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Guide

Logic Arrange Window

Arrange area, surrounded by white frame

(1) Firstly, you need to open logic by clicking on the logic icon on the task bar. This will then open up logic and for
you to create an EMPTY PROJECT. You then need to go up to the top left hand corner to FILE and select NEW.
Doing this will open up a new box and you need to double click EMPTY PROJECT. Another box will appear and if
you want to use the instruments already in logic you need to select SOFTWARE INSTRUMENT. The AUDIO button is for instruments or equipment
you have plugged in such as a
microphone. You will then have to
select the number of AUDIO
TRACKS you wish to record on,
for example 6.

(2)
Next, you need to select the MEDIA
button in the top right hand corner which houses all the logic instruments. There will be several
different folders containing all the sounds. The MEDIA list is sometimes open when you
create an EMPTY PROJECT, to close the MEDIA list, click on the icon.

(3) After this, you will need to decide which instruments you wish to use. Make sure you have selected
an audio track to add an instrument to. An AUDIO TRACK is a strip in the ARRANGE AREA where
you are able to listen back to, record and edit what you have put in. To select instruments or sounds,
search through the MEDIA list to see what different sounds there are or you can search for a
particular instrument such as CELLO to do this, go to the search bar at the top of the MEDIA list and type in what you are looking for. To hear the
particular sound, just double click it and the AUDIO TRACK in the arrange area will change to
that instrument. To hear it, press the keys on the MIDI keyboard and if you wish to change it,
simply search for another instrument and double click until you find the sound you are looking
for. Once you have decided on a particular instrument/sound, you can click on the next AUDIO
TRACK and search through the MEDIA database to find the instrument/sound youre looking for.
(4) If you wish to add another AUDIO TRACK, go to the upper left hand corner to
where it says GLOBAL TRACKS and there will be a + in a box. This box allows you
to add in more tracks and more instruments to your project.

If you want to have the same instrument twice, a quicker way of doing this instead
of searching through again is to click the box next to the box with just the + sign which has a smaller + and two overlapping boxes and click. Make
sure you have selected the AUDIO TRACK you want to duplicate otherwise you may have two copies of a
track you dont want. Once you have set up the instruments and sounds you wish to use, you can start to
play around with the midi keyboard and input what you want into logic.

(5) Once you have something you want to record into logic, at the bottom of the page you will see the transport bar and in the left hand corner you will
see a panel containing the play, pause, forward, backwards, beginning, stop and record buttons. Make sure you have selected the right audio track

to record into then press the record button at the bottom. Once you press record, you may notice a ticking sound, which is the metronome, which
helps you keep in time. The speed at which the metronome will click depends on the beats per minute (BPM) that has been set. You can change the
BPM by going down to the transport bar and in the middle darker section. You can hover over the BPM and whilst holding the mouse down, drag
either up to increase the tempo or down to decrease the tempo. When changing the BMP, the metronome will change too so you will be able to tell
if the metronome is still too fast or too slow.

(6) When the metronome is at the right tempo you can then input your ideas into logic. When you have finished recording, click the STOP button, as
clicking the record button again will undo the recording you have just done. When you have recorded what you wanted into logic, you can then
edit it. To do this, double click on the AUDIO REGION, which is the rectangle that is found next to the audio track. To edit, click on the rectangle
you have just
recorded in
and this will
bring up another box called the PIANO ROLL which is located at the bottom of the screen. When this opens up, you will then be able to see what
you have input into logic.

(7) To open the piano roll, you need to double click the AUDIO REGION. You will notice that the NOTES you have played into logic take the shape of
a rectangle, some may be slightly different lengths and different colours. The lengths may be different due to you holding down a note slightly
longer or letting go a bit too soon. The different colours correspond with the velocity, how hard you pressed down when playing the note. If the
note is a blue or green then this mean you pressed down softly, but if the note is yellow, orange or red, this means you hit the keys a lot harder.

(8) Once you open up the piano roll, the first thing you will want to sort out is the timing. To do this, you need to QUANTISE. This means to make sure
that the notes are matched up to the correct points in the bar, but
you may want to move some notes around after this. To
QUANTISE you need to go to the top of the piano roll box and you
will see a Q button, go to the button to the left of it. This brings up many different options as to how many beats you wish
to have in a bar then select the option you want, for example 1/16 note. You then need to highlight the notes you have just
input into the piano roll by clicking just before the first note and dragging over until all are highlighted. You may notice the
notes get slightly darker when you highlight them. Then click the Q button next the drop down menu and this will move the
notes into the correct position. To zoom in and out of the piano roll box, go to the bottom right hand corner where you will
find two arrows, one vertical, and one horizontal. The vertical arrow will make the notes thinner and fatter and the
horizontal arrow will make the notes either squished together or very spaced out. By using these arrows you will be able to
move the notes to a more accurate position.

(9) If you want to move notes one by one then first click and hold the note and drag to where you want it to be. If you want to move more than one or
all the notes, click close to the first note to be moved and click-drag over the notes you want to move together. When you have selected them, they
will have a slight tint to them as seen before. When the notes are where you want them, take your finger off the mouse and click and hold the first
note and drag to
the position you
and them in.
When you are
happy with this, let go and click away.

