From the course: Logic Pro: Producing Electronic Music

Timeline vs. Live Loops feature - Logic Pro Tutorial

From the course: Logic Pro: Producing Electronic Music

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Timeline vs. Live Loops feature

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- Let's check out one of my favorite features in the latest version of Logic Pro. And that is the new live loops feature. So right now, we're looking at the traditional linear arrangement going left to right along the timeline. And we have some of the things we brought in from before. I'm just going to hit play. (upbeat groovy music) Cool. So that's our standard arrangement. But up here over at the top, we have this grid here. And if we click on that, this will bring up kind of this array of cells here and that is our live loops feature. And it's so powerful, by the way, if you're working with an iPad, I definitely recommend downloading Logics remote for iPad. It's free once you already have Logic and you can use live loops on the iPad to trigger some of these live loops. So right now, with both of these highlighted, we're looking at both together, we're looking at the live loops feature and we're looking at the traditional arrangement. If I want to hide the arrangement and just have the live loops feature, I can do that by clicking. Similarly, if I hide this, it'll go back to just seeing the traditional arrangement. For now, let's go in and just focus on the live loops feature. So I've already gone in and drag some clips into cells from Apple factory content which remember we can hit O, and just drag things right in. And what this allows us to do is audition things but not yet necessarily have them on a linear timeline. So let's see what we have. I'm going to just trigger some cells by hitting the arrow, which is the play button on that individual cell. (upbeat groovy music) And so this track right here is track four, it's our beat track. (upbeat groovy music) So I can audition kind of different parts here. If I wanted to stop playing a track like this base, I could click on it again. (upbeat music) And let's see what this is, this digging deep synch. (upbeat groovy music) Cool. So you can see, this is a quick way to just audition sounds together and see how things sound together looping before you commit them to an arrangement. And by the way, I have the quantize start set at one bar, which means that when I hit the play button, it's going to wait until the next bar starts to make sure everything's in sync, but I could change those settings. I could go in with more precision. I could say, after one cell ends, it triggers again, or I have quantize set to off and just let the timing be more natural. Another thing I can do if I go to the bottom here, I can play these and trigger these in full kind of scenes. So I could go and just trigger this. (upbeat groovy music) And then this next one. (upbeat groovy music) And then maybe back. (upbeat groovy music) So there's a lot you can do with this. When you're happy with everything, you can drag to the arrangement, you can also record directly to the arrangement, which is another cool feature that we're going to cover next.

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