hey what's going on out there I'm Sean Divine hope you all are doing well today
I wanted to give you guys another Logic Pro X 10.5 video where we're going to be
utilizing the quick sampler for both some instrumentation as well as some drums
and then I'm also going to show you the step sequencer so there is a cool new
welcomed step sequencer now in Logic Pro X and it's very very cool to use in
tandem with the quick sampler I'm gonna go ahead and just load in a sample and
it's as easy as just dragging and dropping I'm gonna go over here and see
if I've got like just like a little melodic loop so I'm gonna go to
optimized and this is just going to allow us to get some smart utilization
going on behind the scenes optimized tuning yada yada loop points and all
that so we'll select that and then just as is just gonna play back that whole
loop just tuned but what I'm going to do is go over to slice and it will
automatically create slices out of the loop but I'm also going to go down here
to the follow tempo just to retain the timing here
so I'm gonna set the polyphony to mono and then I'm also going to go into the
mod matrix and just make this a little more expressive we're gonna set the
velocity to the filter cutoff and I want to turn on the filter
and then just depending on how hard I play the keys give us a little bit
livelier sound there and now I'm going to add just a little bit of reverb to
this
okay and then I'm gonna tune this up
okay that sounds cool so let's just lay down a quick pattern for us and then
we'll dive into the step sequencer with some drums
we got a little melodic loop to start with and let's drag over now a drum loop
and I want to show you how this is really cool we can use the quick sampler
to chop up the drum loop and then we're gonna sequence it with the new step
sequencer so we'll go to a quick sampler and you see that I can also drag in our
wav files our sounds or loops and drag it over here to the left side of the
arrangement window and it'll give us these options here to load in the quick
sampler we can load it into an instance of drum machine designer or we can even
resynthesize it with alchemy so once again I'm gonna go to the optimized
quick sampler and then let's see what happens here should load up there it is
and so it automatically assumed that this was a drum loop and did a bunch of
slices for us and we can change the sensitivity here so if you want to have
longer slices or more intricate things and then you can also go in and edit
them so let's say that there was like like that little hi-hat right here if I
want to get in there and make sure that we're just getting that hi-hat I can go
ahead and just make a new edit cut it a little closer
all right so diving into the step sequencer I'm gonna create a pattern
region and then you'll see our slices here now you'll notice that they're not
all here we had a bunch of slices and so if there's something in there for
instance that a that hi-hat that we just chopped and maybe that sound if they're
not here in our step sequencer I can just go up to this little plus and click
learn and then just hit those notes and those will be added into the step
sequencer so let's lay down a quick pattern here
okay so right now we're in sixteen steps but what we can do is switch this to 32
and it'll automatically copy that 16 to the next 16 and then I can make some
edits here so if I wanted to change up the kick pattern add some snares and
whatnot
all right so that's a good starting point so now I can go in here and either
from up in this menu I can choose a lot of different parameters like velocity so
if we wanted to just change those on-the-fly can go down here and do that
but we can also switch from a number of different parameters to sequence so if I
wanted to change the note value if I wanted to do things like note repeat so
let's go ahead and do that let's select that and let's go to that snare here and
let's just say that we wanted to chop that up we can go all the way into
divisions of 16 so we can do cool rolls and things like that let's try this
also want to show you guys that we have this chance option which if we select
this on any of our sequence notes here it will say based on a percentage
whether or not that note will actually play so if you want to create some
variation in your patterns now when I go to chance I can change that percentage
so let's just say we want these to you know maybe hit like half the time I can
do that and then maybe we want these to be 75 percent of the time and you're
just going to add a lot of randomization and variability in terms of what this is
doing so very cool there's other things in here like Tie which will tie notes
together so you can actually change the length of the notes now obviously this
is more useful for melodic things you know instruments and whatnot rather than
drums but there's a lot of cool stuff in here and this is a very flexible step
sequencer you can also change the the timing so the timing of the grid if you
wanted to switch into triplets or something like that based on each of
these cells so our notes so very cool to be able to switch all that stuff again
just a lot of different things you can do here so let's move on here I'm gonna
put in an 808 so the quick sampler is great for little one-shots drums and
bass lines so 808 included I'll just drag this over from splice and we'll go
to a quick sampler original so this is a pretty basic type of sound
then we get our 808 sound here so I'm gonna slide the glide up know you guys
love your glides
very easy to do and we're going to change the polyphony
Oh
all right maybe we'll add like a hi-hat and I'll drag this on to original quick
sampler and we'll probably just trigger this let's see
it opens, I'm gonna go to classic
yeah we'll try that
let's try a vocal sample of some sort yeah
let's try that let's just see what we can do with this let's see I'm gonna
move that over here and I'll see
all right so just for fun let's take a look at the live loops if you've been a
logic user like me for a long time this is a very new way of thinking about
arrangement and it opens up a lot of possibilities I know those of you out
there who have been using things like Ableton Live you know it has similar
things but I like the way that this is implemented and I think it's something
I'm going to be using creatively a lot so what we can do is just take that
entire little idea beat idea drag it over and create what's called a scene
here in live loops and I can just trigger all those here with this little
arrow in the live loop section and then let's say if we wanted to create a
variation of that so for instance on that little riff let's just say we
wanted to switch that one up I'll just delete that
let's add a synth for the heck of it I'll show you how we can kind of
improvise different things here in the live loops when we're creating ideas or
just pull up serum let's try I don't know just the first
lead in my urban dreamscapes pack and we'll just jam with it for a second and
kind of get an idea
all right so you get the idea here I'm still getting my feet wet with the live
loops but as far as just the quick sampler as well as the step sequencer
you know it just made your workflow enhancements for Logic users and I'm
just finding myself being able to put together ideas that much faster and then
the live loops I definitely can see it becoming something very valuable in
terms of improvisation and coming up with arrangement ideas so I hope that
gets you going making beats with the quick sampler as well as the step
sequencer feel free to leave a comment below if you learn anything in the video
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