like this I use I think u wld like that are similar if u search boun in the shortcuts...like boumce to a new track and mute etc
I'm gonna dive back in and look at on/off vs freeze. In the past, I've had better results with freeze, I'm not sure why, I'm generally curious. Have you found on/off to be better than freeze? When it comes to CPU.
Hi, I have been mega impressed with your many tutorials, but now am a bit frustrated. Either you are using a different version to me, (Iam on the latest) or I have some rogue setting somewhere. Control+option does not do what yours does, but option on it's own does. (Incidentally why is it called option when on every Mac keyboard I have had it is called 'alt'?) Also the little cross icon to fade does not appear in my version no matter how delicately I hover. Frustrating ... but thanks for the rest of it.
I get the zoom in/out with just an 'option-click', no need for 'control' as well? I only learned it like _last week_ on someone else's video, so it's not a preference I'd ever set for myself. Multiple vocal comps I've never seen anywhere else though, and that I shall carry forward with gratitude. A space works just as well as a dash for folders within plugin manager, and arguably looks a bit 'cleaner'. Scratching my head at the penultimate tip as of 14:59 onwards, though. To me there are needless steps to that workflow? Freezing is precisely for those moments when CPU usage could be lower but it's not quite time to commit/bounce, and has the benefit of keeping your arrangement looking the way it always has… therefore to bounce _as well as_ freeze, let alone copy an entire channel that's deleted as soon as you Bounce In Place because you'd chosen to "replace track" instead of "new track" from the options (which would obviate the copying step)… I don't geddit. Should any MIDI or plugin parameters later need changing the track must be unfrozen anyway but that bounce is now antiquated/useless. I'm just not seeing the upside, from this seat…? 🤔
In a perfect world I think commuting and moving on is the best option but sometimes I’m not sold on the midi performance or sound so I freeze. I make the copy and bounce so I can have better cpu and still get the flex to mix on the go. Make sense?
Mix on the go I guess I get, but still seems kinda like additional faff for a hypothetical. Switching that setting before you Bounce In Place saves you a step (copying a channel), and since you're not using the frozen audio at all simply disable the entire channel strip and hide it once you've BIP, saving another step waiting for Freeze to render audio you'll never play with?
Hi, I keep struggling with getting my vocals to sound professional. I just use a stage mic instead of a condenser mic, but is it worth the upgrade? And which plugins should I use?
Many pro recordings have been done using stage mics like the Shure SM58 and SM57, although dynamic mics like the Shure SM7B and ElectroVoice RE20 are more commonly used, but some singers prefer hand held mics. I wouldn't suggest using a condenser mic unless you have an acoustically treated space to record in, otherwise you'll pick up the sound of the room. In my experience the best vocalists (and musicians) I have worked with require the least work to get their vocals (or instruments) to sound good, so it may be your mixing rather than recording that is the issue. As far as plugins go eq, compression and reverb may be all you need. The stock Logic ones are good and there are free plugins out there that are just as good or better. Learning to use them well takes a bit of practice. Start by seeing if you can get vocals to sound good in a sparse mix, maybe just vocals and piano or guitar. The more space the vocals have the less you should have to do to them to make them work well in the mix.
Peters got some great points there. I’d also suggest spending the time on singing the best you can. I don’t know if this is helpful since I can’t hear your vocal right now but a big part of having a great vocal sound professional is having a great source. Warm up, sing in the right key, practice. It’s not everything but it helps A LOT.
I used to be able to highlight a bar with the marquee tool and simply go to the Gain menu and bring it down. I can’t do that anymore. It doesn’t let me; as in, it doesn’t activate. I can only do that with the Gain tool and it cuts the bar. Is that a new feature??
Thank you so much! The Plug-In Manager trick was so cool. Saves me going through 3 or 4 pages to get to Auto Tune like I'm on Windows XP! I noticed if you Option-Click and drag, you can make a "Favourites" folder of plug-ins. When I tried Control+Option, it somehow made a way for me to move around the project like when you click in the scroll wheel lol.
