Music Producer's Guide to Logic Pro

Welcome to the Music Producer’s Guide to Apple Logic Pro! Apple’s amazing Digital Audio Workstation (DAW) has now become one of the most widely-used applications for music production in the world. This mainstay of Mac music making is the centre of a compositional universe that includes the more beginner-orientated Garageband and the all-new Logic Pro for the iPad, and we are celebrating this Logic wonderland with a special bookazine dedicated to the software at its core! We are covering all aspects of Logic Pro music production, no matter where you are in your music making journey. We therefore have features on everything Logic Pro, from beginner guides to in-depth masterclasses. If you are new to Logic Pro, we have a special beginner’s tutorial to kick things off (on p10) before we dive right in with the first of seven major masterclasses on music production using some of the in-depth features in Logic Pro (p16). Logic Pro’s recent appearance on the Apple iPad is certainly a mouth-watering prospect for all of us Logic users – can you really now make great music whenever and wherever you want with Logic Pro? We answer that and more questions in a special hands-on feature from p20. Elsewhere we touch on some major aspects of Logic music composition, covering bargain beat programming on p34, Logic Pro soundtrack creation on p60, and how to get the best from some of the many third party softsynths you can use in Logic (p98). We also have a huge selection of free plugins with this guide that you can use in Logic. It is the complete, world-famous Computer Music Plugin Suite and has synths, instruments, effects and a whole lot more across 80+ plugins you can download for free, right now – see p9 for more on how to do this. As if that’s not enough, how about 12 packs of free samples – over 3,000 sounds in total – to download too? We run through all of these in a special feature on p120. Add in interviews with high profile Logic users, plenty of buyer’s guides and advice on the best third party plugins to run in Logic, and we think this special bookazine will really boost your Logic productions. It all adds up to the complete guide to helping you get amazing, professional-sounding Logic Pro tracks, no matter what genre of music you are in to, and it is all brought to you by the experts at Computer Music magazine. I hope you enjoy the issue and happy Logic music making!