Logic
Pro Screenshots
Arrange
This is the screen where you'll likely spend most of your time while recording
tracks. You can assign audio, MIDI devices, or Audio Instruments (virtual
instruments) to a track. Note the new channel control on the lower left
which affects the selected track -- that's nice because it saves a trip
to the track mixer.
Audio Editor
Here is where we can make changes directly to audio tracks. You
can zoom in on individual notes or words and edit them out, or selectively
apply effects.
Audio-to-MIDIGroove
This dialog box lets us convert audio tracks into a Groove Template,
which would enable our MIDI tracks to sync up to recorded audio.
Audio-to-Score
Logic allows you to convert audio tracks to musical notation via this dialog
box.
Authorization
This is the screen where you enter registration information for your Logic
USB key as well as for any virtual instruments or effects you purchase from
Emagic. You can tell that I like their stuff.
Change Gain
If you need to increase or decrease the volume of an audio part, you can
set a per
Color
Logic lets you assign a wide range of colors to objects and tracks.
Environment (Clicks
and Ports)
You can map devices to communicate with each other in the Environment window.
The environment is where you can set up routing between devices via their
MIDI ports.
Environment (Audio Tracks)
You can map devices to communicate with each other in the Environment window.
Depending upon the type of device you've selected will determine what you
see in this screen.This screen shows several tracks being assigned to virtual
instruments
Event List
This screen provides a historical context for Logic, which was originally
developed to run on the Amiga many years ago. Each MIDI note played contains
a note and pressure value, and this screen shows numerically how those values
are set.
Factory - Audio Energizer
The Audio Energizer is where you can apply more emphasis to audio tracks.
Factory - Groove Machine
The Groove Machine is a tool for changing the feel of your compositions.
Factory - Sample Rate Converter
The Sample Rate Converter modifies audio tracks, usually to resample their
rate downward, without changing the length of the file (so that it stays
in sync).
Factory - Silencer
The silencer is used for modifying audion levels downwards.
Time and Pitch Machine
The Time and Pitch Machine is especially helpful for modifying recorded
vocals to match the pitch and timing of instrument tracks. The blue ball
can be moved by your mouse in the 3D environment to change the formant to
avoid the "Chipmunk" effect.
Function Settings
The function window allows you to modify curves and peaks for fading
and normalizig audio tracks.
General MIDI Mixer
Logic has a prebuilt General MIDI mixer so that when connecting a General
MIDI device, you can quickly set levels, panning, and other factors for
the various instruments.
Giant Bar Display
Giant SMPTE Display
You can display the position of your song with a giant bar display or a
giant SMTPE display depending upon whether you are writing a song or scoring
a soundtrack to video or film.
Hyper Edit
The Hyper Edit window is best used for modifying dynamic information about
notes played. In this example, you see a very simplistic rhythm pattern
-- velocity and channel pressure determine the volume and striking sound
of each beat.
Keyboard
When editing your work, you can pull up the keyboard window in order to
place notes and velocity levels in your MIDI tracks.
Matrix Edit
This mode is perhaps the most familiar screen to former Opcode Vision users
like myself. As you can see in this example, only a few notes are being
played. You could use the pointer tool to move the notes higher or lower
in the musical scale, or left-to-right through time. You can add or delete
notes here, which is particularly helpful for cleaning up mistakes.
Quantize Engine
The Quantize Engine dialog box is where you can address rhythmic errors
or can reset musical phrases to try a new "feel" for your song.
Score
The Score window has a full pallette of tools for generating music notation.
Any MIDI parts are automatically scored -- but you can edit the parts through
the Score window.
Surround Sound Preferences
Here is where you set up Logic to handle surround sound mixes.
Tempo Graphic Editor
Another way to change the timing of your parts is to use the Tempo Graphic
Editor.
Tempo List Editor
Or you can use the "old-school" list editor for modifying
the tempo of songs.
Track Mixer
The track mixer is where you set volume levels for each track, as well as
assign effects and signal routing. To the right of this screen you'll note
that you can assign MIDI tracks and audio tracks as well as the virtual
instruments I've assigned to the first 10 tracks.
Transform
This is perhaps the most powerful editing feature in Logic. You can
use the Transform dialog box much like a search and replace in Microsoft
Word. I haven't used this feature very much, but I've seen experts who do
very cool stuff with it.
Transport
The transport window can be adjusted in a number of ways to display more
or less information.
