Document Outline

• 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 with audio tracks
    • Get started with software instrument tracks
    • Get started with track header controls
  • 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 main window
    • Tracks area
    • Library
    • Inspector
    • Mixer
    • Smart Controls
    • Editors
    • Note Pads
    • List Editors
    • Loop Browser
    • Browsers
  • Logic Pro project basics
  • Advanced tools and additional options
  • Work with Logic Pro windows
    • Open and close windows
    • Move and resize windows
    • Zoom windows
    • Scale plug-in windows
    • Move through display levels
    • Control how windows change as the playhead moves
    • Control window relationships using Link mode
    • Control windows using screensets
  • Work with tools in Logic Pro
    • Tools overview
    • Assign tools
    • Common tools
  • Undo and redo edits in Logic Pro
  • Download additional content
  • How to get help
• Chapter 5:  Connect external devices
  • Connecting overview
  • Connect audio devices
    • Audio devices overview
    • Connect a microphone
    • Connect an electric instrument
    • Connect an audio interface
    • Connect speakers and other audio devices
    • Configure a connected audio device
    • Configure Apogee and Euphonix audio devices
  • Connect MIDI devices
    • MIDI devices overview
    • Connect a USB music keyboard
    • Connect MIDI keyboards and modules
    • About multichannel MIDI devices
    • Separate a MIDI keyboard from its sound generator
• Chapter 6:  Work with projects
  • Projects overview
  • Create projects
  • Open projects
  • Save projects
  • Delete projects
  • Play and navigate projects
    • Play a project
    • Set the playhead position
    • Control playback with the transport buttons
    • Use transport shortcut menus
    • Use transport key commands
    • Customize the control bar
    • Use the cycle area
    • Use the Chase Events function
    • Control Logic Pro using Apple Remote
  • Set project properties
    • Project properties overview
    • Set the project tempo
    • Set the project key and scale
    • Set the project time signature
    • Set the project sample rate
    • Set the project start and end points
    • Set the project playback volume
  • Manage projects
    • Project management overview
    • Use project alternatives and backups
    • Clean up projects
    • Manage project assets
    • Consolidate assets in a project
    • Rename projects
    • Copy and move projects
    • Import data and settings from other projects
  • Preview projects in the Finder
  • Close projects
  • View project information and reorganize memory
• Chapter 7:  Work with tracks
  • Tracks overview
  • Track basics
    • Create tracks
    • Create tracks that use existing channel strips
    • Reassign tracks to different channel strips
    • Select tracks
    • Duplicate tracks
    • Rename tracks
    • Change track icons
    • Change track colors
    • Reorder tracks in the Tracks area
    • Zoom tracks
    • Replace or double drum sounds in the Tracks area
  • Use the track header controls
    • Track header overview
    • Mute tracks
    • Solo tracks
    • Set track volume levels
    • Set track pan positions
    • Enable tracks for recording
    • Turn on input monitoring for audio tracks
    • Turning off tracks
    • Protect tracks
    • Freeze tracks
    • Hide tracks
    • Delete tracks
    • Edit multiple tracks using slide activation
  • Work with patches in the Library
    • Patches overview
    • Choose a patch
    • Choose presets and other file types in the Library
    • Search for patches by name
    • Merge patch settings with the current patch
    • Reset patches to their original settings
    • Save custom patches
  • Work with Track Stacks
    • Track Stacks overview
    • Create and edit Track Stacks
    • Track Stacks and the Library
  • Work with the master track
  • Control timing with the groove track
  • Bounce tracks and regions in place
    • Bounce in place overview
    • Bounce a track in place
    • Bounce all tracks in place
    • Bounce a region in place
  • Export tracks and regions
    • Export tracks as audio files
    • Export regions as audio files
    • Move audio files used for audio regions
    • Export MIDI regions as standard MIDI files
  • Edit track parameters
• Chapter 8:  Record your voice or a musical instrument
  • Recording overview
  • Record audio
    • Before recording audio
    • Record sound from a microphone or an electric instrument
    • Record multiple audio takes
    • Record to multiple audio tracks
    • Punch in and out of audio recordings
    • Replace audio recordings
    • Delete audio recordings
  • Record software instruments
    • Before recording software instruments
    • Play software instruments
    • Record software instruments
    • Record additional software instrument takes
    • Overdub software instrument recordings
    • Record to multiple software instrument tracks
    • Replace software instrument recordings
    • Use step input recording techniques
  • Advanced recording techniques
    • Advanced recording commands
    • Color takes while recording
    • Mark takes while recording
    • Capture your most recent performance
  • Comp your audio recordings
    • Comping overview
    • Preview take recordings
    • Create, save, edit, and rename comps
    • Edit take regions
    • Manage take folder contents
• Chapter 9:  Use prerecorded media
  • Prerecorded media overview
  • Import and search for media files
    • Import media files
    • Search for media files
    • Media file search conditions
  • Use Apple Loops in your projects
    • What are Apple Loops?
