Archive for the ‘logic’ Category

Classic Synth Sound Design: Abacab

Thursday, June 12th, 2008

Since finishing my read-through of the Logic 8 instruments and effects manual I've thought the best way to learn some sound design was not to create something new, but to replicate the sound of something that already exists. I have a few classic synth lines I want to try to redo ...

Apple Selling Off Pro-Apps To Make Room For Adobe? Nah!

Friday, May 2nd, 2008

Robert Cringely speculates about the future of Apple Pro Apps: …why, then, was Apple quietly shopping around its entire professional application business to prospective buyers at the recently completed National Association of Broadcasters show in Las Vegas? These include Aperture, Final Cut Pro, Logic, and Shake -- applications that are hardly ...

April Fooling Around With The New Logic

Tuesday, April 1st, 2008

Steve Horelick, Logic trainer and Emmy nominated musician for his work on Reading Rainbow, demos the latest ways to use regions in an unreleased Logic Pro, on this day, April 1, 2008. I mean, it is truly unbelievable. The Logic designers have come up with new ways of manipulating regions that ...

Logic Pro Now Most Popular Apple Pro-App?

Saturday, January 26th, 2008

Take a look at the Apple Store's software section. At the time of this post, Logic Studio is #12 in rank by top selling Apple Software applications. Among full, Pro apps (not counting Express versions), it is number 1. It's higher on this list than Aperture and Final Cut Studio. I think Logic's days ...

Logic Pro 8 Bug: Alternate Keyboard Layouts Are Ufcked

Wednesday, January 16th, 2008

I love Logic 8. And I love the Dvorak keyboard layout. But put all three of us together and it's a bizarre love triangle. And yes, I did complain about something similar in Reason 4, but I've never had this problem in Logic until version 8. This is likely a bug with ...

Help Find BT’s Missing Daughter

Monday, January 7th, 2008

Über-Logic user and musician BT has posted a release about his missing daughter. I am diligently and delicately working to do everything possible to amend this tragic family situation. As a father my only goal is to get my daughter back home. I appreciate your continued support and understanding in this ...

SFLogicNinja - Free Apple Logic tutorials

Saturday, January 5th, 2008

One of the most talked about Logic links going around right now is the profile of Youtube user SFLogicNinja. SFLogicNinja, aka David Earl, has posted a number of Logic tutorials on Youtube. They aren't just basic concepts either. Some tutorials are advanced Logic Pro techniques, including Audio To Score, Groove Templates, ...

Logic Pro 8 Bug: Arrange Drawing When Interacting With Folders and Panels

Saturday, November 3rd, 2007

Machine: PowerMac G5 Dual 2.0Ghz Versions: Logic Pro 8.0 Mac OSX 10.4.10 Problem: Arrange window does not draw correctly when going in and out of Arrange Folders. The arrange timeline is off and some regions get cutoff. What it looks like: How to recreate it: Create a few tracks Create a region on each track Stuff regions into a ...

Logic Pro 8 Automatically Maps GM Midi Files

Saturday, October 6th, 2007

Here's something cool… Open a MIDI file. It could be anything you got from the net - something like an old Duran Duran song. It should be something General Midi compliant. Logic Pro 8 will ask if you want to create a New Environment or a copy of the one you're ...

The Logic Rip-Off?

Friday, September 28th, 2007

Between the complaints about the iPhone price drop and the Logic price drop I'm pretty confident you can't satisfy everybody. I've been reading some posts on forums that Apple is completely ripping off its users by lowering Logic's price. How this is the case boggles my mind. Typically, the only people complaining ...