Installing Logic Pro
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- boobs
I'm so excited!
But when I'm done, I'll have no hard drive left.
- ninjasavant0
Get another one!
- That's a good idea. I knew I came to the right place!boobs
- Meeklo0
get a FW800 drive to put all the sounds in
- mg330
Yo - I just picked up Logic Studio this evening and I'm sitting here about to install it.
I have the space on my MBP, but my question is: can I decline from installing the JamPacks onto the MBP and install them later onto an external HD?
Or will I be better off to just put everything onto my laptop? I can't believe how gigantic this program is... I'll have 35 GB free if it is fully installed on my laptop, and can move some stuff off to the external for more space when needed.
- jayoh0
I'm still getting to grips with GarageBand =p
- acescence0
in response to ^mg33, yes you can. run the installer disc and select custom install, deselect everything except the jam packs, then click the location drop down for each jam pack and select your external drive
- you have to click the arrows to expand the contents to get the location dropdownacescence
- mg330
thanks acescence, that's exactly what I did.
I've been using garageband since April and really liked it. But I'm setting out on some full-blown projects over the winter and I just assume make the leap up in quality and sophistication. I'm excited!
Not to mention, my band is about to start on our next album, and, while we'll be using our other guitarists MBP with Logic and a ton of hardware, it will be good to have access to the same files on my computer.
- boobs0
Logic will make you completely forget about having a band. You won't need those lazy fuckers for anything anymore.
- mg330
Hahaha boobs. I have way too much to keep me busy over the winter. I kind of took a hard look at what I was using my computer for primarily - design work or music, in terms of goals and what I want to accomplish soon. I've got CS3 but don't sit down and really do artwork as much as I'd like to that has any real point to it or any actual potential benefit in comparison to being a singer/songwriter/musician. My short and long term goals as a musician have gotten much stronger than just doing design work. If I can learn Logic pretty well and also get back into using Flash over the winter, I'll be really happy.
As for music recording, I've kind of got three projects I'm working on: more acoustic, stripped down band-esque music; instrumental and soundtrack music (think sigur ros, explosions in the sky, classical music, etc); and somewhere in there really trying to do more synth, dance-esque music in the vein of M83, LCD Soundsystem, Simian Mobile Disco, etc. I know very little about doing stuff like that, but I hear things like that in my head all the time so I figure why not give it a shot?
- acescence0
Logic + Native Instruments Komplete 5 = awesomeness
- SigDesign0
I've heard lots of good things about Logic... those Apogee Duets look really cool...
- mg330
So I got everything installed last night and had a chance to use it a bit. Much to learn. Taking the manual with me to work to read on the bus or subway.
Anyone have any top 5 or 10 tips for starting out with it? Anything I definitely should not miss, or things I should know and utilize right out of the gate?
- mg330
Bumping this for an additional question - anyone who uses Logic for electronic, midi music, know of any tutorials and demos using modern songs / modern dance music that's good, produced stuff? Justice, Simian Mobile Disco, Mylo, Air, Daft Punk, LCD Soundsystem, etc.
I'd love to see what a complete song file looks like just to see how things are structured, effects added, etc.
- acescence0
one thing i've learned from working with others is that there are many many means to similar ends, but techniques for achieving a good mix haven't really changed over the years, a couple of things i've learned...
when EQing, always subtract first rather than boost. extreme boosting introduces phase distortion and muddies your mix. try subtracting conflicting frequencies to emphasize something in a mix. a helpful tool is the realtime spectrum display on the EQ plugin, click the analyzer button on the left of the eq plugin window during playback.
compression, compression, compression. read all you can about compression techniques of the pros. this is the number one thing that will make your mix tight and bring out the details.
following on that, i often send all of my drum/perc sounds to a stereo bus, and compress them together. this will unify your drum sounds and make them "breathe" together. really brings a lot of life to your drums, especially if you're going for a natural "real drummer" sound.
check out http://www.gearslutz.com/board/ for more helpful hints and conversation.
- mg330
For those of you who record guitars with Logic, what's your preferred way of doing it?
Do you record amps with mics, or use a direct input guitar and modeling software?
For some reason my Line 6 Toneport and Gearbox software is glitching with Logic, making the Gearbox software flash when I arm a track, or totally switch presets in Gearbox.
I've been reading up on the Apogee Duet because I would like to move to something a little more sophisticated than the TonePort eventually, although I will probably prefer it's amp, bass, and vocal models to those provided by Logic (just don't know enough about Logic yet).
I just want to get the most cost effective and optimal set up to have recordings sound as good as possible, with professional mastering being an obvious final step to anything I create down the road.
I have a Vox VR-30 amp at home that I've recorded with on a different set up with a direct line out, but could also within reason mic this and record it that way as well.
Any thoughts? Do any of you strictly use Logic's guitar models, effects, etc as the primary way of getting guitar tone in the software?
- oh yeah, for some reason Logic seems to suck with USB soundcards...kingsteven
- For a proper cheap firewire card check out echo audiofire, it's a beastsection_014
- kingsteven0
I split it off at the tuner, record the amp on left and DI on right... I usually only end up just using the DI'd channel (with Guitar Rig).
- acescence0
i use an apogee duet and an api 512 mic pre and various mics or a manley tube direct which sounds good with anything, guitars, bass, synths.
- boobs0
I just mic the amp, and record it. Sometimes I eq it, and maybe add a wee bit of reverb in Logic.
- akrokdesign0
fancy, fancy.