Logic Pro for iPad - The Complete Music Production Class

1. IntroductionSkillshare: Are you ready to unlock the full power of music production right from your iPad? Welcome to Logic Pro for iPad, the complete music production course. Whether you're a season Logic Pro user looking to go mobile or you're just starting your music production journey, this course is designed to help you harness the groundbreaking potential of Logic Pro on the iPad. With its intuitive touch interface, portable workflow and robust features, Logic Pro IPad isn't just a scaled down version. It's a fully capable powerhouse for music production. In this course, we'll start with the essentials, how to set up your first project, navigate the interface with ease and explore the browser to find the perfect sounds for your tracks. From there, we'll dive into hands on features like play surfaces, patterns, and plugins. You'll learn to record, mix, and automate your tracks all from the convenience of your iPad. Plus, I'll show you how to create truly unique sounds using tools like sample alchemy and beat Breaker. Once we've mastered the fundamentals, we'll shift into music production mode. You'll create your first full song using step sequencing and software instruments, experiment with scents, loops, and third party plug ins, and even import audio to take your productions to the next level, but we won't stop there. The final sections of this course include an exclusive studio session series where I'll guide you step by step through the creation of a professional quality track from start to finish. By the end of this master class, you'll only understand how to use Logic Pro for iPad, you'll be producing your own songs with confidence, efficiency, and creativity. So, this isn't just a course. It's your ticket to turning your iPad into a fully equipped music studio, and I'll see you inside the Logic Pro for iPad, the complete music production course. 2. Setting Up Your First Project In Logic Pro for iPad: Okay, guys, so in this video, I'm going to show you how you can download the Logic Pro app from the App store on the iPad. So, first of all, let's go to the app store here. Let's search for Logic Pro. And now you can see here, we have the Logic Pro for iPad app. So let's click on it and you can see that this is the Logic Pro for iPad app. So because I already downloaded this app, it has this open button here, but if you haven't opened it up or downloaded it yet, you will have a download button here. So as soon as the app is downloaded, you just click on open here to open the app up. So first of all, we have this welcome to Logic Pro for iPad screen that were greeted with. So let's click Continue. And here you can see professional music creation at your fingertips. So here is basically the payment for the Logic Pro for iPad app. And as you can see, we're having this in Swedish crowns because I'm located in Sweden. But this is around $70 per year and around $7 per month. And if you go to the website of Logic Prof IPad, you can see all of this information here. And let's just scroll down to the pricing. So you can see how much does Logic Pro for iPad cost? Logic Pro for iPad is available as a monthly subscription for just 499 or a yearly subscription for $49. So that is for the US dollar equivalent to this price here. You can also activate a one month free trial after installing Logic Pro for iPad from the app store. So if you're a new user for the Logic Pro for iPad, you will have access to the one month free trial. So it should appear here if you're eligible for the one month free trial. Okay, so I already tried this out, of course, because I use Logic Prof IPad for a while now. So I'm going to show you how to subscribe to the monthly subscription. And as I don't produce with Logic Pro for iPad as my mainly driver, I use the Logic Pro for MAC, actually. So for me, it makes most sense to do the monthly subscription and then maybe cancel it or just have the monthly subscription. It's not that much money, I think. Okay, so let's just click on Start Creating. This is going to show my Apple ID stuff, so I'm going to censor this. All right, so now when we are subscribed, you will have this screen here. Get essential sounds and instruments. Download curated sound packs to explore the full potential of Logic Pro and quickly get started creating music. So you can see we have different packs. They are already available and selected for us. Going to download all of these essential sounds and instruments, I think that they are really good to have and to have, Logic Pro unlocked for you as per default settings, I think that you should have all of these three downloaded. So I'm just going to go ahead and download this. I was going to continue with the notifications here. Now you can see that we have this menu here. We also have this little circle here that shows us the progress of downloading all of the samples and the packs that we selected previously. And you will see all of these things. So first of all, I'm just going to go with new empty project and select tracks and just allow everything, basically, allow the microphone. And here you can see we can choose create new tracks. So this is the same thing as in Logic Pro for the Mac version. So let's just go with Midi for now. And let's create a midi track for us. But that is not the screen that we have open up each time we open up logic Pro. And this is the screen that you're presented with. So here you can see all of your recent project files, and this includes also garage band projects as well. But for now, I'm just having different logic pro projects. I can also see all of the shared projects here. I can also see different locations. So for instance, on ICloud Drive, and here I have all of my files that are currently on my iPad. So this is for the local storage. You can also see recently deleted downloads and all of my tags as well. So this syncs with the Mac version of Logic Pro as well. But first, let's go to recents here, and I'm just going to open up the project that I recently created, the new project here. So here I have my Mini track. Okay, so let's quickly go back to the recent screen that we have. And per default, all of the different logic Pro project files that you create are going to be saved in the ICloudFolder here. So you will find all of your project files in this folder, Logic Pro for iPad under iCloud Drive here. So let's go back here. And here we can see all of the project files again. So if we click Select here, we can select one or multiple different projects. Let's say that I have these ones here, and I can share them, move them, delete them, or do more things with them as well. And if we want to create a new project file, so as you saw before, I just created it from a different screen. But if we here, we go to the plus sign. And this will go back to our default screen here where we can choose what we want to do if we want to create new tracks, live loops or lessons or other stuff like that. So first of all, you can create an empty project, and you can do two things here. You can either create an empty project that are based on tracks or you can create an empty project that are based on live loops. And here's the thing. If you create a new empty project based on tracks, you can also create live loops in that project file. So it's not like you're choosing between those here. It's just going to start with either tracks or live loops. We can still switch between tracks and live loops. So yeah, it doesn't make much sense here, but you just choose whatever you want to start creating with. So if you want to create a new empty project with just tracks, you create on tracks or live loops, click on Live loops. Then on the right hand side here, we have the new project settings. So this is going to choose what settings we want to have in the new project file. So here you have tempo, you have time signature. You also have key signature that you can choose, and you can choose between different sample rates. And this is going to dictate what sample rates you want to use. But you can also just choose the sample rate that you have on your audio interface. So that depends on what audio interface you're going to connect to the iPad. If any, you don't have to do that. You can just use the iPads built in audio interface if you want to. So for this, I'm just going to leave it as it is. I usually work with 44 Khertz, but 48 is fine as well. You can also do higher if you want to, but yeah, you don't need that, actually. So that is it for the new project settings. Let's go to the next view here. So these are lessons here. So basically just like mini tutorials. You can see we have Logic Pro Tour, start a song, Logic Pro for garage band users, for instance, you can also click Show More here, and this will show you a lot of different tutorials that you can use. This is like basically like mini tutorials for different topics in Logic Pro. It's very good to learn even more and even more in depth as well. Underneath that, you have the featured sound packs. So here you can see you have studio pianos, studio basses, electronic drums, and you also have different artists here. And these packs here are chosen by the artists. So if, let's say, I really like Hardwall, let's click it here and you can also read on who he is and you can also see a lot of different information about him. You can get the sound pack. You can also preview the Sound pack here. But you can also see a lot of different sound packs. So you can scroll around here or just click Show Me, and you will see all of the sound packs here. So you can see you have a lot of them. You can choose between artists and producer packs, instrument packs, session player instruments and loops. You have a lot of different things here. You can get very, very inspired, and yeah, you can see basically how different big artists use this Logic Pro as well. Highly recommended to check out this section and just download like, a lot of them, maybe if you have an iPad or iPad Pro that has a lot of storage, then you can download all of them and explore these things very, very recommended. And one more thing that is worth mentioning here is that both the feature lessons and the sound packs are going to change all the time. So it might look different on your system, on your iPad. But for now, it looks like this, and they adding things all the time here, even the tutorial. So let's say what's new in logic pro two dot one. So that is the version that is up to date for now when I'm recording this video. But here you can see that you already have a tutorial about that. So it's very nice to be up to date with the lessons here as well. So for the sound library, same thing here. There's a lot of different artists. So I remember when Logic Pro for iPad was released, there was just like, five, six artists here, and now you can see a lot of them here. So yeah, really nice thing as well. All of these different producers here are not like anyone. They are very, very highly respected in the music industry, and there's a lot of different, like, very, very well known producers as well. So, for instance, you see here, you have yeah, let's say we go to Boys noise. He's a very talented producer and very well known. You can see content more than 240 Apple loops for only this producer here and kids live loop grids and all of that. And you can preview this. So let's do this. Very cool. You can see that he done music for Lady Gaga, Frank Ocean, Asap Rocky, and Mark Ronson, so not like small artist there at all. So Oak Felder, for instance, also a