You know, it seems, that it’s very hard to achieve work flow in logic because it’s powerful, but not straight forward and easy. You almost have to be an engineer to use it, it’s like a let’s try to find Waldo experience, If I wanted that type of challenge I would just play a game of chess ! I don’t need that when I’m trying to record music, it kills my creativity and is extremely frustrating !! So thank you for those very helpful tips !
Haha, I hear ya... I'm glad I could help though! Let me know if there's anything else confusing. I'm thinking that there might have to be a part two to this vid.
Thank you!Click view above the arrangement(edit, functions,view)and click secondary ruler, it gives you 5 second increments in time. 6 bars at 120 tempo is 5 seconds...thanks to you I found that setting up stuff from this video!
Lots of great info. Agreed, the Logic team should really ask the user community for suggestions on the default standards. Damn, I did not know about several of these basic, but very helpful, and useful, features. Thanks so much.
Awesome, glad you like! Aaaaaand I'll happily take that Apple money if they need my help. Let me know if there's something else that you'd like to see in a vid, cheers.
It can be a little bit better to manage the plugin menus, I agree. However you're still "menu diving". It doesn't come close to text searching, which is why I included PlugSearch in my critique. Cheers 🍻
Oh definitely a round 2! LOL...I also like to have the added ruler view to show the time in addition to the bars and beats (but not everyone needs to see that). I also prefer "x-fade" for dragging. :) @@cuomomusiccreation
Awesome, I appreciate it and I'm glad you dig the style! Let me know if there's any questions you still have and I'll be sure to address them in the future, thanks!
You’re so right! It’s like they’re trying to be Un-intuitive, and I’d really like to know the reason for that! Who does that serve? My girlfriend is so sick of hearing me complain about how illogical logic is, having to iron out all the defaults, so you can imagine my delight finding out I’m not the only one. It can be frustrating at first, OR ALWAYS. I came from three other daws prior, and the More time you spend with them, The more they reveal themselves. So logic does a lot of stuff for a reasonable price, but give it to us working PLEASE, And then we can expand on that. Instead, what logic actually does is start everything out with some kind of cryptic puzzle, and by then, uh, hm, what was I playin now? Sorry for the rant,Your video is really good in that it’s trying to actually help, and Im just complaining. I’m gonna give this stuff a try. Thanks
Awesome, glad you found the vid! That one confuses everybody at first... so crazy. Let me know if there's anything I didn't cover that would be worth adding to a future video! thanks.
I've always said that logic pro x is the most illogical DAW in the market to much dismay from my LGX fans. So to see a logic pro x user demonstrate this proves my point. My question is why don't they fix these illogical defaults?
Great job Sir, as this truly needed to be addressed by someone with a working brain! Maybe Logic needs to employ a real musician or 2 to guide them through their apparent ignorance on actual music production here? They really have pissed me off with their new revisions as of late, forcing me to research and basically start learning their product all over again after 12 years of using Logic! Really, "System settings", and hey, let's really fuck everyone up, by changing tab menu's! I am not sure Apple, but my guess is "Steve Jobs" wouldn't have been this sloppy with Logic?
Well, as someone who's been using Logic since version 8 (when it was REALLY buggy), I get the frustration, believe me. Also, I'd take a job in a second from Apple... I'm ready to take their $$$$$$! Haha, for real though, I appreciate your comment! Let me know if there's something else you'd like to see from my channel. Thanks 🙌
Good tips. There's also the option to open the Library (Y), right-click on any patch and set that as the default if that fits your workflow. As for Tip 5, the Plugin Manager (Settings → Plug-in-Manager) is well worth the time to set up and maintain. You can create custom folders to hold all your reverbs, compressors, etc, assign short names and more. The initial setup took me a while, but I love being able to click on a folder and see all my preferred options. This video also has some really great tips for advanced setup of the control bar: ruclips.net/video/3CAE8VoMV7Y/видео.html
the biggest game changer for me was adding "Pre fader monitoring" to the control bar. before discovering this all my instrument midi tracks were Peaking but I never knew cause I had lowered the volume on the track as not to damage my speakers and as a result my mixes sounded distorted when I tried to bring them up to industry standard with a limiter. so having the Pre fader option I always check my gain staging through out the process.