I loved the video thank you so much for it, Also I just think the analogy was wasting too much time honestly So if it’s not there it will be better for us and less effort for you, I hope you don’t get me wrong Thanks again
I use a quicker way for the first one.. just swipe over what you want to see with your normal pointer curser and the tap ‘Z’ and it will zoom the selected.. getting back to the ‘birds eye’.. just normal pointer click anywhere on the background and tap ‘Z’ again and it zooms out to everything.. much quicker and easier. Also none of these shortcuts are either hidden or secret.. they are all in the shortcut menu which is fully customisable and most of them are also in the dropdown menus next to their named function. clickbait alert..
Years ago I managed to create really nice tracks with GarageBand. Eventually i bought a copy of Logic.. what a shock. I naively believed Logic would "just be an even better GarageBand"; assumptions can be so dangerous. I've never gotten the hang of Logic like I could fly around GarageBand. The learning curve is so steep.. I would argue it is just too steep.
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In plugin manager - when you create a folder, you don't need to add the dash to put it on top - you can literally drag the folder to whatever place on the list you want it to be :)
You’re serious!? Damn. Well, that’s much cleaner. Thanks for sharing.
no worries :) also, when you look at the logic original folders - there's another trick - if you create a sub folder, let's say "mastering plugins" and then you create another folder and name it "mastering plugins:compressors" and "mastering plugins:eq" - it will put these 2 folders inside the main "mastering plugins" folder. Just make sure to not have a space between the colon. it need's to be like this "name:1name2".@@CharlesCleyn
the dash still puts it closer to the top which then makes it easier to move higher or lower in the dash section of the list/menu. having it appear at the bottom and then having to drag it upward can be/is usually really annoying bc drop down menus r pretty particular about movement and can disappear or do other time wasting shit and the longer the list/menu is the more room for error and time wasting and me cussing at my computer. :) dash for the win. easier to move afterward.
Underscore works best
I'm maybe a bit confused here but I didn't quite follow your freezing of the track? You created a copy that you then bounced to audio and then you froze the original track?
All you need to do is freeze the software instrument track. That then creates freeze files (audio files) which then does exactly what you did by duplicating the track and bouncing to audio.
By just freezing the software track you only have one button to press to freeze and if you want to go back to it to edit again you just unfreeze it.
By doing it your way I'm fairly certain that you'll have the new track you created with the bounced audio on it and then you've possibly created more audio by then freezing the original track. That may not be true I'm not 100% positive on that because you had the track muted but when you froze the track it still had to go through the procedure of checking the entire length of the song the first time you hit play.
Once you'd got that bounced audio on the second track though you could just disable the original track but again I believe that's defeating the purpose of how to use the freeze function on a software instrument track.
At least that's the way I've always done it. I may be missing something there though?
Two time savers for your time savers: to duplicate a track, including content, hold option and drag the track down. Instead of freezing the duplicated and bounced instrument track, just enable on/off, turn it off and hide it. No additional bouncing needed to freeze it. Turning it off turns off the instrument and FX. I really appreciate your fade shortcut. I always forget that one!
I also prefer turning it off but rather than hiding I move all my switched off tracks to a specific stack (which is also switched off) for easier recall if I need the original
very cool additions, thanks guys!
@@Gibboncore that's exactly what I do, good shit
One important thing about freezing tracks: you want the BLUE freeze icon, not the GREEN one. The blue freeze icon freezes your plugins. The green one does not. If it's coming up as the green freeze icon, what you need to do is go to the open up the Inspector window (the "i" icon near the top left) and then select the Track dropdown. There you will see Freeze Mode. You want to select "Pre-Fader" as opposed to "Source Only."
Personally, I don't know why the "Source Only" option even exists. It's useless. I also don't know why it randomly pops up for me on certain tracks I try to freeze. But at least I know the solution now so I'm not saving tracks and wondering why I'm not reducing CPU.
Awesome side context there. Thanks for sharing man!
I guess source only could be useful for virtual instruments, sometimes
Have been using Logic since its inception and before that many other systems as started out on the very first real mainstream systems such as Atari Notator etc
Logic is totally fantastic in what it does and all its features.
For zooming though I use the Magic Mouse (no idea why so many people don't like them as I could never use anything different personally) and you can just scroll (with modifier keys) to zoom in exactly where you want. Absolutely the fastest way to zoom.
