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Table Of Contents
- Logic Pro 8 User Manual
- Contents
- Logic Pro 8: Documentation and Resources
- An Introduction to Logic Pro
- Overview of the Logic Pro Interface
- Customizing Your Window Setup
- Window Types
- Opening and Closing Windows
- Moving and Resizing Windows
- Working at Different Hierarchy Levels
- Selecting the Working Area
- Zooming
- Relationships Between Windows
- Customizing the Transport Bar
- Customizing the Arrange Window Toolbar
- Hiding or Revealing the Inspector
- Adjusting the Bar Ruler Display
- Displaying Global Tracks
- Using Screensets
- Setting Up Your System
- Navigating Your Project
- Working With Markers
- Working With Projects
- Basic Operations
- Working With Tracks
- Configuring the Track Header
- Reclaiming Workspace Used by the Track Header
- Creating Tracks and Channels
- Deleting Tracks
- Selecting a Track
- Rearranging Tracks
- Naming Tracks
- Assigning Tracks to Channels
- Zooming Individual Tracks
- Assigning Track Icons
- Muting Tracks
- Soloing Tracks
- Record-Enabling Tracks
- Freezing Tracks
- Hiding Tracks
- Protecting Tracks
- Using Track Button Slide Activation
- Working With Instruments and Effects
- A Quick Mixer and Channel Strip Primer
- Inserting, Moving, and Removing Plug-ins
- Loading and Removing Entire Channel Strip Configurations
- Using the Plug-in Window
- Common Plug-in Window Functions
- Using the Library to Choose Plug-in Settings
- Learning About Effect Routings
- Working With Instruments
- Working With ReWire Applications
- Working With External Audio Effects
- Using Plug-ins From Other Manufacturers
- Adding Pre-Recorded Media
- Getting to Know Regions
- Creating Your Arrangement
- Making Region Edits Faster and Easier
- Selecting Regions
- Selecting Parts of a Region
- Adding and Recording Regions
- Removing and Restoring Regions
- Moving Regions
- Resizing Regions
- Adjusting the Start Point of Audio Regions
- Adjusting the Start or End Point of MIDI Regions
- Making Multiple Regions the Same Length
- Setting Region Start and End Points to the Playhead Position
- Adjusting Region Lengths to Fit Other Regions
- Time Stretching the Contents of a Region When Changing Length
- MIDI Region-Specific Length Change Operations
- Cutting, Copying, and Pasting Regions
- Adding or Removing Song Passages
- Repeating Regions
- Dividing, Demixing, and Merging Regions
- Using Folders
- Creating Crossfades and Fades on Audio Regions
- Setting Region Parameters
- Recording in Logic Pro
- Introduction to MIDI Editing
- Editing MIDI Events in the Piano Roll Editor
- Editing MIDI in the Hyper Editor
- Editing MIDI Events in the Event List
- Quantizing MIDI Events
- Editing MIDI Events in the Transform Window
- Editing Audio in the Sample Editor
- Playing Audio Files
- Navigating Audio Files
- Changing the X and Y Axis Scales
- Displaying the Waveform as Sample Bits
- Making Selections
- Copying, Pasting, Deleting, and Cutting
- Destructive Audio Editing and Processing
- Adjusting the Project Tempo
- Sample Loop Functions
- Undoing Editing Steps in the Sample Editor
- Creating Manual Backups
- Working With the Digital Factory
- Using an External Sample Editor
- Using AudioSuite Plug-ins
- Removing Silent Passages From Audio Regions
- Adjusting the Tempo of Audio Regions
- Managing Audio Files
- Mixing
- Basic Mixing Steps
- Channel Strip Elements
- Setting Channel Strip Levels
- Setting the Pan, Balance, or Surround Position
- Soloing and Muting Channels
- Adding Effects: Using Inserts
- Working With Sends
- Working With Channel Strip Settings
- Monitoring With Effect Plug-ins
- Arming Channel Strips
- Changing the Channel Input Format
- Setting the Automation Mode
- Handling Mixer Inputs and Outputs
- Adjusting Elements of Multiple Channel Strips
- Adjusting Channel Strips in Record or Playback Mode
- Working With Groups
- Channel Strip Types
- Customizing the Mixer
- Using the I/O Labels Window
- Working With Automation
- Bouncing Your Project
- Creating Apple Loops
- Project and File Interchange
- Sharing Logic Pro Data Over a Network
- Backing Up Audio Files
- Backing Up and Sharing Projects
- Working With Standard MIDI Files
- Importing GarageBand Projects
- Working With OMF Files
- Working With OpenTL Files
- Opening, Importing, and Exporting AAF Files
- Importing and Exporting Final Cut Pro XML Files
- Exporting Regions
- Exporting Tracks as Audio Files
- Advanced Tempo Operations
- Beat Mapping Regions
- Editing Transposition With the Chord and Transposition Track
- Working With Notation
- Learning About the Score Editor
- Entering Notes and Symbols in the Score Editor
- Real Time MIDI Recording
- Step Input
- Mouse Input (Using the Part Box)
- Using Hyper Draw in the Score Editor
- Working With the Part Box
- Learning About Part Box Groups
- Notes
- Sustain Pedal Symbols
- Clefs
- Dynamic Symbols
- Note Heads
- Symbols Attached to Notes
- Slurs, Crescendi
- Key Signatures
- Time Signatures
- Repeat Signs and Bar Lines
- Trills, Tremolo, and so on
- Rests, Bar Repeat Signs
- Text Objects, Chord Symbols
- D.S., D.C., Segno, Coda Signs
- Tempo and Swing Symbols
- Jazz Symbols
- Page Break and Line Break Symbols
- Editing Notes and Symbols: Basic Operations
- Editing Notes and Symbols: Advanced Operations
- Working With Text
- Working With Time and Key Signatures
- Transcribing MIDI Recordings
- Default Settings for New MIDI Regions