Grammy Award nominated producer. Same thing here. You have 460 Apple Loops, four dram machine designer kits. Let's go to my favorite one here, Hardwell so you can read a lot of him and 400 App Loops, five drum machine designer kits, 100 samples as well. So I'm actually going to get his sample pack here or producer pack, and it's going to download, as you can see it almost like it's downloading its own app inside of Logic Pro. So it's going to download it for us, and as soon as we hit New Project, we're going to see this producer pack in there. I'm going to go out of this. Let's just finish the downloading, but you can actually go out of it. And then finally here at the bottom, you have live loop grids. So this is the premade grids for Live loop section. And these are pre made by different producers or by the team that makes Logic Pro basically. And here you can see the hardware Live Loop grid, and that was the one that we just downloaded for the DJ Hardwall there. So it's already showing here for us. We also have demo songs. So we have demo songs that you can open up. This will be full Logic Pro project files that you can use for, like, exploring and see how they were made on Logic Pro. So very cool thing here as well. For now, you have these two songs, but it might look different when you're opening up Logic Pro because this also changes all the time. Alright, so what we're going to do now is to scroll up, and we're going to create yet another empty project. So we're going to do Tracks project file here, and we're still going to do MDI, so it's going to open up the first Mi track here, we're going to continue on making a song later on here. Okay, guys, that was it for this video. In the next video, we're going to talk about navigating the interface. So let's see you in the next one. 3. Navigating The Interface: Okay, so for this video, I'm going to show you how to navigate the interface in Logic pro for iPad. So here you can see we're in a project file, and you have two control bars in Logic Pro for iPad. You have the upper control bar, and you have the lower one here. For now, we're going to focus on the upper control bar, this one here. So in the upper control bar, you have the transport here, you have the display here, and you have the modes here. And in transport, we go to the beginning, play, record, and cycle mode. In the display section here, you will see where you are in time of the project. So you will have the bars, beats, and so on and so forth. You also have the tempo here, so you can see it's on 115 BPM, and you also have the time signature and the key signature here as well. And then here in modes, you have the counted button and you have the metronome button here. And just as in Logic Pro, you can customize the control bar. So if you go to this settings button here, and instead of going to settings, we going into customized Control bar. And here you can see you can add and take away different buttons. So let's say that I want to rewind, you can see now we have a rewind button. I'm not going to do that. Same thing goes with display, so you can choose transport, display or modes. For the display, for instance, we have position, which is set on beats for now. You can also choose tempo or let's say CPU memory that I always use on because I want to see how the iPad performs when I create something. So let's say that I use a lot of different plugins or sounds or something like that, and then I can see how the CPU performs. So if it goes to the Max, then I know that maybe I shouldn't add a lot of plugins or whatever I do, right? So CPU memory is always on for me. You can also check Midi, for instance, it's going to show you the MDI if it's active or not. So if you have a MDI instrument connected, for instance, to your iPad, you can see when you press and play the MDI buttons, for instance, then you can see that there's activity going on, basically. So I don't use any media instruments for my iPad. Then we go to the modes here. You can see you have sync replace, low lans monitoring, tuner counting, metronome click, and redo help. I usually go with a low latency monitoring because sometimes, actually, when I have a midi keyboard connected to the iPad, then I want something to be played like instant, right? So if I just play something on a midi keyboard, I want that to be synced, very, very, instant. I don't want any latency or any delay or something like that. So if you have a huge project that you're playing in Logic Pro, then sometimes the resources are a bit limited. So that's why you're getting a bit of a latency or a delay when you press a MIDI note, for instance, on a MIDI keyboard. And that medi takes a few milliseconds to go to the iPad, and then you're getting that kind of delay that is not pleasant to work with when you're doing something live or when you're pressing a midi note or something like that. So then in those cases, you want the low latency monitoring. And then when you press that button, it's going to enable kind of mode that disables a lot of different plug ins to don't have that latency at all or don't have that delay at all. So that is why. I'm not going to go in depth in that one, but there's a setting for that as well. So let's go back to our settings here. If you click this button and go to settings here. Then you can see that we have app settings and you also have project settings. So for the app settings and these are global settings. So whatever you choose to do here, enable or disable or something like that, that is going to be affected for Logic Pro app, so it's not project based, right? So it's going to be saved for all of your projects or for this app and this iPad. If you go to the project settings, that is settings that are going to be just for this project, this project that we have open up right now. So if you choose something here, then it's going to be applied only to this project, and as soon as we open up a new project, those settings are going to be different. If you go to the app settings here, then you can see running background switch on to let Logic Pro run in the background while using other apps. So yeah, if you record something and you have to go out of Logic Pro app to maybe go to a different app to record something, if you have this on, then Logic Pro is still going to be run on your iPad. But if you have this disabled, it's going to disable some stuff like recording or something like that, then the process of Logic Pro is going to be stopped whenever you choose a different app. So if you work with a lot of different apps for your music production on your iPad at the same time, then this is good to be enable you have select regions on track selection, select track on region selections and other stuff like that. Audio, here is a very good and important thing to know about that input and output. So here we have inputs. This is whatever comes into the iPad. So here we have the iPad microphone, and this is because we don't have anything connected to the iPad as of now. So it's going to choose the built in iPad microphone for that. But if we have something, you can just click here and this would bring up a list of different inputs. So you can connect different inputs with the USBC port on your iPad or a lightning port if you're still on the older iPads. Same thing here, output speaker. So if you have an audio interface connected to your iPad, then you will have to select that here. So you just click it here, and then you will see that audio interface showing up here. But for now, it's going to just show output speaker. This is because this is going to be the built in speaker of this iPad. You can microphone top omnidirectional, so you can also set the desired microphone orientation of the built in microphone. That's pretty cool to use as well. You also have the IO buffer. So if you're doing different stuff like recording or recording live, let's say you have microphone vocals or stuff like that, then you should have this to the highest sample setting because that is going to use the CPU in the best way. But if you're doing medi notes or other live stuff that you don't want any delay on it, then you set it to the lowest setting here 64 samples. Yeah, but that is a latency delay kind of discussion that I don't think it's going to make sense to have a lot of here for discourse. But you can watch my Logic pro course where I'm going more in depth of these kind of ao buffer sizes and other stuff like that for Logic pro. You also have input gain, and let's see a general software monitoring auto freeze. So when Auto freezes turn on, Logic Pro freezes available tracks in order to avoid system overloads. This is a very nice thing to have on as well. So you don't want to have all of your tracks enabled all the time if you're working with huge project files. So if you have that, then your logic pro is going to lag and be very hot and maybe you can't really play anything more in the project. So to avoid that, you can have auto freeze, and that is going to freeze some tracks automatically that is not used as much. So what that does is that it actually creates like an audio file a temporary audio file of that track, so it won't use that much CPU resources. And here we have low latency monitoring mode, the same thing as we have the bottom four in the control bar here. Recording, you can choose file types, cycle, stuff like that. Mini. So here you can also set Bluetooth medi devices. So if you have anything that connects through Bluetooth instead of the USB C port, then you can choose it here as well. Automation, move track automation with regions, decide how existing automation data on a track is handled when moving underlying regions. View. Here you can choose whether regions can be colored individually or follow the color of the track. Also, cool thing to just play around with if you want to individual or as track color. If you take a brief look at the project settings here as well, you can see general, only load plugins needed for project playback, also a nice thing and should be enabled by default, I think, audio sample rate. This is something that we choose when you create a new project as well. Recording, counting, you can have counting, but you can also choose by the button, flex, flex and follow, stuff like that, we're going to go more in depth later on in the course, of course. But yeah, you have the settings for that here as well. Synchronization. I think you should leave this on if you're not looking for a specific thing that you want to do with synchronization. Metronome, you have the metronome basically in what node, velocity, and stuff like that. So same thing here, I think you should leave this by default. Same thing with the tuning here as well. We go out of the settings here, you can also see that you have a question mark sign. And here you can see you have lessons. So these are the same lessons as I showed you before. You also have Logic Pro help. So what this does is that it's going to go to Safari and we have the full Logic Pro manual here, basically. So you can dig in, like, very, very in depth with the software. You can also download the full instruction manual. So let's go back here to the app. You can also see what's new in Logic Pro, service and support, and you can also send feedback. And on the left hand side, you also have the browser. So to reveal the browser, you go to the spot on here, now you can see browser. So here in the browser, you can see different patches. You can see loops, samples, plug in presets, patterns, and you can also get more sounds. You can also add your own sample