Configuring Logic Pro - Logic Pro Tutorial

- [Instructor] The first time you open logic, you'll see this menu here. Let's make sure our settings are correct for the first time and every time. So we're set up for future success. Even if we're just putting down the simplest idea. You'll notice that there's some options on the left here. You can start a new project and with that you can choose empty project or live loops as the type of project. We'll discover live loops a bit later in this course. So for now, we're going to stick to just a straight up empty project. I also want to direct your attention over here that there are some cool tutorials that you can work through. There's also some demo projects. You can actually see a fully fledged produced logic project of some popular artists like Billie Eilish. You also have the opportunity to work from preset project templates and you can also save your own here. So if you know you like certain tracks to start out with always you can set those as templates that you can call from here. For now, we're going to go back to new project and we're going to choose empty project. And I want to also direct our attention down here to the details. So down here there's some options that we want to make sure are set correctly before we get rolling, because the worst thing would be to start something really cool and then realize you had the sample rate wrong, for example. So speaking of sample rate, you have a few options here. These determine the audio quality. And I like to usually choose 48 kilohertz of which is what we'll be working with here. That's a really good, happy medium of really high-fi audio quality and not too much disc drive space. Of course you can move this up or down depending on what you want, but I like to keep this at 48. So this is where you can set that up initially as you start a new project. You'll also see the opportunity to change your input and output device. Now, yours might look a little differently than mine. I'm using a universal audio as my input. For example, you might just be seeing your internal Mac card here, which is fine, or whichever audio interface you have connected to your computer. So once we have these all set up, you know, you can also by the way, change your tempo if you know a specific tempo or a specific key. I don't really know that yet. So I'm going to leave these at the generic settings. But once you have all these set up, you can go ahead and click choose and it'll bring us into a new empty project. So here we are in a empty project. Now the first time you open it, you're going to see this little helper thing that asks you what type of track you want to start with. The thing is, logic likes to start with at least one track. It doesn't like to have no tracks. So you have to choose one of these types of tracks to start with. It doesn't mean you're tied to that by any means. You just have to start with one. So we have some different track types. It's actually cool because we get to learn about track types. We can choose a software instrument track which allows us to input MIDI and use the software instruments to create sound. We can use a audio track, which we can record onto or we can connect a guitar or bass or any other instrument to record audio. Or we can choose what's called a drummer track which we'll learn about later in this course. Let's go ahead and just make a regular old audio track. And of course there's more settings down here. I'm going to just leave those on the default and I'm going to click create. Okay, so we've made our first track and I'm actually going to click mute because I don't want to hear my voice through that track. That's the mute button. But this brings me to the next thing I want to show you that's very important at the initial setup stage of working in logic. We're in what's called beginner or simplified mode. And this is what logic opens to for any new users. Now, I think that you listening to this course are more advanced than that. You may feel like a beginner but let's take the training wheels off and let's move to advanced mode. Okay, so the way to do that there's two places you can do that. You notice up here and the right it says simplified mode. You can click here. And that brings us to the preferences where we can enable complete features, which I'm going to do in a second. But I also want to show you again a sort of non dummy way to get to this menu which is go to the Logic Pro, under preferences and click on any of these will bring you to the preferences window. I'm showing you this because you'll have to go back here from time to time to set up different things depending on what you're doing. So I'll go to the general preferences, and then from here I'll go to the advanced tab and I'll get to the same place. And I want to enable complete features. Again, let's take the training wheels off. We don't need the cute icons. We're here to make some serious music, right? So let's enable that. And once we have that checked, we'll be able to move forward and have all the features set of Logic at our disposal. We're not going to let that freak us out, right? All right, now that we're primed and set up for success let's dive in with a song seed. In the next movie, we'll start with a basic idea for a song and I'll show you how to use Logic to your advantage as you develop your music further.