5 Ways To Improve Your Logic Pro X Workflow (Part 2)

[@ScalaprodsTv]

I've learned more in 7:44 than during a years of using Logic GREAT JOB MAAAAAAAAN !!!!!!!

[@stefanguy]

Hey man, this so great to hear! Thanks for the positive feedback. i’m so glad I could share this with you!!!

[@sanjacob]

i am sure you know already by now, but the coloring of the takes function is saved with the project. means by creating a template the fuction will be active if saved with the template. great tips btw thanx

[@convergeaudio4929]

Select unused, delete--genius, man. I haven't run into the issue of having oversized/bloated files when I'm done, but the day is young and I know I can always run into this at a given moment. Nice knowing I'll know what to actually do.

[@stefanguy]

Yeah man I wish I knew earlier on!

[@nikhilnijasure]

I just loved, select unused option !! I was deleting files one by one which was very hectic. Thanks for sharing this option.

[@jasonmeyermusic5639]

Nice because you are so sober too, not all over the place like some others. Keep it up and great to learn from ya !

[@stefanguy]

Haha I appreciate it man! Thanks for watching!

[@jasonmeyermusic5639]

Such a pleasure !

[@kjgeee]

I can't tell you how many times I've referenced your videos about Logic and Maschine. You've made my workflows so much faster and cleaner. I became a way better beat maker since I found your tutorials and Popular Progressions pack. Thank you so much for being you man. And your beats are Fire AF! Especially that one you gave to Sean Divine to mix in his video. Keep up the dopeness!

[@stefanguy]

Thank you so much for the kind words man! Love this, so glad to hear that my videos and chord pack have had such a positive impact to your workflow and production! Really appreciate you taking the time to reach out 🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾 new content coming soon! Much love!

[@muingould131]

Bounce in place is more for resampling, for example if you’re making Neurofunk or other neuro genres when you’re resampling baselines. Sometimes I have to resample/bounce in place 3-4 times on one region to get the sound I want. Obviously adding different effects each time. It’s mainly so you can have different variations of the same sound, and so you can also throw it in to a sampler if you want and then you can do a whole lot of other things with it.

[@JashJhaveri]

That autocolorized take folder tip is just what i needed!

[@stefanguy]

Glad I could help!

[@JashJhaveri]

You the man! If you ever need some electric guitars on your track let me know!

[@stefanguy]

Drop me an email via stefanguyaudio.com/contact so I've got your details!

[@stefanguy]

+Jash Jhaveri hey bro, i tried to email you back but it failed. I think the email you wrote down might be incorrect.

[@JashJhaveri]

I just realized that the websites domain had expired and has not been refreshed, so until then my mail will not work well, but i have sent you my alternate mail for the meantime. Thanks for notifying me that you didnt recieve it

[@TobiasTimpe]

1:00 Thank you so much! I always thought this was a bug.

[@jluc101]

If you want to save project settings you have to create a template with those settings.

[@DJAnthologic]

Not enough can be said about setting up and saving custom Templates. Huge time saver. Also a great way to develop your own 'sound' over time.

[@FluuProducer]

was guna suggest just that ... but jluc101 beat me to it. Just jumped to logic 10 from 9 because Im stubborn. Some GREAT changes ... some not so great changes. Your vides help with the adjustments tho ... nice tutes !!

[@therichnrichshow4094]

Thank you brother...... You are by far one of the best I have come across..... very clear and easy to understand..... You are truly appreciated ✌🏽

[@danieldavidson5273]

Just got logic pro, haven't touched a computer since qbase and reason. Your morpheus right now young blood. Don't stop what you do king.

[@stefanguy]

Hahaha I like that! Thanks man, glad to hear that you're benefiting from what I'm doing. I'm a former Reason user also! Touched a bit of Cubase in college but always preferred Reason.

[@iamTovan]

Learned some new today. Thanks!

[@melvinwms1972]

AWESOME video Brother! Been using Logic for many years, never knew about the snap to grid. Very helpful. Also, freezing regions is GREAT! I am going to start using that now.

