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We can create this illusion by adding Reverberation, Reverb for short. The more reverberant a sound is, the further away it appears. Also, different rooms in your house will sound different. Try singing in the lounge and then in the bathroom. In general, a fast paced rock or funky number is best suited to a room reverb. By default, Logic Pro X overdoes the amount of reverb. So this type of song will not require very much reverb at all. Higher pitched instruments such as vocals, tinkly pianos, trumpets etc respond well to lots of reverb, but applying lots of reverb to deep sounds, such as bass guitar or cellos will just cause the mix to sound muddy and it will slow the overall pace down.

In Logic Pro X, the way to alter how much reverb is applied to an instrument is via 2 sliders — one is called Dry, and the other, Wet. Dry refers to the original sound , before reverb, and Wet refers to the sound after reverb has been applied. Simply experiment with differing proportions of Wet and Dry until you reach the sound that you like. If they do, there are various ways round it. Think of a limiter like a hammer. If a sound dares to rear its ugly head over 0dB, the hammer will bonk it on the head.

Limiting has become, in recent years, another weapon in the arsenal of those who want to make music excessively loud at the expense of other attributes, such as clear separation of instruments and rhythmic quality. I speak of the Loudness War. Just turn it on. That way, the other faders can be as loud as they need to be and still not cause distortion.

If the piano is too loud in the verse but OK in the chorus, you can automate the fader so that it lowers the volume for the verse, and increases it in the chorus. Close down the mixer window, so that you can see the main arranger window once more. It looks like a zig zag line, punctuated by 2 heavy dots, called nodes. See my photo below.

It can also be used to automate other effects, such as stereo panning. Clicking it causes the channel strips to reveal yellow lines. If you click on the line a little bit before you need to change the volume, you add a node dot to the line. Click again, still just before the volume change, to add another dot, and add 2 more nodes just after the part of the song where the volume needs to change.

You can then drag the yellow line up to increase or down to decrease the volume. If you need to alter the amount of reverb on the drums just at bar 45, you can achieve this in the same way.

See my illustration below. Automating the panning in the trumpet, and the volume in the piano. When you next open the mixer, you should see the faders move up or down accordingly as the song reaches the part where changes are required.

Finally, as far as mixing goes, we need to fill the space in our room from Left to Right. Each mixer strip has a panning knob above the fader.

Double click the knob. Enter a negative number up to if you wish an instrument to appear somewhere on the left, and a positive number up to 64 if you wish it to appear on the right. Kick and Snare drums are best left centred. Some are almost mono, whereas others will place the toms so that they will pan e. Similarly, the ear finds it much harder to tell where low notes emanate from, so bass instruments are best left in the middle.

The lead vocalist, who is normally the most prominent feature of the mix, should also be centred. Other instruments can be placed as you wish. In my hypothetical song, I suggested creating 4 tracks of strings. In this way we are left with no dead spots where nothing appears to be happening. If I were to place my piano over on the left and rhythm guitar on the right, that would fill my stereo left to right space even further.

I suggested adding some delay to a lead guitar via an extra track, just about audible in the mix and smothered with reverb and extra delay. Placing this track on the opposite side to the main lead guitar sound would make for an interesting production effect.

Our hypothetical Logic Pro X song contains lots of tracks, and so far the mix is a good one, and if we wanted to we could just add a couple of Audio Tracks to this file.

This brings up the Bounce dialogue box. Save the resultant file somewhere convenient. Banish pets, kids and spouses from the immediate vicinity for a few hours.

A newbie vocalist is bound to be a bit nervous, so get them used to singing with your backing track. Headroom is key here. You can always make the singer louder, but correcting a distorted recording is nigh on impossible.

If possible use a few tracks and record multiple complete performances. To do this, ensure the Logic Pro X pointer tool is active. A file ready for Normalising. The white recorded signal areas run along the centre of the track indicating that maximum levels have not been reached. Click the large File button in the centre of of the lower window. This ensures that the loudest parts of the recording reach 0dB, the maximum allowed before distortion.

The rest of the recorded vocal will be increased in volume relative to the new loud point. Of course, there may be a verse or even a couple of sentences that still gets lost in the overall mix. Flatter your vocalist. Whilst mixing, adjust the faders so that the vocal track does not stick out like a sore thumb. Remember that if the backing builds in volume, perhaps by extra instruments joining in, they will naturally drown out the vocalist a little. Apply some reverb. Use the same settings as you used for the instrumental track.

Apply some EQ. Logic has some very good presets for a variety of musical contexts. Apply some compression. Again, Logic has some good vocal presets. Be mindful that you may need to reduce the vocal fader somewhat. Add some delay. Remember Logic seems to apply Over The Top levels of delay, but in general a little extra delay will flatter vocalists. Use snippets of vocals of unused tracks to double track sections of the song. Maybe this would be appropriate for the bridge. You could use the same singer.

You could pan a group of voices into the same area where there are tambourines and other percussion playing, to give the impression that they are playing those instruments. This feature is very powerful and can create multiple files at the same time. And that, dear reader, is just about all you need to know about using Logic Pro X to create music.

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Takes and Quick Swipe Comping Click and drag to choose the best sections of each take to create a seamless comp, complete with transition-smoothing crossfades. Track Stacks Consolidate multiple related tracks into a single track. Automation Easily capture changes to any channel strip or plug-in parameter.

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In the Mixer , you can adjust volume levels and pan balance positions of tracks, and use routing and grouping to control the signal flow. Logic Pro features a set of professional-quality effects plug-ins that you can use to enhance particular song components and create a polished final mix. You can control changes to mix, effects, and other parameters over time using automation. You can manipulate different aspects of an overall project using global tracks , including the Arrangement track, Marker track, Signature track, Tempo track, and Transposition track.

For movie projects, you can also access the Movie track to view video frames and synchronize them with musical events. When your project is ready to share , you can export a stereo file of your final mix in one of several standard audio file formats. You can also produce multiple stem files, formatted for most common surround encoding schemes.

Create a project You start working in Logic Pro by creating a new project to hold your musical material and all the changes you make. Record your material Add musical material by recording your performances in the Tracks area.