10 Secret Logic Pro X Tips
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@rynabuns 2 жыл бұрын
0:10 - 1. Track alternatives 1:26 - 2. Project alternatives 2:23 - 3. Freeze tracks 3:13 - 4. Summing stacks 3:58 - 5. Fade zones 5:21 - 6. Slow down/speed up 6:27 - 7. Automate tempo 7:49 - 8. Sample anything 8:57 - 9. Move busses 10:55 - 10. Custom presets
@mattlytle3306 2 жыл бұрын
Thanks for these tips! The track alternatives as a way to flatten a take folder while still having a take folder was an incredible tip! Also, for freezing tracks, you can specify whether you want logic to freeze pre-fader or else freeze the source (pre-fader is default). Freezing the instrument source (the snowflake will be blue instead of green) works great for software instruments. It freezes the instrument audio while still allowing you to add plugins to the track. I use that a lot for orchestral stuff since my Mac is old and underpowered.
@BangBangBeefyMacNCheesy 2 жыл бұрын
Probably the most informative Logic vid I’ve seen in quite some time! Thank you for the tips!
@NathanJamesLarsen 2 жыл бұрын
Heyo! Thanks Scott - really appreciate that and thanks for telling me!
@ZAY________ Жыл бұрын
Oh wow so many of these things I never tapped into for the last 10 years. Track alternatives, Project Alternatives, Quick Sampler... I even have a specific issue regarding my buss volume not "reading" what is written, but you explaining the Buss volume automation part, I think I now know exactly what the issue is. Thanks so much man!
@dalydose221 2 жыл бұрын
This is awesome man thanks for sharing. Especially the project alternatives.
@maxhighstein Жыл бұрын
Thanks for the tips and no fluff or BS at the top! You know how to do it!
@Willsonix 2 жыл бұрын
Really helpful video, I’ve certainly picked up some new tips and tricks. Every day is a learning day!
@SYPCWAK Жыл бұрын
Thanks!! This was very helpful. You showed me some things I was not aware of. Much appreciated!!
@lilian896 2 жыл бұрын
Love the Fade Zones! Thanks.💟
@kaidoChess 2 жыл бұрын
The slow down fade took was epic
@SincerelyYoursWill 2 жыл бұрын
Liked how you resolved the track alternative being FLATTENED by creating another version DEDICATED for that. Definitely will try that out! My approach was to bounce out the track and option click the On/Off button turning the track off and hiding it afterwards. I thought that was the fastest way, but your approach seems to involve even less steps. So will give yours a go! Thanks for sharing, Nathan!
@MarioGodoyMusic 2 жыл бұрын
Track and project alternatives will be a game changer for me. Thank you!
@RandNMusic 2 жыл бұрын
Oh your videos are so good it really inspired me to make more music 😁
@NathanJamesLarsen 2 жыл бұрын
REally appreciate this! Get at it!
@benyaeast4741 2 жыл бұрын
THank you heaps mate, learned a lot 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽
@Slamminbassplayer Жыл бұрын
Best video ever. Project Alternatives FTW!!
@DoctoriusJ 2 жыл бұрын
THANKS for the information Good Sir!
@jasoncolbey83 Жыл бұрын
FANTASTIC!!!!!!🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼
@SmilusMusic 2 жыл бұрын
Dude! Well done. A few gems that I wasn't aware of. Thanks for sharing
@SimonFlames 2 жыл бұрын
Track alternatives was the biggest game changer for me, absolutely love it
@NathanJamesLarsen 2 жыл бұрын
I love track alternatives so much
@Heathen-Sun 7 ай бұрын
Oh wow! This is extremely helpful.
@ellisba1 2 жыл бұрын
Best tips video … very informative 💯👌🏿
@dominichickman5019 2 жыл бұрын
OMG NATHAN! I KNEW ALL OF THESE ALREADY, MOST OF THEM I FIGURED OUT MYSELF. I FEEL LIKE A REAL PRODUCER NOW MAN. SOMETIMES HELPFUL TIPS ARE REASSURANCES THAT YOU KNOW WHAT YOU ARE DOING. GREAT VIDEO THOUGH!
@NoyElankry 2 жыл бұрын
Thank you!! Very helpful
@vewilli 2 жыл бұрын
Very cool. To understand everything I‘ll have to watch it twice or three times, e.g. to understand tips 7 and 8. Didn’t even know 1 tip of these 10. 👍🏻👏🏻🙏🏻
@taylorfusion Жыл бұрын
Tight editing tips thank you
@DanielDeakin Жыл бұрын
track alternatives is sick! i used to make a new track every time i bounced and hide everything for vocals. this is wayyyyy bettterrrrr. thankkkkks
@350125 Жыл бұрын
Great tips for beginners 👍
@neiljacobson8675 2 жыл бұрын
Nathan, really great video! I'm looking for snare drum samples and the one you played sounds fantastic. Where did you get it? Thanks!
