Here Are Some Cool Logic Pro X + Reason Rack Tips

[hurricane]

And we have our first question from the audience:

HOW DO I USE EUROPA'S ENVELOPE TO MODULATE ALCHEMY'S FILTER?

TOO EASY.

1. Insert a Reason Rack Plugin into Logic's MIDIfx slot, add Europa, and then a midi out module.
2. Connect CV OUT 1 to CV1 IN
3. In Europa's mod matrix set ENV1 as your source and CV1 OUT as the destination. The set the midi out device's CC output to 2.

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In Alchemy, touch the filter cutoff dial to make it active in Alchemy's modulation section. Click the first modulation source and select MIDI CC #2.

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Now set the depth/amount levels on Alchemy and Europa to taste.

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[hurricane]

And in case it isn't obvious, you can chain multiple Reason Players and Logic Midifx (using the 'Learn Plugin Parameter' function) to simultaneously modulate multiple parameters on Alchemy (or any other synth):

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[hurricane]

HOW TO MOVE THE TRANSPORT TO THE BOTTOM, JUST LIKE IN REASON

Quick tip.

1. So Logic normally looks like this
2. We're going top hide the transport by moving our pointer to the dividing line between the transport and the toolbar.
3. And then when it turns into this icon:

transportarrow.jpg

Click-hold and drag the line up:

transportup.gif

Then in Logic's toolbar go to Window/Open Transport Float.


Then position it like this:

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[MannequinRaces]

I haven't touched Logic since Logic Express 7 but man.... oh boy, this thread is making me want to give it a spin! Really great info in here! Thanks hurricane!

[hurricane]

I haven't touched Logic since Logic Express 7 but man.... oh boy, this thread is making me want to give it a spin! Really great info in here! Thanks hurricane!

YW!

The Logic + RRP combo is really great and once you get used to the two working together you'll feel right at home.

[tronam]

Thanks for the fantastic tips thread; much appreciated.

[hurricane]

Some music making got in the way of these Logic tips, but now we can resume.

I don't know about you, but I like using one-shot drum samples. If you do too, then you might be tired of having to drag-copy your samples in bits and pieces. In Reason, you can at least join the samples to create one block, making drag-copy a little more convenient. Logic has something similar, and it's even a little faster.

All you have to do is highlight your samples, right click, and go to Folder/Pack folder:

pack folder.png

This is similar to Reason's join, in that you get one block to work with:

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The 'fast' part comes next, where instead of drag-copying the block, you can simply use Logic's loop function (move the mouse to the upper right-hand corner of a region till you see the ]Q symbol) to loop-drag the block, Acid-style:

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I prefer using a folder because it is non-destructive, and any changes you make to the original samples get applied to the looped blocks.

[Robert Wade]

This is like a pool of information here.

[Yonatan]

So does Reason Rack Plugin still works well in Logic Pro X 10.5?

[ksniod]

Yesterday I tried replacing a synth (Europa or Complex) in the rack with a preset combinator (by drag-droping) but was unable to do so.
It didn't display any error message, the previous synth disapeared in the rack but no combinator appeared instead.
I don't know if it's me or a real problem with RRP in Logic, i just tried a couple of times with different combinator presets (it was working when replacing with a synth preset).
I'll try again when i'm back on my Mac.

[jam-s]

Yesterday I tried replacing a synth (Europa or Complex) in the rack with a preset combinator (by drag-droping) but was unable to do so.
It didn't display any error message, the previous synth disapeared in the rack but no combinator appeared instead.
I don't know if it's me or a real problem with RRP in Logic, i just tried a couple of times with different combinator presets (it was working when replacing with a synth preset).
I'll try again when i'm back on my Mac.

If that synth you tried to replace was inside of a combinator it would explain the behaviour you saw as combinators cannot be nested.

[ksniod]

Yesterday I tried replacing a synth (Europa or Complex) in the rack with a preset combinator (by drag-droping) but was unable to do so.
It didn't display any error message, the previous synth disapeared in the rack but no combinator appeared instead.
I don't know if it's me or a real problem with RRP in Logic, i just tried a couple of times with different combinator presets (it was working when replacing with a synth preset).
I'll try again when i'm back on my Mac.

If that synth you tried to replace was inside of a combinator it would explain the behaviour you saw as combinators cannot be nested.

