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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 1027
LCRS format 808
master channel strip 827
multi-channel effects 825
bypassing channels 826
configuring 826
linking channels 826
plug-in header 825
side chains 827
order of multi-channel level meters 817
preferences 812
Quadrophonic format 808
setting channel input format 816
setting project format 815
supported formats 808–811
used channels 811
Surround Balancer 823
Surround Panner 819–823
level controls 821
mono to surround 820
opening as window 819
separation controls 821
stereo to surround 822
surround to surround 823
sustain pedal event
converting to note length 410
notation 682
swing symbol (notation) 688
Sync button 831
synchronization 829–846
defining sync master 833
enabling automatically 833
external source 830
manual sync signal 652
master 830
MIDI Clock. See MIDI Clock
MMC. See MIDI Machine Control
MTC. See MIDI Time Code
optimizing over long time-spans 520
preferences 964
problems and solutions 846
project settings 832
recording during external synchronization 831
setting frame rate 834
slave 830
status display 836
tape machine 844
TV format 841
Syncopation setting (Score Editor) 733
synthesizer, described 998
SysEx event 451, 998
creating 932
viewing in hexadecimal format 451
SysEx fader 931
system requirements 82
T
take folder. See take recording
take recording
audio 364–369
adding file to take folder 366
comping. See comping
on multiple tracks 368
opening take folder 367
over a region 365
over a take folder 366
selecting take 367
take folder in Sample Editor 377
coloring 369
flattening take folder 377
merging take folder 377
MIDI 379–381
naming take 376
packing take folder 377
removing take 376
tape machine, synchronizing 844
TDM hardware 15
temperament, equal 946
template
creating 153
defining default 141
Templates dialog 137
tempo 641–654, 999
adjusting
to audio file selection 501
to audio region 524
alternative 645, 648
audio file
automatic tempo matching 523
following project tempo 526
controlling with tempo fader object 654
creating constant tempo 651
display 641
randomizing 651
setting project tempo 145, 641
speeding up/slowing down project section 651
tapping in 652
tempo curve 643
scaling 651
stretching 651
thinning out 651
Tempo Alternative menu 645
tempo change. See tempo event
tempo event
changing value 644
copying 644, 648
creating 647, 650
deleting 643, 647
described 999
inserting 642
moving 644, 647