Great, glad you enjoyed it. Thanks

Thanks Brian. You're welcome.

My pleasure. Thank you!

Thanks Jeffy! Yes, sometimes the best new ideas emerge from a different approach to working, whether that's with new sounds, or a new interface by which to try them out.

We'll look into that. The list has been put together in order to make the latest video the most visible - ie. in the top left-hand corner on the Home and Videos page. But thanks for letting us know. Will and I will discuss!

Thank you.

The covert 11 sneaked by, unnoticed... ; ) Thanks so much Bill. Glad this was of help.

And a wonderfully sentenced sentence in reply. ; ) Thank you so much. Hope all's good with you.

Hello! Hope all's good with you. Glad this episode was of help.

Great, many thanks Peter. Glad it got the creativity flowing!

Yes, that's broadly true. But I've definitely enjoyed getting back into it recently and pushing at its edges. It's a really powerful tool despite its name!

Thanks Lee!

Thanks as always.

Dive in - the pool's a lovely temperature! ; )

Thank you! Kind words.

Hi. Thanks for your question. One of our earliest videos covers this very topic! Hopefully this will answer your question: kzbin.info/www/bejne/b6Occ5Rop92BhZosi=H1WEklAIsvKWq7du

Welcome! Hope the FaderPro content has been helpful. There are new episodes here every Wednesday and a new Short every Saturday. Delighted to have you with us!

No, unfortunately, Glissando control isn't part of the Studio Strings programming. As you've rightly said, Velocity is used within Studio Strings to control dynamics.

You're welcome!

You're welcome! And welcome back!

Great, so glad the videos are proving helpful, Gianni. Hope all's good with you. Thanks as always.

This is an excellent topic for a video. Leave it with me. In the meantime, MIDI files (by themselves), are relatively easily Exported. You can Export your entire project as a MIDI file, or select only the Tracks you want and choose Export > Selected Tracks as MIDI file. These will include all MIDI CC data as well as the notes, so if the Automation you're adding is MIDI CC data within the Piano Roll display, it will be included. That's not true for Logic's own Automation data within the Main Page - this will need Converting to MIDI CC data too to be included in a MIDI file. To do this, select the Automation Lane you want to convert (e.g. Volume). Hold down Option and don't let go! Then click on the Volume parameter in the Track or Region Automation pane in the Track Header. Scroll to a MIDI Controller - say, MIDI Volume (MIDI CC7) - and Logic will ask if you want to Copy/Convert it or just Convert it. Either option will turn the Automation data into a MIDI CC which you can save within your Exported MIDI file.

@@jonobuchananmusic Yes it is! No one has done it before! This is the place I thought I'd find the answer. Thank you so much! It works! The problem was that I had to hold option key through the entire process. Don't forget to include how to export the selected instrument in your video (and maybe articulations too-I'm not sure if that's an extra step).

You’re welcome, thanks John.

Very much so. The ES 2 has a face that only a parent could love (!) but it’s a very capable synth with some intriguing capabilities.

Now I feel like Batman! 🙏 Glad this was helpful.

Goodness, well I’m not sure I deserve that! But huge thanks Peter. I hope all’s great with you.

Thanks for the kind words. Absolutely, you can do this. Create your External Instrument track as explored in this episode, then create one or more Software Instrument tracks using plug-in synths. Then select all of those Tracks and create a Track Stack. If you then click on that Track Stack in the Main Page and play some notes, all of those Tracks will trigger together, creating a monster synth! You can also do this using the MIDI In routing capabilities in Logic 11. I've made a couple of videos about that too. Part 1 is here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/mX_IhYiIaK55fpo and Part 2 is here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/aoWUloyufpZop6M

@@jonobuchananmusic this is fantastic you made my weekend!

Via Key Switches from Note C0 upwards.

You're welcome, Daniel!

You’re welcome!

If you're working with Drum Machine Designer, this Instrument is arranged as a Track Stack in Logic's Main Page. Click the arrow next to the Drum Machine Designer kit name so that the Stack opens to reveal the Lanes for each piece of the kit. Click on the first of these tracks (probably the Kick) and then hold down Command before clicking on each sequential Track until all of the ones you're using are selected. Then go to File > Export and about two-thirds of the way down the list you'll see (x) Tracks As Audio Files. The x will be whichever number of Tracks you've selected. In the following window, don't Normalize the Volume of the Tracks as you Export them.