[@roybebrout2284]

You really bring the best tutorial vids on Logic Pro X.. Thank you for the great tips Stefan!

[@stefanguy]

+Roy Bebrout thanks Roy really appreciate it brother!

[@MannyLeyva]

Great Tips!!! The delete unused tracks conquered me! Subscribed!!

[@MonsieurVersatile]

Another superb bunch of tricks. Cheers!

[@stefanguy]

+Hugelongjohns you're welcome bro!

[@That1Guy]

that Freeze dang thanks!

[@stefanguy]

Haha you're welcome!

[@citadelo5ricks]

Delivery is everything, and you got it! Lanes buddy, LANES. Killer.

[@displayname8848]

Great video! The last workflow video was great too. Capture record has CHANGED MY LIFE!!!

[@stefanguy]

Hey thanks man! Hahaha mine too, mine too!

[@HoldenLeDinh]

Thank you so much for this series it’s super quality

[@stefanguy]

Thanks man!

[@slipper-uk9878]

thank you Tips are straight to the point with no film flam big up (y)

[@stefanguy]

Thanks man and you’re welcome!

[@lanzdona]

Your videos have been very helpful and quite enlightening. Thank you for sharing your knowledge!

[@stefanguy]

Hey Lanzdona, thanks for the great feedback it's my pleasure!

[@fabiansmith5860]

You did it again Stefan

[@almosthalfasleep]

DO A PART 3!!!! THIS IS AMAZING

[@stefanguy]

+Linus Minus thanks man yep there's some I left out so definitely!

[@DJALEXBROWN]

Another great video! This is going to improve my workflow so much.

[@mamalarén]

Great video...again! I laughed SO hard at the pause you took after you said "I remember having thoughts of throwing my laptop across the room".

[@stefanguy]

+Imani Lindsay hahaha thanks! So do you make beats, sing, rap? Or all of the above?

[@eejnirsflame]

ahhh the little tree in the back mate. I might get one too

[@stefanguy]

Hahaha when you get big just remember to tell folk where you saw it first 😂

[@dennislundgren2001]

Sup Stefan! Totally dig your vids. Just wanted to make a note on Pt. 4 about freezing tracks: If you freeze a track, all track based plugins/FX won't have an effect. I noticed this a few months ago while mixing a song, with a bunch of software synths, tracks stopped side chaining as i froze them. I have not managed to work around this in a quick way yet. What you can do, although it is time consuming, is to export the tracks and then import the audio files back to the project. And what I should have done is exported all those tracks to audio files in the beginning, haha.. But w/e, just something to know that if you want to freeze tracks, track based effects such as side chaining won't work!

[@GermanExclusivSounds]

thanks man to let us know these incredible helpful knowledge for free! I appreciate it :)

[@jordanjohnston7255]

Like always it's 🔥🔥🔥and I'm learning

[@stefanguy]

+Jordan Johnston yooo Jordan! Thanks brother!

[@spoderman3666]

Stefan seems like the chillest guy

[@stefanguy]

+spoder man thanks man

[@zulusound]

Very helpful, thank you, Stefan.

[@stefanguy]

+e schiller you’re welcome :) thanks for dropping a comment!

[@chief_alarmist]

Really great tips! I am relearning Logic as I haven’t used it since it was Emagic. Those were very dark days for DAW. Thanks for teaching an old dog new tricks.

[@stefanguy]

The dark days for the DAW hahahaha. Ah man that's awesome, glad I've been able to help! Thank you!

[@PatrickDai]

Love your videos! Learned a lot! Thanks man!

[@stefanguy]

Hey Patrick thank you brother!

[@lovellw4596]

Super useful!!!! Thanks brah!

[@stefanguy]

+Lovell W you're welcome bro!

[@patrickwilliams1886]

Great Job dude!!

[@stefanguy]

+Patrick Williams thanks Patrick!

[@hartleysloan8191]

Just found you sir! Very impressed with your tips! Thanks so much!

[@stefanguy]

Hey Hartley! Glad you found my tips useful! Thanks for the kind words!