Well I didn't want to nest a combinator, just replace a synth (Europa) with a combinator from a refill.
It seems to me that it's something I do regularly in Reason (Daw) with no trouble.
I'll try again and see if it's still the same (and in other daws)

[teddymcw]

This is legendary btw. Thank you.

[hurricane]

Thanks. I'm going to start these up again. Stay tuned!

[jwd606]

Thanks. I'm going to start these up again. Stay tuned!

Excellent.

[Alrek]

Is it possible to assign two (ore more) pads in the Drum Machine Designer to a single instrument like a RRP for instance?

My goal is to manage all my drums within the Drum Machine Designer. However in some cases a single instrument can host two ore more elements (like the kick and a snare from Kong).

How can I assign pad A triggered by note C1 to a RRP XY while pad B is triggered by note C#1 in the same RRP?

[hurricane]

AUTOMATION CURVES

Thanks to my recent upgrade to R11, I'm going to show you how Logic has been doing all the "new" features in R11. First up is automation curves.

First thing is to hit "A" on your keyboard to switch to the automation view in Logic's arrange page. Once you select the parameter you wish to automate, you'll see a solid yellow line which you can then divide with the pointer according to the way you want to automate this parameter:

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In my case, I'm automating the VOLUME parameter to go from 0.0db down to 24-27 DBs. Notice that by default, the automation consists of straight lines:

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What you want to do now is switch to the AUTOMATION CURVE TOOL by hitting "T" then "W".

Now using this pointer, select the section you wish to curve (it should turn white), then by either moving/dragging the pointer up/down or left/right, you should get a variety of curves:

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[hurricane]

You can either do all your automation in the arrange section, or you can get a bigger and clearer view in the piano roll:

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[Creativemind]

In Reaper you can drag audio samples from the media browser to any of Reasons audio loading devices, ReDrum, Kong etc too but not from the arranger (sequencer), can you in Logic?

[hurricane]

You can drag audio from Logic's media browser to any of the audio loading devices in the RRP.

If you want to load any audio in Logic's arrange page to a Reason device, while you cannot simply grab the audio from a track and load it, you can grab it from Logic's Project browser. Any audio on the arrange page gets automatically loaded and cataloged in Logic's project browser. You can then grab and drag any of this audio to any RRP device that accepts audio:

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Very handy when you want to load any bounced audio to a RRP device.

[QVprod]

Super late to noticing this thread. Good stuff hurricane!

[hurricane]

DRAWING MULTIPLE MIDI NOTES

This works similar to Reason, in that you use the pencil tool to draw notes, however, there is no need to switch Pencil modes in Logic because you can switch between single/multiple midi notes in Logic with a simple hold of the SHIFT button.

Without holding shift, you get one long note. The first thing you see in this gif is me switching to the Pencil tool by hitting "T" then "P":

midi draw one.gif

If you want to draw multiple midi notes, simply hold SHIFT while you draw:

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Then hit "T" then "T" again to switch back to the normal pointer.

Get these little shortcuts down and you'll be doing this stuff super fast.

[hurricane]

MUTING MIDI NOTES


This can be done a few ways, but here are the 2 ways I do it:

First way is to use the mute tool by hitting "T" then "M". Then with this pointer click on the notes you wish to mute or unmute:

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You can also modify Logic's key commands to make this even quicker. What I like to do is have the "M" key be the muter. This requires you to go into Logic's key commands and re-map the shortcut. Now you can just select whatever (a region, a midi note, etc) and then simply hit "M" to mute.

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[hurricane]

CROSSFADES

I'll show you the super fast way to do this, then I'll go into more detail later.

First thing you want to do is make sure you have the "drag" setting up in Logic's toolbar to 'x-fade':

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Now simply drag one audio file onto another and Logic will do the crossfading for you.

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How's that for quick and easy?

[joeyluck]

I do wish that Reason had the drag option approach so that it could also have the "no overlap" option. That would also make the crossfade more intuitive and bring it to the forefront.

Aside from how crossfade is assigned, it works pretty quickly in Reason by pressing 'x'. Many people using Reason still think they need to highlight both clips they want to crossfade, but in Reason the crossfade only needs to be assigned to the clip on the right (as the crossfade only occurs on the left side of the clip).

For drawing multiple notes in Reason, you can hold Option to switch pencil tools.
Or you can leave it on the pointer tool and you can press Command to switch to the pencil tool. And by combining them (Command+Option), you can switch to the multi note pencil from the pointer.