@Vintsent Жыл бұрын
AMAZING VIDEO DUDE !!! Thanks a lot. There is something interesting with your tips number 4, I used to produce a song with that workflow, I send my layer to an summing track stack (I maybe wrong) but I decided to work with buses with the old way to do it. Because when you wanna export your project in audio (thing I am doin because my sound engineer do not have Logic) the export do not take my effects on my summing track stack, but if I am doing a send to a bus it works well. I still do not find a solution for that, and I searched everywhere that’s crazy. But man, thank you sooooo much for that video, really thanks a lot 🙏🔥
@lukaselliot. 2 жыл бұрын
Learnt a lot of stuff I didn’t know about in this video. Thanks Nathan :)
@NathanJamesLarsen 2 жыл бұрын
Absolutely! Glad it helped!
@maxmariotti277 2 жыл бұрын
Hey Nathan! I’m a relatively new producer (about 2 years) and I was a very happy Ableton user until they switched a policy and I lost the trial and it’s definitely not in my budget so I had to switch to Logic out of necessity. I’ve only been at it for about 2 weeks but you’ve helped me feel fairly proficient with the software in that short amount of time! Thanks a lot for all the value you add!
@NathanJamesLarsen 2 жыл бұрын
Sorry you couldn't keep using what you were comfortable with but glad you're getting comfortable with Logic - once you get it down, it's a piece of cake! Best to ya!
@maxmariotti277 2 жыл бұрын
@@NathanJamesLarsen thanks so much!
@ChrisNeffDrums 2 жыл бұрын
First tip was great.... Subbing.
@wepromoters7270 Жыл бұрын
very helpful bro
@andsoitis2010 Жыл бұрын
@Nathan James Larsen Hi Nathan! Super video as always. Quick question: I have 3 different reverbs that I would like to save as a preset... is there a way to make ONE preset from three busses?
@CMvidproductions 2 жыл бұрын
Such a helpful video- really appreciate all the time and hard work you put into not just your music production but also your video quality and editing is ON POINT. Wishing you nothing but the best moving forward! Rock on
@NathanJamesLarsen 2 жыл бұрын
Aw man this is a great comment. Appreciate love and appreciate the encouragement. Definitely a lot of effort put into these videos, so always appreciative of the support. Keep at it!
@hansy1305 2 жыл бұрын
Hi Nathan, thanks for all that you do. This may be unrelated to the video here, but where can I here more of atmospheric pop songs (yours and others)?
@brianpylant4617 2 жыл бұрын
To add any mixer channel strip as a track in the main window, right-click and choose Create Track, or just hit control-T. (Wish Logic just did this by default; put *everything* in the main window, and have view filter buttons like the Mixer has.)
@mikepurkiss2040 2 жыл бұрын
Bro, Thank you!
@NathanJamesLarsen 2 жыл бұрын
Absolutely!
@alexmasters23 2 жыл бұрын
Thanks Nathan! It took me months to figure out project alternatives and now I get to have track alternatives yay! For putting the aux track in the arrangement window, you're probably putting the send to 0.0 dB and adjusting the volume fader of the aux track right? This seems best if only one thing is going to the aux track so the volume automation doesn't affect the other tracks?
@NathanJamesLarsen 2 жыл бұрын
Yes! I find that easiest to adjust with the fader
@TheJammerman 2 жыл бұрын
Making the aux tracks appear in the timeline is super useful for keeping things organized and having your arrangement window match your mix window.
@NathanJamesLarsen 2 жыл бұрын
Yeah it really is - I don't know why Logic doesn't make this more intuitive but it is what it is.
@samecoff2788 2 жыл бұрын
You can also do this by selecting the aux in the mixer and pressing control t or right clicking and selecting ‘make track’.
@boblazo1 4 ай бұрын
+ 1 track Alternatives
@itikutok6568 2 жыл бұрын
Awesome stuff! I ran into one problem with summing stacks though - let's say I put all my drums tracks into a summing stack and apply bus processing, but then I want to create additional bus chains for, let's say, the top snare, I get a phasing effect and it completely ruins the sound. It's almost like once a summing stack is created Logic doesn't like you sending any of those individual tracks to another bus. I tried to route the additional bus back to the summing track, I also tried using sends for the additional processing, but the phasing effect persists. I assume I'm doing something wrong, but would appreciate if anyone has a solution, thanks!
@seakins5304 2 жыл бұрын
Mind blown....!
@NathanJamesLarsen 2 жыл бұрын
Love it!