Yes, gain checking is a crucial practice. I've been using waves dorrough meters in between plugins that don't have the best metering in them for longer than I care to remember. Glad it's working out for you!
you know if your in Prefader metering it is not pre-plugin, so the meter will give you the level Post you last plugin, that way you can save slots and DSP not having to use the Dorrough. Cheers!@@cuomomusiccreation
Yes, not to be annoying- I’m really just trying to be helpful. When you are in Pre-metering turn off the plugins after the one your metering and that will tell you the level your coming out of and into the next. I’m pretty sure you understand this and prefer your workflow 👍
Thanks Fritz! The low latency mode I never notice, and the tip about fade will save me time, I'm used to select the fade pointer tool. Love your channel, it's small yet but so much better than bigger bulshitters channels with no real content
Thanks a ton for the comment @renandelon9506 It's good to know that I'm actually helping people out and not just shouting into the void haha... Cheers man!
Snap to relative value!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Also, it is not a default or not question, but I hope one day the whole Logic team will stop doing what they are doing and will just focus on the old neglected inherited oldschool buggy weird stuff and fix them. Such as the whole midi editing. Quantizing (the end of the note, for example). Midi transform window. The GUI overall. I wish Logic be smart enough to color a different region to a different color by default. The force legato which doesn't actually snap to the next note but leave a gap. Speaking of gaps, the view which sometimes shows there are some gaps between otherwise perfectly aligned regions or midi notes. The playhead snap when I just place it by a click and it doesn't always snap to definitive values. Why I would want it to snap to a division or a tick when I am zoomed out? Anyway ...
Sorry for my delayed reply. I'm not sure I'm getting the full context of your question, but you can apply midi fx above the instrument in the channel inspector. Glad you found the vid helpful!
I actually use two hackintosh' daisy chained. One is for plugins only. It's the most economical way that I can do all the video screen recording stuff while also having a large session open. They've got 12900k's and 192gb Ram between them.
Actually they all make logical sense for beginners. The only people who would find it annoying are those who use Logic daily and never customised it. So that's basically no one who uses Logic regularly.
This DAW ( i don't want to mention that name) is bullshitting the music industry. Because "Asininity Pro Y" оr "Dullness negligent Z" is hard to remember and they put an antonym. How cool, A?
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You know, it seems, that it’s very hard to achieve work flow in logic because it’s powerful, but not straight forward and easy. You almost have to be an engineer to use it, it’s like a let’s try to find Waldo experience, If I wanted that type of challenge I would just play a game of chess ! I don’t need that when I’m trying to record music, it kills my creativity and is extremely frustrating !! So thank you for those very helpful tips !
Haha, I hear ya... I'm glad I could help though! Let me know if there's anything else confusing. I'm thinking that there might have to be a part two to this vid.
Thank you!Click view above the arrangement(edit, functions,view)and click secondary ruler, it gives you 5 second increments in time.
6 bars at 120 tempo is 5 seconds...thanks to you I found that setting up stuff from this video!
Awesome! I'm glad I could help out 🙌
That first one is nuts! It got me again as I set up my new Mac Studio.
Haha... that one used to confuse me when I first started out with logic.
Lots of great info. Agreed, the Logic team should really ask the user community for suggestions on the default standards. Damn, I did not know about several of these basic, but very helpful, and useful, features.
Thanks so much.
Awesome, glad you like! Aaaaaand I'll happily take that Apple money if they need my help.
Let me know if there's something else that you'd like to see in a vid, cheers.
You can reorder how the plugins appears which can be helpful.
It can be a little bit better to manage the plugin menus, I agree. However you're still "menu diving". It doesn't come close to text searching, which is why I included PlugSearch in my critique. Cheers 🍻
I agree @@cuomomusiccreation
Gems! I don't like the default snap to relative value. I constantly change that to absolute. :)
Right on... If I can think of a few more then maybe there's a round two video coming!