OMG Charles! This was fantastic. I've struggled getting used to Logic after years on another DAW. So many other DAWs allow you to double-click to reset a value back to zero. It has been so frustrating until now! Opt+click! Many of your tips are super helpful for me!
One to add that I picked up somewhere is for A/B-ing takes in separate tracks. In some other DAWs, it was fairly east to A/B regions from different tracks. I learned that if you click solo on one (or mute) and then alt+click the second one, it will toggle back and forth between the two you are clicking.
Thanks so much for this video! It has been such a time-saver!
Thank you for the extra context on that tip and I appreciate the kind words too :) Very glad it's helping..
@@CharlesCleyn I watched more of your content, and it is a game changer for me. My productivity using Logic will accelerate hugely.
yo that's an awesome tip I'm going to try that
@@doubled22495 I wish I could take credit for it, but I can't. I found it on YT. It's really helpful for me, as I still have old habits from other DAWs. Good luck!
@@doubled22495 I hope this worked for you. If not, I notice that if I hold down Opt each time I click back and forth on either A or B, it works.
You can also add fades to all your regions at once if you have the entire track selected. I find that very helpful.
Loving the extra tips here in the comments!
Holding Option and expanding your fingers on the trackpad (macbook) is a quick way to zoom in too
I like that one too…
this was awesome! can't get enough of logic shortcuts so always nice learning more
I might have an issue when it comes to shortcuts, in a good way!
One thing that I used to like for switching tools was in Cubase (no idea if they still have it as haven't used that in years) where you'd hold down the CTRL key and the tool palette would pop up right next to your cursor allowing you to choose whichever tool you needed. Was definitely a very quick way to change tools back in the day.
Hold down T > hit the corresponding letter for eg. M = mute…double hit T to go back to Pointer - your welcome… ;-)
For zoom, I use a apple magic mouse with "option" key program to zoom in/out (swipe up/down on mouse top) and left/right to navigate through project or zoomed region/edit window laterally. Its a lot quicker
Been a Logic user for 15 years and learned some really useful new features because of this video. Great work!
Awesome Gabriel! I appreciate that
I had no idea you could browse projects in the file browser, thank you for that one! Gonna be a huge time saver for me
Thanks for the magnifier tip! One thing I do is to always use a custom template, and set-up different screen shots (and lock them), and then, to zoom out, I just press the number (in this case, my fully zoomed-out screen is saved as "1", so, no need to use the magnifier to zoom back out.
Not sure why you’re bouncing tracks, duplicating, then freezing them…that’s literally what the freeze feature is for….its to “bounce the tracks in place” temporarily to conserve CPU until you want to edit them again. It’s literally why the feature exists and it was actually in Logic before ProTools. Also if you want to turn off anything to conserve processing power there is a power button icon that can be added to you track sidebar that if turned off turns off all processing on that track.
This is why I love logic! I switched from pro tools in 2018 and still pick up lil things here and there and share things I do w others! Your worlflow is very similar to mine it seems!
I zoom different tho haha think its from pro tools zoom, always in/out vert/horizontal with +/- with or without cmd. Lately I even started using the num pad zoom with my right thumb so it doesnt leave the trackball
thanks Juliano, I had the cmd +/- workflow built in for a long time as well. The last couple years I'm using option or control+option with the zoom tool - just find it words for me. Btw, if you're coming from pro tools, you know how a lot of producers/engineer use that mouse with the purple ball? I haven't seen many logic producers use that, have you ever tried an alternative mouse to the standard one?
If you use cursor as second tool you can hold control and than can be scissor which frees up the right tool for fading
Really great video! I love your content. I want to get more into how to record the sounds in my head, so watching your videos are really helpful. Thanks!
That’s a life journey of mine too Thomas but I’m sure my videos will help you get there.
I’m following you now on Spotify, I haven’t listened yet because I don’t want to interrupt this video,
thanks
Thanks Mike. I appreciate you checking out the music, let me know what you think.
Project templates saved me so much time dude thank you seriously
Instructions unclear, I was just hired by United Airlines and am now getting clearance for landing.