(10)If you want to make notes longer then hover over the very end of the rectangular note and the mouse will
change to a bracket with two small arrows pointing in opposite directions, click and drag the end to make
the note longer or shorter. If the velocity needs changing, making the note softer or louder, you need to click
on that note or highlight the notes and then press the ESC button on the non-musical keyboard. This will
bring up a drop down list of options used to manipulate the notes. To change the velocity you need to scroll
down until you find a box with a V inside it. Select that option, click and hold the note or notes and drag up
to increase velocity or drag down to decrease velocity or if you want to play about, for example press the
FADE tool.

(11) The FADE tool will allow different instruments or sounds to fade in or out. To bring up the FADE tool, press the ESC
button like before and select FADE. Select which end you want to fade (the start will fade in and the end will fade out)
and hover over the edge until you see the mouse change. Then click-drag towards the middle or where you want the
fade to begin or end. To get the mouse back, press the ESC button and select the top option.

(12) When recording into logic, you may have pressed a wrong note, so while the piano box is open you will be able to
move it to where it was meant to go. Click the note or notes that are wrong and drag up or down to see and hear if it is
in the right place. If you want to make a note longer, you need to hover the mouse over the end of the note and the
mouse will change to a bracket with two small arrows pointing in opposite directions. Click and drag the end to make the note longer or shorter
depending on where it needs to be.

(13) When you have quantised, changed velocity, moved notes, changed sizes you can then start to add in other instruments. If you want to record
something else into another track, make sure that the track is selected, for example, if you have just recorded something into POP CELLO
SWEETENED and you want to record something into
MIXED CHOIR make sure that MIXED CHOIR is selected
in the AUDIO TRACK. You can repeat the process you
have just done by practicing what you want to put in,
recording it, and then editing.

(14) To save the work you have done so far, go to file, and save as. This then brings up
the save box, where you will be able to name it what you like and save it where
you want it to go.

(15)To BOUNCE a file, means to stick everything together so that we have 1 media
file, like a song file. To BOUNCE your work you need to go to FILE and down the
list to the bottom where it says BOUNCE and name it what you want it to be
called, save
it as an mp3
file if it does
not have a
video clip with it, save it where you want it to be saved. You have the option of
bouncing the file OFFLINE meaning it creates the sound file as quickly as
possible or in REAL TIME meaning if the track is for example 5minutes and 35
seconds long, it will take that long to create the file.

(16) Instead of pressing the ESC button each time you need to change the tool, you
could alternatively go up to the top right hand corner and where there is an arrow
tool in the first box and next to it a + in the next. Clicking these will open the drop
down list when you press the ESC button.

(17) With logic, you can add in a video clip to compose music to. You open up logic the
way you did before by selecting empty project and the number of tracks you want.
To add the video, go to file and scroll down to OPEN
MOVIE you will then have the opportunity to find the
video clip you want to use and add it into logic. When the
video is open, the play, pause, stop, backwards and
forwards buttons will work with the video clip. For
example if you wanted to play the film clip to see if the music goes with it, press the play button and it will play along to
that scene. If you decide you do not want the video clip anymore or wish to change it, go back to FILE and scroll down to
underneath OPEN MOVIE to REMOVE MOVIE and clicking this will get rid of the video clip.

(18) You can also CYCLE sounds. This means to select or highlight a
section of a track and make it repeat itself over and over again,
for example 14 bars or 2 beats. To CYCLE, you need to click the
darker rectangle at the top of where the audio tracks are
recorded in. You can click and drag where you want the loop to start and end and just like extending individual notes, you can make the loop longer
or shorter. If you want to remove the loop, just click the rectangle once to remove it.

(19)To help distinguish between different audio tracks, it may be useful to

(20) You can change the name of an audio track by going to the
channel strip and select the track you want to rename.
Double click the name of that track and it will change into a
highlighted yellow. You can then start typing its new name.
Once you have typed it in, click away from the track.

(21)If you do not want to record something in, you can use the PENCIL tool instead. This means to write in. First, select the track you want to write in,
for example HIP HOP STRINGS. Press the ESC button and the second option down is the PENCIL tool and selecting this will enable you to write in
an audio track. Go along to the instrument you want to write in, for example HIP HOP STRINGS and click where the recordings would play in. A box
will appear but no notes would be inside the box. Just like the audio tracks that have been recorded in, double clicking it will open up the piano roll.
You again then to press the ESC button to bring up the list and select the pencil tool to start to write in the notes. There is a mini keyboard at the
left hand side to help you see which notes you are writing in and through the midi keyboard, the sound will be produced. To get the mouse back,
press the ESC button and select the mouse.

(22) In logic, you can manipulate how much sound comes out of each speaker or headphone by using the PAN disks. If you
want the sound or an individual AUDIO TRACK to seem as if it is coming from mostly the left speaker, then selecting the
PAN disk and click-dragging the blue fill down will make more sound come out via the left speaker or headphone while
click-dragging it up will make more sound come out via the right one. The number will indicate how much of the sound is
coming out of each speaker, so if the disks are at 0 then the level is equal, but if the number is, for example, 64 then
that is the percentage that is coming out of that speaker.

(23) In logic, if you want to copy and paste something or you want for example a bass line to repeat itself; you can do
something called LOOPING. This is when an AUDIO FILE, once its been played in, can be dragged along the strip in the
ARRANGE AREA so that it is easier to repeat. To LOOP, you need to go to the top right edge of the AUDIO FILE strip
and hover until the mouse changes to an arrow making a circle. When this appears, click-drag the end of the AUDIO FILE'
up to where you want it to repeat to. You will be able to see what is a copy, as the boxes will appear lighter. If you went
too far or want to undo the LOOP hover over the top right edge until it appears again and drag back to where the
original audio file finished.