Logic Pro X: Making Beats

Start making music with Logic Pro X. Learn basic drum programming in Logic Pro—including recording, quantizing, sampling, and slicing—and beat-making with Drummer and Arpeggiator.

Introduction

• Welcome
• What you should know before watching this course
• Using the exercise files

1. Getting the Beat Started: Basic Drum Programming

• Choosing the drum kit
• Rehearsing the beat, cycling in Logic, and recording the kick and snare
• Understanding Logic regions and quantizing effectively
• Creating easy drum fills by MIDI time compressing
• Using capture recording
• MIDI time compressing for quick drum fills
• Separating your kick and snare by note, pitch, and output

2. Maximizing Your Drummer Performances

• Going deeper into the Drummer Editor
• Customizing the feel, ghost notes, and hi-hat performance details
• Making electronic beats with Drummer and Ultrabeat
• Tightening the kick and snare with Follow Rhythm

3. Retro, Hip-Hop, and Electronic Dance Music Beats in Ultrabeat

• Learning the basics of the drum machine
• Sound designing your kits
• Old-school step sequencing
• Making stutter vocal effects using Ultrabeat's step grid
• Making stutter vocal effects with a sidechain

4. Getting Creative with Apple Loops

• Changing the pitch of Apple Loops
• Changing the feel of Apple Loops
• Making, tagging, and indexing your own Apple Loops
• New Apple Loop features in Logic Pro X

5. Making Tight Beats

• Finding your tempo
• Time stretching audio
• Slicing up your samples
• Building a useful EXS instrument from a drum loop

6. Flex Like a Pro

• Flexing vocals
• Flexing to quantize audio
• Slicing on transients to regroove beats
• Flexing to change project tempo
• Creating gate effects with the Slicing Flex mode
• Creating effects with the Tempophone and Speed Flex modes

7. How Logic Swings

• Making groove templates
• Advanced quantizing
• Beat mapping a live performance
• Experimenting with your tempo using Varispeed
• Fattening your sound with drum replacement and doubling
• Using MIDI Transform for a human-drummer feel
• Tightening the feel with the groove track

8. Dance/Electronic Beat Making

• Warping your beat with Space Designer
• Creating turntable- and tape-machine-style speed fades
• Packing drum loops into a take folder
• Sidechaining the compressor with your kick
• Vocoding in Logic

9. Going Deeper with Arpeggiator and Other MIDI Plugins

• Discovering Arpeggiator
• Going deeper into Arpeggiator
• Exploring Chord Trigger
• Designing sounds with Modulator
• Creating sounds with Transposer and Velocity Processor
• Creating riffs with Scripter and Note Repeater

Conclusion

• What's next?