[@mcali165]

Cheers Stefan,great work. You've helped me loads with your vids. Keep up the good work

[@stefanguy]

+marc caligari thanks Marc and you're welcome bro!

[@psyne000]

Great tips Stefan, thanks for helping people to learn in a useful and friendly way. Conscious..! :)

[@RaulSupreme]

This video is brilliant! Respect

[@stefanguy]

Thanks man! Respect!

[@reyherrera3427]

nice video man. appreciate the info.

[@stefanguy]

+REY HERRERA thanks man and you're welcome!

[@rv8681]

Right off the bat you changed my entire workflow. Relative value was a bitch lmao

[@stefanguy]

Hahahaha I couldn't agree more! Glad I could help!

[@cristejada1186]

thanks so much stefan your the man

[@stefanguy]

You're welcome Cris!

[@GhettoManAF]

nice, great tips.. all will help.

[@stefanguy]

+Chace_n_Cash hey thanks man! Glad you got something from the video!

[@klongklong77]

Thanks for this!

[@stefanguy]

You’re welcome!

[@kenfinity1412]

You're the man Stefan. Never knew why my projects took up so many space. Peace.

[@stefanguy]

+Kento Taguchi you're welcome man!

[@H3DG4RT]

Bro!, thanks so much, this video has changed my life ...

[@francissreckofabian01]

Very useful. Especially Merge & deleting unused tracks. I changed a few of the things you mentioned to see how it goes. The only one I knew about was the Freeze function. I've had to employ that a lot as my cpu would "brickwall" and stop Logic in its tracks! However, even though my Mac is almost 7 years old I maxxed out the RAM AND 2 weeks ago I installed an SSD! That has changed everything. I don't have to freeze anymore (tough wood). It is expensive but, for me, it is worth it. Maybe the more modern macs don't have my problems?

[@stefanguy]

+Francis Srečko Fabian ah yes that's dope! SSDs are the way forward. I haven't seen it at all on my new iMac so that's a good sign. The hard drive is usually the biggest bottle neck of a computer. Often like with yours the cpu and RAM is fine, especially with macbook pros.

[@santos283]

always helping brother s out here thanks man, smooth ass beat in the background too, if you got the official instrumental out there be down to hear it.

[@convergeaudio4929]

Dude! I just only ran into this absolute value after the update! I thought I was going crazy lol!!

[@stefanguy]

Hahahahaha!

[@larrymarch3091]

Currently Binge Watching Your videos !!! Major Keys being dropped!!

[@stefanguy]

Hey brother thanks for the love man! Much appreciated 🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾

[@ricardovallej]

Great 5 tips, specially that one about getting too many takes, more than 20 from the singer "you better get another singer"...Priceless!!! Cheers. Great tutorials, thanks.

[@stefanguy]

Hahahaha thanks man

[@xBradRame]

good lookin out bro!

[@stefanguy]

+Brad Rade you're welcome bro!

[@denmark1968]

The snap to grid tip. Oh my God it has been SO annoying. But that is history thanks to you. Thanks mate

[@stefanguy]

+denmark1968_main haha yep it’s the most annoying thing about Logic. Used to drive me insane. Especially when it was only ever so slightly out and I didn’t notice until hours later lol.

[@Unders]

Relative value is better for snapping to transient of audio too.

[@stefanguy]

+Unders thanks for this bro

[@Unders]

Stefan Guy loving the content btw. It's vastly more polished then mine 😂

[@stefanguy]

Thanks man! Didn't know you had a channel, I'll sub and check it out bro!

[@Unders]

Stefan Guy thanks Stefan appreciate it

[@dennyruntuwene]

Thanks man.. this really help

[@DJAnthologic]

Found my new Logic Guru! Producing digitally since the late nineties, I ran the gamit of common DAWs but only recently moved on to Logic Pro as my main DAW. Found the learning curve often a bit frustrating and it's layout/workflow a bit "il-Logical". Also, it's stock synths interfaces look literally alien looking to mem but I digress... Love these vids man, a big help. Always quick and concise QUALITY content! Much apreeeeeesh

[@stefanguy]

Hey thanks man! Appreciate the support and great feedback man! Like you I've tried a lot of them, but keep coming back to Logic!

