Get Creative with Emagic Logic

Key features

* For PC and Mac
* With CD of Logic and audio files
* Compose, arrange, record and mix your music
* Learn by doing with practical projects
* Record and edit with MIDI

Interested in composing - maybe for film and TV? Want to learn how to sequence, record and mix effectively with Emagic Logic? This project based book and CD will help you do both in a practical and enjoyable way. After all, much of today's commercial music is produced using little more than the composer's creativity harnessed with power of Emagic Logic production software.

The goals of Get Creative with Emagic Logic are to foster the user's creativity and help build effective song composition and audio production skills. This is achieved with the aid of step-by-step examples, providing opportunities to compose, record and mix entire productions into a satisfying whole.

The powerful production features of Logic are discovered along the way including: MIDI and audio recording Audio Objects and Effects Using the Track Mixer Track Automation Audio Window Sample Edit Window Event List Hyper Edit - including Drum Editor Matrix Editor Score Editor Transform window

Contents

How to use this book and CD
Equipment needed. The scheme of things. The CD. The projects. Logic's Environment. General MIDI. Built-in synthesizers and plug-ins.

1 MIDI sequencing: make it easy on yourself
Slow it down. Break it down. Cycle record. To quantize or not to quantize. Editing - get rid of the bum notes!

Project 1 - some rock 'n' roll piano

2 Get real with MIDI
Listen and learn. Learn how to listen. Get a life! - play with others. Sequencing examples. Sequencing strings. Sequencing drums and percussion. Sequencing guitars. Quantization. Dynamics.

Project 2 - a rock score

Project 3 - a jazz funk score

Project 4 - a classical score

3 Finding and developing ideas
Finding new ideas. At the computer? Away from the computer? Don't doodle! Developing your ideas. Know where you are heading. Keep moving - work creates work. Repetition and variation. Keep it simple - details later. Review your work - less is more. Project 5 - a computer game track

4 A look at musical form
Simple three part forms. Jazz standards. Pop song.

5 The building blocks of composition
The phrase. Melody. Harmony. Rhythm.

6 Melody making
Cell construction. Musical questions and answers.

7 Audio recording
Recording vocals. Recording electric guitars. Recording acoustic guitars. Recording brass and woodwind. Recording strings. From microphone to audio track - the signal route.

Project 6 - a football theme

8 Create illusions - a big band radio jingle
Audio and MIDI tracks combined. Jitterbug Jump.

Project 7 - a TV sitcom theme

9 Minimalism

Project 8 - a minimalist soundtrack

10 Dance music
Styles and loops. Constructing a drum and bass loop. Project 9 - Get Creative with Logic jingle

11 Knowing the score
Project 10 - Score clean-up

12 Creative audio editing

Project 11 - matching song tempo to audio