Better workflow in Logic Pro
Of course, we shouldn’t be encouraging anyone to rush music making. Production should be all about taking your time and tweaking every piece of the arrangement. Your mixes should be just right and you should spend time moulding them and perfecting each part. However, DAWs come packed with time saving features – indeed a DAW is the biggest time saving device that music makers have ever had! But we’re not saying that you should use all of these features to hurry through the whole project; just pick and choose the options within Logic that help you speed up certain parts of the process – setting up, arranging and so on. Then you can spend more time on the creative parts of making a tune like recording the vocal or creating the main melody.
So this tutorial is designed to do just that: to speed up the more mundane parts of the music making process, so you can spend more time on the fun bits. It is labelled ‘Beginner’ but that is only because you don’t need any specialist knowledge of music or technology to follow it. All levels of producer should be able to take something away from it, so sit back and save time!
We’re not advocating rushing your music making but parts of your workflow can be speeded up so you can be more creative
FOCUS ON EFFECTS
Some people think that setting up Template projects is all about having instruments locked and loaded when you boot up Logic, but effects are just as important. Many top producers will have a compressor or EQ on each track within their Template project simply because every track can benefit from a little of each down the line when mixing. If you are doing a lot of recording in Logic having the input channel(s) of your Template project loaded up with effects is also a good idea. Many people like to record everything dry but there’s no harm in having a few choice effects at hand on that input channel, especially on guitars (as shown) so you can record with Logic’s powerful plug-ins.
The template
We’ll start right from the beginning, from the start of the production process when you load up a new project. We’ll cover the Template, a project that loads in whenever Logic boots
