![]() ![]() Trust me, all this automating is a lot of work!Īnd yet, sometimes, indeed often, with scoring to picture projects I still may not have all the levels right or I may wish to create alternate mixes depending on picture considerations, like dialogue or producer/director critiques. In most of the libraries I use, Expression controls not only volume but timbre as well.Īs you can also see for further sub-mixing, I have created auxes that all the voices, strings, brass and percussion are outputted to and I have used Logic Pro's track based automation to automate those auxes volume without affecting timbre. Since these are orchestral library samples I am composing with, I have performed with MIDI draw, Logic Pro's region based automation, lots and lots of CC 11 (Expression) moves to control the volume in a (I hope) musical fashion. You see only ten tracks, but if you look at the numbers in the Track Headers, you can see that the first four are Folder Stacks, a great new feature in Logic Pro X, so that in reality they represent about thirty tracks. ![]() In Pic 1, you see the Main window (formerly the Arrange window in earlier Logic Pro versions) of one of my Logic Pro X projects. It does lots of useful things, like phase inversion, balancing incoming signal between the left and right channels, swaps the left and right output channels and even gives you summed mono when you need it.īut most of the time we use it to perform one very simple but helpful task, which is to either amplify or reduce the signal for level adjustments by a specific decibel amount. Now the Gain plug-in is not just a one trick pony. And yet, buried in the Utility plug-ins folder is a little CPU efficient gem called the Gain plug-in that solves so many mix problems as to be almost indispensible for users like me. In each subsequent version of Logic Pro there are always new and exciting bells and whistles that Apple touts that has new users buzzing and in the case of plug-ins like Amp Designer, Pedalboard, and Drummer, it is quite understandable, as they are terrific sounding and very sexy.
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