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How To Use Logic Final
How To Use Logic Final
Computer Monitor
Monitors (Speakers)
Monitors (Speakers)
Mac Mini
MIDI Keyboard
To create this desk setup, you must first plug your Mac Mini or
other computer in to power and then plug in your MIDI Keyboard and
Audio Interface. In this case, the MIDI/USB Keyboard and Audio
Interface are combined allowing just the one unit to be used.
Logic is a Digital Audio Workstation (DAW) created by Apple that
allows the creation and editing of audio and MIDI files.
In every device that outputs sound in one form or another has a
built in Sound Card. An Audio Interface is just an external sound
card that can be connected by a USB, Lightning or FireWire
connection. This allows for sound to be input and output using
different connections that the one the computer provides. For
example, in the above situation, the speakers are plugged in using
1/4 inch jack connections which the Mac Mini does not have.
Instead the sound is sent to the Keyboard/Audio Interface which
the speakers are then plugged in to.
MIDI stands for Music Instrument Digital Interface. MIDI is just
computer messages sent from the device to the computer itself.
These tell the computer how to recreate the note that the user
intended by monitoring velocity and pitch of the note pressed.
Once MIDI has been inputted into the computer you can double click
on the file to open Piano Roll. This effectively shows you what
notes you pressed, when, for how long and how hard you pressed
them. In piano roll you can also adjust each on of these features
that you can view. It also allows you to make the notes more
accurate by selecting them all and Quantising. This makes sure all
of the notes fit with the music recorded on the other tracks.
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The Yellow lines represent the volume for that track and it can be
seen to reduce and fade down at some points.
Once you have added these. The software will open up a blank
project with the one Software Instrument track that you instructed
it to.
As a default in Logic Pro X, it will set the software instrument
as an Electric Piano. It will also open the Inspector that was
described earlier and the Library of patches that will allow you
to choose what instrument you want.
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In the effects section of each track - you have the option to add
a wide variety of plug-ins such as a pitch corrector or reverb.
This adds reverb to the one channel and plays that through the end
mix.
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You then need to select the entirety of the work that you have
completed using the Selectors on the timeline. You can click and
drag along the bar to expand the selectors. Then to export your
project to a singular audio file you must click File then
Bounce. This will open the below window.
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This gives you options as to what type of file format you would
like the audio to be outputted as and where it starts and ends.
This should already be correct and so you simply need to click
OK and wait for the file to export. This will then open in
iTunes and you should listen to it all the way through to ensure
that it sounds exactly how you intended. If you have followed
every step that is listed then you should finish with a perfect
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Analysis of Projects.
Batman Audiobook
For our Batman audiobook we started by deciding what story line to
base our ideas on. We came to the conclusion that we were going to
write our own story line.
Once the script was written - we asked one of the actors to come
in and read the parts for the Joker. We used a single condenser
microphone for each of the vocal parts.
We used a bus to create the reverb of the room - creating the
illusion that the discussion was in an enclosed room. We
downloaded sound effects and they were panned each side to give
the illusion of a 3D atmosphere.
The opening and closing music was created on Logic Pro X and this
was then added into the final project to allow us to combine
everything all together.
Once we had recorded the final section of the audio book - we
discovered that the condenser vocal microphone that we were using
had been dropped and so this caused a distortion of the vocals
which we were unable to rectify. Unfortunately the actor wasn't
able to come back to re-record and so this is on the final mix.
3D Bane Interrogation'
As we had finished our audiobook we decided to experiment with
something that I had not tried before. We asked Scott to sit in a
chair and we placed microphones facing out to recreate the
illusion of the microphones being ears. Each microphone was banned
to each side so that when headphones are placed on, it gives the
illusion that the person talking is walking around you.
After a few takes we found that the footsteps were not loud enough
and so we placed two floor mics directly underneath the Ear Mics
and had these really quiet so as to pick up the foot steps in a
surround atmosphere.
We wrote the script as a prequel to our audiobook and from the
perspective of the Joker with Bane interrogating. To create the
sound of Banes voice, we experimented with talking in to various
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