Welcome to Logic Pro tips in under 5 minutes with Ripple Training.
I'm Mary Plummer and I'm going show you a few tricks for getting yourself from Garage
Band into Logic Pro 10.
So for starters, I just want to compare the two apps if you're familiar with Garage Band on
the Mac, you'll see that it looks pretty familiar and if I jump into the streamline interface for
Logic Pro.
You'll notice they are nearly identical from empty project other than the default track
size is a little smaller.
You'll notice that I just zoomed in back to Garage Band and you'll see that Garage Band
has a library, a tracks area, and then over here we have our loops browser where we can
select loops and drag them right in and there's our loops.
Now you're probably familiar with that.
Of course, we also have our smart controls, and our editors.
So that's Garage Band, let's go to Logic Pro and look at the same thing.
There's our library, there's our tracks area, over here's our loop's browser.
And this one is a little more advanced than Garage Band. I can bring it in and it will
even allow me to bring in the tempo for my first loop and change the tempo of my project
accordingly or not.
I have that option and other than that, we still have our editor, we have our smart control
buttons but there's also a few cool things, for example, in Logic Pro 10, you also have
your mixer, to allow you to mix your tracks just like standard hardware equipment, as
well as there's your inspector which gives you easy access to plug-ins and effects as
well as faders for your selected tracks and your master stereo in and outs.
Go ahead and hide my mixer.
So, let's go back over to Garage Band now and create a new track.
As you can see here's your four standard tracks.
I'm just going to make a drummer track, very cool feature; virtual drummer.
Here we are, in Garage Band automatically I have two default regions.
And you notice whichever regions selected as you make adjustments that's the one that
you're going to be editing.
Right now I'm using the default drummer Kyle but you have all different genres.
I can switch over to Hip Hop anytime or whichever I'd like.
And there they are.
Again, whatever I select is the one I change.
Now let's look at the same thing in Logic Pro, there's my drummer track.
I can select the genre right there in my new track dialogue.
I'm going to go with my default Kyle.
And I can zoom in and out there a little bit but look at this, there's also a drum kit
designer which allows me to swap out certain parts of my kit or make adjustments to them.
I can change the kit entirely right there in the drum kit designer or another Logic
Pro feature is I can just go over to the Library and select a different kit there.
Something else that's go ahead and switch over to our Hip Hop genre or Electronic, either
one also gives you access to the drum machine designer and there you can swap out whichever
instruments are assigned to the different pads, so for example, this cowbell I can change
it to a different percussion instrument just by selecting and now that will be played as
part of my kit.
So that's just one subtle difference.
I'm going to swap this back to alternative and let me show you a feature that's only
available in Logic Pro 10, and this is brand new, it's right here it's called the Auto
Select button.
And if I would select that, now wherever my playhead is, that region will be selected
for my drummer track.
So if you take a look, as the playhead moves from one drummer region to the next, you'll
see it will automatically select that region and then I can make adjustments to it.
So very cool, very useful, and saves a lot of headaches when trying to do editing with
your drummer tracks on the fly.
There's also tools that'll you find to make it a little bit easier to do some of your
editing and different recording work.
If you go to Preferences, you can switch out of the streamline Garage Band friendly interface
to a more advanced interface.
Once you turn on advanced tools, now you have a lot more preferences you also have more
buttons available, more customizable tools that you can shortcut, there's your list view.
That allows you to look at things in list, you also have a handy customizable tool bar.
And a lot of recording options for doing things like punching in or ADR.
And much more advanced recording work, so when you're ready you can slowly add advance
features or if you're just getting started and making the leap from Garage Band, you'll
be able to start right away.
I also have a full series of tutorials on Logic Pro that you can find at RippleTraining.com.
This has been Mary Plummer.
Thanks for watching!