folders here as well. So you go to instrument patches. Then you can see that you have a lot of different patches here for different instruments. You can also pre listen all of these. So if you just click on one of them here. So there is a cool way to just listen to the different presets or instrument patches that we have here. We can also sort all of these patches because there's a lot of them here. So you can sort by just categories, drums, and percussions or stuff like that. You can also go here to have a full filter list of all of these patches. We're going to cover the browser more in depth in a later video. Then on the left hand side here or actually center side, you have the tracks area. And this is the section of the app where we create our song. So we can add regions, we can add tracks here. We also build our arrangement here, and we add audio files, audio samples, or other stuff like that. So we build our song here in the tracks area. Now, let's go to the bottom side here, and this is the lower section of the control bar. And here we have a lot of different buttons that are going to make your life easier in Logic Prof iPad. So the first button here, we have the browser button, so you edit and you can open the browser with this button. Then we have these two buttons. So the first one here is going to be the inspector or as the inspector section in Logic Pro, and this is one single mixer track of the selected track. Then we have these three buttons here. So first one is the editor. So if you click on this, it's going to show us the audio editor for now because this editor is dynamic. So it's going to show us whatever we have selected. So let's go to the lead vocal here, right? So now you can see that this one is selected, and this is the audio editor. So we can edit audio here basically because this is an audio track. So if we just click out of this and go to something with MDI, let's say this one here, glass piano, we select that, we go now to the editor, and now we can see the piano roll here. So this is because we have MTI data, basically. So it makes the most sense, of course, to have a piano roll then. So that is why we have the piano roll for this track. So this is the editor. And then we have the next button here, which is the plug in area button. So here you can see the plugins that are selected for this track that we have selected here. So you have a region selected now, and this is in this track. So it's going to show us the plug ins for this track because we have this track enabled now. So let's enable a different track. Then we have the plug in for this track. I'll scroll up a bit. And now you can see, for instance, for the base track, we have these plug ins for this one track. So this is cool and all. What if you go to the editor and now we have the audio editor here. We also have the plug in area, right? We can only see that we have the base track enabled here and nothing else. So let's say that we have too many of those. We can just go with the buttons here and we're here. But we can also do something else. We can just double tap the empty area here to just get rid of everything, and now we're back to arrangement. Let's go back to the plug in area here. So let's click on it. And now you can see all of these plugins. But this view here is in the full plugin. It just shows you the most essential things that you want to change maybe in each plugin. But if you want to see the full plugin and all the parameters of that plugin, you have to double tap the plugin. And now you are inside of the plugin, so you can see all of the parameters for the plugin. So let's go back here. Let's go, for instance, with the FAD Effects. You can see the full plug in for this one. Okay, so let's go out of this. And the next pattern that we have here is the mixer button. So here we can see the full mixer of this project. So you can also click this button here to resize the mixer if you want to because sometimes you're only doing mixdowns and yeah, you can do something like this. You can also scroll up here to see all of the plugins that are on each track. But we're going to go more in depth in a later video for that one as well. And let's take a look at the last button here. So if you go out of the mixer, you have this button here. This is the play surfaces button. So if you click here, you will have something that you can play on. For now, we're in an audio track, so it's not showing us anything, but let's go back to our mini track. So let's take this glass piano and click it here now. Now we have a piano here or something that mimics a piano, right? So now we can play it. So now we can play that tracks plug in an instrument that is on. All right, guys, that is it for this video. In the next video, we're going to take a look at mastering the browser on the iPad. So see you in the next one. 4. Mastering the Browser on iPad: Y. So in this video, we're going to talk about the browser in Logic Pro for iPad. I'm just going to put away the keyboard and now go to the browser here. And here you can see we already at the instrument patches, but I'm going to go back here. So now we're at the browser here. And here you can see, we have instrument patches, audio patches, loops, samples, plug in presets, patterns, and you can also get more sounds. So depending on what track you have selected in the arrangement here, you will get different things to add from the browser. So first of all, let's go to the instrument patches here. We're going to take a look at that first. So what is an instrument patch? An instrument patch is an instrument with instrument itself, effects, and the routing settings that controls the sound of a software instrument track. So I'm going to create a new track, first of all, so I'm going to go back here. Our project selector here, I'm going to create a new empty project, a new tracks empty project. I'm going to go with Mini here. And now I have this instrument patches. I can just look for different things here. I can also sort them by categories and I can also bring the filters here so I can see all of the filters for the instrument patches. So for instance, if I go to maybe Future Rave pluck, I can preview them like that if I click on a little icon here. I can also drag my finger here if I want to preview multiple different sounds. Great for quick browsing and the previewing the different sounds, because there's a lot of sounds here, and it can be a bit bothersome to just click one of the sounds. So you can just do like this. So let's say that we want to use this lead sound here. Let's click on that one. Now it's loaded to the track that we have selected here. So now we can just bring up this one here and play. I want an octave lower, so I can just click here. Let's say that we want to browse some more specific categories. So if I go here to the filters, let's go with the base sound, electronic one, and maybe percussive as well. Let's look what we have here. Okay, so we have three sounds here that are exactly the categories that we have. We also have partial matches, so these are kind of almost what we're looking for. Uh Then you can also go back to the browser here and we have audio patches, which we don't have any installed for now. We also have loops. So these are the Apple loops. So these are the apple loops that are installed that came with Logic Pro for iPad when we downloaded the software and also the other sounds that we downloaded later on. So if you want to, you can add different sounds here as well to the Apple loops. Samples, same thing here. So these are audio samples, basically. Plug in presets. Well, here it's going to be shown when we have a plug in enabled here. And then it's going to show different presets for that plug in. So it's not relevant for now, but I'm just showing you very simply here. Patterns, same thing here. If you have a pattern open up, it's going to show a preset for the pattern here as well. Get more sounds so you can get more sounds here, the same thing as we did before. So can also see now we have a recently used. So these are the sounds that we recently used and it's going to show here, so you don't have to browse for different sounds or anything else that you browse in the browser here. If you're using something a lot, then it's going to be here in recently used. You can also add sample folders. So these are going to be your own sample folders, and you can arrange them and organize everything like that by yourself here. Okay, guys, that is it for this video. In the next video, we're going to take a look at how to choose different sounds. See you in the next video. 5. Choosing Sounds: So just as I showed you in the previous video, you can go to the instrument patches here and choose different sounds. You can do that with the other things as well. So let's say that you have Apple loops and you want to preview different sounds. You just click on the icon here and just pause like that to pause the sound. You can also just quickly browse through the different presets or different sounds. By swiping and then just take away your fingers like that. You can also create new tracks with the loops or anything that you have in the browser. So let's go to the instrument patches for now. And we have this track selected here. This is a software instrument track. So here, if I want to replace this software instrument with another instrument patch that we have here, I can just click on it. And that is going to replace whatever track we have selected here. You can also take the track and drag it like this, and you can see replace with patch. So that is essentially going to do the same thing here for us. We can also create a new track. So if we want to, let's say, we want to have this lead here, this bit bot vox lead, A. Let's just select it, drag it. And now you can see create new track with patch when I do that underneath this track. So this is going to create a new software instrument track with this preset on. So you can create new tracks. You can also go back here to let's say loops, and let's say that we find a loop sound. Let's say we want this writer to be here, and we can just take this, drag it in here, create new instrument track, so that's going to create a new track for us. It also asks us if you want to create this new track with sample alchemy or quick sampler, drum machine designer. I'm just going to do the sample alchemy for now. And now I can also play this because this is a sampler. But that is not the case for this sound because this is a riser, of course, but you can also place this sound. So this created a new track for us, right? But we can also do this because this is a loop. Just drag it right in here and this also underneath. And that is going to create a new track for us. This is going to create an audio track for us. So here you have a software instrument track with the audio loop in it. So therefore, it asks us if this should be a sampler or if this should be something else. But if you drag it right to the arrangement here as a region, like it did here, let's do it again here instead of here. You can see here, create new instrument track. But here it's going to create an audio track for us because this is pure audio. So there is something that you can do with the browser, as well. But let's go to the lead sound here. So as soon as we drag in something from the browser or an instrument patch, in particular, then we can go to the plug ins here, and we can see what plugins this track currently contain. So here we have Alchemy plug in. So let's see what this sound is and let's just play it here. A You can also do the different variations, just as in Logic Pro for Mac. We can also do something that I really like to do is to just browse around different samples while I'm playing in it. So let's take away everything here. Let's go to instrument patches. I'm going to have one track selected here, and I'm going to bring up the keyboard. So now I can just browse through these different instrument patches as I play them. And I really like these kind of trans vibes here. So I want to look for different audio samples that came with the HardwallPack. And I can do that. I go to let's say here, if I go to the loops and hit the search button here, now you can see it's search loops. So I can actually just type in Hardwell because that was the sample pack that we downloaded. So you can see here Hardwell it's his name. So now you can see, these are all of the loops that came with that pack. But I can still add more filters here. So let's say that I want something, let's say, I want the drums that came with this pack, and I also want toppers only. So no kick drums, just the toppers, basically. Cool. So I'm going to delete delete this track, delete this track as well. I'm just going to do a very, very simple basic arrangement. Not an arrangement, but I'm going to just choose some different loops here. So I want this one here. Now I want a kick drum, so I'm going to delete the stopper. I'm going to go with kick. That is a cool kick drum. Just drag it in like this. 