    • Search for Apple Loops
    • Play Apple Loops
    • Access your favorite Apple Loops
    • Add Apple Loops to your projects
    • Create your own Apple Loops
    • Customize the Loop Browser
  • Use the Project Audio Browser
    • Project Audio Browser overview
    • Add and delete audio files
    • Play audio files
    • Sort, group, and rename audio files
    • Move, copy, and convert audio files
    • Export and import audio region information
  • Import compressed audio files
  • Add ReCycle files to your project
  • Supported media and file formats
    • Media and file formats overview
    • GarageBand projects
    • Final Cut Pro XML files
    • Standard MIDI files
    • AAF files
• Chapter 10:  Create a song arrangement
  • Arranging overview
  • Work in the Tracks area
    • Tracks area overview
    • Position items using the ruler
    • Snap items to the grid
    • Quantize regions
    • Control positioning with drag modes
    • Scrub the project
    • Scroll and zoom in the Tracks area
    • Customize the toolbar
  • Arrange regions in the Tracks area
    • Regions overview
    • Select regions in the Tracks area
    • Select parts of regions in the Tracks area
    • Cut, copy, and paste regions in the Tracks area
    • Move regions in the Tracks area
    • Add or remove gaps in an arrangement
    • Shift the playback position of regions in the Tracks area
    • Loop regions in the Tracks area
    • Resize regions in the Tracks area
    • Mute and solo regions in the Tracks area
    • Time stretch regions in the Tracks area
    • Split regions in the Tracks area
    • Demix MIDI regions in the Tracks area
    • Join regions in the Tracks area
    • Create aliases of MIDI regions in the Tracks area
    • Clone audio regions in the Tracks area
    • Change the color of regions in the Tracks area
    • Convert audio regions to EXS sample zones
    • Delete regions in the Tracks area
  • Create fades and crossfades on audio regions
    • Create fades
    • Edit fades
    • Create automatic crossfades
    • Delete fades
  • Remove silent passages from audio files
    • Remove silent passages in the Strip Silence Window
    • Uses for Strip Silence
  • Work with folders
    • Folders overview
    • Pack and unpack folders
    • Open and close folders
    • Add and remove regions from folders
    • Create alias folders
  • Work with groove templates
    • Create groove templates
    • Import groove templates
  • Edit region parameters
    • Region inspector
    • Shared region parameters
    • Quantize parameter values
    • Advanced quantization parameters
    • Audio region parameters
    • MIDI 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
    • Add notes in the Piano Roll Editor
    • Select notes in the Piano Roll Editor
    • Snap items to the Piano Roll Editor grid
    • Move notes in the Piano Roll Editor
    • Copy notes in the Piano Roll Editor
    • Change the pitch of notes in the Piano Roll Editor
    • Resize notes in the Piano Roll Editor
    • Edit note velocity in the Piano Roll Editor
    • Quantize the timing of notes in the Piano Roll Editor
    • Quantize the pitch of notes in the Piano Roll Editor
    • Lock the position of events in the Piano Roll Editor
    • Mute notes in the Piano Roll Editor
    • Change the color of notes in the Piano Roll Editor
    • Delete 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
    • Drummer Editor overview
    • Choose genres and drummers
    • Choose drummer presets
    • Edit the drummer’s performance
    • Follow the rhythm of another track
  • Work with Producer Kits
  • Use Drum Kit Designer
    • Drum Kit Designer overview
    • Play drums and adjust kit piece settings
    • Exchange drums
    • Map Drum Kit Designer to external hardware controllers
  • 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
    • Flex Time algorithms and parameters
    • Time stretch using flex markers
    • Time stretch using marquee selections
    • Time stretch using the Flex tool
    • Delete, reset, and move flex markers
  • Edit the pitch of audio
    • Flex Pitch algorithm and parameters
