Apple Logic Pro /LogicExpress Discussion

Howdy,

 First time poster here, so howdy out to everyone! I can’t help you with you
questions,  but I just wanted to chime in, as a noob, to all this recording
stuff, I plan on doing pretty much the same things that you described in
your post. But as a new Logic user, how did you you (have you) found the
learning curve, and are there any books/videos you have used to help you
along? Sounds like a great set up you have there as well, as soon as my new
Mac Pro comes in, I’ll finally be able to play along with my toys as well :D

Thanks Kindly
Dan

Hi everyone,

I've just joined the list and I'm just saying hi.

I'm working in Paris on Logic 7.2.2 on a MacBookPro 17" Intel Core Duo,
using an M-Audio
Firewire 1814 for i/o, a 250GB LaCie drive for backup - so far its all
working great. Its a
very portable rig I put together before leaving my home in Sydney Australia.

I've been teaching myself Logic as I go, [I started on Garageband and just
open up my GB
songs in Logic] got some advice from the LUG, which was great.

In the last 3 months I've made a CD's worth of tracks - instrumental
industrial metal - with
real rhythm guitars, sampled guitars, Logic basses, Ultrabeat drums + apple
loops +
handlaid individual snares/cymbals/kicks.

One of my most common MO's is record myself playing acoustic rhythm guitar
riffs [using
a Sennheiser 416 condenser - I work in the film business and its the mic I
travel with for
location recording] for a long jam, then sift thru the recording and find
something I like,
cut it up and loop it. Sometimes I'll edit up a riff out of individual chord
strums. Then I
write a bass line with one of Logic's basses [some sound pretty good to me,
after 20 years
of playing real basses thru amps!], play it on my little Edirol midi
controller - only then do
I start fiddling with drums. Then I lay in strings, choirs, synths, sampled
distorted guitars
etc.

I make very cinematic FX-oriented intro/outro sections in Soundtrack Pro,
which has heaps
of good Foley and general FX, bounce a stereo AIFF and drag 'em into Logic.

To be honest, I still find GB a very user friendly environment for the early
stages of a track
- recording etc. Then I move to Logic for complicated stuff, software
instruments, FX,
mixing, automation, mastering etc.

A few things I'm struggling:
Templates - I've made quite a few and they all have problems, mostly to do
with setting up
numbers of tracks for recording real audio. Anyway, I find workarounds and
persevere - I
just discovered the Environment window - seems useful for assigning i/o.

Any simple advice of quick/easy template set up will be much
appreciated!!!!!

When I open the mixer window, I spend too much time scrolling back and
forward -
there's all these midi tracks I don't want clogging things up!!

Paul



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