That was great - the plugin-organization one is like Feature Reveal of the Year! (ha). Ditto the 'different comp from the same set of takes' one - just really good. Giving back some tiny bit, I would contribute that when making a comp from multiple takes, is there's a section that you've highlighted from say, Take 1 (the rest being from say, Take 2 etc.), you can click on that corresponding area of the region in other takes and it will auto-select that for exactly that part ,if hat makes sense (i.e., doing my own vocals it's often one or two phrases I'm singing iffily and only need to A/B those to the rest of the comp, not necessarily create a whole new comp (although again, that tip was great! Why did I never ask what those little letters/numbers meant?!).
great video charles! i know it takes a lot of time and effort so congrats!!
Nice Cardigan bruv, can I get the link to that?
Bruv? 😂
@@alexjforemanguitar type shit
charles, bro... thank you so much. i have bookmarked a few of ur vids. i am new to logic and these vids r all the things i 'wanna kno and on double speed i have learned so much in a half hour. so much time saved. thank you thank you thank you. subbed. 'gonna check out ur track too. i found it on youtube. i don't support itunes. the sample u shared sounds pro af. i'll check it out in a bit. still binging ur vids hahaha stay up!
Instead of freezing muting and hiding a midi track I'd turn it off. There is a shortcut to unmute every track and if you accidentally use it (like if you accidentally hold command when clicking M to unmute a track, thus unmuting ALL) you will unmute all muted hidden tracks and you will now have unexplainable sound coming in (because yes, you may forget you had hidden track after a while)
Hi Charles! Nice to find you here. What a fun channel! Also, I liked hearing your new singel. I will for sure continue to follow your work! (I don’t like the freeze tool, much rather use the ”on off” button wich is doing the same thing with less hustle.❤
Hey Decranz, thanks a lot for the kind words. You making some music too? Have you noticed on/off be productive with your CPU meter? I'm generally curious because I find freeze has a better effect but there might be other factors at play. I'm generally curious if freeze is better or if on/off is the way to go.
Awesome tips as usual, thanks Charles
Thanks very much Simon :)
Thanx alot for this ....started today with Logic ...
amazing video. I did not know that you need multiple clicks to zoom out. I would always click once and yell at the computer
I’ve worked with logic pro since it was owned by . E magic in 1986. Many changes and new features have been added since Apple took over the company but what drives me crazy is that nothing has been done to improve the notation software part. I understand most kids can’t read music so Apple thinks it’s not worth improving that part of the software. I mean just basic things like if you have to repeat signs that logic would play that repeat just like it is written on paper. I doubt logic will ever implement these changes.
There’s SO many overlooked parts that I think could use some love because there’s just SO many damn things in the daw! I totally get where you’re coming from! Hopefully you’ll get that well deserved update
Another thing I really miss with logic is the ability to take say 10 key commands in a row and program them as a macro so that I can shoot them off with one key@@Bittamin
@@daveking3494Keyboard Maestro is excellent for this. I use it all the time!
Wow that sounds cool. What would a workflow example be for something like this?
1996. Surely?
Thanks Charles. Very nice tunes and production, btw. You know your stuff. 👍🏻
Appreciate the kind words man :)
Much easier to zoom by holding down alt ( not ctrl and alt ) and either do what you do or scroll with the magic mouse , much better way !!
A good way for sure but you can’t do that on a region!
such a well produced video! thank you for your work man
cheers, thanks for watching!
That hack isn't really a hack at all and I'm 100% positive knows it works as it's just standard procedure for anything on the Mac to be ordered with dashed items first. Same as if you used numbers and so on.
You can just drag and drop the folder to wherever you want though 😉
"My daughter in the background" -- I've never related to something on youtube so much. This is my life... except it's 3 kids LOL. Great vid bro.
also you can off your track instead of freezing and muting, it's faster for both sides
I've heard on/off not having the same effect on CPU as freeze though, anyone else?
@@CharlesCleyn I thought that it’s exist for cpu free. Okay, it needs to be tested
slow and steady Thank U Buddy...
Question for the creator: you showed us how to make folders in the plug-in manager, but how do you get the plug-ins into the folder?!?!?!?!?
