Logic Pro 10.3 User Manual

All the power you need in production. All the creativity you want in music.

From Logic Pro X For Dummies, 2nd Edition. By Graham English. Logic Pro X is software for music producers who compose, record, arrange, edit, and mix music. Logic Pro X is fun and easy to use, and it gives you a powerful set of tools to edit and polish your music to near perfection. 10 3.7 18 11 4.8 18 12 4.8 18 13 9.6 18 14 3.2 13 15 6.4 13 16 2.9 11 17 3.7 11 18 4.8 11 19 4.8 9 20 9.6 9 METTLER TOLEDO User Manual 3 PRECAUTIONS READ this manual BEFORE operating or servicing this equipment. FOLLOW these instructions carefully. SAVE this manual for future.

A massive collection of effects and instruments.

Instant access to a deep selection of plug-ins and sounds to fuel your creativity.

High-end reverb lets you add space and depth to tracks by simulating a wide range of real and unnatural acoustic spaces.

Authentic re-creations of three of the most sought-after analog hardware EQs.

Bring punch and presence to your bass, drums, synths, and guitar with this powerful multi-effect plug-in.

Add rhythmic movement to any track by arranging filters, effects, and independent step sequencers to control treatments over time.

The power of Patches.

The Sound Library includes a massive selection of Patches, which allow you to quickly load complex multichannel sounds. And Smart Controls simplify the process of tweaking and editing to get the right sound.

Jump-start your sound with loops.

Build songs quickly by choosing from over 7000 included royalty-free Apple Loops that are tagged with keywords and automatically conform to the tempo and key of your project. You can even use untagged loops from other sources and they will automatically play at your project tempo.

Keep your tracks in time.

Smart Tempo makes it easy to mix and match music and beats without worrying about the original tempo. Record freely without a click track. Easily combine and edit MIDI and audio tracks — from vinyl samples to live instruments to multitrack audio stems — with constant or variable tempo.

Flex Time.
Spend less time on timing.

Quickly manipulate the timing and tempo of your recording with Flex Time. Easily move the individual beats within a waveform to correct drum, vocal, guitar, or any other kind of track without slicing and moving regions.

Flex Pitch.
Perfect the pitch.

Edit the level and pitch of individual notes quickly and easily with Flex Pitch. Roll over any note and all parameters are available for tweaking.

Take hold of your music.

Logic Remote wirelessly connects your iOS device to your Mac and adds the power of Multi-Touch control to your performances and mixes. Play any software instrument in Logic Pro X from your iPad or iPhone and easily shape your sound as you go. Run your session from wherever you’re most comfortable — whether that’s next to your computer or across the room.

Multi-Touch mixing.

Control your mix from anywhere in the room with Multi-Touch faders to find the best sound.

Pair and play.

Use a variety of onscreen instruments, such as keyboards, guitars, and drum pads, to play any software instrument in Logic Pro X from your iPad.

Don’t just add a drum track. Add a bandmate.

Using Drummer is like hiring a session drummer or collaborating with a highly skilled beat programmer. Create organic-sounding acoustic drum tracks or electronic beats with the intelligent technology of Drummer. Choose from dozens of drummers who each play in a different musical genre, and direct their performances using simple controls.

Build your own acoustic or electronic kit.

Customize your sound with Drum Kit Designer for acoustic kits and Drum Machine Designer for electronic drum tracks. Drummers bring their own setups, but you can swap out individual drums and shape the sound to match what you’re imagining.

A complete studio for your Mac.

Logic Pro X turns your Mac into a professional recording studio able to handle even the most demanding projects. Capture your compositions and performances — from tracking a live band to a solo software-instrument session — and flow them into your songs.

The ultimate way to record.

Seamless punch recording. Automatic take management. Support for pristine 24-bit/192kHz audio. Logic Pro X makes it all easy to do — and undo. You can create projects with up to 1000 stereo or surround audio tracks and up to 1000 software instrument tracks, and run hundreds of plug-ins. It’s all you need to complete any project.

Get the most out of MIDI.

Logic Pro X goes beyond the average sequencer with an advanced set of options that let you record, edit, and manipulate MIDI performances. Transform a loose performance into one that locks tight into the groove using region-based parameters for note velocity, timing, and dynamics. Or tighten up your MIDI performances while preserving musical details like flams or chord rolls with Smart Quantize.

Industry-leading tools.

As your song develops, Logic Pro X helps organize all your ideas and select the best ones. Group related tracks, audition alternate versions, and consolidate multiple tracks. Lightning-fast click-and-drag comping helps you build your best performance from multiple takes.

Track Alternatives

Create alternate versions of a track or multiple grouped tracks, and switch between them at any time to audition different options. Create, store, and select from different edits and arrangements of track regions to make it easier to experiment with various creative ideas.

Takes and Quick Swipe Comping

Click and drag to choose the best sections of each take to create a seamless comp, complete with transition-smoothing crossfades. Save multiple comps and switch among them to pick the one you like best.

Track Stacks

Consolidate multiple related tracks into a single track. Use a Summing Stack as a quick way to create submixes. Or create layered and split instruments.

Project Alternatives

Create as many alternate versions of a project as you’d like, each with its own name and settings but sharing the same assets — efficiently saving storage space. Load any version to make changes without compromising your original.

Track Groups and VCA Faders

Manage large mixes with Track Groups and VCA faders. Assign any selection of channels to a track group, then control the levels or other parameters of all tracks in the group from any single channel in the group.

Automation

Easily capture changes to any channel strip or plug-in parameter. Just enable automation, press Play, and make your changes.

Even more pro features in the mix.

Logic Pro X is packed with incredible tools and resources to enhance your creativity and workflow as you sharpen your craft — even if you’re a seasoned pro.

