Logic Pro #07 - Make Music with Loops!

In this video, I demonstrate the following:
1. How to access and search for loops in the loop library
2. How to change the key of a project
3. How to import loops to the tracks area
4. How to use loops to build a musical arrangement
5. Basic region placement and editing
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Timestamps:
0:00 Introduction
0:41 Sponsor Segment
1:18 Project Key + Loop Key
3:24 Sort Loops
4:36 Import, Loop, Repeat, Duplicate
7:05 Adding a Bass
9:24 Adding Synths
10:40 Trim + Repeat
11:35 Arrangement Building
13:58 Edit + Join Regions
15:00 More Arrangement Building
17:03 Edit MIDI
18:41 Transpose Key

[@charlesthrockmorton4046]

I have watched dozens of Logic Pro instructional videos. This series is by far the best. The organization of the material, precision of terminology, clarity of presentation, and not assuming too much prior experience/information on the part of the student, are outstanding. Congratulations and thanks!

[@easykillmusic]

This series is better than any paid course out there, thanks for sharing!! 🙂

[@FelixSR]

I am in ave with this series, learning so much, you're a gem!

[@ufomammut2557]

This video is really really good. Literally my 0 to 1 moment on logic sparked with this.

[@bassManDavis1953]

What a cool video! So much to choose from in the loop library and the way you put this together was absolutely fantastic! Brilliantly recorded tuition, thank you so much.

[@tito.tarantula]

What a fantastic series, thank you so much. Your teaching skills are on 🔥That's an amazing gift you have 👏

[@CharlesGreggo]

This is where the work begins! ✨

[@TigerRichards]

So obvious, and yet these details escaped my notice. Great video, great instruction and teaching -- thank you for this and the series overall.

[@bellxfm1]

Brilliant as ever, I always learn stuff I should already know, clear concise and an object lesson in how to present a tutorial without meaningless fluff! Thanks

[@tomgadd]

One of the best Tutorials around. Great inside, nice voice...love it.

[@shirleybarr7237]

Thank you for making such excellent, easy to follow tutorials. They are revolutionising Logic Pro for me!

[@A.JayWeber]

If in this series you also do a focus on bus aux organization again with a couple practical work along walk throughs I would be beyond super full of gratitude.

[@LuisTorres-qz5kr]

Thank you for continuing this series.

[@dontletmebrown]

Coming to Logic from Studio One, these vids have been a life saver. Not as stressful of a switch as a thought

[@mauriceamaraggi8098]

Thank you. The all series is amazing. You are really helping us a lot.

[@iralarry]

Been following you now for 7 lessons, mostly for review and have found this exceptionally helpful. I believe you have a Reddit following within LogicPro X circles. Thank you. Was able to replicate from scratch the above lesson exactly. Learning plenty.

[@robleach3711]

Wonderful tutorial series - im learning a lot. thankyou.

[@smivey]

Great content. One thing that helps me is playing my track while I'm auditioning the different loops. Saves a lot of time.

[@erikdao]

Such an awesome tutorial. I literally went from knowing nothing about Logic Pro to making a song ;-) Thank you!

[@audiomon]

Just found your channel. These videos are pure gold!!!

[@lisawaterhouse5985]

You're an amazing teacher. Big thanks from Australia

[@henryecoleman]

Amazing! Great video and I learnt some new stuff! Thanks and keep going mate.

[@nickhulse1966]

You are the best, I've learned so much from your videos

[@audioinfinitymusic]

Thank yu sir for yurs knowledgeable amazing tutorials ❤️😊

[@larrylee9007]

An excellent tutorial!

[@johnhoolihan9452]

Excellent video. Thank you so much!

[@jean_mollycutpurse_winchester]

I've just bought Logic and know nothing. Mind blown. Thank you. Subbed.

[@GertKracht]

Thank you so much! I really want to learn Logic, so I'm following your series.

[@jonlieberman997]

Many thanks. You are a great educator.

[@stephaniejane-music]

Loops are so helpful when trying to come up with ideas. Handy video

[@BlackFuneralFlowers]

Thanks for the video, helped a lot

[@bruceadkins9147]

Great stuff

[@albertoflacoa]

❗️Loops Tip: You still can change variations of loops, if they have the numbers (loop 01, loop 02, etc) just like “takes”, after adding in arrangement view. Just click to 2 little arrows at hi left corner of region and choose one

[@myanmarsongguitarcover]

Thanks for sharing

[@Alsayhaj_Pro_Media]

It’s really great lecture, thanks dear

[@zouu777]

Thank you so much!! this guide is indeed better than any paid course !

