Logic Pro: Producing Electronic Music
3h 58mIntermediate2021-03-30
Authors

Nate Mars
Producer, Music Technologist
Course details
Electronic music is an umbrella term for a wide variety of genres and sounds, from ambient, dub, acid house, trap, drum and bass, dubstep, and more. But whatever style you produce, Logic Pro can handle it. This powerful DAW is uniquely suited to capturing your creativity and expressing your sonic ideas. In this course, instructor Nate Mars shows you the core techniques professionals use to produce electronic music in Logic Pro.
He starts with building the foundation of the track—the drums. He shows how to program beats in Ultrabeat, utilize your own samples, and create drumbeats for a variety of genres. He then moves into creating basslines for house, trap, dubstep, and other genres, and getting a great deep sub-bass sound. He next moves into creating lead synth sounds, starting with Logic Pro's built-in Alchemy and Retro synths. He also goes into using samples and adding sound effects. Then he pulls it all together and demonstrates ways to arrange the tracks, use creative effects, mix the tracks together, and use automation to finalize the mix. Plus, learn how to send your MIDI note and clock data to external synths from Logic Pro X—a fun way to experiment with analog sounds.
He starts with building the foundation of the track—the drums. He shows how to program beats in Ultrabeat, utilize your own samples, and create drumbeats for a variety of genres. He then moves into creating basslines for house, trap, dubstep, and other genres, and getting a great deep sub-bass sound. He next moves into creating lead synth sounds, starting with Logic Pro's built-in Alchemy and Retro synths. He also goes into using samples and adding sound effects. Then he pulls it all together and demonstrates ways to arrange the tracks, use creative effects, mix the tracks together, and use automation to finalize the mix. Plus, learn how to send your MIDI note and clock data to external synths from Logic Pro X—a fun way to experiment with analog sounds.
Skills covered
Logic ProAudio EngineeringDigital Audio WorkstationsAppleAudio and MusicPersona
Concepts
0. Introduction
- 01 - Produce electronic music with Logic Pro
1. Get Started with Logic Pro
- 02 - Review of Logic basics
- 03 - Configuring Logic preferences
- 04 - Working with a MIDI controller and musical typing
- 05 - Configuring the UI and recording preferences
- 06 - Enabling capture recording and hidden features in Logic Pro X
- 07 - Saving a project
- 08 - Electronic music production concepts
2. Arranging
- 09 - Accessing Apple Loops and Factory Content
- 10 - Timeline vs. Live Loops feature
- 11 - Recording Live Loops to an arrangement
- 12 - Recording into a cell to create Live Loop
- 13 - Arranging using Timeline and Live Loops together
3. Sequencing
- 14 - Creating a pattern region and pattern cell
- 15 - Using pattern regions for drum programming
- 16 - Advanced features of pattern regions and Step Sequencer
- 17 - Drum pattern fundamentals
4. Drum Programming
- 18 - Drum programming in Ultrabeat
- 19 - Navigating Ultrabeat's interface
- 20 - Step Sequencing and sound design in Ultrabeat
- 21 - Importing and working with audio samples
- 22 - Using Ultrabeat in multi-output mode
5. Drum Machine Designer
- 23 - Using Drum Machine Designer
- 24 - Advanced features of Drum Machine Designer
- 25 - Multi-output processing
6. Quick Sampler
- 26 - Quick Sampler overview
- 27 - Importing samples and creating slices
- 28 - Advanced features of Quick Sampler
- 29 - Creating a Drum Designer Track for slice editing
7. Sampler vs. ESX 24
- 30 - Sampler overview
- 31 - Working with basic features
8. Back to Basics
- 32 - Creating a wobble or moving bass
- 33 - Creating a bassline in house music
- 34 - Sub-bass secrets
9. Synthesizers
- 35 - Sound design and synthesis concepts with Retro
- 36 - Recording filter automation with Retro
- 37 - Sound design with Alchemy
- 38 - Advanced sound design features with Alchemy
10. Arrangement and Mixdown
- 39 - Creative MIDI and automation effects
- 40 - Essential audio effects for mixing - EQ and compression
- 41 - Essential audio effects for mixing - Reverb and delay
- 42 - Using sidechain compression
- 43 - Electronic music arrangement concepts
11. Special Multi-Effects
- 44 - Using the Remix effect
- 45 - Using the Phat effect
- 46 - Using the Step effect
12. Analog Synths
- 47 - Setting up analog gear with Logic Pro X
- 48 - Syncing Logic Pro X with an external clock
Conclusion
- 49 - Next steps