From the course: Producing Electronic Music in Logic Pro
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Working with a MIDI controller and musical typing - Logic Pro Tutorial
From the course: Producing Electronic Music in Logic Pro
Working with a MIDI controller and musical typing
- [Voiceover] If you have a MIDI keyboard or control surface, you'll want to connect it to your computer, most commonly by using a USB cable. These days, most MIDI controllers are class-compliant, which means that you don't have to install any drivers. You should be able to plug in your controller and Logic will automatically recognize it. I highly recommend using a MIDI controller, because it allows you to work quickly, do more playing of notes rather than programming, and also learn new chord structures. Let's go back to our software instrument. Right now, the MIDI controller I have hooked up is an Axiom Pro 61, and another thing is, working with a MIDI controller, when I hold down notes, (plays chord) you can hear my default instrument, which is our classic electric piano. That's the default instrument that loads up when you select a software instrument. When I hold down the notes, we can also see, in our transport, that Logic is telling us the chords that we're playing. C minor, C…
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Review of Logic basics2m 6s
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Configuring Logic preferences1m 24s
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Working with a MIDI controller and musical typing2m 53s
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Configuring the UI and recording preferences8m 5s
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Enabling capture recording and hidden features in Logic Pro X3m 38s
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Saving a project2m 52s
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Electronic music production concepts3m 46s
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