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
Best practices for working with projects from Logic Pro for Mac
You can open and edit projects in Logic Pro for iPad that were created in Logic Pro for Mac. There are best practices to be aware of when sharing projects from Logic Pro for Mac to Logic Pro for iPad.
You can consolidate your project in Logic Pro for Mac, which combines the assets used and copies them into the project. This helps you avoid attempting to load projects with missing files.
Tip: If you want to regularly exchange projects or work on a project on another device, all assets and files used in a project need to be available for the project to open correctly. So before sharing to your iPad, be sure to save all assets into your project in Logic Pro for Mac. To do this, make sure you select all checkboxes for “Copy the following files into your project” when saving your project in Logic Pro for Mac.
Depending on what content is used in your project, Logic Pro for iPad might ask you to download the relevant content packs if they are not already installed.
If your project in Logic Pro for Mac uses Audio Units plug-ins or Audio Unit Extensions that are not installed as Audio Unit Extensions on your iPad, you can bounce or freeze any tracks that use these before you share and open the project in Logic Pro for iPad. This is also true for tracks using Drummer Producer Kits. For more information about Audio Unit Extensions, see Work with Audio Unit Extensions.
Tip: For Audio Unit instruments, you can also use Auto Sampler in Logic Pro for Mac to create a sampler instrument that you can play in Logic Pro for iPad.
Some instruments and effects featured in Logic Pro for Mac are not included in Logic Pro for iPad. You can still load projects in Logic Pro for iPad that use these plug-ins; however, you can’t edit their parameters.
Projects created in Logic Pro for Mac with any of the following features can’t be opened in Logic Pro for iPad (in such cases, a dialog appears telling you which features are present when trying to load the project):
Surround and spatial audio
Binaural panning
Projects saved in folders (not as packages)
Sample rates greater than 96 kHz
Producer Kits
Projects in which the primary ruler is set to time instead of bars and beats
Projects starting at a position other than 1 1 1 1
Arrange folders (with multiple tracks)
External MIDI tracks (without External Instrument plug-ins)
No output tracks
For more information about the individual features and how to remove them, see the Share projects chapter in the Logic Pro for Mac User Guide.
Note: Projects created and last saved in Logic Pro for Mac version 9 or earlier (with the filename extension .logic) don’t appear in the Projects Browser in Logic Pro for iPad and can’t be opened.
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