    • Edit the pitch of audio in the Audio Track Editor
    • Edit the pitch of audio in the Tracks area
    • Quantize the timing of audio regions in the Audio Track Editor
    • Quantize the pitch of notes in the Audio Track Editor
    • Change the gain of audio regions in the Audio Track Editor
  • Use Varispeed to alter the speed and pitch of audio
• Chapter 15:  Advanced edit features
  • Advanced Logic Pro editors
  • Event List
    • Event List overview
    • Event List display options
    • Select and create events in the Event List
    • Edit events in the Event List
    • Event Types
    • Event Float window
  • Step Editor
    • Step Editor overview
    • Create and edit steps in the Step Editor
    • Lane parameters
    • Use Lane Sets
  • Audio File Editor
    • Audio File Editor overview
    • Audio File Editor interface
    • Play audio files in the Audio File Editor
    • Navigate audio files in the Audio File Editor
    • Make selections in the Audio File Editor
    • Edit and process audio in the Audio File Editor
    • Use an external sample editor
  • MIDI Transform window
    • MIDI Transform window overview
    • Use transform sets
    • MIDI Transform window presets
    • MIDI Transform window parameters
    • MIDI Transform window examples
• Chapter 16:  Mix a project
  • Mixing overview
  • Mixer channel strips
    • Channel strip types
    • Channel strip controls
  • Set channel strip volume and check levels
    • Peak level display and signal clipping
    • Set channel strip volume levels
    • Check channel strip levels
  • Set channel strip input formats
  • Set channel strip pan or balance positions
  • Mute and solo channel strips
  • Work with plug-ins
    • Plug-ins overview
    • Add, remove, move, and copy plug-ins
    • Use the Channel EQ
    • Work in the plug-in window
    • Work with plug-in settings
    • Work with plug-in latencies
    • Use the Audio Units Manager
  • Work with channel strip settings
  • Control channel strip signal flow in the Mixer
    • Route audio via insert effects
    • Route audio via send effects
    • Use aux channel strips
    • Use multi-output instruments
    • Use output channel strips
    • Define a channel strip’s stereo output
    • Define a channel strip’s mono output
  • Work with channel strip groups in the Mixer
    • Grouping overview
    • Group inspector
    • Edit channel strip group membership
    • Automate groups
  • Surround panning in the Mixer
  • Binaural panning in the Mixer
    • Binaural panning overview
    • Use the Binaural Panner
    • Use the Binaural Post-Processing plug-in
  • Work with MIDI channel strips in the Mixer
    • MIDI channel strips overview
    • Adjust elements of MIDI channel strips
    • Save and restore MIDI channel strip settings
  • Customize the Mixer
    • Change the Mixer view
    • Navigate within the Mixer
    • View channel strips linked to folder tracks
    • Add track notes
    • View control surface bars
    • Link control surfaces to 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
    • Add and adjust control points
    • Adjust a range of control points
    • Record live automation
  • 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
    • Global tracks overview
    • Show and hide global tracks
    • Resize and reorder global tracks
  • Work with markers
    • Markers overview
    • Create markers
    • Edit markers
    • Rename markers
    • Navigate using markers
    • Use marker sets
    • Customize how markers appear in the Marker List
    • Use marker information from imported audio files
    • Delete markers
  • Build a project with arrangement markers
    • Add arrangement markers
    • Edit arrangement markers
  • Work with time and key signatures
    • Time and key signatures overview
    • Create time signature changes
    • Create key signature changes
    • Edit time and key signatures
    • Delete signatures
    • Use signature sets
  • Work with tempo
    • Tempo overview
    • Create tempo changes with the Tempo track
    • Use the Tempo List
    • Create tempo changes using Beat Detection