@heartshinemusic 2 жыл бұрын
Thanks Nathan! Great video. With the project alternatives, it would be good to note that you can delete the song title when renaming your alternative because that will remain from the original session. One question: when adjusting the tempo after recording, does all the audio automatically change to the new tempo? (I didn't know that.) How is the quality of the stretching then? I always tempo map before recording audio when I'm still in MIDI mode. I think that would be the preferable route to remain the best audio quality, or not?
@NathanJamesLarsen 2 жыл бұрын
No the audio will not change tempo. Unfortunately Logic isn't too great with stretching audio on my opinion. I prefer adjusting tempo right away before tracking anything and that's what I would recommend!
@heartshinemusic 2 жыл бұрын
@@NathanJamesLarsen Thanks, that's what I thought. As always: get the basics right (MIDI) before recording an audio source.
@Varshavallagi 2 жыл бұрын
Hi Nathan, I am a beginner music maker( only one year experience) and with your videos i find my craft getting significantly better.....absolutely love your passion and energy u have while making streams especially. i really hope u see my comment bcoz i have a doubt . And that is only at this year I found about synthesizers....so my question is if we r making a song which demands a lot of synthesizer work, do we have to design every sound? If so ,will that take a long time to designing for the right sound? And how to reduce it? Thank you buddy🙌🙌
@NathanJamesLarsen 2 жыл бұрын
Honestly - presets are great. Learn the basics of how to manipulate presets. Even Zedd has been open about how he doesn't build his own synth sounds but uses presets. Your music is not the sum of your "synth manipulation" abilities - focus more on musicianship, arranging, composition, recording techniques, and learning the fundamentals. I don't think learning everything about ADSR is gonna make the world of a difference.
@Varshavallagi 2 жыл бұрын
@@NathanJamesLarsen thank u soo much Nathan, I was soo pre-occupied on MUST CREATE MY OWN SOUNDS mindset....now that pressure has been relieved 😌
@kyteluna 2 жыл бұрын
If it sounds good, it sounds good!
@collinhorton1728 2 жыл бұрын
I’ve know about the track alternatives but never thought to use it in that application! Do you know if that plays nice with Melodyne ARA?
@NathanJamesLarsen 2 жыл бұрын
You want to wait to apply any pitch correction till you comp and rhythmically edit. Then once that's done - commit to it and then pitch correct
@ISaudio 2 жыл бұрын
Quick question regarding the track stacks (4) So say I track out the project, will each track have the processing added to the track stack? (eq, compression, etc)
@NathanJamesLarsen 2 жыл бұрын
Your still have all your individual effects on those individual tracks. Basically any effects on an individual track stay there and then you can apply other effects on the track stack that apply to ALL the tracks in that track stack exactly like a bus.
@TheJammerman 2 жыл бұрын
Juicy golden gems in Logic? Okay yes please
@auraemberofficial Жыл бұрын
Hi I am new to logic and i enabled the fade tool click zones. of course it doesnt work because it's the murphy's law of music production. in fact, fading automation doesn't work at all. So, Flex tool is not enabled, i bounced the midi of a snare to audio file, in a new project, and it still drags the file around like my poor heart. would you happen to know how to solve this? there's no info online about it, I scraped clean every forum I could find. Should I uninstall and reinstall? Should I give up music production? I hope it's something small that makes me look stupid for not noticing it. my fl studio crashed 5 months ago, it's just one problem after the next. thanks god this is long sorry
@TheJammerman 2 жыл бұрын
Track alternatives makes things a little more like the “Playlists” folders in Pro Tools. Nice. I could use a more in-depth take on track stacks because I have found Sends more useful and organized. Bit too much clutter for me, maybe I’m using them suboptimally?
@NathanJamesLarsen 2 жыл бұрын
Yep. Similar to PT I use Track Stacks mainly for larger groups of things I want organized together and then I can apply processing on (vocals, drums, etc) and then I usually am still using typical sends for effects like reverb and delay.
@TheJammerman 2 жыл бұрын
@@NathanJamesLarsen nice, I just find outputting to an aux for the group and sending for parallel to be the easy way.
@Youngguy 2 жыл бұрын
Hey Nathan I made two pop songs in two days easily but for some reason Im having a creative block lately, do you have any tips to feel motivated to create again?
@NathanJamesLarsen 2 жыл бұрын
Hey! I actually have a whole video on my thoughts towards avoiding creative burnout here: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/aZukn6Wbybepn3k.html
@m.o.n.d.e.g.r.e.e.n 2 жыл бұрын
slightly scary that i knew all of these except one. i didnt know the one about fade regions etc. logic stole this one off pro tools "smart tool" and im very happy about it
@rome8180 2 жыл бұрын
Question: how is turning up the volume of an aux different than sending more of the signal to the aux? When I want more reverb or delay on a specific section, I've always just automated the send.
