Hello. I’ve been learning Logic Pro since early ’23, and have version 10.7.8. To assist, I got 2 books and perused them long before getting the new mac loaded with Logic: one from the Apple Pro Training Series, “Logic Pro X 10.4” by David Nahman, and “Logic Pro X for dummies” by Graham English. At this point, both have lots of marked post-it notes sticking out everywhere so I can access areas of interest quickly. To start the learning process once I had mac and Logic in hand, I ran several test mules – the first using apple loops, then a few combining software instruments, drum tracks and audio tracks.
As a newbie here, my first question has to do with changing key.
Another test mule turned into a project, one based on a one-minute guitar ditty that I wanted to repeat a couple of times, and have the tempo bump up along with a key change at each transition. Having scanned briefly the pertinent areas of the reference books on flex, I decided to set the tempo changes first and do the key changes after I had recorded more tracks. (Also, I wanted the fingerpicked part of the guitar thing to be faster than I could play it cleanly, so I thought I’d record it at 140 bpm, and then take it up to +150 range.) This has all worked just fine.
So when I got around to thinking about the key changes, I examined the books more closely, and caught the last 2 sentences in the dummies’ book section concerning ‘Creating key signature…changes’ where the author states; “Key signature changes don’t change the pitch of the audio or MIDI regions you’ve recorded. They only change the display of the regions in the score editor.”
So what good is that to me? I was expecting to be able to enter the key changes globally similar to the tempo changes. I see you can transpose loops and MIDI regions, but is there a way to insert key changes to affect what’s already recorded – including audio tracks? If so: how?
Thanks for the welcome; glad to be here. ~Lefty7
As a newbie here, my first question has to do with changing key.
Another test mule turned into a project, one based on a one-minute guitar ditty that I wanted to repeat a couple of times, and have the tempo bump up along with a key change at each transition. Having scanned briefly the pertinent areas of the reference books on flex, I decided to set the tempo changes first and do the key changes after I had recorded more tracks. (Also, I wanted the fingerpicked part of the guitar thing to be faster than I could play it cleanly, so I thought I’d record it at 140 bpm, and then take it up to +150 range.) This has all worked just fine.
So when I got around to thinking about the key changes, I examined the books more closely, and caught the last 2 sentences in the dummies’ book section concerning ‘Creating key signature…changes’ where the author states; “Key signature changes don’t change the pitch of the audio or MIDI regions you’ve recorded. They only change the display of the regions in the score editor.”
So what good is that to me? I was expecting to be able to enter the key changes globally similar to the tempo changes. I see you can transpose loops and MIDI regions, but is there a way to insert key changes to affect what’s already recorded – including audio tracks? If so: how?
Thanks for the welcome; glad to be here. ~Lefty7