Oh definitely a round 2! LOL...I also like to have the added ruler view to show the time in addition to the bars and beats (but not everyone needs to see that). I also prefer "x-fade" for dragging. :) @@cuomomusiccreation
This was super helpful while I was setting up my project templates. Great info, and great style!
Awesome, I appreciate it and I'm glad you dig the style! Let me know if there's any questions you still have and I'll be sure to address them in the future, thanks!
You’re so right! It’s like they’re trying to be Un-intuitive, and I’d really like to know the reason for that! Who does that serve? My girlfriend is so sick of hearing me complain about how illogical logic is, having to iron out all the defaults, so you can imagine my delight finding out I’m not the only one. It can be frustrating at first, OR ALWAYS. I came from three other daws prior, and the More time you spend with them, The more they reveal themselves. So logic does a lot of stuff for a reasonable price, but give it to us working PLEASE, And then we can expand on that. Instead, what logic actually does is start everything out with some kind of cryptic puzzle, and by then, uh, hm, what was I playin now? Sorry for the rant,Your video is really good in that it’s trying to actually help, and Im just complaining. I’m gonna give this stuff a try. Thanks
Haha no worries, rant away my friend! I'm glad you got something useful from the vid 👍
Thanks for this video! I'm a noob to Logic and especially the guitar/record arm/playback part really helped :)
Awesome, glad you found the vid! That one confuses everybody at first... so crazy. Let me know if there's anything I didn't cover that would be worth adding to a future video! thanks.
Cool tips. Thank you.
Awesome, I'm glad you took away something useful!
I've always said that logic pro x is the most illogical DAW in the market to much dismay from my LGX fans. So to see a logic pro x user demonstrate this proves my point. My question is why don't they fix these illogical defaults?
Well, I was thinking of something funny to write here... but I'm dumbfounded. Some of the weird stuff in Logic has been there for over 10 years!
..logic x is amazing..!!👍
I agree ... After a few tweaks, haha. Thanks for the comment!
Great job Sir, as this truly needed to be addressed by someone with a working brain! Maybe Logic needs to employ a real musician or 2 to guide them through their apparent ignorance on actual music production here? They really have pissed me off with their new revisions as of late, forcing me to research and basically start learning their product all over again after 12 years of using Logic! Really, "System settings", and hey, let's really fuck everyone up, by changing tab menu's! I am not sure Apple, but my guess is "Steve Jobs" wouldn't have been this sloppy with Logic?
Well, as someone who's been using Logic since version 8 (when it was REALLY buggy), I get the frustration, believe me. Also, I'd take a job in a second from Apple... I'm ready to take their $$$$$$! Haha, for real though, I appreciate your comment! Let me know if there's something else you'd like to see from my channel. Thanks 🙌
Glad I came across your channel, awesome tidbits and insight!😅
Glad you found it useful! Thanks for the sub 👍
Good tips. There's also the option to open the Library (Y), right-click on any patch and set that as the default if that fits your workflow. As for Tip 5, the Plugin Manager (Settings → Plug-in-Manager) is well worth the time to set up and maintain. You can create custom folders to hold all your reverbs, compressors, etc, assign short names and more. The initial setup took me a while, but I love being able to click on a folder and see all my preferred options.
This video also has some really great tips for advanced setup of the control bar: ruclips.net/video/3CAE8VoMV7Y/видео.html
I used to do the same thing before I found PlugSearch. For me it just fixed my workflow... to each his own though! Thanks for the comment 👍
the biggest game changer for me was adding "Pre fader monitoring" to the control bar. before discovering this all my instrument midi tracks were Peaking but I never knew cause I had lowered the volume on the track as not to damage my speakers and as a result my mixes sounded distorted when I tried to bring them up to industry standard with a limiter. so having the Pre fader option I always check my gain staging through out the process.
