Produce a track from scratch in Pro X

Welcome to music making in Logic. This tutorial is very much aimed at the beginner to Logic Pro X (there are more advanced tutorials later in this Focus) although we think that everyone can benefit from parts of it. That’s because we’re going to cover all sorts of mixing and arrangement advice along the way, so even if you are an experienced composer you could pick up some production advice by following our step-by-step guides.

Logic is an incredible piece of music production software and you really do get everything you need – and actually a whole lot more – to make great music. The software comes with enough instruments to fill out any piece of music that you can imagine (and probably several hundred that you can’t!) including guitars, pianos, orchestral instruments and synthesisers. There are several ways of adding beats to your tunes including audio recordings supplied with Logic and the Drummer feature.

In this tutorial we’ll show you how