Creators of electronica could have hours of fun just by dragging and dropping loops into the arranger window. It will emulate different amplifier set-ups or classic microphones and much much more besides.
Logic Pro X contains everything you need to get started right from the moment you download it – from hundreds of professional grade built-in sounds, a virtual mixing desk, hundreds of loops, and effects from filters to compressors to delays to reverbs. Alas, most of us don’t have this luxury, but modern software, such as Logic Pro X is very good at fooling listeners into believing just that.
A quick Google would doubtless reveal umpteen pre-made MIDI files but it’s much more fun – and creative – to start from scratch myself! Now in an ideal world I’d have my own fully equipped recording studio, and a house band who pick up real instruments and play them. I am currently working on creating the backing tracks for a local amateur production of “Grease”. I can spend hours creating music on a computer for nothing more than my own pleasure, and I used to be so nervous about playing my creations to other people that I had to leave the room while they listened – preferably over headphones so I didn’t have to over-hear it myself! Over the years, however, I’ve found many ways to get my music heard in the real world, mainly via my interest in amateur dramatic productions. Having said that, this will be a long article, but read it and keep referring back to it.Ī quick word about me. I hope this workflow will prove useful for all budding musicians, and that it entertains you more than wading your way through one of the many enormous books on the subject.
So much of what I say here will apply to pretty much any software package, as it’s more about a philosophy, rather than “click this, then click that”. What follows is a method of music creating using Apple’s Logic Pro X recording software, but over the last 20 years I’ve used other brands of software, including Trax (a MIDI only software package that I used with Windows 95, but which will run on Windows V2.0!!), Cakewalk Home Studio, Sonar and when I switched to Mac, various incarnations of Logic from v8 onwards.