- Selecting Multiple Regions in the Score Editor
- Display Parameters
- Hidden MIDI Regions
- Using Note Attributes to Change Individual Notes
- Changing Note Head
- Changing Note Sizes
- Changing the Horizontal Position of Notes
- Changing the Position of Accidentals
- Changing the Display of Accidentals
- Changing the Stem Direction and Length
- Changing the Beaming of Notes
- Changing the Voice or Staff Assignment
- Changing the Tie Direction
- Changing the Syncopation of Notes
- Changing the Interpretation of Notes
- Changing the Independent Status of a Note
- Changing the Color of a Note
- Resetting Note Attributes
- Working With Staff Styles
- Assigning Staff Styles to MIDI Regions
- Automatic Staff Style Assignment
- Predefined Staff Styles
- Creating Your Own Staff Styles
- Adding Staffs to a Staff Style
- Adding Voices to a Staff Style
- Copying Voices or Staffs Into Other Staff Styles
- Copying Staff Styles Between Projects
- Deleting Voices or Staffs From a Staff Style
- Deleting Staff Styles
- Changing Staff Style Parameters
- Assigning Notes to Voices and Staffs
- Staff Style Examples
- Advanced Staff Style Usage
- Using Score Sets to Create Scores and Parts
- Printing the Score
- Exporting the Score as a Graphic File
- Customizing the Score Editor’s Appearance
- Project Settings for Score Display
- Score Preferences
- Working With Video
- Working With Surround
- Surround Formats Supported by Logic Pro
- Configuring Logic Pro for Surround
- Setting the Project Surround Format
- Setting the Channel Input Format
- Changing the Appearance of Surround Level Meters
- Setting the Output Format of a Channel Strip
- Working With the Surround Panner
- Inserting Surround Plug-ins
- Working With Multi-Channel Effects
- Working With the Surround Master
- Bouncing Surround Audio Files
- Synchronizing Logic Pro
- Working With Plug-in Latencies
- Working With Split Channel Audio File Formats
- Working in the Environment
- Using the Environment
- The Environment Objects
- Standard Instruments
- Multi Instruments
- Mapped Instruments
- GM Mixer
- MMC Record Buttons
- Keyboard
- Monitor Object
- Channel Splitter Object
- Arpeggiator
- Transformer Object
- Delay Line Object
- Voice Limiter Object
- Chord Memorizer Object
- Touch Tracks Object
- Physical Input and Sequencer Input Objects
- MIDI Click Object
- Internal Objects
- Alias
- Ornament
- Macros
- Faders
- Fader Operation
- Working With Object Groups
- Special Functions
- Recording and Playback of Fader Movements
- Fader Styles
- Fader Functions: MIDI Events
- Fader Functions: Range, Val As
- Fader Functions: Filter
- Vector Fader
- Special Faders Overview
- Cable Switchers
- Meta Event Faders
- SysEx Faders
- Creating a SysEx Message
- Setting the SysEx Data Format
- Channel Strip Objects
- Project Settings and Preferences
- Saving Project Settings and Preferences
- Project Settings
- Preferences
- Glossary
- Index
Index 1005
pitch shifting 505
playback of compressed formats 274
pop and click removal 496
quantizing 509, 516
reducing noise 512
removing DC offset 500
removing from project 274, 287
removing silent passages 519
renaming 533
reversing 499
reversing phase 500
saving
copy 503
sample loop settings in file header 501
selection as audio file 504
searching 259
file previously used in project 539
peak 490
silence 490
silencing selection 498
smoothing 496
sorting 530
supported formats 255
time stamp 311
time stretching 505, 525
transforming into MIDI region 514
viewing associated regions 286
viewing information 530
audio interface 83
configuring 96
connecting 91
Audio MIDI Setup (AMS) utility 95
audio recording. See recording
audio region. See region
AudioSuite plug-ins 518
Audio to MIDI Groove Template command 463
audio track
creating 185
described 180
exporting to movie 802
importing from movie 802
Audio Unit plug-in 252
loading preset 252
Node application 103
Audio Units Manager 252
disabling Node processing 103
opening 253
Safe mode 254
AU See Audio Unit plug-in
Auto Define checkbox (Hyper Editor) 428
Auto Input Monitoring setting 357
automation 581, 974
changing transparency level of data/regions 584
choosing parameter 583
converting 600
copying data 591
copying data between parameters 591
creating/writing data 588
with external controller 594
deleting data 588, 590
displaying data 582
editing data 589, 592
editing data in Event List 594
hiding all automation data 584
hiding a track’s automation data 583
Latch mode 587
moving data 591
moving data with regions 591
node 582
creating 589
deleting 591
selecting 589
Off mode 586
offsetting data 593
preferences 969
Read mode 586
relative/absolute value changes 592
sample accurate mode 581
scaling data 592
selection methods 589
setting mode 585
via key commands 586
snapping data to grid positions 593
Touch mode 587
viewing all existing automation data 585
viewing multiple parameters 584
with one hardware MIDI controller 595
Write mode 587
Automation Curve tool 592
Automation Event List 594
Automation Parameter menu 582
Automation Quick Access function 595
Automation Select tool 589
Autopunch button 370
Autopunch function. See punch recording
Auto Track Zoom function 195, 973
auxiliary channel strip 567
choosing input 568
creating 567
using as send return 568
using as subgroup 569
using for external audio processing 569
auxiliary return/send. See send effect
B
background color
Arrange area 294
Piano Roll Editor 416
background noise, removing 519