'Cause I want this to be cycle track on. And now I can just browse through these Apple loops and choose whatever feels good to me when I'm playing the track. That that Okay, so there's not only drum loops here but also different sounds that we really don't want here. So I'm just going to go with Topper again. Browse through something here. Alright, very cool. Now, let's choose something more melodic here. So let's go with melody here. Let's listen to it, how it sounds with these sounds. As you can see, it's very easy to be very creative here and there's endless possibilities with the different sounds that comes here with Logic Pro. And even though there are kind of pre made sounds because they are, you can still do different customization to them so they sound unique. Okay, so that is it for this video. In the next video, we're going to take a look at hands on with play surfaces. See you in the next video. 6. Hands On With Play Surfaces: Okay, so in this video, we're going to talk about play surfaces in Logic Pro for iPad. So here you can see we have the first track on this project here, and this is just a piano, basically, nothing complicated going on. So what you can do here is that you can use your iPad as a mini controller for Logic Pro itself. So to enable this play surface, you just go to the play surface pat on here, and now it's going to show per default the keyboard here. So with the keyboard, of course, you can just play like a regular keyboard. You can also choose different play surfaces. So if you go to this button here, then you can see that we have different play surfaces. So here we have keyboard. We also have drum pads. It might not make sense for this instrument, but it might do that for drum instruments, for instance. Let's go and choose an under one. This is the fretboard. So fretboard is kind of like playing on a guitar. You can also bend notes and stuff like that. Let's go to the next one is the chord strip. So here we have different chord strips. We're going to cover that later on, but chord strips just play different chords. We also have guitar strips. That's essentially the same thing as the chord strips, but it does make more sense here for some guitar or string instruments. Let's go back to the keyboard. Okay, so I want to try different other sounds with the play services. So if you go out of here and we're going to create a new track here. So to create a new track, you basically just go to the browser, and we're going to do instrument patches and drums. So I'm looking for some kind of drums here, a kick drum, maybe. Yeah, let's do that. So let's just play it first. Yeah, I want a simple kick drum. So I'm going to drag it in here and create a new track with patch. So now I have this kick drum on here, and let's say that I want to play this kick drum, right? So I just bring up the play surfaces. And this kick drum is now going to be played in different set pitch. So if I just go to one octave lower here, You can also resize the meta keyboard here. So if you just go like this, you can also get double, as you can see here. But you can also resize it like that. So this makes sense to not go over different octaves. You can just put it on zero here, and now we have one octave here and one lower octave here. So you don't have to do the minus one thing here or plus one thing. You can just have two like that. So that is very cool. Okay, so let's do something else here. Let's go to the scale button. And now you can activate scale. So I'm going to show you what that is all about. If you activate this, now it looks a bit different. So here you can choose what root note you want it to be and what scale. So for now, it's set to C major. So what that means is that everything here, whatever I play here, is going to be set in the C major scale. So it's going to sound good. But it doesn't make sense for a kick drum, right? Because a kick drum, you only play it in, yeah, one note basically for the full song. So I'm going to go back here to the deluxe classic piano sound. It's enable to scale here, and let's do C major. Actually, let's change to something else here. Let's go with an F F minor, maybe. Yeah, let's do F melodic minor. So now if I play a chord or like two or three notes here at the same time, it's going to sound good. It's going to be a good chord progression. So everything here is going to be played in F melodic minor. So that is very nice if you don't know music theory or you just want to create chords very quickly. That sounds good. You can do that with the scale option here. So this is a very cool thing to use and to just be very creative with this. And as you can see, it's also velocity sensitive. So if we play it harder, it's going to be played louder, basically. I'm also going to show you something else here. So let's get out of this. And we're going to create a new track here. So let's do an eight oh eight kick drum. So let's just search on eight oh eight. And now it says to get more in sound libraries. I'm going to download that. So Ultimate eight oh eight. There's a pretty cool sample pack here with all of the eight oh eight drums and different sounds that is being played in all hip hop tracks and other similar tracks like that. So let's go out of here now. Let's click on Done. And now we have a lot of different eight oh eight things here. So you have 808 bases, and we also have different kick drums, so very, like deep sounding kick drums. Let's do this one. So I'm going to replace it. So if I have it selected here, I only have to click it here to have it replaced. So now if I go back here, we have this kind of very deep sounding kick drum sound. So let's go back to scale activate scale, and let's do G. Yeah, let's do G major here. So Let's resize this. Let's do one octave lower. So everything is going to be sounding in tune here. So yeah, that is a very cool thing because everything is going to be in the key of G majoring or so. So resize it back. All right, so let's record something here. So I'm going to record this kick sub deep crunch kiktrm. I'm just going to change the notes here to something more kind of in a hip hop genre, so I'm just going to go with C Sharp, natural minor. Let's do that. Let's do some different tempo here, so 130. It's now set to 130. So let's record this. Et's quantize this. So let's go to the inspector and quantize one eighth note. Now it should be quantized here. Okay, we have to select this region, so go back here to quantize. Let's choose one eighth note, and now it's quantized. 7. Even More Hands On With Play Surfaces: Okay, so I'm going to choose a different instrument here. So I'm going to delete this track, and let's do something else. So let's go, let's go to the instrument patches. Let's do a synth, and I want to lead sound. Yeah, there's a lot of EDM kind of sounds here, so it might not fit for the hip hop sounds, but yeah, let's do something anyway. Let's try this one. Et's do the same thing, so activate, C sharp, natural minor. O.'s edit here, show an editor. Now you can see this little note here was very small, so I'm going to resize this just zoom in like this. Now I can see that you can drag this out a bit. Let's do that. Okay, so I want to quantize this as well. Let's go back to the inspector, have this selected one eighth note. Okay, so now I want to create a core pro for this song, as well. So because we know now that we want to do something in C sharp minor, then we can also set the time signature and the key signature here for this song to be in that key. So we just go to this one here, C Sharp. Let's do C sharp minor here. And now our project is set to C sharp minor. So now every kind of tool and other stuff like that is going to be set to C sharp minor automatically for us. So let's go back here. And now let's go to the chord strips. So here you can see it's now set to C sharp minor. So whatever we're going to play here is going to be sounding good here. So So that actually sounded better than this sound that we did. So I'm going to ditch this. I'm going to delete it. And now let's recreate this sound with the corporations. That was not what I was looking for, so let's redo it. I can delete this region. I can also just record, but I want to delete it just to make sure that it's not there. So let's redo this. Cool. So now everything is in sync and we have the corporation that sounds very good. And this is all without knowing anything about music theory at all. I just played along with what buttons were there for me. Now, let's create some drums. So I'm going to add a new instrument with this plus sign here, and I'm going to go with pattern. So let's do that. So now let's go to patterns here. And we can see drums and we have drum machines. So let's go to drum machines, and I'm going to maybe choose this one. Let's see what this is all about. So I'm going to solo this track. And of course, we have to go try this region here. All right, so let's do this. I'm going to delete this region. And now let's go to the play surface button. So I'm going to take with the editor and just have this. So now you can see we have different pads set up here because this is a drum machine. So let's resize this. We have it in full size. So as you can see, there's a lot of different instruments and pads here. I can also press on the scroll button, and this will make it that we can scroll. But this is play, so now I just hit whatever drum pad I want to hit to play that sound. Okay, so let's add something here, so I'm going to make this smaller and go to scroll. Okay, so I'm going to add hyatt, so Let's just play that for now. Okay, so I want to add something like that, so let's record. All right. So let's quantize this, of course. Let's redo that to the one 16th notes. Okay, so I want to make this arrangement a bit bigger. So let's do something like this to add four more bars here. And what I can do here instead of just copying these regions is to loop them, of course. So if I have a region enabled here, I can hit this loop button, and now you see you have this loop icon here, so I can just drag it out to loop that region. I can do that with all of the regions. I'm going to do that, so I have a bit longer arrangement here. Okay, that was it for this video. In the next video, we're going to talk about the beat breaker. 