MainStage 3

Sound as great onstage as you do in the studio.

Music Memos

Capture your song ideas. Whenever inspiration strikes.

Education Bundle

Five amazing apps. One powerful collection.

New in Logic Pro X 10.3.3

New Features/Enhancements

• Logic Pro X now supports up to 36 cores.
• Sculpture and Amp Designer are now optimized for iMac Pro, and deliver up to 12 times the performance compared to previous versions.
• Sculpture offers a new high-definition mode that provides higher string resolution.

Stability and Reliability

• Loops, Channel Strip settings and other content are again available on Macs using APFS (Apple File System), and on which Logic 8 or Logic 9 had been installed prior to Logic Pro X.
• Logic no longer quits unexpectedly:
  • Sometimes when user loops created in Logic Pro X 10.0.7 – 10.1.1 are dragged into the Tracks area.
  • When adjusting the left corner off a region in projects that contain an Environment Macro that includes a Sysex fader.
  • When the Enter key is pressed to start a bounce while the mouse is being used to adjust the start or end point of the bounce.
  • When the Tracks menu is selected while the Audio File Editor is open with no audio region loaded.
  • When Repeat Section is used on a region in an Electronic Drummer track.
  • When previewing audio in the Audio Bin after enabling Transient Editing in the Audio File Editor.
  • Sometimes when on a MacBook Pro with Touch Bar the Shift key is used to add to the region selection in the Tracks area where the Score window has focus.
  • When the Shift and Option keys are used while adjusting the length of notes in an independent Event List window.
  • Sometimes when inserting Program Change events into the Piano Roll in MIDI Draw view.
  • When right-clicking a line break in the Score.
  • When pressing OK to confirm a clef change in the Score.
  • Logic no longer sometimes hangs when the “Convert Sustain Pedal to Note Length” Score function is used.

Plug-ins

• Sidechain detection is no longer delayed when the side chain source is a Software Instrument track in Live Mode.
• Latency compensation now works reliability with plug-ins inserted as Dual Mono or Multichannel.
• Amp Designer no longer sometimes changes gain unexpectedly after stopping or repositioning the Playhead.
• Tracks that include MIDI plug-ins again play back when frozen.
• Scripter now reliably transmits MIDI events on time in scripts that start with a Needs TimingInfo = true statement.
• Software Instrument tracks that include a Scripter plug-in no longer sometimes reset the instrument to a default sound when the project is reloaded or the audio driver is relaunched.
• Tracks using the EXS24 Coffee Shop Percussion or Latin Percussion instruments now play in sync when triggered by the Scripter “Drum Probability Sequencer” script.

• Alchemy no longer fails to show its installed Library in certain very rare cases.

Editing

• The Piano Roll now reliably shows velocity bars on notes the first time it is opened after recording MIDI into a new project.
• The Piano Roll again shows MIDI notes as they are being recorded.
• The length display of notes in the Event List is now reliably correct in projects that include time signature changes.
• The Step Editor now updates immediately as notes are moved using the Finger Tool.
• Vertical Auto-zoom again works correctly in the Audio Track Editor.
• The keystroke combination to temporarily limit dragging to one direction in the Piano Roll again works as expected.
• Roland U-110 synth modules no longer display a check sum error when an associated Sysex Fader in the Environment is adjusted.
• It is again possible to create velocity ramps in MIDI Draw that maintain the existing relative values of note velocities.

Accessibility

• It is again possible to modify the start and end time of a bounce using Voiceover
• The VoiceOver cursor now reliably remains functional when shortening a region at all zoom levels.
• Navigating into an open Take Folder with VoiceOver no longer causes a continuous system beep.
• Switching from the Main Window Piano Roll to the Score with Voiceover no longer causes the editor to close.
• Using the Shift key with the cursor with VoiceOver to adjust the granularity of movement while positioning the Playhead no longer causes a Logic is Busy alert or an unexpected hang.
• Adjusting the loop length of a Drummer region with VoiceOver no longer causes the loop handle to sometimes jump unexpectedly to the next region in the track.

Score

• There is no longer a large unexpected offset when inserting objects into the score in page mode in documents with multiple pages.
• Brackets for Guide Accidentals in the Score are again visible as expected.

Track Alternatives

• Packing regions into a folder no longer causes Track Alternatives on other tracks to disappear.
• Hidden Track Alternatives that are packed into a Folder no longer display in the wrong position when viewed inside the Folder.

Export/Rendering

• Bouncing a project while Logic is downloading content no longer sometimes results in bounced files with corrupted audio.
• Mono tracks that contain Mono > Stereo plug-ins again playback as stereo after they are frozen.

Takes/Comping

• Comping now works correctly when the “Select Tracks on Region Selection” preference is turned on.

Control Surfaces/MIDI Controllers

• Waveform zoom again works as expected with Mackie C4 control surfaces.
• Logic no longer displays an incorrect “Incompatible EuCon version” error with EuCon software version 3.7.

Movies

• Movies now play back when the Show/Hide Movie command is used while the movie preview is closed in the Inspector.

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• MIDI settings for External Instruments that are saved as part of a Patch are now reliably maintained when the patch is reloaded.
• Setting a Track Delay on an External MIDI track no longer sometimes affects the timing and note lengths of notes on other tracks.
• The note overview of MIDI regions now updates immediately to reflect changes to the region content when Automation is visible.
• Notes sent to External MIDI tracks no longer sometimes hang when using Rewind or Rewind by Division when there is a Track Delay set for the External Instrument track.
• Custom icons now are reliably sorted into the correct order on Macs with APFS formatted drives.
• Logic now successfully create project backups on macOS 10.13 High Sierra.
• The Musical Grid now shows reliably when it is set as the secondary ruler.

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