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Logic Pro Class | San Francisco

Logic Pro Music Production Class | San Francisco

Basics

  • Setting up Logic and overview of the interface
  • Workflow and file management
  • How to program MIDI and make beats
  • Using MIDI controllers
  • Quantizing and groove
  • Automation
  • Logic’s mixer

Instruments & FX

  • Logic’s virtual instruments
  • Logic’s FX and MIDI FX
  • Channel strips
  • Advanced automation

Sampling

  • Where to find samples and sampling law
  • Sample packs and libraries
  • Filtering and manipulating samples
  • Chopping up loops
  • Advanced sampling techniques

Composition and Songwriting Techniques

  • Understanding instrumentation
  • Arrangement
  • Transposition
  • Music theory and rhythm study basics
  • Advanced rhythm and drum groove

Sound Engineering & Recording

  • Sound waves, frequency, and amplitude
  • Signal path and gain structure
  • Different types and applications of microphones
  • Vocal recording sessions
  • Mixing instruments and vocals

Advanced Logic Pro

  • Key command customization
  • Advance MIDI editing and hyper editing
  • Arrangement tools, folders, and global tracks
  • Flex Pitch and Flex Time
  • Manipulating tempo, time stretching
  • Busses & Routing

Music For Media

  • Importing and working with video
  • Working to a brief
  • Tempo mapping and time codes
  • Sound design and music for video games

Additional Information

  • 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.
  • 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 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.

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