8. Beat Breaker: Okay, so in this video, we're going to talk about the beat breaker in Logic Pro on the iPad. So the beat breaker is a brand new audio effect for Logic Pro on the iPad, and the beatbeaker can break up incoming audio and reorder it for some very creative results. So to use the beatbreaker plug in, we need to do it with audio. So I'm going to create some Apple loops, and I'm going to create a very, very short track here. So let's just delete everything that we had earlier on. Let's delete this track as well. And let's create a new track, an audio track. I want to delete this track as well. And now let's go to the browser here. I'm going to look for loops. And let's take a look at hip hop here. So I want some more sounds here. Let's do B tape Hip o pack. And I also want flex and flow chill hipopack. Let's go back here, and I need to wait until this is downloaded here. All right, so we have our sounds downloaded, and now you can see we have a lot of different hip hop beats and synths and a lot of different sounds here. So let's do Synth for now. State this base sound. The added audio file contains tempo information. Do you want to import it into this project? So yes, I want that. I don't want it to be played at 1:30 BPM. I want it to be played at 80 5:00 P.M. As it says here for the Apple loop. So let's import that, and now you can see it automatically changed it for 80 5:00 P.M. I'm also going to do the cycling mode to only wear this loop piece. So let's play this track, and I'm also going to search for different Apple loops. Okay, so I have a very, very simple song here, and I'm going to do the beat breaker plug in now for this one, because this kind of synth sound and a lot of melodic things are going on here. So let's do that. So let's choose this track here. And go to our plug ins. And now you have a plus sign here for the audio effect. So let's add a new plug in, and I'm going to go with multi effects and beat breaker. So now we have the beatbeaker set on this track. So as you can see, we have different presets here. I'm going to double tap the beatbreaker plug in to get the full version of it. Go out of the browser, so we have more space. So what the beat Breaker plug in does, it basically rearrange the sound a bit with different patterns or if you do something manually here. So here you can see you also have a row where you have different presets. So these are basically presets with different patterns that you can use and just try and experiment with different presets. You can also set it manually here. So for now, we have it set on custom, and this means that it's going to be playing whatever we have set here. So, as you can see, this line is going diagonally right now. So this means that it doesn't do anything at all for this plug in right now, but we can play it so we can see. We can still see a waveform going on, so the plugin is on. So here as you can see, this one is the waveform is showing us vertically. So this is the input buffer. So this is what comes into the plugin. And here we have the main editor area. So this is basically where you edit your presets or your patterns. It also shows you the waveform of the output sound. So this is the input sound. This is the output sound. This is the sound that comes out of the plug in. It's going to show you a waveform of that. All right, so enough talking, I'm just going to try these different presets here, and let's take a listen to how it sounds. I So as you can see, you can manipulate the sound a lot here, but not too much. So it's still the same sound, but it makes the sound very unique. So this is a very, very cool pug and that's why I wanted to do a separate lecture about this. A lot of things can be done here, and you can also do custom and change manually like this. And you can also do different settings here as well. You can do repeat, for instance, so it's going to repeat the sound like four times. You can also set different volumes. Very cool. Okay, guys, that was it for this video. In the next video, we're going to talk about patterns in Logic Pro for iPad. See you there. 9. Patterns: Alright, so I showed you in the previous video that we have some different patterns here, but you can also do your own patterns. So if you go to the pencil button here, now you can see you have a different arrows or actually an arrow up arrow down on each preset. So if I want to do my own pattern, I can just go to one of these and just press. Here. And now we have a menu. So you have rename pattern. If you want to rename this pattern, you can copy save pattern, save pattern ***. So let's say that you have this preset, this pattern, and you want to do some different like to tweak this pattern and do your variations, your own variations. And let's say that you liked what you did, you can save that. You can also rename that to, let's say, your own favorite pattern or something like that. Let's say that you don't want to have that. You start tweaking this and you want it to go back, then you can just recall default. And what that does is that it makes it go back to what it was before. And not only that, here are some presets, right? But there's a lot of different presets come with Logic Pro for iPad. So if you just scroll down here, you can see a lot of different presets. So default, basic, you can see there's a lot of presets, gait, a lot of presets that you can use here. Pitch shift and so on and so forth. So let's try out some different patterns. Let's go to maybe vinyl. Let's do some pop and Lock. Let's try that. As you can hear, it can be very, like crazy with different presets. So let's try something else. Let's do maybe stutter. Let's try that one. So a lot of different things. One thing that I really like with this plugin is side chaining. So you can do side chaining here with a preset. So let's go to gate, and now we have side chain. So you can do different side chains. You can do a deep side chain, going into duck the sound for the kiktrum very deeply, like, longer, basically or shorter. So let's do something like this and try this. Yeah, it doesn't fit that much for this kind of sounds, but they are very good for electronic dance music, EDM, or something like that. Then the side chain presets are going to be very, very nice. Just a side chain slope, maybe. It's not too bad. You can do also mix here. So let's do something like 70%. And this means that the 70% of the sound is going to be affected by this plug in and 30% are not going to be affected. So this might be for side chain, for instance, it's not going to be affecting the sound that much, so it's going to be more subtle. Yeah, that sounds a lot better. Alright, so let's get out of the edit patterns button here. And I'm going to show you the slices. So you can see you have each flag here for the ending of the slice. So I can just touch one of the slices and just drag it like this. You can also create new slices. So if you just click on the area above the editor, you can also delete one of the slices if you double click it like that. And as I showed you in the previous video, we also have different edit modes. So you can edit time here and you can also do repeat and volume. So for side chains, you can see the volume is going here. So if I want a shorter side chain, for instance, I can just drag this here, and now it's going to be shorter. Let's do a very long side chain. Sounds good, but let's do the mix to 100% now. Yeah, that doesn't sound that good at all, but let's leave it for now. I'm just going to do a custom pattern for us now. Then we also have this menu here, so we can choose the length, D click, bypass below, and mix. So let's do length here. And let's do, for instance, eight bits. So it's going to be double the length that we have now. Let's do some presets. Then you also have the D click. So the decliq is basically that it takes away click sounds that comes when you're doing the editing. So at the end of each slice, if you do some kind of slope things, then it's going to be a click sound because the waveform is kind of break down. And if you do D click, it's going to reduce the click sound when that slice is ending. So there is a really cool thing as well. So if you hear like a click sound, you can go just increase this decliq amount. And then you also have the mix. So the mix is, as I showed you before, it's how much amount of the plug in that you want to play. So let's play it and you're going to hear what this sounds like. Mmm. Alright, guys, that was it for this video. In the next video, we're going to create unique sounds with sample alchemy. So see you in the next video. 10. Create Unique Sounds with Sample Alchemy: Okay, so for this video, we're going to take a look at a new very cool and exciting plug in, which is called sample alchemy. And sample alchemy is a sample based instrument that allows you to resynthesize samples into full playable instruments. You use the plugin by loading samples from the browser or from other places as well. Okay, so here I have a new project, and this is the software instrument track that I added on here. And now I want to go to the plug in area. I have to go out of the play services, and now you can see I have this plugin on. So I want to add a new plugin. So let's first delete this plug in here. So I do that by holding the plug in that I have on and remove. So now I can add a new instrument. So let's do that instrument. As you can see, I have sample alchemy as my reason because I used it earlier on, but it is under sampler and sample alchemy. So now I have the plug in open up here in this track. And to load some sounds here, you can see I can drag a sample or loop here. So let's go to the browser and I'm going to choose loops. And now I want to do some melodic kind of instrument. Can load it with whatever I want to, but the best kind of sounds that works with sample alchemy is kind of melodic sounds. So what I'm going to do here is to do a synth maybe or some kind of voice. Let's do this. So I'm going to drag this in to the sample alchemy plugin. And now it's loaded into the plugin. And now to see the full plug in, I just double tap it like this. And now I have the full sample alchemy plug in open up with the sound loaded. I'm going to resize this so I can see the full plugin. You can see the waveform of the sample or the loop that we added in here. You can also see a blue circle kind of pulsating thing here going on. This is the handle. And what the handle does is that I can interact with the sound that is inside of sample alchemy. So what this handle does is that I can listen to the sample in a different time here. So let's try this. So if I want to play this sound, I can do that. If I go into the play surface, now I have it being played from wherever the handle is set. So you can see it's by pitch right now. So if I play a note, it's going to be pitched. And it's also polyphonic, so I can do a chord here. And it's going to be played from the start where the handle is. So if I move the handle, it's going to be played from here now. And now you can see in the classic mode here. So you have different modes for sample alchemy as well. For the classic mode is just going to play us where the handle is set. So that is going to be the start point of the sample that you play. Then you have different edit modes here. So you have play. You also have motion, and you have trim. So trim, for instance, you can trim different parts. You