Apple — Logic Pro X Live Loops is a dynamic way to create and arrange music in real time. Kick off your composition by adding loops, samples, or your recorded performances into a grid of cells. Trigger different cells to play with your ideas without worrying about a timeline or arrangement.
Once you find combinations that work well together you can create song sections, then move everything into the Tracks area to continue production and finish your song. Bring DJ-style effects and transitions to an individual track or an entire mix with a collection of stutters, echoes, filters, and gating effects.
Live Loops supports Launchpad for a tactile experience. Use an 8x8 grid of colorful and expressive pads to dynamically trigger cells, input notes, adjust mixer levels and more. Step Sequencer is inspired by classic drum machines and synthesizers. Using the Step Sequence editor, quickly build drum beats, bass lines, and melodic parts — and even automate your favorite plug-ins. Add sophisticated variations to your pattern with a wide range of creative playback behaviors. Use Note Repeat to create rolling steps, Chance to randomize step playback, and Tie Steps Together to create longer notes.
Use Multi-Touch gestures to play software instruments, mix tracks, and control features like Live Loops and Remix FX from anywhere in the room. Swipe and tap to trigger cells in Live Loops. And tilt your iPhone or iPad up and down and use its gyroscope to manipulate filters and repeaters in Remix FX. Program drum patterns and melodic parts from your iPad or iPhone. Create dynamic rhythmic performances, and automate your plug-ins — all with a quick tap of your finger.
Use a variety of onscreen instruments, such as keyboards, guitars, and drum pads, to play any software instrument in Logic Pro from your iPad or iPhone. Create at the speed of sound with key commands in Logic Remote.
Choose from curated commands for popular workflows, or create your own custom set. The new single-window design makes it easier to create and edit sampler instruments while remaining backward compatible with all EXS24 files.
An expanded synthesis section with sound-shaping controls brings more depth and dynamics to your instruments. The reimagined mapping editor adds powerful, time-saving features that speed the creation of complex instruments. And save hours of tedious editing with new drag-and-drop hot zones.
Quick Sampler is a fast and easy way to work with a single sample. Or record audio directly into Quick Sampler using a turntable, microphone, musical instrument, or even channel strips playing in Logic Pro. In a few steps, you can transform an individual sample into a fully playable instrument.
And with Slice Mode, you can split a single sample into multiple slices — perfect for chopping up vocals or breaking up and resequencing drum loops. This powerful but easy-to-use plug-in creates synthesized drum sounds. Choose from a diverse collection of drum models and shape their sound with up to eight simple controls. Drum Synth is also directly integrated into the bottom of the Drum Machine Designer interface — giving you a focused set of sound-shaping controls.
Redesigned to be more intuitive and integrated, Drum Machine Designer lets you effortlessly build electronic drum kits. Apply individual effects and plug-ins on each discrete drum pad to experiment with sound design and beat-making in new ways. With Sampler in Logic Pro You can still manually create sampler instruments the same way you could with EXS24—by creating zones and dragging or assigning files to them. You can also use Sampler to open and play the sampler instruments included with Logic Pro, as well as open and and edit custom sampler instruments you created with EXS If you only want to work with one audio file like a drum loop, vocal part, or drum sound, try Quick Sampler , also included in Logic Pro To quickly create a sampler instrument, just drag one or more samples to the Navigation Bar in Sampler.
Sampler analyzes the samples, creates zones containing the samples, and then maps the zones to keys. To get started, create an Instrument track with Sampler:. You can also quickly create a sampler instrument by dragging audio files to the track header.
The Optimized setting automatically determines the root notes of the zones and maps the zones across the keyboard. If there are multiple zones with the same root note, Sampler creates velocity layers—a different sample is triggered depending on how hard you strike the key—based on the perceived loudness of the samples.
Sampler finds loop points, balances the volume levels of the zones based on their loudness, and automatically crops the zones. Choose the Optimized drop zone that works best for the samples you're using:. When you drag a Chromatic option, Sampler chromatically maps samples as zones across the keyboard range, starting from C2. Each zone is mapped to a single key on the keyboard. The original file length, tuning, and volume are used.
Looping data is read from the file header, if present. Choose the Chromatic drop zone that works best for the sample you're using:. After you've created your sampler instrument, you have full access to edit functions in Sampler. Click Mapping in the Sampler toolbar to see and adjust how samples are mapped to keys. You can double-click Mapping to maximize the Mapping pane. In the Mapping pane, use the keyboard view to graphically edit zones and groups. Or use the zone view to edit zones numerically in a table.
You can also create empty zones and add samples to them, add multiple samples at once, and more. Click the Zone pop-up menu on the Mapping pane toolbar to access functions like auto-mapping, auto-looping, and more. To set start and end markers, add fade ins and fade outs, set loop points, add loop crossfades, and more without leaving the Sampler, click Zone in the Sampler toolbar. In the Zone pane's waveform display, zoom in or out with pinch gestures, or scroll the waveform display using two-finger swipes or by dragging the scroll bar.
You can use single-finger swipes if you're using a Magic Mouse. You can process your entire instrument using Sampler's powerful built-in synthesizer, mod matrix, and modulators. Logic Pro includes a large library of pre-designed sampler instruments like acoustic pianos, basses, strings, and horns, which you can play and record with Sampler.
If you created custom sampler instruments using the EXS24 sampler, you can open them in the Sampler, play them, and edit them in the new interface. Any zones and groups you created transfer as you created them in EXS Parameters like playback mode, pitch, and velocities all transfer as well. To load a sampler instrument created with EXS24, simply load the instrument from the Library or from the pop-up menu at the top of the Sampler window. Sampler uses the same file extension as the EXS If you have a large library of custom sampler instruments, you can use Search Filter to find particular software instruments.
Quickly create a sampler instrument To quickly create a sampler instrument, just drag one or more samples to the Navigation Bar in Sampler.
