Appendix A. Skills Review
Now that you have finished the exercises in this Apple Pro Training Series for Logic Pro, let’s take some time to review the skills you have learned.
Questions
1. How do you zoom in on a specific area, and how do you zoom back out?
2. How do you zoom in and out incrementally?
3. How do you forward or rewind the playhead by 1 or 8 bars?
4. How do you locate the playhead to a specific position?
5. How do you copy one or several regions or notes?
6. Describe three ways to loop a region?
7. How do you resize a region?
8. What are the units of the four numeric values used to determine lengths and positions?
9. How many ticks are there in a sixteenth note?
10. What two fundamental settings affect the quality of a digital audio recording?
11. What happens when you raise the I/O buffer size?
12. What is nondestructive audio editing?
13. How do you add a fade-in or fade-out to a region?
14. How do you add a crossfade between two regions?
15. How do you select a section of an audio region?
16. How can you time-correct a MIDI region?
17. How do you choose default region parameters for a new MIDI recording?
18. What type of Track Stack should you create to have MIDI regions on the main track trigger instruments on the subtracks?
19. In the Smart Controls pane, how do you map a screen control to a plug-in parameter?
20. In the Smart Controls pane, how do you assign a screen control to a knob on your MIDI controller?
21. How do you create notes in the Piano Roll Editor?
22. How do you create steps in the Step Sequencer?
23. How do you convert a MIDI region into a Pattern region (or vice versa)?
24. How can you check the pitch and velocity of a note in the Piano Roll?
25. How can you check the position, length, and pitch of a note in the Piano Roll?
26. How do you adapt the project tempo to the tempo of an audio recording?
27. How do you slice up a region into several smaller regions of equal lengths?
28. How can you add tempo changes and curves?
29. How do you apply a tape or turntable speed-up or slow-down effect?
30. How do you make one track follow the groove of another?
31. How do you turn on Flex editing?
32. How do you use Solo mode?
33. Identify the four main instrumental sound components you can adjust to give each instrument its place in a mix.
34. For what purpose do you use a bus send?
35. In the inspector, how can you choose which channel strip is displayed in the right channel strip?
36. What is the maximum level you should use when mixing in Dolby Atmos?
37. How do you open a Surround Panner or 3D Object Panner window?
38. When you send to a bus, how do you quickly find the Aux receiving that bus in the Mixer?
39. How do you quickly create a Drum Machine Designer patch from audio samples?
40. How do you insert a new audio effect plug-in in between two existing plug-ins?
41. In Quick Sampler, how do you make sure a sample always plays in its entirety?
42. How do you modulate a parameter in Quick Sampler?
43. How do you record your own sample in Quick Sampler?
44. In Quick Sampler, how do you play a sample in different pitches while keeping its timing synced to the project tempo?
45. How do you process only a section from an audio region with audio effect plug-ins?
46. How do you map your controller’s drum pads to trigger a Live Loop cell?
47. How do you map your controller’s transport buttons to transport functions?
48. In the Piano Roll, how do you transpose selected notes up or down one semi-tone or one octave?
49. How do you create concave, convex, or S-curves when drawing automation curves?
50. How do you consolidate audio regions and silent parts on a track into a single new audio region?
Answers
1. Control-Option-drag to zoom in on the selected area, and Control-Option-click to zoom out.
2. Press Command-Arrow keys.
3. Press > or < to forward or rewind by 1 bar, Shift-> or Shift-< to forward or rewind by 8 bars.
4. Click the lower half of the ruler, or Shift-click an empty position in the workspace.
5. Option-drag the region or note, or Option-drag several selected regions or notes.
6. Position the mouse pointer to the upper right of the region and drag the Loop tool; or select the region and click the Loop checkbox in the Inspector (or press L).
7. Position the mouse pointer to the lower right (or lower left) of the region and drag the Resize tool.
8. Bars, Beats, Division, Ticks.
9. There are 240 ticks in a sixteenth note.
10. The sample rate and the bit depth.
11. The CPU works less hard so you can use more plug-ins, but the latency is higher.
12. Audio region editing that does not alter the audio data in the referenced audio file
13. Drag the Fade tool over the boundaries of a region (or Control-Shift-drag the Pointer tool), or adjust the Fade In or Fade Out parameter in the Region inspector.
14. Drag the Fade tool over the junction of the regions (or Control-Shift-drag the Pointer tool), or adjust the Fade Out parameter in the Region inspector.
15. Drag the Marquee tool over the waveform.
16. In the Region inspector, set the Quantize parameter to the desired note value.
17. Deselect all regions in the workspace and adjust the MIDI Defaults settings in the Region inspector.
18. A summing stack.
19. In the Parameter Mapping area, click Learn. Click a screen control to select it, and click a plug-in parameter to map it to the selected screen control.
20. In the External Assignment area, click Learn. Click a screen control to select it, and turn a knob on your MIDI controller until the screen control moves along.
21. Click with the Pencil tool.
22. Click a step to toggle it on or off.
23. In the Tracks area, Control-click the region, and choose Convert > Convert to Pattern Region (or Convert to MIDI Region).
24. Place the pointer over the note. After a pause, a help tag appears with the information.
25. Click and hold the note.
26. Set the Project Tempo mode to ADAPT – Adapt Project Tempo, and record audio or import an audio file.
27. Option-click the audio region with the Scissors tool.
28. Open the global tracks. On the Tempo track, click the tempo line to create a tempo point, and drag the line to the right of the new tempo point up or down. Drag the corner that appears above or below your tempo change to adjust the tempo curve.
29. Add a fade-in or a fade-out, Control-click the fade, and in the shortcut menu, choose Speed Up or Slow Down.
30. Configure the track headers to show groove tracks; then click the track number to set the groove track, and select the Match Groove Track checkbox in the other track(s).
31. Click the Show/Hide Flex button in the Tracks area menu bar, and turn on the Track Flex button for the desired track.
32. Click the Solo button (or press Control-S) to turn on Solo mode, and then select regions to solo them.
33. Volume level, stereo position, frequency spectrum, and distance
34. You use a bus send to route some of the signal from a channel strip to an aux channel strip, usually to be processed by plug-ins.
35. On the left channel strip, Shift-click a Send slot or the Output slot to display the corresponding channel strip on the right.
36. Your mix should remain at or below −18 dB LUFS.
37. Double-click the surround or 3D object panner on the channel strip or track header.
38. Shift-click the bus send to make a white frame flash around the corresponding Aux channel.
39. Drag and drop the audio files to the empty area below the track headers, and choose Drum Machine Designer.
40. Position the mouse pointer in between the two plug-ins, click the line that appears, and choose the new plug-in.
41. Use the One Shot mode.
42. Click the Mod Matrix tab, assign a source to a target, and adjust the Amount slider.
43. Use the Recorder mode, click the Record button, and record your sample.
44. Below the waveform display, click the Flex button, and make sure the Follow Tempo button is on.
45. Drag a Marquee selection, and choose Functions > Selection-Based Processing.
46. Select a cell, Choose Logic Pro > Control Surfaces > Learn Assignment for “Live Loops Cell (Column 1),” and hit the pad on your controller.
47. Choose Logic Pro > Key Commands > Edit, select a command, click Learn New Assignment, and press a button on your controller.
48. Press the Option-Up (or Down) Arrow to transpose one semi-tone, and Shift-Option-Up (or Down) Arrow to transpose one octave.
49. Hold down Control-Shift while dragging the line between two automation points of different values. Drag up or down for concave or convex curves, and left or right for S-curves.
50. Drag the desired area with the Marquee tool, and choose Edit > Bounce and Join > Join (or press Command-J).