Audio Production Logic Pro One of the many excellent new features of Logic Pro 9 is Varispeed. Varispeed gives you the ability to speed up and slow down your projects — not just a single instrument, but the entire project can be instantly tempo-shifted. Set the audio file where you want it to start. Grab the end of the Region holding down ALT. By dragging it shorter or longer, it will speed up or slow down while the tempo of the song remains the same. You can also so this with time&pitch machine in sample editor, f you want to go deeper into the details&sound quality.
Want to add a cool slow-down effect to your music? Learn how in this Logic Pro tutorial from Brevard, NC teacher John C…
If you've listened to popular radio in the past several years, and I'm guessing you have, you've heard either a vocal melody line or an instrumental part of a song make a particular effect. Listen to the following Fall Out Boy song and pay attention to the music in the background at 00:27 seconds, again at 1:27, and once again at 2:27:
Did you hear it? That's the effect I will be teaching you how to do in this article.
How to Get the Effect
https://ameblo.jp/07afbithei-zuvw/entry-12649206644.html. Before we jump in, let's get a couple things out of the way.
First, I want you to understand that this is not the only way you can go about making this effect happen, but Apple has made it easy for us Logic Pro users. This effect we are trying to accomplish is a type of 'fade' in Logic, and there are two different areas in Logic where you can accomplish it. One way is with Automation. To get to the automation area in Logic Pro 9 or X, simply hit the letter A on your keyboard and the editing area will change to look something like this:
Automation allows you to draw lines and basically tell the computer when, how fast, and from and to which points to turn a particular knob. That knob could be something as simple as the volume knob on a particular track or something more advanced like the frequency knob of the single band EQ plugin on the track pictured above.
But I'm going to stop there because we are NOT going to use automation to do this effect! Thank goodness, right?
Instead, Logic has something called the Region Inspector. So what on earth is a region? Well, it's quite simple, really. These little boxes all over the place in the picture below… those are regions.
When you select one or more of these regions, the Region Inspector shows the settings applied to those regions. Play vegas slots.
Antares autotune vst 7 1 2 crack. The Region Inspector is on the left side of the screen and looks like this:
IMPORTANT NOTE
There is a distinct difference between some of the regions shown above. The ones with the dashed lines are MIDI regions. The others are audio regions. These are the only types of regions. The effect we are trying to accomplish in this article does NOT work on MIDI regions.
Final Steps
- Select one of the audio (not MIDI) regions in your project.
- Then, in the Region Inspector, expand the 'More' section and click on 'Fade Out' and change it to 'Slow Down'.
- Double click the zero and type 250 into the field next to 'Slow Down' and press Return.
Congratulations, you did it! Now listen to your audio and you'll hear that audio slow-down effect.
Bonus
Now adjust the 'Curve' by dragging up and down on the number next to the word 'Curve' (below the 'Slow Down' area in the Region Inspector) and notice how the curve of the slow-down effect area changes. Listen to the difference, and then try different combinations of the amount of the slow-down fade and the curve. Have fun!
Oh, and what do you think might happen if you click on the word 'Fade In' in the Region Inspector? What's that you say, a 'Speed-Up' effect? Oh yea!
You've just learned a pro producers trick. Now… use it with caution.
John C. teaches Logic Pro Software in Brevard, NC. He earned his degree in Songwriting from Berklee College Of Music and is also an Apple Certified Master Pro in Logic Pro 9. Learn more about John here!
Photo by Miguel Mendez
[ This article was first published in the June, 2010, issue of
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I got burned by this when I was prepping my most recent webinar for posting. My audio slowly slipped out of sync.
I hate when that happens.
What I discovered is that the Soundtrack Pro sample rate preference setting overrides the sample rate of the Final Cut Pro project, resulting in a slow sync drift that will drive you nuts.
Because there are a variety of places where you can choose the wrong sample rate, I wanted to walk you through my process of posting a webinar to show you where the problem occurred and how to prevent it.
I record all my tutorials and webinars using Telestream's Screenflow. When I am ready to export the file for editing, I always select 'Lossless' to give me the highest quality for editing and compression.
Then, for audio, I export the file as a Linear PCM file. (See the article on choosing the right version of 'Endian-ism.')
Here's the first opportunity you have to screw things up. Notice that the sample rate is set to 48.000 kHz. The problem is that my audio gear, like most audio gear, records at 44.1 kHz. (Both are excellent choices from a quality point of view.)
While Final Cut can easily handle both 44.1 and 48 kHz sample rates, it prefers 48 kHZ. At least, that's been my experience when working with the Animation codec and synced audio.
So I make sure to set the audio rate to 48 kHz and export.
http://msdjpi.xtgem.com/Blog/__xtblog_entry/19202024-adobe-premiere-pro-avi-codec-mac#xt_blog. When getting ready to edit this in Final Cut, I create a new sequence, then drop my clip into it.
If I get a message asking if I want to change the sequence settings to match the clip, I say Yes.
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Then, I remove the clip from the sequence and check Sequence > Settings. Removing the clip allows me to adjust all the settings, which can't be done once a clip is in the Timeline. The main thing I am checking is to be sure my audio sample rate is set to 48 kHz. If not, I change it.
Once I verify my sequence settings are correct, I edit my project as normal. Because both audio and video settings of the clip match the timeline, there's no rendering until I add effects.
Finally, I do all my audio clean-up and mixing in Soundtrack Pro. Here's the third place the sample rate can get accidentally reset.
Before sending my file to Soundtrack Pro I SHOULD have (but didn't) check to be sure the sample rate preference was set correctly.
To check it, go to Soundtrack Pro > Preferences > Project tab and make sure the project sample rate is set to 48000 (48 kHz).
Then, File > Quit Soundtrack Pro.
In Final Cut, select your sequence in the Browser and File > Send it to Soundtrack Pro.
When Soundtrack opens with your sequence in it, be sure the project sample rate is set to 48 kHz. You check it by looking in the top of the Soundtrack Pro tool bar. If this, too, is set to 48 kHz, all your audio sample rates match across all your programs.
At this point, you've maintained a consistent sample rate across all your software and elements and sync will remain constant and locked.
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Yes, I've added this to my editing checklist.
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