Lessons
Introduction and Getting Started
1Downloading and Installing Logic Pro for iPad
00:45 2Interface Overview
07:03 3Creating a New Project
06:36MIDI and Audio
4MIDI Basics
03:56 5Play Surfaces
03:29 6Recording and Editing Audio
06:16Live Loops and Sequencers
7Using the Live Loops Window
11:27 8Sequencers and the Step Editor
08:16Advanced Editing and Automation
9Advanced Editing and Velocity
05:25 10Quantizing
03:16 11Swing
02:22 12The Delay Function
01:45 13Automation
04:26FX Processing and Grouping
14The Mixer, Aux and Sends
08:26 15FX and Plugins - Equalization or EQ
04:22 16Compression
04:50 17Reverb
05:41 18Delay
04:08 19Essential Modulation FX - A Brief Overview
03:57 20Distortion
05:07 21Grouping
03:25Mastering and Exporting
22Mastering with AI Mastering Assistant
06:02 23Exporting
02:39Optimizing Your Workflow and Advancing Your Music Production Toolkit
24Optimizing Your Workflow
01:32 25Advice on Workflow Order
01:53 26Advancing Your Music Production Toolkit
03:14ChromaGlow - Saturation Effect
27An Introduction to Saturation
05:58 28Let's Explore Some Presets
16:26 29Drive, Model and Style
04:55 30Bypass, Level and Mix
07:53 31High Cut and Low Cut
09:50Thanks and Bye
32Thanks and Bye
00:09Lesson Info
Bypass, Level and Mix
OK. So now let's look at bypass level and mix. That's this area over here on the right. Let's first have a look at bypass below. We can turn this on and off with this button here with this enabled frequencies below. This number will not be saturated right now. It will not apply saturation to frequencies below 510 Hertz. So let's play this back and draw and play back. I'll enable and disable bypass below. So we can hear the difference. So you could hear there that we were saturating the lower frequencies when this was disabled and when this was enabled, we weren't saturating the lower frequencies. Now let's increase this to 700 Hertz and now it won't apply the chromo glare effect to anything below this number. Let's increase this even more. So it's more obvious, let's increase it to 1200 Hertz. Let's increase it even more to 3000 Hertz and all the way up to 10,000 Hertz where we can't hear any of the Chromo glow effect anymore. And when we drag this down, we can hit saturate the lower f...
requencies. Let's just tap on this to bring up this large dial and put this back to 510 Hertz. So this we can affect more at the top end than the bottom as you may wish to add distortion or saturation only to the high end and less to the mid and low range. So there you can add saturation but just to the high end, this might be nice for some instruments such as vocals or even for mastering. However, for this electric piano sound, I like it saturating the lower frequencies. So I'm going to disable this. Let's now have a look at bypass below for the master bus. So let's go back to the mixer and for the stereo out, let's enable Chromo Glow. So let's tap on this and then select, turn on. Now let's tap on this again and press show details again. Let's hide the mixer. So we have a bit more space you'll notice here we have bypass below enabled and we actually have this enabled for all of the mastering presets. So if we tap on the browser button here, we can go back to the preset menu. So let's tap on master buss and let's select some of these and you'll notice they all have bypass below enabled. So we're mastering a lot of the time. You won't want to saturate the lower frequencies, just the higher ones. However, let's play this back and go through a few of the presets enable and disable bypass below. So you can hit a difference before we do this though. Let's make sure we uns solo the keys track, I am using some quite extreme examples here just so we can hear the difference. But for example, on the club track preset here, when we disable bypass below, you can really hear it saturate the kick drum. There was too much saturation in low and there. So let's play this back again and enable bypass below. I am using some quite extreme examples there, but hopefully you can hear the difference. So it does sound better or more appropriate for mastering with this enabled. OK. Let's just turn off a chromoly effect for this master buss and let's demonstrate the next setting on the base track. So let's actually close the mixer and the plugging control and then select the base track here. Now let's show the details for the Chromo glow effect on the bases track. So let's tap on this and tap the show details. Now let's close the mixer and let's also close the browser here. So we have a bit more space. By the way up here, it's only going to show one track and it will only show the track that you have selected. So that's why I closed the mixer and selected the base. OK? Now let's discuss level in and level out these controls allow us to adjust input and output levels with the level in control. We can set how much audio is going into the effect. So we can get more distortion by increasing level in. So if you want a really distorted effect, you can increase this. So let's solo the base and play this back and adjust the level in control, then we can adjust the gain level with a level out. So of this, you can compensate for the increased gain by turning down a level out. As I said before, you really want your plugins at the same level with them enabled and disabled as this helps with mixing decisions. As often things can sound better if they're louder. So we really want it to be the same level with the Chromo glow effect turned on and off. OK. Let's now play this back and adjust the level out and try and get at the same level when the effects turned on and turned off. OK, approximately about there, right. Let's now discuss this mix control right now. It's on 100%. So we can't hear the signal before we apply the saturation effect to it. So we can only hear the wet signal, we can add some of the dry signal, which is the audio before we apply the effect by decrease in the wet amount. So if I pull the mix down to 50% then we can hear the signal without the effect applied. And the signal with the Chromo glow effect applied, let's just play this back and I adjust the mix signal. So you can hear the difference, blend in the wet with a dry signal like this can give us a different sound or character. So this is a bit like parallel compression. This is where you heavily compress the signal and then blend a bit of the signal with the dry signal. We can do the same kind of thing here if we wish. So this is where we can blend some of the heavy saturated signal with the dry signal. Ok. So that's bypass level and mix next. We'll look at loca and high cut down here. So thanks for watching and I'll see you there.
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