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265Logic Pro Instruments
ES2 tutorials
Create ES2 sounds from scratch
Logic Pro ES2 sound design from scratch
The Create ES2 sounds from scratch tutorials guide you—from the ground up (from
scratch)—through the creation of commonly used sounds. The Logic Pro ES2 sound design
with templates tutorials also guide you through the sound creation process, but you use a
number of templates as your starting point.
To see the settings for these tutorials in the ES2 window, choose Tutorial Settings from the
Settings pop-up menu.
The Analog Saw Init tutorial setting is designed to be used as a starting point when you
are programming new sounds from scratch. When programming entirely new sounds,
professional sound designers like to use this type of setting, which has an unfiltered
sawtooth wave sound without envelopes, modulations, or any gimmicks. This type of
setting is also useful when you are getting to know a new synthesizer. It allows you to
access all parameters without having to consider any preset values.
• Start with the filters, the heart of any subtractive synthesizer. Check out the four
lowpass filter types—12dB, 18dB, 24dB, and fat (Filter2)—with different values for
Cut (Cutoff Frequency) and Res (Resonance). Define Env2 as the filter envelope. This
modulation wiring is preset in the Router.
• Set Filter Blend to its leftmost position, which allows you to listen to Filter1 in isolation.
In many circumstances, you’ll probably prefer Filter1, but Filter2 has its advantages.
In addition to the lowpass filter with 12dB/octave slope (Lo), Filter1 also offers a
highpass, peak, bandpass (BP), and band rejection (BR) mode. Filter2 lowpass sounds
“softer” when compared with Filter1. It is best-suited to sounds where the filter effect
is or should be less audible, such as with Strings and FMsounds. Distorted TB-303-
style sounds are more easily achieved with Filter2.
• This setting is also ideal for experimenting with different oscillator waveforms.
Create fat Logic Pro ES2 sounds
“Fat” synthesizer sounds have always been popular and are likely to remain so, given their
use in modern trance, techno, R&B, and other styles.
Create fat ES2 sounds with oscillator detuning and unison mode
The Analog Saw 3 Osc setting features three detuned oscillators, and sounds fat as it is.
The following introduces you to some additional tools to fatten the sound even more.
In many factory settings, the Unison mode is active. This demands a lot of processing
power. If your computer isn’t fast enough, you can switch off the Unison mode and insert
an Ensemble effect in a bus, for use with several plug-ins. This saves processing power.
You can also save CPU resources by freezing or bouncing several software instrument
tracks.
In Logic Pro, do the following:
• Check out the three-oscillator basic sound with different filter and envelope settings.
• Check out the chorus effect at different Intensities and speeds.