You're reading from Jumpstart Logic Pro 10.6 Create professional music with Apple's flagship digital audio workstation app

Product type Paperback

Published in Oct 2020

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781800562776

Length 304 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Apple

Tools

Logic Pro X

Concepts

Desktop Applications

Author (1):

Jay Asher

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Table of Contents (17) Chapters

Preface

1. Chapter 1: Beginning with Logic Pro 10.6

2. Chapter 2: Getting to Know the Logic Pro Interface FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 3: Recording Audio

4. Chapter 4: Editing Audio

5. Chapter 5: Recording MIDI

6. Chapter 6: Step Entering and Editing MIDI

7. Chapter 7: Logic Pro's Drummer

8. Chapter 8: Logic Pro's Step Sequencer

9. Chapter 9: Working with Sampler, Quick Sampler, and Auto Sampler

10. Chapter 10: Working with Live Loops

11. Chapter 11: Working with Audio Files, Tempo, and Pitch

12. Chapter 12: Getting the Arrangement Right

13. Chapter 13: Organizing for the Mix

14. Chapter 14: Mixing Your Project in Logic Pro

15. Chapter 15: Automating Your Mix

16. Chapter 16: Delivering Your Music for Distribution

Arrangement Global Track

If you go under the Track menu to Global Tracks, or press G, you can toggle Global Tracks on/off. If you press option + G, you can configure them, and the only one we need for these tasks is Arrangement Global Track. Dragging the bottom line of the track allows you to enlarge the field, making it easier to see.

Now, we are ready to use Arrangement Global Track to create Drummer regions. Delete the two drummer regions so that we can create regions from scratch:

Click the + sign in Arrangement Global Track, and by default, it creates an 8-bar-long intro Arrangement marker.
Repeat that process and now it creates an 8-bar verse. I decide that I only want a 4-bar intro, so I grab the lower right-hand corner and resize it to 4 bars, and now the Verse Arrangement marker goes to bar 5.
Repeat this process 8 more times, and you will probably have Intro, Verse, Chorus, Bridge, Outro, Outro, Outro, Outro, Outro, and Outro, which is not at all what...