10 December 2022

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If you are lucky enough to have the original old hard drive you created the samples on, and you are able to somehow connect it to your Mac – it will work. But copy the folder of samples to your new drive s and it stops working.

Lots of long standing bugs have never been fixed in Logic, but with every update new bugs are introduced.

Good luck running a session relying on punching into a track. Zoom settings are having random weird problems. They are all excellent and capable DAWs. However, after using Logic Pro X, it is hard to migrate to any other music software. I find myself able to create music with relative ease that the other DAWs just are not capable of. The MIDI capabilities alone are second to none in Logic and the ability to compose music in all styles makes it the best of the best.

Another huge plus is the constant and free updates Apple provides… updates that are really upgrades in the quality and number of plug-ins and soft instruments built into the program. Composing music or just recording a band is easy with this software. Whether you are into acoustic, jazz, electronica or rock, this software package is the best there is and gets updated constantly by Apple. Apple takes this software very seriously and I commend them for their excellence. Of course I lost the edits.

Lesson learned. I am finishing an EP in which I used the Logic drummer for the entire project. Everyone who has come into play on the tracks have asked who is drummer and have been amazed when I explain.

As for me, I DO say I programmed the drums! It is a remarkable feature. It maps samples visually in a way that is incredibly educational in terms of learning how to program drums, and if you wanted to program from scratch it is a great teacher for those who are not as experienced with drum programming, such as myself. I agree with Charles. My comment was more out of jest than anything. Apple and the Logic team have been kind enough to provide us with tons of sounds, presets and loops that are royalty-free.

Your mixes sound really good! The sound reminds me of the Smithereens. Are those live drums? I so want to be able to use Ableton Live Link in connection with LPX Drummer could you imagine the epic jams you could do being able to mix Drummer Live with other people? As such, I will be working on creating my own sample library. Amazing software!

In the Library you should see your currently selected Drummer, and the kit they use. Now click on the Drummer Track Header in the Arrange page. You should see the Track Stack expand to show all the various parts of the kit. Click on Drum Kit Designer to open the instrument. You can also adjust the level of each within the Mixer! I love the drums in logic, excellent work with ease of use and outstanding grooves and feel. It absolutely sounds like a pro session player on your tracks.

For me Drummer seems like a good first try, but it should have been expanded upon by now much beyond where it sits today. I especially miss being able to use mallets. Or is this feature hiding? And I am also surprised that there are only three toms available! And I also have been disappointed in the lack of the ability to create a good and variable hi-hat technique common for example in rock and maybe especially known in disco, where you hit an open hi-hat and then close it.

Some amazing holes in the repertoire. Double-clicking on the icon of the Drum Kit will display more settings. Here you can change the global settings for the whole track, including parameters such as Mix Levels, Compression Amount and Effects. I Love the Drummer feature and use it on nearly every project I work on. Does anyone have any tips on just how to best utilize the algorithm associated with the Follow option?

To me it feels like following the bass track is the strongest option for creating tight grooves. I also use the arrangement tabs to help guide the AI in its initial options. This will be a lifesaver for me since my current album 10 is more folk-rock than folk.

I agree that this is a total game changer. How can I support your work? Is everything really free that you offer? Thanks, David. Chris, Love your page…. Is there a way to add it? I see that there are two hi-hat foot close with a slightly different sound, one hi-hat closed and a hi-hat foot splash. Is there a way to add something to the piano roll? Thanks for your time. Your email address will not be published. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment.

It’s not all gravy, though. The spatial inflexibility of the Toolbar will wind up those using smaller displays. Previously we could fit a ton of buttons into it and hide text or icons to shrink the whole thing down, but now we’re stuck with a very thick bar containing a customisable set of oversized buttons that MacBook users will only be able to fit about odd of on before the overflow menu at the right-hand end comes into play, with no resizing options whatsoever.

Still, at least it can be killed. Track icons, meanwhile, comprise the same nicely drawn but faintly tedious collection of acoustic and electric instruments, and per-pane brightness controls would be welcome, particularly since dark notes on the Piano Roll can get quite hard to see.