    • Match audio recordings to the project tempo
    • Match the tempo to an audio region
    • Use tempo information from audio files
    • Record tempo changes in Logic Pro
    • Use Tempo Operations
    • Use the Tempo Interpreter
    • Control tempo changes with the tempo fader
  • Work with transposition
    • Transposition overview
    • Add and edit transposition control points
  • Work with beat mapping
    • Beat mapping overview
    • Use beat mapping on MIDI regions
    • Use beat mapping on audio regions
    • Automatically beat map regions
  • Control the overall project volume
• Chapter 20:  View and edit music notation
  • Notation overview
  • Work in the Score Editor
    • Score Editor overview
    • View tracks as music notation in the Score Editor
    • Position items graphically in the Score Editor
    • Move and copy items in the Score Editor
    • Resize notes and symbols in the Score Editor
    • Adjust the vertical headroom of the score display
    • Repeat events in the Score Editor
    • Insert items in multiple regions
    • Edit multiple items in the Score Editor
    • Select multiple regions in the Score Editor
    • Display and edit aliases in the Score Editor
  • Add notes to the score
  • Add notes and symbols from the Part box
    • Part box overview
    • View score symbols in the Part box
    • Select score symbols in the Part box
    • Add notes and rests from the Part box
    • Add key and time signature changes
    • Change the clef sign
    • Add dynamic marks, slurs, and crescendi
    • Change the appearance of note heads
    • Add accents and other symbols to notes
    • Add trills, ornaments, and tremolo symbols
    • Add sustain pedal markings
    • Add chord symbols
    • Add chord grids and tablature symbols
    • Add bar lines, repeat signs, and coda signs
    • Add page and line break symbols
  • Edit notes in the Score Editor
    • Select notes in the Score Editor
    • Move and copy notes in the Score Editor
    • Change a note’s pitch, duration, and velocity
    • Quantize the timing of notes in the Score Editor
    • Edit attributes of individual notes
    • Restrict note input to a diatonic key
    • Control the appearance of tied notes
    • Create and edit tuplets
    • Use tuplets to override display quantization
    • Add grace notes and independent notes
    • Delete notes in the Score Editor
  • Add lyrics and text
    • Lyrics and text overview
    • Add lyrics
    • Add and edit text
    • Add automatic text
    • Add global text
  • Work with chord grids
    • Chord grids overview
    • Instrument Editor
    • Chord Grid Selector
    • Chord Grid Editor
    • Insert and edit chord grids in the Score Editor
    • Create custom chord grids in the Chord Grid Editor
    • Create, rename, and delete chord grid libraries
    • Import and export chord grid libraries
  • Edit score region parameters
    • Score region parameters overview
    • Style
    • Quantize
    • Interpretation
    • Syncopation
    • No Overlap
    • Max Dots
    • Score
    • Edit default parameters for new regions
  • Work with staff styles
    • Staff styles overview
    • Assign staff styles to tracks
    • Staff Style window
    • Create and duplicate staff styles
    • Edit staff styles
    • Edit staff, voice, and assign parameters for a staff style
    • Add and delete staffs or voices
    • Copy and paste staffs or voices
    • Copy staff styles between projects
    • Delete staff styles
    • Assign notes to voices and staffs
    • Add notes to a polyphonic staff style
    • Change the staff assignment of score symbols
    • Beam notes across staffs
    • Use drum notation with mapped staff styles
    • Predefined staff styles
  • Create scores and parts using score sets
    • Score sets overview
    • Choose score sets
    • Create and delete score sets
    • Edit score set parameters
    • Change the instruments in a score set
    • Resize score sets
    • Create separate layouts for a full score and parts
    • Extract parts from the score
    • Import score sets from other projects
  • Edit the score layout
    • Score layout overview
