Logic Pro User Guide for iPad
- What’s new in Logic Pro 1.1
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- What is Logic Pro?
- Working areas
- Work with function buttons
- Work with numeric values
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- Intro to tracks
- Create tracks
- Create tracks using drag and drop
- Choose the default region type for a software instrument track
- Select tracks
- Duplicate tracks
- Reorder tracks
- Rename tracks
- Change track icons
- Change track colors
- Use the tuner on an audio track
- Show the output track in the Tracks area
- Delete tracks
- Edit track parameters
- Start a Logic Pro subscription
- How to get help
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- Intro to recording
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- Before recording software instruments
- Record software instruments
- Record additional software instrument takes
- Record to multiple software instrument tracks
- Record multiple MIDI devices to multiple tracks
- Record software instruments and audio simultaneously
- Merge software instrument recordings
- Spot erase software instrument recordings
- Replace software instrument recordings
- Capture your most recent MIDI performance
- Use the metronome
- Use the count-in
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- Intro to arranging
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- Intro to regions
- Select regions
- Cut, copy, and paste regions
- Move regions
- Remove gaps between regions
- Delay region playback
- Trim regions
- Loop regions
- Repeat regions
- Mute regions
- Split and join regions
- Stretch regions
- Separate a MIDI region by note pitch
- Bounce regions in place
- Change the gain of audio regions
- Create regions in the Tracks area
- Convert a MIDI region to a Drummer region or a pattern region
- Rename regions
- Change the color of regions
- Delete regions
- Create fades on audio regions
- Access mixing functions using the Fader
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- Intro to Step Sequencer
- Use Step Sequencer with Drum Machine Designer
- Record Step Sequencer patterns live
- Step record Step Sequencer patterns
- Load and save patterns
- Modify pattern playback
- Edit steps
- Edit rows
- Edit Step Sequencer pattern, row, and step settings in the inspector
- Customize Step Sequencer
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- Effect plug-ins overview
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- Instrument plug-ins overview
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- ES2 overview
- Interface overview
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- Modulation overview
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- Vector Envelope overview
- Use Vector Envelope points
- Use Vector Envelope solo and sustain points
- Set Vector Envelope segment times
- Vector Envelope XY pad controls
- Vector Envelope Actions menu
- Vector Envelope loop controls
- Vector Envelope release phase behavior
- Vector Envelope point transition shapes
- Use Vector Envelope time scaling
- Use the Mod Pad
- Modulation source reference
- Via modulation source reference
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- Sample Alchemy overview
- Interface overview
- Add source material
- Save a preset
- Edit mode
- Play modes
- Source overview
- Synthesis modes
- Granular controls
- Additive effects
- Additive effect controls
- Spectral effect
- Spectral effect controls
- Filter module
- Low and highpass filter
- Comb PM filter
- Downsampler filter
- FM filter
- Envelope generators
- Mod Matrix
- Modulation routing
- Motion mode
- Trim mode
- More menu
- Sampler
- Copyright
Recording settings in Logic Pro for iPad
You can use Recording settings to determine how Logic Pro for iPad responds while in record mode.
Audio recording
The following settings determine the file type and bit depth of newly recorded audio files. You can change those settings in an existing project if needed, and all new audio files are then created in that format without altering any previously recorded audio files in that project.
File Type pop-up menu: Select the audio file format for recording.
AIFF: Audio file format mainly used on the Mac platform.
WAVE (BWF): Most compatible audio file format.
CAF: Allows for exceptionally long recordings if you plan on recording continuous, half-day or longer audio files.
Bit Depth pop-up menu: Set the bit depth for newly recorded audio files. A higher bit depth has the ability to capture a wider dynamic range.
Note: Choose the recording bit depth in Logic Pro to match the bit depth of your audio device. Each audio device either has a fixed bit depth or lets you choose a specific bit depth to send its digital audio signal to Logic Pro.
16-bit: Use only if you want to keep audio file sizes small or if your audio device supports 16-bit. Because 16-bit audio files only have a dynamic range of 96 dB (without dithering), they produce quantization distortion at very low signal levels.
24-bit: The most commonly used bit depth. Its file size is 50 percent larger than 16-bit audio files, but it has a better dynamic range of 144 dB with virtually no quantization distortion.
With proper external gain staging, 24-bit is sufficient for any acoustic recording because the dynamic range of even the best microphone doesn’t exceed 140 dB.
32-bit float: Uses 32-bit floating point calculations to create audio files 33 percent larger than 24-bit audio files.
Tip: The advantage of using 32-bit float for recording is that you can remove digital clipping that occurred during the recording simply by lowering the gain of the audio region. You can also increase the gain of recordings with levels that are too low without increasing the noise floor.
Overlapping MIDI recordings
This setting determines the behavior when recording over existing MIDI regions. You can choose from two options, independently, when Cycle mode is turned on or off during recording:
Create Take Folder: Each recording pass creates a separate take region that is stored inside a take folder. See Intro to takes.
Merge: Merges newly recorded MIDI data with the existing MIDI data in the same MIDI region. The region extends the length of the existing MIDI region when recording beyond its boundaries.
Important: The Overlapping MIDI Recordings settings are ignored when the Replace button 
is enabled in the control bar. In Replace mode, any existing MIDI data is overwritten.
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