Brand new to logic, literally need a dummies guide to logic.

Performance & Techniques Music Production
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Brand new to logic, literally need a dummies guide to logic.

I’m literally brand new to Logic pro 9 and producing in general. Went ahead and decided at the price for what Apple is selling it now i should hop on and start making music. All I have is my mac book pro and logic.

I’m looking for advice to get start to just make simple beats and such. Tutorials, books, hardware you use.

I literally just keep clicking stuff and have no idea what does what cause I can barely make logic even make sounds for me haha.

So im looking for maybe a book to purchase to help me study logic from a complete beginners point, maybe looking into investing in a keybord since it seems it would be helpful plus I work better with some hardware solutions, and possibly enroll in a small course.

I know there are youtube tutorials all over the place, but they all assume you have had experience with Logic for some time. I haven’t really found like a logic for dummys guide yet. Additionally I don’t want to buy courses or anything yet, until i have a decent grasp on things, I don’t want to buy a course then realize I don’t know crap and waste money. I guess I want to be somewhat learned.

So help me out and show mt the way! I’m near 30 and just want something to tool around with make some remixes and songs eventually. My learning process is a little slower then you young bucks!

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Same thing over here. Have some experience with Ableton and FL but minimal. I recommend you check out the Lynda.com tutorials (torrent them obviously) you can find all except one. There is also a book on there too. And try to find out producers and djs who use it and see what they can teach (Brian Eno and Gavin Russom I know for sure they use Logic and they have a very minimal studio setup: a mac, monitors and keyboards, no extra expensive analog midi shit).

Hope this helps. Here is a link to lynda’s logic 9 list Apple Online Training Courses | LinkedIn Learning, formerly Lynda.com

ALSO: there’s 2 tutorials from VTC if you want and additional source, but the lynda.com ones are more than enough. Here is a link for those though: Apple Logic Pro 9

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Check out Logicprohelp.com too, lots of friendly people over there if you have questions. SFLogicninja has some good YouTube vids too, not too sure how beginner oriented they are though. Finally, I found the very first of the Macprovideo.com series on Logic to be more than enough to get up and running fast when I switched to Logic years ago.

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Also…did the download come with a quickstart guide? The boxed version did, and it actually does a decent job of acquainting you with the software……though it might be less useful if you’ve never used a DAW before.

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If you have Skype I’m willing to share screen and help you get rolling

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tldr youtube ftw

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i would just punch this stuff into youtube. for basic logic stuff like recording. most “techniques” can be applied to any DAW

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Grab both I the books in the logic pro training series by David Nahmani. I’m currently about 300 pages into the first one. Very hands on lessons in just about everything. Each book is about 450 pages thick.

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there’s a book called Logic 9 power! - its an awesome book!

i was already learning about logic at my school (SAE) but i learnt some xtra stuff from the book - highly recommended and good as a reference

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if you guys have any specific questions about logic hit me up at sircronusofficial@hotmail.com

https://soundcloud.com/theofficialsircronus

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I’ve found the MacProVideo.com tutorials helpful along with reading over at LogicProHelp.com/forum/

Problem I have:
If my computer goes to sleep with logic open and I wake it back it, it does that quick white screen flash like I am focused on another screen, yet i’m not. It will neither respond to key commands or quitting from anywhere. I have to open up Activity Monitor and force quit it.. It shows to be running fine in the processes screen though. I’ve had little luck with searching, mainly from the fact that I’m not sure on what terms to actually search for. Nothing I try seems to get me any similar occurrences. Anyone had similar issues?

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I’ve had a white screen flash occasionally when I hit certain key combinations that don’t appear to be mapped to anything (command + down seems to do it) but I haven’t had it freeze. At one point, I had a logic session open for like 3 days…lots of sleep/wake cycles and a lot of other stuff going on…and no issues.

I’m not sure how to find that particular bug, but searching “logic freezing” might help. Other than that, my only advice is to not leave it open forever.

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Yeah, it’s not showing that the program is frozen either. But wont respond to any menu functions or key commands. I can’t even exit it from Logic > Quit or from the Dock.. I have since just started saving and closing projects instead of leaving them up when i plan on being gone long enough for the computer to go to sleep (1+hr)..