[@MusicTechHelpGuy]

In this video, I demonstrate the following: 1. How to access and search for loops in the loop library 2. How to change the key of a project 3. How to import loops to the tracks area 4. How to use loops to build a musical arrangement 5. Basic region placement and editing Support the sponsor of this video, Boombox | bit.ly/boomboxsponsor For mixing/mastering work, contact me at my website | carneymediagroup.com Follow MusicTechHelpGuy on Instagram | instagram.com/musictechhelpguy Support the channel on Patreon | patreon.com/musictechhelpguy Demo project used in this video | www.logicproguide.com/downloads Timestamps: 0:00 Introduction 0:41 Sponsor Segment 1:18 Project Key + Loop Key 3:24 Sort Loops 4:36 Import, Loop, Repeat, Duplicate 7:05 Adding a Bass 9:24 Adding Synths 10:40 Trim + Repeat 11:35 Arrangement Building 13:58 Edit + Join Regions 15:00 More Arrangement Building 17:03 Edit MIDI 18:41 Transpose Key

[@VictorRodriguez-qc8pi]

Excellent

[@dcplyr]

Great job Bud, I like the T shirt.

[@lukaszbudzinski]

keep it up!

[@pradyumusic]

Thanks a ton

[@williamrdawsonphotography]

just realized this watching your video. In the loop library panel if you click the word KEY (next to tempo in the heading) it will organize everything according to the key you've selected. If you already know this, please disregard, I'm still learning.

[@Kergemarha]

Kösziii! 😊Awsome training, I’m addicted, Apple should hire you to explain their products and processes! 👊

[@hangovergin]

Thanks a lot

[@SproutyPottedPlant]

I will try the loops, seems like a good idea for when you run out of ideas and need some help 😊

[@strangeattractor4959]

bro so cool coming from dawless instruments is amazing, to know kind of hybrid my productions with your tips thanks!

[@PaulAtkins-bl5hk]

Love the video. I there a video, or will there be one just about working with and manipulating tempo in every situation?

[@gaiusZ9]

thanks man, really helpful. Just got a bit lost when transposing the key cz idk much of the theory.

[@antoniusj5194]

This is an amazing series. Thanks so much! I am trying to build this song along with you but got to the part where you were adding snare and I don't have that sound. I have downloaded all the available sounds that come with Logic Pro X. I am on 10.8.1. Are you using additional sound packs?

[@juniorpardo1729]

Hello, Ive been Loving loving loving your tutorials. I have a question regarding dragging loops in from splice. Would they also change keys when drag and dropped into the project file ? or would those stay in their original key.

[@MusicTechHelpGuy]

Outside "untagged" loops will not change key unfortunately. So you have to use the transpose feature in the region inspector for that.

[@762nato1]

Thanks for the video. What is the benefit of changing loops to regions? That part wasn't clear.

[@CharlesGreggo]

This is making me think of creating chord changes with loops! Like a I-IV-V. Do you have a tutorial on that? 🤟

[@MusicTechHelpGuy]

Look up chord progressions with no music theory. Or my recent 10.7.5 midi FX chord video. These are both videos that might help out with that. Or my music theory tutorials.

[@opdrummer]

this is super. . . one question tho -- when I go to transpose an audio track the only options I see in the region inspector are for octaves (12, 24, etc) not semitones like your video shows. It won't let me type anything in either. Any idea what I'm missing? thanks. . .

[@timturner6900]

What are your thoughts on upgrading system software. Right now I am using Mojave but in order to upgrade my logic pro and many of my daws I have to upgrade to Catalina. Yours thoughts?

[@alperkul]

👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

[@jflvcko94]

If the track is playing and you are previewing loops from the browser, does logic adjust the tempo of the loop to be in sync with the project? If so, does it only work with Apple Loops or also your own loops from sound packs? Thanks!

[@dafingaz]

Question for you: When I search untagged loops, I get no results. Although it was working before. Any idea how to get that to work?

[@JacquiMorrison926]

Love your tutorials. I have a question. ( and it's probably a stupid question). If I'm recording a song with real interments and my song is in the key of A, but I'm also using a chord progression ie A, D , E7, A, how do I make the loops follow that progression.

[@Yldaro]

I suppose that's the time at which you have to learn how to create your own loops ^v^'

[@radiosmith8207]

💎✔️💯👑

[@jeyaseelanarulananthajothi3054]

Can I use this tutorials with logic 10.4.8?

[@dennisschuetzeband]

The Bleep Hat Topper doesn't match the overall key, sounds off key.

[@MKJ2DAY]

Was looking for this comment. Drove me a bit crazy! Great tutorial otherwise.

[@warculturebass]

i want to import apple loops at their original key and tempo - that is, without them being modified by my project settings ; how do i do that ?

[@professortrog7742]

Nice tutorial! Question: is there a way to select a different scale then major or minor? E.g. phrygian, lydian, myxolydian, etc

[@MusicTechHelpGuy]

Kind of. You'd have to know what the relative major or minor key of the mode. For example C major and A minor have the same notes, all white keys. D Dorian is all white keys. E phyrgian is all white keys. So you could substitute the major or minor key for a mode; however, the loops are not going to transpose to any modal key. In fact, there are very few modal loops as far as I can remember. You'd have to go into the Piano Roll and modify the MIDI loops to make them fit a modal key.