[@SooLeqitx3]

THE FREEZE = LIFE CHANGING

[@SooLeqitx3]

i would bounce in place all the time, and i assumed that would take up more space, and also made mistakes deleting the midi sometimes, and other times in going back to the midi and making changes, only to bounce it again and have yet another fat audio file.

[@at3mmedia12]

Liked and subcribed!

[@stefanguy]

+AT3M MEDIA hey thanks man!

[@MRSTU1210]

Hey Stefan great video 📹 as always, any chance you could shed some light on a midi issue I'm having, so recently I had to move my studio equipment and set it up in a different room, all worked fine previously, now I attempt to use my keyboards drum machine etc in logic over midi and I'm getting nothing, I've un installed my audio interface drivers and re installed them, re install of yosemite osx, gone into utility and looked at midi studio set up but I'm getting nothing in midi in and out? any idea 💡 what could be wrong I'm totally flummoxed, I've sent a support ticket to steinburg as I'm using the Ur242, anyway peace ✌ dude

[@johngibson6825]

This series is great man!! I don't know A THANG!! lol

[@stefanguy]

Loooool thanks brother! Glad I could help!

[@NaturalGallantBodybuilding]

Great video. Good tips!

[@stefanguy]

+Natural Gallant Bodybuilding thanks man

[@swolefuckingmeatball6595]

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[@OneEyedJackNLD]

Hi! Just came across this channel! Thank you so much for all the tips. Really appreciate you taking the time to do so. I do have a question regarding your remark about having to set the 'Auto colorize takes'. I just have a blank project with all my preferred settings. I start every project from this one project. First thing I do is: Save as.... in order to not change my template. I never actually saved it as a template though. This might help you not having to go in and change 'Auto colorize takes'. I do wonder how 'save as template' differs from 'my way'...

[@hekimaasilia6207]

Genius!

[@888berg]

Dying to hear what tip was bounced out.. please continue Sir

[@issiewizzie]

great tips ... priceless

[@stefanguy]

+Issie wizzie hey Issie thanks!

[@SoundSignals]

MAAAN! Snap to absolute! Thank you!!!

[@stefanguy]

Hahaha game changer!

[@SoundSignals]

Totally man! Thank you!!!

[@laddeladdisi8624]

man thank u so much for the first tip, snap the grid tip :D // from the guy that hate logic pro because of my workflow on it :D

[@asherjacobs1882]

can u do a video on strategies of making beat ex. where you start your beat

[@erimahmet4461]

Great videos

[@stefanguy]

+erim ahmet thanks man!

[@erimahmet4461]

Anytime, you have helped me and my studio so much in these short videos, you deserve all the success :P

[@thehomerecordingplace8041]

Great job. I use pro tools mainly for clients and i have a professional studio but if i write for myself or clients i goto logic pro x, better for writing imo and pro tools is amazing for audio editing. I have read many books don't usually watch youtube videos cause i also make videos to help and have been told wrong info before but i gotta say you know your stuff and explain it well. I subscribed and enjoy your vids and you have a great way of explaining things in a way i think anyone can get right away. Great job. Will turn on many followers to your channel. Ty. Mike

[@stefanguy]

Hey Mike, thanks for this comment! I definitely agree regarding Logic being better for writing and Pro Tools for audio editing! Thanks for the sub and positive feedback it means a lot!

[@SoundSignals]

Hi Stefan, i'm so happy to have found your channel, incredibly insightful and funny too! Also, it's great to see someone actually interacting with their subscribers so well. So, i hope you don't mind, i have a question. A friend of mine said that when i am bouncing tracks to send them off to be mastered that i should disconnect from the internet to stop unnecessary resource distraction and bounce all the tracks of the project into a new project to make sure that it is super tight, no lagging etc because you are using audio instead of midi. I tried this but it never seemed to sound the same, maybe i got the settings wrong. But would freezing the track have the same effect do you think? And is there anything else i could be doing to optimise my tracks for sending to be mastered. Thanks you for your time.