All that aside, after an hour or so in X, going back to 9 feels like returning to something from the Atari era – whether or not you see that as a bad thing! The Logic Pro X feature people seem to be talking about more than any other is Drummer, a virtual tub-thumper integrated so deeply into the app as to have its own Track class. And a Drummer is nothing without drums, so it’s accompanied by Drum Kit Designer, a customisable drum kit construction, er… kit.

A team of “some of the industry’s best session drummers and recording engineers” including Bob Clearmountain, no less were drafted in to put it all together, and the results are pretty amazing. As to why three of the five knobs are hidden in a separate Details screen, we can only assume, given that the whole Drummer interface looks like an iPad app, that there are plans to integrate it into Logic Remote see below at some point.

The current region updates its strange triangular note markers in real time to reflect all these changes, and while you can only make changes to a Drummer track region using the controls in the Drummer interface, it can of course be converted to MIDI for full editing. Drummer’s performances are astonishingly lifelike and represent its limited range of genres very well. The15 kits themselves weighing in at 20GB in total sound great, and with Drum Kit Designer enabling mixing and matching of a broad range of drums and cymbals, plus the inclusion of fully mixable multichannel Producer Kit Stacks, complete with overhead and room mics, it all adds up to by far the best bundled ‘live’ drum production setup ever included with a DAW.

It’s all hugely impressive and will more than satisfy the songwriter or drummer-less producer looking to get some real percussive feel into their tracks. For some, though, Drummer will be at its most rewarding when pointed at more interesting sound sources than the relentlessly acoustic ones provided by Apple. We had an absolute riot running it through Battery 4, Microtonic, Tremor and the like.

The equivalent of the macro systems found in other DAWs, Smart Controls enable you to assign up to 12 parameters of your choice from the selected track’s channel strip, instruments and effects both third-party and Logic’s own to a set of MIDI-assignable knobs, sliders and switches wrapped up in a simple GUI housed in the bottom pane.

Assignments can be made ‘intelligently’ by the software or manually; each control can be assigned to multiple parameters,; response curves are fully editable; and all Smart Controls are automatable. As a decidedly ‘Apple’ take on the macro concept, Smart Controls are a resounding success, giving us a clutter-free way to keep key channel and plugin parameters constantly present and instantly accessible. Making the processes of foldering and bussing tracks easier than ever before, multiple tracks can now be nested into fold-away Stacks, of which there are two types: Summing and Folder.

A Folder Stack simply groups the included tracks for unified level control, solo and mute, without affecting their routing in the mixer – like the old Folder Tracks, basically, although they’re still around, too, should you prefer.

A Summing Stack, on the other hand, mixes the output of all contained tracks to a bus, and can record and play back MIDI on its Master track for triggering all MIDI instruments in the Stack – massive collapsible synth stacks ahoy, then. Stacks can also be made within Stacks, and complete Summing Stacks, with all their components and settings, can be saved into the Library as Patches a new format for Logic Pro X for recall at any time. Stacks are similar to Ableton Live’s Groups and Instrument Racks, but once again, Apple has done a great job of realising the concept in its own style.

Whether you just want to gather that string section together in the Arrange page or build the world’s phattest multi-synth pad, you’ll have a much easier and more manageable time of it now than in previous versions of Logic, not to mention most other DAWs.

The presentation is superb, with the notes of the selected clip overlaid in a piano roll on top of the waveform, each note graphically indicating deviation from perfect pitch and accompanied by expression lines showing vibrato and pitch movement. All of the involved parameters – Pitch, Drift, Formant, Vibrato and Gain -are accessed via a set of handles on each note that you just drag up and down to adjust.

It’s hard to imagine a more intuitive system, and even absolute beginners will have no trouble getting to grips with it. It also sounds very good indeed – as long as you don’t stray too far from the original pitch – and while it doesn’t have the toolset to rival Melodyne, it certainly gets the job done.

Crucially, being so easily tweakable, sound designers will have a field day with it. The headline is the well-equipped Arpeggiator, which features all the functions and parameters you’d expect from such a thing, plus both Live and Grid modes for two different styles of triggering. The rest of the line-up includes the self-explanatory likes of Chord Trigger, Note Repeater, Modulator and Randomizer, as well as Scripter, with which you can design your own in code, I hasten to add – this is absolutely not ‘Max For Logic’.

Every one’s a winner, and we look forward to seeing how this new aspect of Logic develops moving forward, as they say.