10.6

548Logic Pro Instruments
• Cutoff knob: Set the cutoff frequency of the sound.
• Resonance knob: Set the amount of cut or boost of the frequency range surrounding
the defined cutoff frequency.
• Volume knob: Set the output level of the instrument.
• Attack knob: Set the amount of time it takes for the instrument to fade in, following a
MIDI note on message.
• Release knob: Set the amount of time it takes for the instrument to fade out, following a
MIDI note off message.
Choose a section or single instrument
• In Logic Pro, click the Preset pop-up menu to open a window that shows available
presets, then click or double-click a section or a single instrument icon to load the
sound.
• Click outside the window to close it.
Use advanced articulation features
Studio Strings provides several articulations for falls. These can be played on your
keyboard like any other articulation. String players often attach a fall directly to a note end,
so the fall happens with no gap after the previous note. Studio Strings features a special
mode which allows you to smoothly connect a fall articulation to the previous note at any
position “on-the-fly”, as a real musician would play it.
• In Logic Pro, to create a smooth fall, add a second (Fall articulation) note of the same
pitch directly following any note. There should be no, or a minimal, gap from the
previous note.
Note: Velocity of the Fall note can be different to the previous note. You can also vary
the length of the Fall note. This allows you to create very subtle falls at the end of any
note.
• To perform falls live on a keyboard, you can use the predefined keyswitches for
Falls. These operate in Trigger mode, which automatically creates the Fall event and
places it immediately after the previous note. Try this by holding a note with a Sustain
articulation. While the note is playing, press the keyswitch for the Fall Long articulation.
The sustained note is then stopped with a long fall.