can take away some different parts from the sample. If you don't want to, have them there. And with motion, you can play in different movements of the sound. You can see it here. So you can also go backwards, so. That's pretty cool, so let's clear that for now. Let's go back to play. So now we have five different play modes here. We have it on classic for now, and each play mode is unique for the different movement of the sound where the handle is. So for the classic mode, as I told you before, it's just going to start the sample where we have the handle set. And if I go to the loop section, now you can see I have two handles, and this is going to be played from where the handle is set, the A handle to the second one. And that part is going to be looped all the time. So let's just move this. Kind of strange sounds, right? But yeah, it's cool thing to use the loop and classic modes. You can also reverse it. So let's put this here. That is going to reverse our sound. So where you set the A handle is going to be the starting point, of course. And then when you set the next handle, that is going to be the end point of this looped kind of region here. You can also do different layers here off the loop. So if we go to the B here, B section, then you can see that we have a new handle, right? Let's move this B to somewhere else here. So now it's going to be played simultaneously. So if I press one of the notes. So there you can do different layers of this loop mode. So let's go to the next play mode. We have scrub. So with scrub, it's going to basically just play what is at the A and B handle or just a handle, if we want that. And yeah, it sounds pretty strange, but let's try it. So it's just going to be played at that point and looped in a very, very short period of time. Then we also have the bow mode, and this is going to emulate, like, a string instrument where you can bow on string instrument. So it's going to be, like, moving forward and backwards. And yeah, let's try it. And for the last section here, we have the RP. So what ARP is going to do is it's going to play each source that we have here. So if you have different handles, let's say that we add B handle, set it there, C handle there, and a D handle as well. Here. So now if I play, it's going to be A, B, C, D being played. Or let's just do D. Okay. And then we also have a mixer here so we can turn up and down the different handles, basically. So let's say that I have this one on a very high volume and I want the A to be a bit louder. Just do it like this. Or like this. So as you can see, you can be very creative with sample alchemy. Yeah, I can sit with this for hours and hours and just play with different sounds and instruments, and you can come up with a lot of different unique sounds here. Okay, guys, that is it for this video. In the next video, we're going to talk a bit about the mixer in Logic Pro for iPad. So see you there. 11. The Mixer: Okay. So in this video, we're going to take a look at the mixer in Logic Pro for iPad. You might be a bit surprised about how powerful the mixer is in the Logic Pro for iPad app. And you can see all of the things in the mixer channel strips. This includes buses, plug ins, effects, media effects, and other stuff like that. So let's go to the mixer. We have the mixer open up here, Let's do this a bit bigger and close our browser. And now you can see we have the plug ins being set at the top. We can also scroll through here. So for this instrument, let's say, we have sampler. We have it set to stereo output, so this is the output channel. Then we have the plug in. So this is the effet plug ins that we have. And then you have read or whatever mode you're in for automation. So you have the panning knob here. You also have the volume meter and you have the volume pan. So you can just do the voluming here basically. Then you have mute button, you also have a solo button, and you have a record button. And the record button is set for audio tracks. The mixer is full fledged and shows channel strips and auxiliaries just like on the Mac version. So what I'm going to do here is that I'm going to go out of the mixer, and I want to do some cycling through a bit of the song that a lot of tracks is being played at the same time. So I'm going to resize this cycle. Let's just do it here, maybe just so I don't have to play and pause and go back each time. It's going to loop this section for us now. So let's go back to the mixer, and now we're here in the mixer. You can also filter out different things in the mixer. So let's say that you don't want to see the pan knob or some other things here, you can go to the filter button here. And now you can see software instrument, audio auxiliary, and other stuff like that are selected. You can deselect them. So let's say that we don't want to see the auxiliary and don't want to see the output and VCA master. So now, these things are not being shown. So we can go back to that. And for the click and preview, it's just going to show us a separate track with the metronome and the preview. So if you want that to be set, you can have that on. But this is nothing that I would recommend to use, but yeah, it's there. But the thing that I always deselect from this filter here is the VCA and master. And why do I do this? It's just because if we go here to the far right section, now you can see we have the stereo out channel and we have the master channel, which is also called stereo out. But here with the stereo out channel, we can add different processing to the overall sound, right? So we have the limiter, and we can add on different plug ins. But if you have this one on VCA Master, it's going to show us one more track. And you can see this is basically the same thing as the stereo, but you can't do anything here. You can't add any affexs or anything like that to this channel strip. So I usually just hide this channel because we can't really do anything. And this is another place to make a mistake or something like that, like make this volume a bit higher or lower, and then you can't really figure out why it's clipping and other stuff like that. So I always deselect this master channel, the VCA master channel. This should be deselected by default. I don't know why they have it enabled, but they do. And this is the same thing for the Logic Pro for Mac. So I always deselect that one and just have the stereo out put there so I can't do the mistake by, as I showed you before. Okay, so then we have some buttons here at the top of the mixer that you should be aware of. So first, if you go to the setup mode, so let's just press the plus sign. Now you can see you have a plus signs on different things. So now you can add different let's say plugins. This is for the fixes, audio fixes. And you can add sends here. Also add different things depending on what kind of track you have. So here you can see you can also add media fixes like that, for instance, if you go back to the mixer setting here, then you can't really add in anything, as you can see, so you can just mix and adjust your parameters like that, and then you can add different things if you want to with the setup mode. But you can still open up plugins here. So let's say that I go to the compressor. Now I can see the compressor, right, and I can also adjust it. So let's get out of the compressor. But if you go to setup as I said, you can add on different things. Alright, so let's take a look at sense and different stuff that you can add. So first of all, you can scroll through the mixer by just going here, but you can also go to this upper section. This is way faster and easier to scroll through your mixer. So let's say that we have a track that we want to listen to and let's maybe add something to it. Let's play the full song. You can also see the mixer activity for the full mixer here. Today is very cool. You can see where it's being played at right now. Sing. So let's do the Channel 64, and I'm going to solo this. So this is a kiktrum I want to create a send here. So let's go to the setup. You can right now see here plus sens. So let's go with a bus. I'm just going to take a bus that is not being occupied by something else. So let's do bus ten. And now we have this bus being showed here. So now I can just add an audioffex. So let's say that I want a delay effect. Let's do echo for now. And let's click this here to show details of that plugin. So now I can choose how much of delay I want or the echo sound or the echo effect, basically. Because this is ascend, I want this to be wet 100% and dry 0%, but this is set by default, very nice. Let's go out of this one and now we have this bus with some echo to it. Let's go back to our 64. Let's do it mix and now we can just put as much delay as we want to or as much send effect as we want to. What is very, very cool with the Logic Pro for iPad app that you can't really do on the Logic Pro for Mac app, besides the logic remote for iPad app. That is a remote app for the Logic Pro app for Mac. But for the logic P for iPad app, we can play with the volume faders here, and we can do that with multiple fingers. So I can do multitouch. So you can do something like this. Now you can see it's almost like a real kind of mixer console. And that is something that you really can't do with the Logic Pro for Mac app because you're just using a mouse, right? But you can with a logic remote app, as I explained before, because that is an app that is just acting like a remote app for Logic Pro for Mac. But here, you can also do that. So very cool thing as well. Just like a real mixing console, basically. Okay, guys, that is it for this video. In the next video, we're going to look at automation in Logic Pro for iPad, see you in the next video. 12. Automation in Logic Pro for iPad: Y. So in this video, I'm going to talk about automation and logic proof for iPad. So if you own an Apple pencil, you can control a lot of things in logic, actually, everything. But it will make your life a lot easier if you're doing automation because the easiest thing with automation is to write it in by hand. You can also do that with your mouse, of course. So if you have a mouse connected to your iPad, you can do essentially the same thing. But with Apple pencil, it's going to be a lot easier. You can also do this with your fingers, of course, but that can be quite tricky to do. So I really recommend you to get an Apple pencil if you're serious with your music production in Logic Pro for iPad. So I'm going to show you why it's so great to have an Apple pencil for this app. So here you can see you can move faders like this. It's very sensitive. You can also move through your project. So that is a very good thing. You can open up mixer and do the level faders, the volume faders here, and it's going to be a lot easier to do so with an Apple pencil instead of your fingers because you can accidentally hit different things at the same time, and with Apple pencil, you can't really do that. But the best thing with Apple pencil for Logic Pro is the automation. So I'm going to show you how to create automations with Apple pencil. So if you go back, and close the mixer, and now we're going to go to this button here, the automation button. So let's click that. And now we're in automation mode. So we can see all of the automation parameters here. So if I go to this list, you can see all of the automation parameters and the use parameters. So here you can see we're currently using volume for this automation. But you can choose whatever you want to here, main. And yeah, in the plug ins, for instance, you can