Logic Pro 8 : audio and music production / Mark Cousins, Russ Hepworth-Sawyer.
| Author/creator | Cousins, Mark |
| Other author | Hepworth-Sawyer, Russ, author. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | Amsterdam ; Boston, MA ; London : Focal, 2008. |
| Description | xiii, 372 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm + 1 CD-ROM |
| Subjects |
| Contents | The Logic concept. Introduction -- A brief history of Logic Pro 8 -- Why choose Logic Pro 8? -- Knowledgebases. Studio v. Express: the many flavors of Logic ; Installing Logic Studio -- Logic's interface. Introduction -- What Logic can record -- The arrange window -- Editor areas: mixer, sample editor, piano roll, score and hyper editor -- Media and Lists area -- Inspector area (keyboard shortcut: l) -- Transport and toolbar -- Tools, local menus and contextual menus -- Adjusting how you view the arrangement: zooming in and out -- Knowledgebase. What is a region? -- Getting connected. Introduction -- The studio environment -- USB devices -- FireWire devices -- PCI Express and ExpressCard -- Audio communication and drivers -- Control surfaces -- Digidesign hardware and integration with Logic -- Distributed audio processing and external DSP solutions -- Knowledgebases. Latency and monitoring ; Audio in the audio MIDI setup ; ReWire connectivity -- Walkthrough. Setting up aggregate audio devices -- Starting a project. Introduction -- Assets and projects -- Working with tracks -- An introduction to the audio mixer -- Using the transport and timeline -- Your first recording -- Overdubs and punching-in and -out -- Creating further tracks and track sorting -- The audio bin and importing -- Working with Apple loops -- Improving what the artist hears: headphone mixes -- Monitoring through effects -- Knowledgebases. What are assets? ; More about the metronome ; Importing REX2 files -- Audio regions and editing. Introduction -- Editing on the arrange area -- Regions: repeating, looping, aliasing and cloning -- The inspector -- The locators and cutting/inserting time -- Strip silence -- Quick swipe comping -- Tempo-based editing -- Editing multiple tracks -- Region management -- The sample editor -- The audio bins -- Making Apple loops -- Walkthroughs. Grouping multiple drum tracks ; Editing across multiple drum tracks -- MIDI sequencing and instrument plug-ins. Introduction -- MIDI concepts -- Creating instrumental tracks -- Instantiating virtual instruments and the library feature -- Working with external MIDI instruments -- Making a MIDI recording -- Editing and arranging MIDI regions -- Region parameters: quantizing and beyond -- The MIDI thru function -- Extended region parameters -- Normalizing sequence parameters -- MIDI editing in Logic -- The piano roll -- Typical editing scenarios in the piano roll -- Quantizing inside the piano roll editor -- Working with controller data using hyper draw -- Hyper draw in the arrange area -- Going further: the piano roll's edit and functions menus -- Intelligent selection: the edit menu -- Functions: quick-and-easy note modifications -- Step-time sequencing -- The hyper editor -- Score editor -- Event list -- Knowledgeables. What is MIDI? ; EXS24 virtual memory and disk streaming ; Using multi-output instruments ; Demixing ; EXS24 data management -- Plug-in focus. EVP88 ; EVB3 ; EVD6 ; ES E, ES P and ES M ; EXS24 main interface -- Creative sound design. Introduction -- Logic's synthesizers -- Understanding the ES2 -- Working with oscillators -- Filters, amplifiers and modulation -- Global parameters and output effects -- EFM1 and frequency modulation (FM) synthesis -- Component modelling: sculpture -- Objects -- The string -- Waveshapers and beyond -- Modulation and morphing -- Creative sampling -- The EXS24 instrument editor -- Creating a new instrument and importing samples -- Changing zone properties -- Working with the EXS24's groups -- Editing EXS24 instruments using the front panel -- Ultrabeat -- Knowledgebases. Waveshapes ; Oscillator sync ; Filter types ; Vector synthesis ; ES2 filter routing ; Wavetable synthesis ; Recycle files and the EXS24 -- Mixing in Logic. Introduction -- Channel strips: understanding your virtual console -- Organizing your mixer: what you do and don't see -- Folders and the mixer -- Beginning a mix -- Adding send effects -- Combined processing using aux channels -- Using groups -- Working with channel strip settings -- Automation: the basics -- Track-based versus region-based -- Automation modes -- Viewing and editing automation -- The automation menu options -- Plug-in boxouts. Distortion effects ; To gate or not to gate, that is the question ; Helpers, handy little plug-ins ; Compressor ; Convolution reverb and space designer ; PlatinumVerb ; Using delay ; Vocal processing -- Knowledgebases. Clipping faders: good or bad? ; Parallel compression ; Saving CPU: freezing and more ; Compression circuit types -- Walkthrough. Adding compression -- Logic tips. Plug-in delay compensation (PDC) -- Mastering in Logic. Introduction -- Different approaches to mastering -- Bounce to disk -- Audio mastering in Logic -- Editing fades -- Exporting and burning -- Mastering in WaveBurner -- Processing and editing -- Dithering, bouncing and burning -- Knowledgebases. Pre-mastering ; Dithering ; POW-r -- Plug-in focus. Linear-Phase EQ ; Multipressor and multiband compression ; Limiting ; Other mastering tools -- Walkthroughs. Editing and assembling a CD in WaveBurner ; Audio mastering and CD burning -- Logic and multimedia production. Introduction -- Managing movies -- Global tracks -- Synchronizing logic -- Score editing and music preparation -- Surround sound in logic -- Delivery formats -- Knowledgebase. Surround sound plug-ins -- Optimizing Logic. Introduction -- Templates -- Screensets and windows -- Key commands -- The environment -- Input/Output (I/O labels) -- Nodes and distributed audio processing -- Walkthrough. Adding new MIDI devices to the environment. |
| Abstract | With a clear and engaging writing style and full colour throughout, the authors cut through the complexities of the program, providing a complete start-to-finish guide that unlocks the real potential of Logic Pro 8, and the techniques used by the professionals to create release-quality masters. Taking a process-driven approach, chapters focus on specific parts of the production process--from initial track laying, through to mixing, sound design, and mastering--highlighting the relevant parts of the application that guarantee professional results, quickly and easily. Whether you're a newcomer to music production on the Mac, or a seasoned sound recordist wanting to widen your knowledge, this book will illuminate and inspire your creative and sonic endeavours! |
| Local note | Joyner-JOYNER MUSIC LIBRARY BOOK ACCOMPANIED BY SOUND RECORDING LOCATED AT CALL NUMBER: Music CD-10468. |
| General note | Includes index. |
| ISBN | 9780240520476 (pbk.) |
| ISBN | 0240520475 (pbk.) |