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Logic Pro X User Guide
Contents
Chapter 1:  What’s new in Logic Pro X
- What’s new in Logic Pro X
Chapter 2:  Get started with Logic Pro X
- Get started overview
- Get started with the Logic Pro main window
- Get started with projects
- Get started with playback and navigation
- Get started with the project tempo, key, and time signature
- Get started with tracks
- Get started arranging regions in the Tracks area
- Get started editing regions
  - Get started with the Piano Roll Editor
  - Get started with the Audio Track Editor
- Get started with Smart Controls
- Get started with mixing
- Get started with Apple Loops
- Get started with Drummer
- Get started with Track Stacks
- Get started with sharing
Chapter 3:  If you are upgrading
- Overview
- Work with advanced tools and additional options
- New concepts in Logic Pro X
- New and changed terms in Logic Pro X
Chapter 4:  Logic Pro basics
- What is Logic Pro?
- Logic Pro workflow overview
- Logic Pro interface overview
- Logic Pro project basics
- Advanced tools and additional options
- Work with Logic Pro windows
- Work with tools in Logic Pro
- Undo and redo edits in Logic Pro
- Download additional content
- How to get help
Chapter 5:  Connect external devices
- Connecting overview
- Connect audio devices
- Connect MIDI devices
Chapter 6:  Work with projects
- Projects overview
- Create projects
- Open projects
- Save projects
- Delete projects
- Play and navigate projects
- Set project properties
- Manage projects
- Preview projects in the Finder
- Close projects
- View project information and reorganize memory
Chapter 7:  Work with tracks
- Tracks overview
- Track basics
- Use the track header controls
- Work with patches in the Library
- Work with Track Stacks
- Work with the master track
- Control timing with the groove track
- Bounce tracks and regions in place
- Export tracks and regions
- Edit track parameters
Chapter 8:  Record your voice or a musical instrument
- Recording overview
- Record audio
- Record software instruments
- Advanced recording techniques
- Comp your audio recordings
Chapter 9:  Use prerecorded media
- Prerecorded media overview
- Import and search for media files
- Use Apple Loops in your projects
- Use the Project Audio Browser
- Import compressed audio files
- Add ReCycle files to your project
- Supported media and file formats
Chapter 10:  Create a song arrangement
- Arranging overview
- Work in the Tracks area
- Arrange regions in the Tracks area
- Create fades and crossfades on audio regions
- Remove silent passages from audio files
  - Remove silent passages in the Strip Silence Window
  - Uses for Strip Silence
- Work with folders
- Work with groove templates
  - Create groove templates
  - Import groove templates
- Edit region parameters
Chapter 11:  Edit audio regions in the Audio Track Editor
- Audio Track Editor overview
- Select audio regions in the Audio Track Editor
- Cut, copy, and paste audio regions in the Audio Track Editor
- Move audio regions in the Audio Track Editor
- Trim audio regions in the Audio Track Editor
- Split and join audio regions in the Audio Track Editor
- Snap edits to zero crossings in the Audio Track Editor
- Delete audio regions in the Audio Track Editor
Chapter 12:  Edit MIDI regions in the Piano Roll Editor
- Piano Roll Editor overview
- Add and edit notes in the Piano Roll Editor
- View multiple MIDI regions in the Piano Roll Editor
- Split chords in the Piano Roll Editor
- Use MIDI Draw in the Piano Roll Editor
- Open the Event List or Score Editor from the Piano Roll Editor
Chapter 13:  Add a drummer to your project
- Drummer overview
- Work in the Drummer Editor
- Work with Producer Kits
- Use Drum Kit Designer
- Convert Drummer regions to MIDI regions
Chapter 14:  Edit the timing and pitch of audio
- Flex Time and Pitch overview
- Edit the timing of audio
- Edit the pitch of audio
- Use Varispeed to alter the speed and pitch of audio
Chapter 15:  Advanced edit features
- Advanced Logic Pro editors
- Event List
- Step Editor
- Audio File Editor
- MIDI Transform window
Chapter 16:  Mix a project
- Mixing overview
- Mixer channel strips
  - Channel strip types
  - Channel strip controls
- Set channel strip volume and check levels
- Set channel strip input formats
- Set channel strip pan or balance positions
- Mute and solo channel strips
- Work with plug-ins
- Work with channel strip settings
- Control channel strip signal flow in the Mixer
- Work with channel strip groups in the Mixer
- Surround panning in the Mixer
- Binaural panning in the Mixer
- Work with MIDI channel strips in the Mixer
- Customize the Mixer
- Use the I/O Labels window
- Adjust channel strips when recording or playing
- Work with ReWire applications
Chapter 17:  Automate mix and effects settings
- Automation overview
- Show track automation curves
- Choose automation modes
- Add automation to tracks
- Select, copy, move, and delete automation
  - Select, copy, and move automation
  - Delete automation
- Snap automation to grid positions
- Edit automation in the Automation Event List
- Write track automation with external controllers
- Use MIDI Draw
Chapter 18:  Use Smart Controls
- Smart Controls overview
- Choose a Smart Control layout
- Map screen controls automatically
- Map screen controls to channel strip and plug-in parameters
- Edit mapping parameters
- Scale values using parameter mapping graphs
- Open the plug-in window for a screen control
- Rename a screen control
- Assign hardware controls to screen controls
- Compare an edited Smart Control with its saved settings
- Use the Arpeggiator with a Smart Control
- Automate screen control movements
Chapter 19:  Make global changes to a project
- Global changes overview
- Use the global tracks
- Work with markers
- Build a project with arrangement markers
  - Add arrangement markers
  - Edit arrangement markers
- Work with time and key signatures
- Work with tempo
- Work with transposition
  - Transposition overview
  - Add and edit transposition control points
- Work with beat mapping
- Control the overall project volume
Chapter 20:  View and edit music notation
- Notation overview
- Work in the Score Editor
- Add notes to the score
- Add notes and symbols from the Part box
- Edit notes in the Score Editor
- Add lyrics and text
- Work with chord grids
- Edit score region parameters
- Work with staff styles
- Create scores and parts using score sets
- Edit the score layout
- Share the completed score
- Customize the Score Editor
Chapter 21:  Share projects
- Sharing overview
- Bounce a project
- Share projects to iTunes
- Share projects to the Media Browser
- Share projects to SoundCloud
- Export projects
Chapter 22:  Surround in Logic Pro X
- Logic Pro X surround overview
- Set up Logic Pro X for surround
- Logic Pro X surround features
- Additional surround information
Chapter 23:  Work in the Environment
- Environment overview
- Common object parameters
- Work with Environment layers
  - Environment layers overview
  - Create, name, delete, and switch layers
- Work with Environment objects
- Create your MIDI signal path
- Exchange Environments
- Customize the Environment
- Environment objects reference
Chapter 24:  Video and synchronization
- Video and synchronization overview
- Use movies in Logic Pro X
- Logic Pro X synchronization
Chapter 25:  Preferences, project settings, and key commands
- Logic Pro preferences
- Project settings
- Key commands

