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Automate changes over time for mix, eects, and plug-in settings using total recall mix
automation. You can record automation changes in real time and edit them later.
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View MIDI regions in a project as music notation, add and edit notes and other musical
symbols, and print the nished score as well as individual parts.
Logic Pro workow overview
To give you an idea of the possibilities, some major steps in putting together a Logic Pro project
are described below. You don’t have to do every step, and you might perform some steps in a
dierent order. You could, for example, go all the way through mixing and adding eects, then
add more recordings or media les to your project before nalizing the mix and sharing the
nished project.
Create a project
You start working in Logic Pro by creating a new project to hold your musical material and all the
changes you make. You can save media les and other assets in the project, or reference them in
their current location.
Record your material
Add musical material by recording your performances in the Tracks area. You can record vocals,
instruments, and other sounds on audio tracks. Using a USB keyboard or other MIDI controller,
you can play and record a wide variety of software instruments on software instrument tracks.
You can also record MIDI regions to play back on external MIDI devices, such as synthesizers and
sound modules.
Add Apple Loops and other media les
Add Apple Loops from the large collection included with Logic Pro. Apple Loops are prerecorded
audio and MIDI les optimized to create repeating patterns that can be extended to ll any
amount of time. You can also add audio, movies, and other prerecorded media les to a project.
Create the arrangement
Organize your recordings and other media to build an arrangement in the Tracks area.
Recordings, loops, and other media les appear in the Tracks area as regions that you can can
copy, move, resize, loop, and edit in other ways. You can also use arrangement markers to dene
and easily rearrange entire sections of a project.
Edit regions
Logic Pro oers a set of editors you can use to edit both audio and MIDI regions in a variety
of ways. For audio regions, you can also precisely edit the timing of individual notes and other
events using Flex Time, and adjust the pitch of notes using Flex Pitch.
Mix and add eects
As your project takes shape, you mix it to balance the individual parts and blend them into
a cohesive whole. In the Mixer, you can adjust volume levels and pan (balance) positions of
tracks, and use routing and grouping to control the signal ow. Logic Pro features a set of
professional-quality eects that you can use to enhance particular song components and create
a polished nal mix. You can control changes to mix, eects, and other parameters over time
using automation.