do all of the parameters that are there as well. But what you can also do is to draw in your automation with Apple pencil. So if you go to the brush tool here, now I can just write in the automation just like this. So that is very simple and very useful for automation. So you can do, different curves, and it's going to be natural. It's not going to be that kind of perfect perfect line that you have when you're doing it with your mouse. So now let's listen to this and see the volume meter. M. And that is moving with our automation here. So now if you want to move this here or move to somewhere else, we can just go to move, and now you're free to move with your Apple pencil or with your finger, of course, so it won't get override if I just move it like this. So let's say that I want to get rid of this automation and I'm not happy with it. While in the move section here, you can just click and hold to get this kind of window here. Let's do that again. And now we can select it like that. And now I can just click on one of these buttons here or one of these dots and click Delete to delete all of that. I can also do more fine adjustments with automation or actually just make it so it makes more sense. So if you go to the snap here, you have it set on bar per default. If you click this menu here, you can take away the auto and then go back to the normal Snap value. So let's say that we want this to be one fourth bit, for instance, I want to zoom this in a bit. And now let's go back to the brush tool. So let's try this again. And now you can see it snaps to the one fourth here. So one fourth bar. It's going to snap, right? So you have each of these dots are going to be the same length, basically. You can also do curves here. Let's do this again and now go to curve mode here. And now I can just do something like that. You can see I have all of these notes or all of these dots here for automation selected. So it's going to do that for all of them. So let's undo that. Go into just deselect and select one of these dots. Curve now it's going to do that for the one that I selected. So what you can also do here, let's just delete this for now. So I'm just going to do the same thing, select it. Set one of the dots, click Delete. Now everything is deleted or automation is deleted that we did. And now let's go back here to snap and do half a note. And now let's go to the brush. And here you can see we have kind of a square thing, square button. So let's click that. And what we can do now is to create squares. So this is very useful. When you do stuff like side chain, for instance, or stuff that you want to have a lot of effects and then take away a lot of effects. So for this, you won't really have any curves or natural things. Here, you have the squares. So this is something that is really useful. Okay, so, that was automation in the Logic Pro for iPad app. And I use the Apple pencil for this tutorial, but you don't need to use the Apple pencil, of course. You can do the same thing with your fingers, so to show you here, I can do exactly the same thing as I did with Apple pencil. But I think it's going to be a lot harder to be, like, very precise with your fingers because yeah, your fingers are way like, thicker than an Apple pencils head here, basically. So yeah, so it's going to be a lot easier if you do the Apple pencil, but you don't need to get an Apple pencil just to do this app or work in this app here. Okay, guys, that was it for this video. In the next video, we're going to look at exporting to Logic Pro on MacOS. So see you in the next video. 13. Exporting to Logic Pro on macOS: Okay, so in this video, we're going to talk about exporting to Logic Pro on Mac OS. So you might have noticed here that I didn't bring up anything about saving any project in the Logic Pro for iPad app. And this is because it's going to save it automatically all the time for you. So even though you're working and maybe your iPad is crashing or something like that, then it's going to be saved because it saves it all the time. There's no file menu, there's no Command S to save it or something like that that you have on the MacOS version. You can see the project here if you go here and you can also go back here to the ICloud Drive, and here you can see all of the projects. So it's going to be here, right? And everything is going to be saved in the ICloud Drive. So that is why they did it like this because iPads doesn't have huge storage. You can, of course, get bigger storage iPad, but the majority of the iPads have such a small storage space. So that's why they do everything on the ICloud drive instead. But you can save it on your iPad, of course, if you want to. You can move it. Let's say, if you go back here, you can move files to your iPad, so it's only local. So now if I go to Logic Pro on my Mac here, you can see that we have this new project. But what I'm going to do here is to go to open existing projects. So now I can navigate to the ICloud Drive. So let's do that. ICloud Drive, I'm going to scroll down to Logic Pro for iPad. You can see Logic Pro for iPad. And here, you will see all of the project files that you have on your iPad. So you can open one of these up here. Let's say that I want to open up this that I worked on right now. So let's do that. Open, and now we're going to have the same project file. This one that we have our iPad. So that was the same project that we created on our iPad. And let's take a look at the automation that we did on our iPad. So here you can see you have the automation that we did there. So everything is intact here. Everything works the same way. So you can save a project on your Mac and go to the iPad and vice versa. So it's very, very compatible with each other. And I really like this because you can work with project files on your Mac, then take that with you basically on your iPad and work with it like mobile, right? So it's very nice to do that, and they did such a great work here to make it compatible both ways. Okay, yes, that was it for this video. In the next videos, we're going to do music production for the Logic Pro for iPad. So I'm just going to show you how to produce music, and I'm going to basically have it like a studio session. So I'm not going to cut anything. I'm just going to create music so you can see how you can work in Logic Pro for the iPad. But first, I'm just going to show you how to set everything up for music production, and we'll do it in the next video. So see you there. 14. Setting Up for Music Production: Okay, so before we start with the music production session, I just want to show you how to get prepared for music production for Logic Pro for iPad. So first of all, we don't have anything connected to IPad as of now, and depending what model of iPad you have, you certainly don't have any headphone jack. So you will need to connect your headphones if you want to use headphones, of course, to the USBC connector here. But the problem with that is that if you using the USBC connector because there's only one here, then you can't really charge the iPad because there's only one port, right? So what you can do for that is to get a USBC hub, and this will work for the USBC hubs that are for the computer, as well. So for instance, I have one of these USBC hubs. They contain USBA ports and also separate USBC connector to charge DiPad, you're going to have USBC A ports as well. And with these ports, you can connect, let's say, a sound interface, if that's with USBA, you can also connect medi controllers, for instance, so that is a really nice thing, but this one doesn't have any headphone jack, so you would need to get a USBC adapter or a hub that also has headphone jack. So that will be the ultimate thing here. You can also connect sound interfaces. So there's a lot of different USBC sound interfaces for the Mac and actually for the iPad as well. And it doesn't have to be specifically for the iPad. You can use any sound interface that will work with the Mac. It will also work on the iPad. You just need to make sure that it can be connected with USBC. All right, so the next thing you want to think about before starting music production is to go to the settings. And here we want to go to audio. So here you can see input, iPad microphone, and output speaker, right? Because I don't have anything connected to IPad as of now, so it's going to be the built in microphone and built in speaker. If you want to use an audio interface or headphones or something like that, you need to go here and make sure that you have that selected because sometimes even when you connect a device, for instance, then it doesn't show up here for some reason. So you just want to check here so it's selected and then you're basically good to go. You also want to check the recording here. So here you can see audio recording, file type wave. So this means that everything that you record in audio, let's say you record an external audio with your microphone or line in, for instance, then it's going to be saved in wave formats. You can choose whatever format you want here. AIFF is, I think, recommended because it's an Apple audio file and it's going to be a bit smaller in size. And this is important, of course, for the iPad because as I said before, it doesn't have an infinite amount of storage. So you can choose that as well. And other than that, you can go to the media here, if you have any media devices connected. And if the media device is connected with Bluetooth, then you go to Bluetooth media devices, and you can search for the media device here. But other than that, you're good to go. For music production for Logic Pro, for the iPad. So in the next video, we're going to start making our song. So I'm going to prepare for the studio session here, and I'm going to divide the studio session in some parts. And yeah, we're going to create some music together. So see you in the next one. 15. Studio Session - Getting Ideas: Okay, guys. So in this video, we're going to do a studio session and we're going to make some music here in the Logic Pro for iPad app. So first of all, I'm here in the new project, new empty project window. So I'm going to open up a new track, so I'm going to create a new track by the Plus Tracks button. And here we have Midi audio pattern and session player. So I'm going to go with MIDI. First of all, and now we have a mini track here. So what I'm going to do here is to basically try to create a piano or something like that. But I want some inspiration first. So what I'm going to do here is to go back here and go to loops. So I want some kind of synth or piano or something like that. So I'm going to just listen to different sounds. And this might take a while, so you can skip if you don't want to see me browsing through different sounds because this is going to be a kind of uncut studio session here. I want some kind of lead sound. And you can see this is a blue, so this is an audio loop, so this is just pre made pre recorded. And the green the green button here is going to show you that a sound is made with a mini track, so you can actually, like, edit it and recreate different notes. Just like in this one. All right, so let's choose this one. I'm going to drag it in here. And we want to create No, I'm just going to drag it as a region here, so it's going to create the track for us. Let's put the cycle mode on. Alright, so now I want some kind of drum loops to that. So, um, let's try some drums. I want some electronic. Yeah, let's listen to what sounds we have here. Yeah, that would be a great sound to have later on in the track. I'm going