    • Edit line breaks
    • Line and page breaks
    • Edit local margins
    • Change the margin and header values
    • Use external symbol fonts
  • Share the completed score
  • Customize the Score Editor
    • Choose a color mode
    • Show or hide folder contents
    • Display global tracks
    • Display instrument names
    • Display duration bars
    • Change the length of duration bars
    • Display guide lines
• Chapter 21:  Share projects
  • Sharing overview
  • Bounce a project
    • Bounce a project to an audio file
    • Burn a project to a CD or DVD
    • Set the bounce range
    • Set bounce options
    • About dithering algorithms
  • Share projects to iTunes
  • Share projects to the Media Browser
  • Share projects to SoundCloud
  • Export projects
    • Export a project as an AAF file
    • Export a project as a Final Cut Pro XML file
    • Export a project as MusicXML
• Chapter 22:  Surround in Logic Pro X
  • Logic Pro X surround overview
  • Set up Logic Pro X for surround
    • Set surround preferences
    • Set the project surround format
    • Set the channel strip input format
    • Set the channel strip output format
    • Change the order of surround level meters
  • Logic Pro X surround features
    • Surround Panner
    • Surround effects
    • Multichannel effects
    • Surround master channel strip
    • Down Mixer plug-in
    • Bounce surround audio files
  • Additional surround information
    • Surround formats overview
    • Surround format channel distribution
    • Surround bounce file encoders
    • Speaker placement, timing, and levels
• 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
    • Tools in the Environment
    • Add and delete objects
    • Move and copy objects
    • Adjust the position and size of objects
    • Use advanced selection commands
  • Create your MIDI signal path
    • MIDI signal path overview
    • Assign direct output connections
    • Cable Environment objects
    • Make multiple cable connections
    • Cable objects in series and in parallel
  • Exchange Environments
    • Exchanging Environments overview
    • Import Environments
    • Update and swap Environments
    • Replace Environments
  • Customize the Environment
  • Environment objects reference
    • Standard instrument objects
    • Multi-instrument objects
    • Mapped instrument objects
    • Touch track objects
    • Fader objects
    • Alias objects
    • Ornament objects
    • GM mixer objects
    • MMC record buttons objects
    • Keyboard objects
    • Monitor objects
    • Macro objects
    • Arpeggiator objects
    • Transformer objects
    • Delay line objects
    • Voice limiter objects
    • Channel splitter objects
    • Chord memorizer objects
    • Physical input objects
    • Sequencer input objects
    • MIDI click objects
    • ReWire objects
    • Channel strip objects
• Chapter 24:  Video and synchronization
  • Video and synchronization overview
  • Use movies in Logic Pro X
    • Add a movie to your project
    • Use the Movie window
    • About the Movie track
    • Use movie scene markers
    • Use movie audio tracks
    • Create and edit soundtracks
  • Logic Pro X synchronization
    • Synchronization overview
    • External synchronization
    • MTC interpretation
    • MIDI Machine Control
    • Synchronization problems and solutions
• Chapter 25:  Preferences, project settings, and key commands
  • Logic Pro preferences
    • Logic Pro preferences overview
    • General preferences
    • Audio preferences
    • MIDI preferences
    • Display preferences
    • Score preferences
    • Movie preferences
    • Automation preferences
    • Control Surfaces preferences
    • Advanced preferences
  • Project settings
    • Project settings overview
    • General settings
    • Synchronization settings
    • Metronome settings
    • Recording settings
    • Tuning settings
    • Audio settings
    • MIDI settings
    • Score settings
    • Movie settings
    • Assets settings
  • Key commands
    • Key commands overview
    • Browse, import, and save key commands
    • Assign key commands
    • Print key commands