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Hi Andrew. Thanks as always for your thoughtful insight. I haven't explored the way that Apple do Articulation Switching for their own Sampled Instruments as they arrive 'pre-loaded' but I suspect they're Key Switches, which means that if you have a multi-octave controller keyboard, or you want to map those Articulations to a set of pads, you can play them in real time, which will save having to do it in post-production. I broadly agree with you in terms of what you've said about 'authenticity' and 'real-sounding' approaches to Sampled Instruments, though I think there is a difference between working with sounds which are taken from recordings of real instruments (sampled instruments, in other words) and much more evidently electronic sounds. You're right, everything is sound, but in some ways those tools have been created for slightly different purposes in most musical contexts. And in the world of media music where samples are a time-saving and budget-necessary choice, learning how to make them sound 'authentic' is part and parcel of the job. Every composer would tell you they'd far rather turn their Studio Bass and Orchestral arrangements into live recordings but there are many reasons why this isn't always possible. But I certainly agree that Instruments like Studio Bass should be thought of for far more than their ability to 'sound real'.

@@jonobuchananmusic I agree with all this. Thank you.

Hi. Which sample library are you using?

@@jonobuchananmusic i was just using the base logic pro sounds.. violins 1 i believe

@@kaotic_1077 Thanks for confirming. Logic's sampled Strings don't feature the Legato capabilities explored in this video, unfortunately. I'm using a Spitfire Audio string library in this video.

Great, many thanks BF.

That does seem like a likely addition to the Studio Instruments at some stage!

Thanks Lee. Ha! Next time... ; )

Thanks so much for sharing that experience, Gary. I couldn't agree more. Whenever the 'real thing' is available, it will always improve productions immeasurably. But sadly, for all kinds of reasons (usually deadlines and budget), we do have to make do with samples. And if driving those a little harder by learning their nuances carefully helps, great! I completely agree that the added benefit is getting to know the capabilities of that instrument a little better too.

Hello! I hope all's good with you. And thanks as always for the kind words. There's no doubt that focusing on one set of plug-ins does force us all to learn their capabilities fully. And if we then apply that knowledge to third-party plug-ins, that's all good too!

Thanks!

My pleasure! Thanks Ben.

Hi. There are several reasons why this might be happening, so this one is tough to diagnose via text! But, my best guess is that it sounds as though the Audio Track you're using to record your vocals is a stereo track and that your microphone is plugged into Input 1 (ie the left side of that stereo track), which means that the left channel is loud and the right channel is quiet(er). If you're recording vocals with a single microphone (which is how most vocal recordings are made), remove all of the Insert Effects on your current vocal Audio track and then click the button to the left of the Input routing at the top of the channel strip for your Vocal channel so that it's a mono track, which looks like a single circle. If that doesn't fix the problem, bypass all of the effects channels and make a recording of your voice. Play this back, solo'd, and check whether, on playback, the sound is biased to the left. If it's not, turn on the first Insert effect you're using and see if this biases it towards the left. Keep repeating this process with each subsequent plug-in to see if any of them are introducing a treatment which is biased to the left-hand side. But my best guess is that you're working with a stereo track which, for vocals, you don't need to be. I hope that helps.

That is indeed important to know. Many thanks Adrian and sorry to hear that's the case. The only 'official' minimum system requirement is Ventura 13.5 or newer. Which OS are you running?

@@jonobuchananmusic Sonoma 14.5, 2018, 3.2 GHz 6-Core Intel Core i7

@@AdrianLesher That's really frustrating. Are there other features in Logic 11 which your machine isn't able to access?