710 Change the margin and header values

710 Use external symbol fonts

711 Share the completed score

712 Customize the Score Editor

712 Choose a color mode

712 Show or hide folder contents

712 Display global tracks

713 Display instrument names

713 Display duration bars

713 Change the length of duration bars

714 Display guide lines

715 Chapter 21: Share projects

715 Sharing overview

715 Bounce a project

715 Bounce a project to an audio le

718 Burn a project to a CD or DVD

720 Set the bounce range

721 Set bounce options

725 About dithering algorithms

726 Share projects to iTunes

726 Share projects to the Media Browser

727 Share projects to SoundCloud

728 Export projects

728 Export a project as an AAF le

728 Export a project as a Final Cut Pro XML le

728 Export a project as MusicXML

729 Chapter 22: Surround in Logic Pro X

729 Logic Pro X surround overview

730 Set up Logic Pro X for surround

730 Set surround preferences

733 Set the project surround format

733 Set the channel strip input format

734 Set the channel strip output format

736 Change the order of surround level meters

737 Logic Pro X surround features

737 Surround Panner

742 Surround eects

743 Multichannel eects

745 Surround master channel strip

746 Down Mixer plug-in

747 Bounce surround audio les

748 Additional surround information

748 Surround formats overview

751 Surround format channel distribution

751 Surround bounce le encoders

752 Speaker placement, timing, and levels

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