I’ve just subscribed to your newsletter , I was wondering though “do you have templates that can help me get started? I’m terrible at being organized and that ruins my creativity 😂
Thanks Mike. I'm in the process of creating some time-saving templates that you might be interested in. Keep an eye out for them in the newsletter.
@@CharlesCleyn will do brother, you’re very good by the way I’ve been listening to your music
You can just freeze
The track and not mute it. It’s kind of the same
Thing and saves step of bouncing it
yes but then you can't mix in real time, that's why I like to hide it and have the bounced file be there so I can produce/mix in real time. If you do that with freeze, you have to unfreeze every time you want to move it/change it.
Interesting because I’m an airline pilot moonlighting as an audio engineer 😂😃
Nice Video but much of those things are documented and NOT kept secret. The problem is that the USER GUIDE is a HUGE document nowadays. The fade trick with the mouse, that one I forgot it existed as I got used to use the fade tool with key commands which is as fast as using the mouse modifier. Nice remind it still there.
This is Amazing!!!!! Thank you for this!
You’re welcome!
For tip #1 ZOOMING : you can just press Z on keyboard to reset all zooming in one time.
Just bounce to new track imstead of x2ing the midi track, I do this then turn off the track and hide it.
Guessing u r using bounce in place...theres a whole set of bounce shortcuts like this I use I think u wld like that are similar if u search boun in the shortcuts...like boumce to a new track and mute etc
I'm gonna dive back in and look at on/off vs freeze. In the past, I've had better results with freeze, I'm not sure why, I'm generally curious. Have you found on/off to be better than freeze? When it comes to CPU.
Does it right click do some useful stuff when you click on audio region?
the freezing VIs trick. How is this better than deactivating the plugins and hiding the track?
Great video!
Hi, I have been mega impressed with your many tutorials, but now am a bit frustrated. Either you are using a different version to me, (Iam on the latest) or I have some rogue setting somewhere. Control+option does not do what yours does, but option on it's own does. (Incidentally why is it called option when on every Mac keyboard I have had it is called 'alt'?) Also the little cross icon to fade does not appear in my version no matter how delicately I hover. Frustrating ... but thanks for the rest of it.
I get the zoom in/out with just an 'option-click', no need for 'control' as well? I only learned it like _last week_ on someone else's video, so it's not a preference I'd ever set for myself. Multiple vocal comps I've never seen anywhere else though, and that I shall carry forward with gratitude. A space works just as well as a dash for folders within plugin manager, and arguably looks a bit 'cleaner'. Scratching my head at the penultimate tip as of 14:59 onwards, though. To me there are needless steps to that workflow? Freezing is precisely for those moments when CPU usage could be lower but it's not quite time to commit/bounce, and has the benefit of keeping your arrangement looking the way it always has… therefore to bounce _as well as_ freeze, let alone copy an entire channel that's deleted as soon as you Bounce In Place because you'd chosen to "replace track" instead of "new track" from the options (which would obviate the copying step)… I don't geddit. Should any MIDI or plugin parameters later need changing the track must be unfrozen anyway but that bounce is now antiquated/useless. I'm just not seeing the upside, from this seat…? 🤔
In a perfect world I think commuting and moving on is the best option but sometimes I’m not sold on the midi performance or sound so I freeze. I make the copy and bounce so I can have better cpu and still get the flex to mix on the go. Make sense?
Mix on the go I guess I get, but still seems kinda like additional faff for a hypothetical. Switching that setting before you Bounce In Place saves you a step (copying a channel), and since you're not using the frozen audio at all simply disable the entire channel strip and hide it once you've BIP, saving another step waiting for Freeze to render audio you'll never play with?
Thanks Charles! 👍👌👏🎼🎵🎶
You’re very welcome
Hi, I keep struggling with getting my vocals to sound professional. I just use a stage mic instead of a condenser mic, but is it worth the upgrade? And which plugins should I use?