to drag it out like that. I'm mainly going to look for kind of faster sounds because we have 132 BPM set here, so I'm going to slow it down a bit to 128. That's kind of electronic dance music tempo. Okay, so let's strain this out as well, and then we have our kick. So I'm going to go with loop here, loop it out like that. I'm going to take this riser here as well because this is an effect, so I'm going to use it for the arrangement later on. I'm going to use this writer here as well, so we have different combinations of effects. And this is just for the arrangement. So therefore, I'm muting it as of now. Same thing with this sound. Okay, so all of those are kind of hip hop more for hip hop. I'm looking for kind of an EDM sound here. Okay, so I already have that let's see. I'm a big fan of shakers, so I'm going to use the shakers here as well. And what we're looking for now is a bass sound. So I'm going to do bass here. And let's use Techno here as well, even though it's not techno we're looking for, but it's going to be similar to that. I really like sound of the bass loop here, but I don't think it fits with the synth lead sound, but I'm going to drag it out here anyway because we might use it for some kind of break section or something like that. So mute that as well. To the I might just do a kind of a base heavy techno sound instead of using the sin sound. Yeah, let's try that. Okay. Okay. Mmm. Alright. For now, I think I have most of the sounds that I want to use in the arrangement. Of course, we can add on different sounds, but I'm going to keep it pretty short just so you can see how to create a track with Apple loops and different synth loops, as well. 16. Studio Session - Arrangement: So let's just go out of the browser for now, and let's try to arrange our sounds now. So, let's see. We have our kick drum here. So I'm going to put this track here as our first track in the mixer or in the arrangement. Let's see. We want to take off the base section for the beginning of the track. So what we can do here is to put an EQ and automate that EQ, but I'm going to duplicate this track instead. So duplicate, and I'm also I'm going to take this copy, go here, paste at original position. And now we have two of these regions that are the same. But for this one, I'm going to call rename this to kick without base. And now we're going to go to the mixer, scroll up here. I'm going to put an EQ on this. So let's go to setup Audio x, EQ, channel EQ, and I can just double click that or I can just press Show Details. Going to take away the low end. Let's just play this. All right, so now we have two kick drums, one with the low end on and one without the low end. I might have taken away too much bass, actually. Let's go and see. Yeah, so I'm going to take away this and I'm going to do something like this. So it's it's taking away more of the deepest base. Alright, so here we have the two kick drums now, and I'm going to move this region somewhere around here maybe. I'm going to press here and drag to select all of the other regions. Drag it out a bit. So we can focus on this section now. Alright, so I want to maybe take away even more bass because I can really hear the bass still. So let's do maybe something on this. This is kind of a heavy kick drum, but I think that is going to sound good anyway. Okay, so we want some shakers, maybe. So I'm going to drag the shakers to the beginning. Let's drag this track here just so we're more organized. And yeah, I think that sounds kind of good for an introduction. So we're going to be doing a very simple and short track here. So I'm just going to go like this. Then I'm going to put our riser. So I have this riser. I'm going to put this there, drag it out like that. The beginning. And I can see it stretches out to here. So I'm going to loop it to here as well. Okay, so we want the snap to be on snap to grid. So it fits to I can see to the line here perfectly to the grid. And I can see this track is ending here on 16. So so I'm going to do something like this. Let's listen to it. Okay, so this kick drum is there, shouldn't be there. Now what I also always do when I produce is to have a master or kind of a limiter on the master channel. So if you go to the stereo out here, if we maximize this mixer, go see stereo out and we go to setup and we want to do plus sign here. You can also press the mastering button, and this is going to do some automatic mastering, but I don't like that, actually. I think it sounds like AB that a lot of times, and I think that the mastering and automatic mastering is kind of doing kind of a bad job, but it might depend on the genre of music, of course, because I'm always doing like heavy electronic music. And sometimes hip hop as well. But maybe for some other genres that might be good or might work. Um, so let's go with dynamics and up to limiter. And I'm using this just to just to have kind of like a roof. So, you know, so the sound doesn't go over zero dot zero DB, basically. So it doesn't clip. So that's why we're having this kind of like a Yeah, that's a limiter, basically. It's going to limit all the sound to zero dot zero dB, and everything above that is going to just lower the volume. So it doesn't it hits like a wall of zero dot zero dB. I'm going to double click this or Okay, so we have them here. And here you can see out ceiling zero dot zero dB. I'm going to actually put it to minus zero at one just to make sure that it doesn't clip. And let's go away out of the mixer. And here I think I'm going to take away the kick drum. Let's listen to that. Okay, so I think I'm going to use one more riser. I think this was like a drum riser. So let's go to our browser again, oops. Instead of bass, I'm going to do sound effects. Yeah, I think this is cool. So, um, let's try it out to a new track, going to select this and go up, drag it here. Can I get out like this, just to see if it ends here? It doesn't I'm going to do something like that. And what I want to do now is to automate the volume here, so we don't have like it like suddenly starts to play, right? I want it to be fading in the sound. So I'm going to bring my Apple pencil. 17. Studio Session - Creative Arrangement: Here I have it. So I'm going to do automation. So let's do automation. And actually, I don't want to automate the volume here, volume parameter, because this is going to mess with the mixer. You can see with the mixer volume, if I go back to mix with this one. And I want to mix that because I want to have control of all of my volume meters. So volume levels, basically. So I want to control this. So if I automate this, this is going to be doing its own kind of work here when I automate it. But I want to lower the volume of the sound. I'm going to show you what I mean. So here I have this sound. Let's go back to the mixer. Let's go out of the browser, black magic riser, set up audio effects. And from here, I'm going to go to utility and gain. So what this plugin does is it's essentially just like a volume fader, but it's a separate one. So this isn't going to be affected of what I put here with this volume fatter. So if I double click this or if I actually just go to show details, I want to minimize that. This gain knob is going to do the same team thing as a volume fader. So, okay, so we have this plug in here. Let's go out of the plugin and the mixer. Now go to automation. Go to gain gain. And I'm going to automate this. So I can put this here and do something like, Oh, we don't want plus 13, we want it to go up to about zero dB, something like that. And I want to make a curve. So let's play this. That's too quiet, so I'm going to put this one up. I put the curve up, but I'm going to this up as well. Let's try it now. I still can't really hear it, so I'm going to put it even higher So what I want to do now is to make a short kind of break. So I'm going to go out of automation, short kind of break until here, and then the drop is going to hit here instead of here. Because now you can build some even more tension. It's going to be like, What is happening? And then it starts here. I think so. I just think loud here. So what I want to do now is to take our kick drum. And drag it here. So I'm going to take all of the sounds, select it, and drag it out of our way. And now we have the base sound, which was this region. Mm. No, that was not where I was where I wanted to have it. I want it there. Cool. So I want that to be faded. I'm left handed, so I want to use the finger for the right side and maybe an apple pencil for the left side. Um, so I want this to be played. This is going to be a ten track, actually. I want to do some variation here. I'm going to do a double kiktrum. I'm going to show you what I mean. 18. Studio Session - Mixing & Mastering: Going to cut the region here. So split. So now I have this region, and I'm also going to split it here. Let's see if I go here. I actually don't want to be in this mode, split by playhead, take this region, delete it, and loop this. I think that's going to sound good. And here I want to introduce some drums. I know if I'm going to introduce these drums here or the shakers or the ride. I think because we used the shaker in the introduction, I'm going to use the ride here. We definitely want to make this here. Make this a bit lower in volume. To make this a bit longer. I want to introduce the shakers. So copy paste that playhead. So that is our Yeah, that is the shaker, but it sounds a bit too much, I think. So I'm gonna drag it out of here and maybe take this one instead. Because that was the bass drum. Okay, let's add some more. Here, we want some drums. A topper. Let's play our track. Yeah, that was what I was looking for. So I'm going to take this, drag it out, Loop. Oops. I need to zoom in. Mm. Now I want to introduce some kind of sin sound, something that makes this song more interesting. So let's go through the filter here. Maybe a pad sound. No, that's not going to fit for our song. So let's do lead. Let's listen to it, as well. That sounds kind of cool. Let's go to drain this out. Let's here, we have one, two, three, four. It's going to be one, two, three, four. I'm going to take the kick drum, make kind of a short pause here. And now I'm going to take the kick drum, copy, Bas at Playhead. Let me put this so it's at the beginning. Okay. So now I want this riser to be here as well. Let's try that. And here we want to have the other kick drum that we did without the base because now we have a riser that has a lot of base or actually has a kick drum in it, so we don't want double kick drums being played at the same time. So I'm going to take this copy. Put the playhead here, click here, pay that playhead. And I also want to end these sections at the same time. So I'm going to select them like that and now zoom in and we want to put it on trim. That was not what I was looking for. I want it to be stretch. Serifi Let's do cut instead here. So I'm going to cut it there. Yeah. So select it split by playhead, and now I'm going to click on that and press delete. Yes, I think, yeah, we also want to do the same thing with the kick drum. I'm going to split it split by playhead, delete. Right. So there we have our first drop section. Yeah, sounds pretty good. But now we want something in the break section here. So let's do something for the break. Let's look for a lead or something like that. I'm going to split this section in different parts, so I'm going to end this section or this part now, and we're going to look for an arp or a lead sound here for a break section. So see you in the next video.