Firstly, thank you so much for signing up for the Teachable course. I hope that it's proving useful to you. Secondly, there is a Community page on Teachable where you can post any queries, comments or join in any discussions, including starting a topic of your own. I don't mind answering questions here on KZbin at all but I'm hoping that, over time, the Community page will become a valuable place where everyone can help, advice and get the information they need, as the range of courses there expands and the questions become specific to those courses. The link to the Community page is here: jbmusic.community.teachable.com/ Now, let's see if we can get this issue fixed! As you have said, it's important to note the difference between Tracks and Regions. In many of the musical examples on the course, I've joined together two Regions and, if I've read your question correctly, this is the technique which isn't quite working for you. Everything I'm about to suggest will only take 2 minutes, so please try this to see if it works. Open up a new, completely empty Logic Project. Create a Software Instrument track for any instrument you like and then press 'T', which will bring up the Toolbox. Select the Pencil Tool and click anywhere on that first track to create a new, empty Region. It will only be a Bar long and it won't contain any notes. Then, still using the Pencil Tool, create another empty Region a few bars later, leaving a gap between the two Regions. And then create one more Region on the same track a few bars later again. Now you should have 3 regions, all separated by a few empty Bars. Press 'T' again and select the Pointer Tool. From the error message you're getting, it feels like this next part is going to be most relevant to your query, as it sounds like you only have one Region selected before you're trying to join two Regions. To join Regions 1 and 2, you need to select them both whilst NOT selecting Region 3. There are a couple of ways you can do this. The first is to click once on the first Region, hold down Shift and then click on the second Region. This will highlight the first two but leave the third one un-highlighted. Let go of 'Shift'. If you then press Command-J, Regions 1 and 2 will join together and the gap between them will become part of the Region, meaning you'll have one long region, followed by your original third Region. To practice joining these again, click anywhere (apart from on either of the Regions) in the Main Page to de-select the Regions, then click on the first long Region, hold down Shift, select the short second Region to highlight it and then let go of Shift again. Now use Command-J to join them. Hopefully all of that works. But that's all on one track! Press Command-Z to undo a few steps until you've got your 3 empty Regions back as they were when you created them. Create a new Track by pressing + at the top of the Tracks area. Again, select any Software Instrument. Next, you're going to copy the first Region on Track 1 to Track 2. To do this, click once on the first Region to highlight it. Then hold down 'Option' and don't let go. Use your mouse to drag the first Region down to the second track and you'll get a copy of it directly underneath the first Region on Track 1. Only when you've finished dragging it with your Mouse or Trackpad can you let go of 'Option'. If you do that too soon, you'll move the Region instead of copying it. Do the same thing with the third Region - copy it to Track 2. Then, let's Join together the copied Regions 1 and 3 on Track 2. This time we're going to select them in a different way, rather than using the Pointer Tool to click and select Regions. I want you to use your Mouse to click and hold anywhere you like in the empty Main Page area under your two Tracks. In that dark grey empty space below your regions, click and hold down your Mouse button whilst dragging outwards. This will create a 'box' which you'll see as a blue area as you drag outwards. Let go of your Mouse click and it will vanish and you'll need to click and start again. Anything which you 'click and drag over' with a blue Box like this will auto-select. So I'd like you to select those two new Regions on Track 2 using a highlight Box, until they're both highlighted. Then, let go of your Mouse and use Command-J to join them together. Hopefully you can now return to your main project and use these techniques. If not, please let me know via the Community Page in Teachable and I'll happily help you out.

@@jonobuchananmusic Thank you very much for this and hopefully it will work. By the way, I just love your course! The delivery and contents are amazing so I am hooked to teachable!

@@danielel9191 Thank you so much. Do let me know if you need any more help and feel free to start a new thread in the Community Page on Teachable if you'd like to about this or any other topic relating to the course.

Thanks so much!

@@jonobuchananmusic I'm a guitarist but have enough piano skills to use in recording....but mini keys I never quite got on with.

Thanks for sharing your experiences/choices. I’m by no means suggesting Studio Piano is a silver bullet but I do think that it has some qualities which I don’t hear in Logic’s other piano options, particularly its upright piano. But it’s a range of opinions which keeps the creative world turning!

Sorry you’re having that problem. This is something I’ll happily revisit in future episodes. Remember that there are a lot of ways of measuring volume, some of which are transitory and others of which are averaged over a long period of time, including the entire length of a track. So it’s absolutely possible to have temporary spikes which clip at the same time as a relatively low average LUFS reading. A range of dynamics tools exist for regulating volume (alongside volume Automation itself), which can help tame spikes.

De nada! 🙏

@@jonobuchananmusic I love your Spanish mi Amigo! 🇲🇽