![]() With more digital based synths you don’t just start with analogue waveforms, you can have digital waveforms or samples that enter the signal flow for all sorts of fun. Some ‘analogue’ types might have seven different oscillators, for example, or allow a gazillion different modulations so you can take the output of an LFO and apply it to the resonance of the filter (basically in software synths you can do take any sonic parameter and apply it to any other).Īnd that is just analogue synthesis. ![]() Of course there are a lot of different synths that add a lot more to it than that. its volume characteristics (the attacks, decay, sustain and release parameters). An Amp envelope equates to how the sound comes in and out i.e. It is then modulated to give it more character with perhaps a low frequency oscillator adding movement or a sub bass oscillator adding depth and bass. This is then filtered by frequency to give some bass or treble characteristics. This might be a sine, square or sawtooth waveform, usually something fairly simple. The building blocks of basic analogue synthesis are that you always start with a signal generated by one or more oscillators. We’ll concentrate on the synth side of Logic because it is so well endowed in that department, and the bulk of the tutorials will be on Retro synth because that is the newest of the additions (see box opposite for more on the rest) although we will look at updating the sounds of one of the ES range in the final step-by-step tutorial.Įasier Than you Might Think Before you shy away from this thinking you need a degree in synthesis to understand what is going on, don’t! Because you don’t! A simple understanding of signal flow is all you need. And that is what we are going to do here. I think i've figured out that you have to actually download the stuff.There’s a good argument to say that you could simply just get in there and start making music using the thousands of preset sounds on offer and why not? That is what they are there for after all… There are many people who have produced many tracks with Logic presets all over them and Apple loops have found their way into many an album track and single so who are we to say ‘don’t use them’? But, as ever, if there is a ‘proper way’ of doing something it is probably balancing using what’s on offer with a little (or a lot) of your own input.Īnd that means getting to know the instruments within Logic a little more and gaining the confidence to either produce your own sounds from scratch or tweaking the existing ones either dramatically or subtly to create something that you can quite easily call your own. You can't just move the content as logic does some 'installing', and only after that will it register. Pkg installer for piece of content to a temporary location and then 'runs' that installer, so you can't just bang the libraries in the final location as there's clearly some index files and other behind the scenes stuff going on. So if you download it all to your drive first and then move it all, it'll work. But if you don't have sufficient internet and want to transfer the stuff from another machine, you're out of luck. Very frustrating as all the content is there, in the right place, but because the installer hasn't run and let Logic know that the new ilbraries are there, it can't 'see' them. Do i really have to take my Mac Pro to another location to download this stuff?! I seem to have the Apple loops and the legacy jam pack stuff working, though. Hopefully someone will find this useful.: I only really care about trying the Drummer stuff out anyway, i can't remember the last time i used EXS. The trick is to go to your internet enabled computer (in my case, it's my MBP) and download all the extra content you want, from within Logic X. Pkg installers for each 'bit' of additional content.ġ) Do NOT enter your password when prompted to install the stuff.
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