Yes, gain checking is a crucial practice. I've been using waves dorrough meters in between plugins that don't have the best metering in them for longer than I care to remember. Glad it's working out for you!
you know if your in Prefader metering it is not pre-plugin, so the meter will give you the level Post you last plugin, that way you can save slots and DSP not having to use the Dorrough. Cheers!@@cuomomusiccreation
I'm aware, I like to meter between plugins that don't have decent enough metering. That's what I use dorrough for. @@sottovoce4
Yes, not to be annoying- I’m really just trying to be helpful. When you are in Pre-metering turn off the plugins after the one your metering and that will tell you the level your coming out of and into the next. I’m pretty sure you understand this and prefer your workflow 👍
Yeah, something is not translating through text. Agree to agree I guess 😂 @@sottovoce4
Good stuff, Thanks!
Thanks so much, some great tips!!!
Awesome, glad you like! Let me know if there's something else you'd like to see, that you aren't getting somewhere else.
I've been using Logic a long time but theres a lot of stuff about it that isn't Logical.
Thanks Fritz! The low latency mode I never notice, and the tip about fade will save me time, I'm used to select the fade pointer tool. Love your channel, it's small yet but so much better than bigger bulshitters channels with no real content
Thanks a ton for the comment @renandelon9506
It's good to know that I'm actually helping people out and not just shouting into the void haha... Cheers man!
Outstanding. Thank you for this 👏🏼 👏🏼 👏🏼 Subbed.
Woohoo! Thanks a lot, I'm glad you got some useful info 🙌
How do you make that in instrument library patches not to load many aux in a session?
Thanks for the question. I'm having difficulty understanding it unfortunately.
Snap to relative value!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Also, it is not a default or not question, but I hope one day the whole Logic team will stop doing what they are doing and will just focus on the old neglected inherited oldschool buggy weird stuff and fix them. Such as the whole midi editing. Quantizing (the end of the note, for example). Midi transform window. The GUI overall. I wish Logic be smart enough to color a different region to a different color by default. The force legato which doesn't actually snap to the next note but leave a gap. Speaking of gaps, the view which sometimes shows there are some gaps between otherwise perfectly aligned regions or midi notes. The playhead snap when I just place it by a click and it doesn't always snap to definitive values. Why I would want it to snap to a division or a tick when I am zoomed out? Anyway ...
Yeah... I highly doubt they'll fix the stuff that only seasoned pros notice.
I don't like the grey background of the Logic Pro program at all. Is there anyway to get different color background?
Do you know if you can insert midi fx in the inspector channel strip instead of having to open the mixer to insert one ? Great tips by the way 👍
Sorry for my delayed reply. I'm not sure I'm getting the full context of your question, but you can apply midi fx above the instrument in the channel inspector. Glad you found the vid helpful!
All fixed now thanks!! for some reason my midi fx box was missing in the inspector channel strip
Cool, glad that's solved. Have fun making the music! @@frankieoliver7447
Super helpful video!
Thanks, I'm glad it helped!
How do you export but keep you aux and bus sends and fx ?
Hi, I'm sorry but I'm don't understand your question. Can you clarify it a bit? Thanks
Quick question, are you working on an" M1" or higher? Thanks....
I actually use two hackintosh' daisy chained. One is for plugins only. It's the most economical way that I can do all the video screen recording stuff while also having a large session open. They've got 12900k's and 192gb Ram between them.
I’m using a Scarlett 18i8 3rd gen and don’t get any latency issues.
I want to believe you ... the key word there being "want" 😂
@@cuomomusiccreation I can assure you as someone who used Cubase VST in the 90s I definitely know latency when I hear it! Maybe I'm lucky!
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Buss issues
Thanks @golden02122 ... That could be covered in a future video.
Actually they all make logical sense for beginners. The only people who would find it annoying are those who use Logic daily and never customised it. So that's basically no one who uses Logic regularly.
Hahaha so good
Thanks Justin :)
This DAW ( i don't want to mention that name) is bullshitting the music industry. Because "Asininity Pro Y" оr "Dullness negligent Z" is hard to remember and they put an antonym. How cool, A?