Logic Pro Class | San Francisco
Logic Pro Music Production Class | San Francisco
Basics
- →How to program MIDI and make beats
- →Using MIDI controllers
- →Quantizing and groove
- →Automation
- →Logic’s mixer
- →Setting up Logic and overview of the interface
- →Workflow and file management
Instruments & FX
- →Channel strips
- →Advanced automation
- →Logic’s virtual instruments
- →Logic’s FX and MIDI FX
Sampling
- →Chopping up loops
- →Advanced sampling techniques
- →Where to find samples and sampling law
- →Sample packs and libraries
- →Filtering and manipulating samples
Composition and Songwriting Techniques
- →Advanced rhythm and drum groove
- →Understanding instrumentation
- →Arrangement
- →Transposition
- →Music theory and rhythm study basics
Sound Engineering & Recording
- →Signal path and gain structure
- →Different types and applications of microphones
- →Vocal recording sessions
- →Mixing instruments and vocals
- →Sound waves, frequency, and amplitude
Advanced Logic Pro
- →Arrangement tools, folders, and global tracks
- →Flex Pitch and Flex Time
- →Manipulating tempo, time stretching
- →Busses & Routing
- →Key command customization
- →Advance MIDI editing and hyper editing
Music For Media
- →Sound design and music for video games
- →Importing and working with video
- →Working to a brief
- →Tempo mapping and time codes
Additional Information
- →Our small class sizes allow for instructors to curate class content to the students wants and needs.
- →Students receive access to numerous discounts on production software.
- →Use your own laptop, or use our macbooks free of charge.
- →Headphones and controllers are available to use.
- →Personal USB drive or SSD for storing your files is recommended.
Use the ‘CONNECT’ button below to request schedule and pricing information. One of our placement experts will follow up within a business day. For one-to-one lessons, see our Music Production Private Instruction page.
Taught at our San Francisco studio, the Logic Pro Class keeps groups small enough that every student gets real time at the controls. Bay Area producers lead the sessions, and the identical course can be taken live online if that suits you better, using our specialist music collaboration software, Muse.
The Basics
- →Setting up Logic and overview
- →Speeding up workflow and file management
- →Introducing the EXS 24 sampler and Ultrabeat
- →How to program MIDI and make some beats
- →All about quantize and groove
- →Apple loops dos and don’ts
- →Automation part 1
Instruments & FX
- →Logic’s instruments
- →Channel Strips dos and don’ts
- →Using Sculpture to craft organic sounds
- →Logic’s FX and MIDI FX
- →Using MIDI controllers
- →Vocoding
- →Automation part 2
Sampling
- →Where to get samples and the law
- →Mapping drums, tuning and manipulation
- →Chopping up loops in Logic X
- →Getting samples into time with your song
- →Filtering and manipulating samples
- →Automation part 3
Sound Engineering and Recording Techniques
- →Sound waves, frequency, and amplitude
- →The record path and gain structure
- →Foldback, headphone mixes, and latency
- →Microphone types, makes, and polar patterns – what to use and how to use for vocals and popular instruments
- →Compiling audio takes the official way and our way
- →Stereo recording techniques
Arranging In Logic & Advanced Midi
- →Tips on key command customization
- →Advanced MIDI editing and hyper editing
- →Arrangement tools, folders, and global tracks
- →Flex Pitch and Flex Time
- →Manipulating tempo, time stretching and using Flex Time
Music for Media
- →Logic’s mixer from top to bottom
- →Routing tips
- →Sync styles, trends and typical briefs
- →Tempo mapping/TC markers and TC basics
- →Arrangement tips for orchestra and theme building/stem creation
In our students' words.
“I went from knowing pretty much nothing about Logic to knowing how to built loops, work with midi, mix, and actually be able to record the music I write and and arrange on the computer. I'm really excited because Logic Pro X has opened up a new world for me as a singer songwriter!”
Dawn Red Sun
Instructors
Before you enrol.
Use the "Connect" button to request schedule and pricing information - a placement expert will follow up within a business day.
Everything from Logic basics and MIDI programming through sampling, composition and songwriting technique, sound engineering, advanced Logic tools, and music for media.
Either works - bring your own laptop, or use one of our MacBooks free of charge.
Yes - you can pay in interest-free installments.
No - it works for beginners and intermediate self-taught users alike, especially producers and singer-songwriters wanting to finish more tracks.
Yes - students get access to a number of discounts on production software.
36 hours - $1,799 (14+ days out) / $2,099 otherwise, + $200 registration
Ready when you are.
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