@NathanJamesLarsen 2 жыл бұрын
Same outcome different way of doing it. It's just "easier" to use a fader but each to their own.
@honzakalnik 2 жыл бұрын
It's actually better to automate the send because if you have multiple instrument going into the same bus and you need to add more reverb just on vocals automating the whole bus would raise reverb on all of the instruments going into the reverb. Because of this I also use send automation rather than volume automation of the whole bus. But I use the function to show buses in the tracks just to rearrange the buses. Btw is there any way how to show the buses in tracks, rearrange them and then hide them in tracks again?
@nm725 2 жыл бұрын
This is a mickey mouse question im sure,but im just starting out,and have purchased a neural guitar plug in..but dont know how to get it to work within logic..any help is appreciated thx
@PhilippMoehrke Жыл бұрын
I like your videos WITHOUT backingmusic much better
@stuffnuns 2 жыл бұрын
Ya don’t really have to wait until you’re fully done with a track to freeze it. When a track is frozen, and you try to edit it, Logic will tell u it’s frozen and ask if you want to unfreeze it. And then, you can make the changes, then freeze it again to save the cpu and speed up editing.
@NathanJamesLarsen 2 жыл бұрын
Right - it is rather annoying to have to go back and forth which is why I just recommended that.
@Seijikom 2 жыл бұрын
project alternatives
@pbasswil Жыл бұрын
I think I'll be switching to Logic from Ableton, cuz there are just too many features Logic has that would make my life easier. But one great thing about Live I'll regret losing: You hardly ever have to go into a menu. Whereas 85% of Logic's (great) features are in menus. Often buried in long, _nested_ menus. I'm not looking forward to that continual intricate mousing. :^/ I hope most items I'll need can have shortcuts assigned.
@AFRoSHEENT3ARCMICHAEL69 2 жыл бұрын
Oh man that first one. It's so annoying trying to edit with a take folder.
@jellewierda3828 2 жыл бұрын
Project alternatives never worked for me because they get broken or corrupt pretty easily... And i feel that the backups get messy...
@NathanJamesLarsen 2 жыл бұрын
Hmmm that is strange. I've never had issues with it. Sorry it's been a downer for you!
@Rhythmattica 2 жыл бұрын
Project Alternatives are just a way of saving Versions within a Single Package Container. Its literally the same as saving different versions as before.... I still stick with the old school folder Hierarchy... Its easier to search for different Project vers and audio files system wide.. Plus, the way the naming convensions using project alternatives, just doesn't work for me.
@georgykishtoo9777 2 жыл бұрын
"rallentando" :-)
@trevor_mounts_music 2 жыл бұрын
How is this secret? It's all in the documentation/tooltips 😂
@Skrenja Жыл бұрын
"You can automate anything in Logic" not varispeed, though. 😓
@emanuel_soundtrack 2 жыл бұрын
Secret…on manual
@petterrong1590 2 жыл бұрын
You have no idea how dumb I feel right now after watching the first tip. I've been using track alternatives since it was implemented, about as long as I've been frustrated with the process of reversing take flattenings. Never again!
@dipto9292 2 жыл бұрын
wow 1st comment..!!
@NathanJamesLarsen 2 жыл бұрын
Hey hey hey! Thanks!
@dipto9292 2 жыл бұрын
@@NathanJamesLarsen Thanks to you for such important.. informations..!!
@Clamjahahghff 2 жыл бұрын
10 tips you should have figured out by the time you entered your credit card info
@NathanJamesLarsen 2 жыл бұрын
You okay? - cause if you look at the comments it seems this video helped plenty of people.
@Clamjahahghff 2 жыл бұрын
@@NathanJamesLarsen now James; your not fooling anyone with a double digit IQ. Should rename this video to “10 TIPS.”
@mozotheartist Жыл бұрын
The fade thing is not working it’s not working!
@tobiasantolini1052 2 жыл бұрын
I guess i'm a pro then :')
@RandNMusic 2 жыл бұрын
First Yeyy
@NathanJamesLarsen 2 жыл бұрын
Heyyyyyyyoooooo!
@fiveshorts 7 ай бұрын
Just don’t need the ESPN promo music in the background. So distracting.
@le-berry 2 жыл бұрын
Hidden tips ? That doesn't make much sense :-) and who did hide that tips and why?
@von_Apa 11 ай бұрын
Thanks, this is all good stuff. Still, my feedback will be: Why are you in such a hurry? You talk as if you only have some more seconds left... SLOW DOWN! It makes the info much more pleasant, and you are one of my favorite KZfaqrs! I want to enjoy learning!
@prodgrysz Жыл бұрын
im searching all across you tube for the SAUCE 🤌🏽
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