Many pro recordings have been done using stage mics like the Shure SM58 and SM57, although dynamic mics like the Shure SM7B and ElectroVoice RE20 are more commonly used, but some singers prefer hand held mics. I wouldn't suggest using a condenser mic unless you have an acoustically treated space to record in, otherwise you'll pick up the sound of the room. In my experience the best vocalists (and musicians) I have worked with require the least work to get their vocals (or instruments) to sound good, so it may be your mixing rather than recording that is the issue. As far as plugins go eq, compression and reverb may be all you need. The stock Logic ones are good and there are free plugins out there that are just as good or better. Learning to use them well takes a bit of practice. Start by seeing if you can get vocals to sound good in a sparse mix, maybe just vocals and piano or guitar. The more space the vocals have the less you should have to do to them to make them work well in the mix.
Peters got some great points there. I’d also suggest spending the time on singing the best you can. I don’t know if this is helpful since I can’t hear your vocal right now but a big part of having a great vocal sound professional is having a great source. Warm up, sing in the right key, practice. It’s not everything but it helps A LOT.
this deserves triple likes
Thanks for the kind words :)
Very helpful!!
thanks very much.
If you do sneak your knife onboard and the Air Marshall catches you then you're definitely NOT going to be drinking many beers on that flight!! 😂
Didnt know about multiple comps thx
Shift control isn’t working for me for the fade shortcut
hey William, see if you're on the latest update of Logic
I used to be able to highlight a bar with the marquee tool and simply go to the Gain menu and bring it down. I can’t do that anymore. It doesn’t let me; as in, it doesn’t activate. I can only do that with the Gain tool and it cuts the bar. Is that a new feature??
I don't think it's that new, at least around for a couple years...
The fade thing is not working for me.
Thank you for these extra cookies 😊
Exactly!!
Thank you so much! The Plug-In Manager trick was so cool. Saves me going through 3 or 4 pages to get to Auto Tune like I'm on Windows XP! I noticed if you Option-Click and drag, you can make a "Favourites" folder of plug-ins.
When I tried Control+Option, it somehow made a way for me to move around the project like when you click in the scroll wheel lol.
haha the windows joke :)
Option click on the solo button to solo that track only
First thirty seconds and I’m like “ YUP!”
Thanks man!!
Who do you fly with!??? Free beer, and roomy armchairs with plant! 🙂
you only need to hold option to zoom
you're correct but "alt" or "option" will only work when you're on an empty part of the tracks area...
Option slide up/down and left/right is the fastest way by a mile but it’s only available to people that use a Magic Mouse or track pad
And if you’re using a Magic Mouse or track pad, you don’t need to be over an empty space, works anywhere in the edit window
“Toss your own salad” 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
I loved the video thank you so much for it,
Also I just think the analogy was wasting too much time honestly
So if it’s not there it will be better for us and less effort for you, I hope you don’t get me wrong
Thanks again
no worries phil...
for the first tip, you just need to hold alt
you're correct but "alt" or "option" will only work when you're on an empty part of the tracks area...
@@CharlesCleyn hm, i’ve never noticed! learn something new everyday!
Canadian?
My god how did I use logic all these years without knowing the marquee tool exists and is used like that dear god haha.
I HATE it when I have to toss my own salad.
I use a quicker way for the first one.. just swipe over what you want to see with your normal pointer curser and the tap ‘Z’ and it will zoom the selected.. getting back to the ‘birds eye’.. just normal pointer click anywhere on the background and tap ‘Z’ again and it zooms out to everything.. much quicker and easier. Also none of these shortcuts are either hidden or secret.. they are all in the shortcut menu which is fully customisable and most of them are also in the dropdown menus next to their named function. clickbait alert..
Perfeito
Thanks Rich!
starts @1:05
no it's at 0:00
@@CharlesCleyn sure, if you want to hear about airplane pilots
Years ago I managed to create really nice tracks with GarageBand. Eventually i bought a copy of Logic.. what a shock. I naively believed Logic would "just be an even better GarageBand"; assumptions can be so dangerous. I've never gotten the hang of Logic like I could fly around GarageBand. The learning curve is so steep.. I would argue it is just too steep.
Keep at it Laurence, you'll get over the curve with consistency and hard work!
These aren't hidden features
Couldn’t get through the second tip after you make the most pointless comparison to logic and pilots
wow dude... thank you!