From the course: Logic Pro: Producing Electronic Music

Navigating Ultrabeat's interface - Logic Pro Tutorial

From the course: Logic Pro: Producing Electronic Music

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Navigating Ultrabeat's interface

- [Narrator] Two, if you have access to the exercise files you'll want to open that now. If you don't, you can get to Ultrabeat by clicking on a software instrument track. If there are no plug in loaded, you'll see something that says instrument, right here. You can click on the drop down menu and then select Ultrabeat. We're going to select a stereo version of the plug in for now. You can also select the multi-output version, which I'll show you a little bit later in this course. Essentially, a stereo version of Ultrabeat will route all 25 of Ultrabeat's drum voices to a single stereo output on a single channel. And the multi-output will allow you to route individual drum voices to their own separate output. This can be really helpful for mixing stages, which we'll cover a little bit later in the course. So, what we're looking at is the default state of Ultrabeat and Ultrabeat has three main sections. We have our assignment section, on the left. We have our synthesizer section, in the middle. And then we have our sequencer section at the bottom. At our assignment section, we can see all of our different drum voices and when we click on them, you'll notice the synthesizer section, in the middle, changes, and so does the sequencer on the bottom. And so, basically, everything you're seeing here, right now, is all going to the one drum voice that we have selected. I can do things like rename, by double clicking and giving our individual drum sound a name. I can adjust the volume of an individual drum voice by dragging the blue bar. And you'll see the decibel level to the right. I can mute solo. I can adjust the panning in the stereo field. And, basically, that's essentially the assignment section. We can also assign where our output for each voice is routed, but again, that's the multi-output. In the synthesizer section, that allows us to really customize our individual drum sounds. So, drums can originate from an audio sample, they can also originate directly from synthesis from an oscillator and we can add things like noise, which are great on snares or high hats. But I'll show you that a little bit later. For right now, we're going to go into our next video, and focus on sequencing on Ultrabeat. But if you have Ultrabeat open, I encourage you to play around and get familiar with these features before moving on.

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