Creative Projects with Logic Audio
- Main page
- Table of contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- How to use this book and CD
- Equipment needed
- The scheme of things
- The CD
- The projects
- Take 1
- Logic s environment
- General MIDI
- Built-in synthesizers and plug-ins
- Chapter 1. MIDI sequencing: make it easy on yourself
- Slow it down
- Break it down
- Cycle record
- To quantize or not to quantize
- Editing get rid of the bum notes
- Chapter Project 1 . some rock n roll piano
- Musical objectives
- Logic skills
- Preparation
- Take 1
- Take 2
- Take 3
- Chapter 2. Get real with MIDI
- Listen and learn
- Learn how to listen
- Get a life Play with others
- Sequencing examples
- Quantization
- Dynamics
- Chapter Project 2 . a rock score
- Musical objectives
- Logic skills
- Preparation
- Take 1
- Take 2
- Take 3
- Take 4
- Take 5
- Take 6
- Take 7
- Take 8
- Take 9
- Take 10
- Take 11
- Chapter Project 3 . a jazz funk score
- Musical objectives
- Logic skills
- Preparation
- Take 1
- Take 2
- Take 3
- Take 4
- Take 5
- Take 6
- Take 7
- Take 8
- Take 9
- Take 10
- Take 11
- Take 12
- Take 13
- Take 14
- The Mix
- Chapter Project 4 . a classical score
- Musical objectives
- Logic skills
- Preparation
- Take 1
- Take 2
- Take 3
- Take 4
- Take 5
- Take 6
- Take 7
- Take 8
- Automated mix
- Chapter 3. Finding and developing ideas
- Finding new ideas
- At the computer?
- Away from the computer?
- Don t doodle
- Developing your ideas
- Know where you are heading
- Keep moving work creates work
- Repetition and variation
- Keep it simple details later
- Review your work less is more
- Chapter Project 5 . a computer game track
- Musical objectives
- Logic skills
- Preparation
- The assignment
- Take 1
- Take 2
- Take 3
- Take 4
- Take 5
- Take 6
- Take 7
- Take 8
- Take 9
- Take 10
- Take 11
- The mix
- Pan settings
- Volume levels
- Reverb settings
- Chorus
- Chapter 4. A look at musical form
- Simple three part forms
- Jazz standards
- Pop songs
- Chapter 5. The building blocks of composition
- The phrase
- Melody
- Harmony
- Rhythm
- Chapter 6. Melody making
- Cell construction
- Musical questions and answers
- Chapter 7. Audio recording
- Recording vocals
- Recording electric guitars
- Recording acoustic guitars
- Recording brass and woodwind
- Recording strings
- From microphone to audio track the signal route
- Chapter Project 6 . a football theme
- Musical objectives
- Logic skills
- Preparation
- The assignment
- Take 1
- Take 2
- Take 3
- Take 4
- Take 5
- Take 6
- Take 7
- Take 8
- Take 9
- Take 10
- Take 11 We record an audio track
- The mix
- Chapter 8. Creating illusions a big band radio jingle
- Audio and MIDI tracks combined
- Chapter Project 7 . a TV sitcom theme
- Musical objectives
- Logic skills
- Preparation
- The assignment
- Take 1
- Take 2
- Take 3
- Take 4
- Take 5
- Take 6
- Take 7
- Take 8
- Take 9
- Take 10
- The Mix
- Chapter 9. Minimalism
- Chapter Project 8 . a minimalist soundtrack
- Musical objectives
- Logic skills
- Preparation
- The assignment
- Take 1
- Take 2
- Take 3
- Take 4
- Take 5
- Take 6
- Take 7
- Take 8
- Take 9
- Take 10
- Take 11
- The final mix
- Chapter 10. Dance music
- Styles and loops
- Constructing a Drum Bass loop
- Chapter Project 9 . Get Creative with Logic jingle
- Musical objectives
- Logic skills
- Preparation
- The assignment
- Take 1
- Take 2
- Take 3
- Take 4
- Take 5
- Take 6
- Take 7
- The mix
- Chapter 11. Knowing the score
- Chapter Project 10 . Score cleanup
- Musical objective
- Logic skills
- Preparation
- The assignment
- Chapter 12. Creative audio editing
- Chapter Project 11 . matching Song tempo to audio
- Musical objective
- Preparation
- The assignment
- Chapter Project 12 . slicing audio for tempo adjustment
- Musical objective
- Preparation
- The assignment
- Chapter Project 13 . trimming Regions and creating fade outs
- Musical objectives
- Preparation
- The assignment
- Chapter Project 14 . using Groove Machine
- Musical objective
- Preparation
- The assignment
- Chapter Project 15 . audio to MIDI Groove Templates
- Musical objective
- Preparation
- The assignment
- Chapter Project 16 . audio pitch shifting
- Musical objective
- Preparation
- The assignment
- Chapter Project 17 . time stretching audio
- Musical objective
- Preparation
- The assignment
- Appendix 1. Instrument ranges
- Appendix 2. Key Commands for Mac
- Appendix 3. Key Commands for PC