[@professortrog7742]

@@MusicTechHelpGuy thank you for taking the time to respond. So there is some room for improvement there then 😊

[@Jay-Go]

👍

[@user-zu1lb9le4m]

For some reason when I duplicate the loop and try to edit using the piano roll, it doesn't work... Does this tool changes depending on the version I'm using?

[@ianedenwolf]

There's a way to install the Loops on an external Hard drive?

[@kandr21400]

All of my music is made of loops and audio samples. A tweak here...a tweak there...transpose, and I have full track. And it's all original. So when people say "that's cha-cheating" I say, whatever....my royalties statements say "cha-ching."

[@visianwatson1047]

Lol

[@margheritaibbalif9249]

I always wondered if it was wrong to use only loops

[@kandr21400]

@@margheritaibbalif9249 it's never wrong to use only loops. I have a wind synthesizer that I can convert from flute to trumpet to saxophone, and it sounds like the actual instrument. What's a sax, flute or trumpet player going to say to me.....that's cheating.... that's wrong? They can say what they want. I get it that they feel like they paid their dues on the traditional instrument, just like a music writer will feel like they wrote their songs the drawn out traditional way, but we live in a new day and age. Most people throw microwave popcorn in a microwave and that's that. If somebody wants to pour grease in a pot with popcorn kernels, they're free to do things the old way. Nothing wrong with that. I'm old school, but there's some things I do the new way.

[@margheritaibbalif9249]

@@kandr21400 thanks

[@AKC-MUSIC]

You’re a pretty smart gal😂

[@MBoss-mf9jx]

what's the difference between looping and repeating? which one is better?

[@MusicTechHelpGuy]

Looping will actually link the looped regions to the original region. So with MIDI if you change the original region the looped regions will also be changed. With repeating, it creates a separate copy of the region. So changing the original region, will not affect the loops.

[@margheritaibbalif9249]

Is it wrong to make music by only loops? You aren't really creating the music but just making a collage or is it ok?

[@rolandgreystoke5601]

I opened a drummer track with the setting of 88 - 3/4 - Dmin. Then opened the Apple Loops and selected the Mason Intro. I dragged it into an empty track and, when I played it, it did not sound the same as it did in the Loops section. It became, um, 'busier'. I tried to adjust it using the drum adjustment area, but could not fix it. Could you give me a hand? Thanks.

[@rolandgreystoke5601]

Fixed it! Created a Software Instrument track, dropped the Mason Intro in there and BAM!, sound the same as it did in the Apple Loops area.

[@MusicTechHelpGuy]

Ah yes! If you drag and drop a drummer lop onto another drummer track it may impart the settings from the drummer track. Whereas if you drop a drummer loop onto a new track, it will automatically assign the settings from the loop browser. Which could be a completely different instrument setting, FX, etc. Happy to hear you figured it out.

[@rolandgreystoke5601]

@@MusicTechHelpGuy I dropped and dragged the Apple Loop Intro track THEN changed the time signature and it all fell in line. Deleted the original track Logic Pro gave me, added Verse/Chorus/Bridge/Outro, tweaked them with the Magic Golden Globe and all was good. No MIDI needed after all. I've read a number of messages on the boards about how there are no 3/4 Apple Loops. There are if you do it this way! Off to watch more of your vids.

[@whatsupchicken]

Select a region and press "L" and it will loop it to infinity!

[@syndykdj]

no one has touched on the topic of a poorly functioning sample browser yet, is there any way to make sample playback work as efficiently as it does in ableton, fl studio ?? Loops converted to untagged loops still work fine, but short one shots of drums or other sounds are drama. I miss the logic of such an efficient sound browser as it is in ableton or fl studio, it is very annoying when you sit down to do a beat and you have to dig through a lot of samples.

[@eri7-11]

oh so I don't need to buy Sony Acid, I can just use my Logic, I didn't know it had loops, thanks!

[@vewilli]

Nice video. I always get e-mails that want me to purchase chord progressions. But I want to make music myself, no loops. No chord progression, nothing like that. Nevertheless it’s interesting how you produce music with loops. I’ve never done that … because I think that‘s not my music. Moreover I heard recently that one can‘t use all the laws in any case. You might get into troubles.

[@MusicTechHelpGuy]

We will get to recording MIDI and building chord progressions soon enough! I think of loops as a tool to assist with song building. Adding a synth or percussion loop here or there within your own composition, I would still consider composing. Or I might find a really cool loop I like, and build a whole musical arrangement around it. You'll only copyright claimed for a loop if a song was published with an exposed portion of a loop in it - so I always recommend altering the loop in some way. But for a beginner tutorial like this, it's also about getting familiar with arrangement building.

[@vewilli]

As I want to make music that’s my my music and not that of someone else, I never use any loops or chord progressions from anyone else. But nevertheless I learned/heard a lot in this video that I can use well. So 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👏🏻🙏🏻

[@frankyhonnolus5528]

I can’t believe you can make a EDM just by dragging and dropping samples.