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Instant Eno Ambient Music
I was reading somewhere about Eno’s constant experiments with creating ambient background music scenarios with constantly changing soundscapes. So I did a quick experiment just using Logic Pro with no keyboard. I created 15 instances of sound i...
Reverbs and Delays, Low End Muddiness
The more I work with especially rock-centric tracks and guitars, the more I’m worried about the low-end muddiness. Guitar amps, even amp simulations, generate a lot of low end stuff that might in many cases just be rumble and not sound good. No...
Miles Davis Attitude To Music
I was watching Miles Davis: A Different Kind of Blue documentary two days ago. You could always learn something new by learning more about Miles Davis, whether you like jazz or not. One is the spontaneous creation of music — Miles Davis and his...
Logic Ultrabeat’s Acoustic Kick Bank to the Rescue
I’ve been working tonight on a psychedelic rock project that I recorded two months ago. The drums were basically two midi tracks, snare/kick in one and the hihat/cymbals in the second. This is a common format when I record drums when using a ke...
Massive Rediscovered, Bouncing
As I switched over to a MacPro as my main studio computer I didn’t immediately install all the earlier plug-ins. Rather I put them in on demand, such as the mastering tools. The rest I kind of kept in the attic, and installing them with a fresh...
FM Guitar Shimmer Sound
I should work on new material but have spent a couple of days refining my mixing/mastering skills, reading manuals and especially making all kinds of mini-assignments for solving. Tonight’s test was to create the FM guitar shimmering sound, use...
Loops Revisited
Some time ago I got very much tired of loops of many reasons, of which repetition leading to very stale production was one big problem. Especially drum loops that repeat tend to make the production very factory-like — and I nowadays believe muc...
More Adventures With Melodyne and Guitar Loops
So I’ve been recording short guitar riffs, 4 to 16 bar ones, tonight. The work-flow was to record a vanilla guitar signal, no effects, into a Logic track with a drum playing so I could keep track of the pace. Then I edited the guitar riff with ...
Logic’s Quick Swipe Comping Revisited
I wrote some time ago that I avoided using Logic’s Quick Swipe Comping for guitar tracks. Well, I changed my mind based on some work today. I ended up doing multiple tracks for both guitar and bass work — started to actualize the songs I ...
Computer Problems
Sometimes you indeed get a crash in MacOSX and the crash reporter tool will show up. There’s an option to send a bug report to Apple and please do that, it creates statistical information good to know about. Anyway, in this dialog you also have...
Always Bounce
I’m just now in a situation juggling 30+ tracks, many with cryptic project names and different styles. In order to keep myself sane I’m always bouncing a sub-set of the Logic project into the Bounces folder. So when I hunt around trying...
Tape Flutter
One of my favorite plug-ins in Logic is the Tape Delay Plug-in. Here’s a video on YouTube that shows it in action. Here’s another link to a cool way to get the famous Boards of Canada fluttering sound on keyboards such as electronic piano...
Example of Fusion Music Done by a Single Person
Here’s an example of the earlier mentioned usage of UltraBeat for generating fusion rock patterns: UltraSleep Sample In addition I used Logic’s Space Designer with an aux bus where I routed the drums, the electrical piano and the guitar ...
Fusion drum patterns using UltraBeat
One problem I’ve been struggling with recently is how to generate decent fusion-style rock drumming using drum plug-ins. I’ve tried playing on my keyboard and using various MIDI drum loops, but something was missing about the spontaneous ...
EBow Symphony Sounds
Let’s show some more demos of fun stuff I’m doing in my studio just now. Another idea I had was to test out EBow use with guitars. Here’s a quick dump of a song I started tonight, it’s only 30 minutes of work but you get the i...
My Latest Toy - Line 6 Gearbox Gold
I saw that Line 6 was dumping GearBox Gold kits, they used to be $399, then $199 and now $99. So I ordered one from Amazon. With free shipping this is a steal. I suspect they wanted to dump these kits as they just announced the new USB guitar interfa...
Logic’s Quick Swipe Comping
If there’s one new feature in Logic Pro 8 that is super-useful for singing track and worth learning inside out, it is the quick swipe comping. The singer could sing over and over again track and by having this feeling of just doing takes and no...
Creating Jazz Using Logic Pro’s Take Folder Feature
This was one of those ideas inspired by too much listening to Mike Keneally and Frank Zappa recently. Anyway, just wanted to see how far a totally ad hoc improvisation session could go concerning free form fusion jazz/pop music. What I did was to set...
Recording Guitars and Instruments in Logic, Take Folders
I was working on a cover for Neil Young’s Heart of Gold last night — it’s one of those side projects where I will selects songs I really like, rearrange them and see what happens. Anyway, as part of that I was curious about doing ...
Alan Parson’s 10 Things Everyone Recording Music Should Know
The MusicThing blog posted this very good article where Alan Parson lists 10 things everyone that records music should know. This should be framed and placed in the studio in case it is not obvious. Most of us learn this the hard way, after years of ...
Recording Guitars as Samples
I was reading an article in the October 2008 edition of Guitar Player where Todd Rundgren described how he recorded guitars for his soon released Arena CD. What he said was that his DigiDesign rig was not working (driver problems) when he started the...
Using Automation in Logic
The key to really good productions in any DAW is to master the automation tools. AudioTuts posted today a really good simple introduction tutorial to automation in Logic which I recommend to read in case you are not sure about how it all works. One b...
Logic Pro 8 Tips and Tricks Book
I purchased Stephen Bennett’s book Logic Pro 8 Tips and Tricks from the University of California San Diego bookstore that I visited a couple of weeks’s ago. It’s a cheap book and an easy buy, so I snatched it up and read it during...
Collaboration with other Song Writer Using Logic
Here’s another big benefit with Logic when doing collaborations with other song writers using the same package. As Logic is so deep concerning the provided loops, plugins, sw synths, effects and so forth, we are able to bounce the project bac...
Move Logic Between Disks
Read this thread over at LogicPro Help in case you want to move your Logic setup between disks and you don’t want to reinstall and lose your settings. I usually bookmark such threads using Delicious. If the title has something meaningful, it...
Vocoder Use with Logic
Here’s a good YouTube tutorial concerning how to use Logic’s Vocoder with a bus sidechain. There are so many non-traditional uses for Vocoder, not just the simple voice-animation, sometimes I feel one could spend days exploring vocoder...
Aupresets in Logic Pro
Usually when you work with creating and saving your presets, there are two paths. One is to save the presets using the plug-in’s own preset system, and save them to a known location. This is the cross-platform way, as the plug-in systems are de...
Logic 8 and the Compare Button
This is a feature in Logic that I start to rely on more and more. Basically, when you have saved a project setup with all the synth and plug-in settings, start tweaking on the existing settings. Immediately the compare button is hi-lighted. If you fe...
EQs are a Mixer’s Best Friend
I’ve been recently cleaning up old tracks for the next podcast of my own productions, and usually the first thing I do is to place an EQ on each and every track before even starting to clean up the mix. With Logic Pro it’s so easy, just c...
Track Colorization
Something that was already in Logic 7 (and most DAWs as I know of by now) is colorization of tracks. The handy keyboard shortcut in Logic is option-c. This will open up a palette of colors. If you have one or more regions selected, and choose a color...