[@josiahdittman8242]

thank you!!!!

[@edenbillysimpson]

To delete unused files isn't there just a consolidate project option that does it all automatically? I think I've used that many times....never checked if it leaves some stray audio though?

[@ghettosupahstar3024]

lmaoooo bruh i felt you "the region is in no man's land!!!'

[@stefanguy]

Hahahaha.. oh Logic...

[@AaronJaunty]

Hi Stefan. Great tips! Unfortunately I must be using a different version of Logic because I don't have the 'Recording' section in my General Preferences menu. I'm using Logic 10.0.7. Which version is yours? Any idea where I can find it in mine?

[@stefanguy]

Hey Aaron bro, firstly let me say thank you! I have 10.3 so it was probably added in one of the updates. In that guess unfortunately I'm not sure. Apologies bro. If I do happen to stumble across the answer I'll endeavour to get at you with it! Also if you do find out please let me know!

[@chbr6525]

Sick

[@stefanguy]

Thanks Christian!

[@vinay7712]

Where can i find "flexural string harmonics" in logic proX ?

[@Josh_GS__]

good videos

[@stefanguy]

+Joselchino thanks!

[@MarcoPolux]

Cool!!!

[@anastasiawildgirl]

SO what do i do now: i started deleting it all and deleted my current project as well.....? how do i get it back?

[@cd78]

I have noticed suttle differences in the sound when you complete the freeze. little nuances

[@MrGSteel]

Can I freeze audio

[@mjk9833]

hey man love your style! very chill! shoobshcribed ;)

[@stefanguy]

Hey man, appreciated it!!!

[@juliosoares4880]

So.. My "Freeze" button isn't showing in the Track Header. I go into the Configurations and turn it on, it even opens the "physical" space alongside the Record Enable button but it just doesn't show. Any solutions?

[@stefanguy]

Oh gosh that sounds like a bug. Which version of Logic Pro X are you using?

[@juliosoares4880]

yeah, it really does... It's version 10.3.0, build version 4661.17

[@chiefrnk5129]

Bruv, what type of GUI do you have on your Logic Pro X? I've never seen that before?

[@stefanguy]

+C H I E F R N K hey man it's the new 10.3 update. I prefer the old to be honest!

[@ajadrew]

Damn, I deleted unused files & realised I'd deleted logic samples, ie, those samples are greyed out in the sample library... They're in my trash but am not sure how to get them back into the Logic sample library.... Help!!

[@stefanguy]

Oh dear! What software instrument were the samples using? Or were they Apple Loops? Either way we should be able to put them back, just need to find out where they came from.

[@ajadrew]

They were Apple loops...

[@WhoopWhoopOPM12]

Bro did you make this beat in the background?

[@stefanguy]

+WhoopWhoopOPM12 hey bro indeed!

[@KWolf]

hey man what is the point of having different colored tracks?

[@stefanguy]

+BoLT Aqua hey bro it can help organise large projects but ultimately it's just nicer to look at. If you're not bothered by that stuff then there's no real need.

[@gloryusmusic]

Are you referring to colored takes? They're really helpful in identifying different takes while doing Vocal comps, for example.

[@muingould131]

Ever since I got a computer with 32 gb of RAM I’ve never had to freeze tracks other than for resampling.

[@smokabeat8914]

We need a vid on skins bad

[@vizcasthlm4798]

👌👌🤓

[@stefanguy]

+Victor Miranda thanks Victor!

[@TheYoungMoor]

Where's Your Maschine little bro?

[@stefanguy]

+Perfecto Ali Salaam El hey bro, still got and still using it. Looking for some more tutorials on it?

[@TheYoungMoor]

You're a smart young man in a big city, so I'm sure you're busy. But I would like more videos period.

[@alokvadnere]

DELETE UNUSED FILES......EN-LIGHTEN-MENT!

[@stefanguy]

Haha you're welcome!

[@futuristicstoic]

Great videos

[@stefanguy]

Thanks brother!