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Yes, I have been using Mercurial (hg) with Logic Pro for a while now and with great results. Also coming from a software development background I find the main benefit to be the comments for each changeset and the ability to go back and branch from an earlier version to try out alternate production or composition techniques.
As mentioned you will likely pay ...
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I guess you'll be able to reach the desired result by applying these effects:
EQ - Boost around 2KHz and cut everywhere else. (You can play with the frequencies and see which one suits you the best. To do that just boost one frequency and swipe it across the area).
Distortion - After setting the EQ, you could add just a bit of distortion to the signal.
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SoundTrack Pro is specifically targeted at creating and mixing music for video production. It has knowledge of SMTPE and other video-audio synchronization technologies and the layout is geared towards viewing video and audio simultaneously so you can score, mix and master to the visuals.
Logic Pro is targeted at just creating, mixing and mastering music. ...
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Two of the three options use noise shaping, which is basic filtering of the additional dithering noise.
If you understand the effect of dithering, you will probably be familiar with its big drawback: the introduction of noise. While the noise should be randomly generated to get the best dithering results, the most significant reason we dither is actually to ...
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The easiest solution would be to just use apple's say text-to-speech program. Try $ say hello on the command line.
Any sound can be broken down into a series of sine waves. The easy way to do that is via the Fourier Transformation. Then you can re-synthesizer with an inverse-fourier tranformation, which essentially means playing back the sine waves with the ...
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It really depends on your workflow and personal preference(s). Logic is definitely more powerful in terms of audio manipulation, but if you are not into the user interface or the scope of your audio editing needs is narrow, the additional power is useless.
On the other hand, if you like using the traditional mixer/recorder paradigm when you record audio, ...
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This isn't specific to Logic or MIDI, but I like to have all of the different drum sounds on different tracks so that they can be processed independently. This isn't a necessity unless the sound you want is based on having this separation (for example, some electronic music where you might want to put a special effect on the hihats but not the kick and ...
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Unfortunately your theory of how the human voice is made up is not accurate enough to make this possible - you just can't get the detail.
However, there are a wide range of examples of partial emulation of vocal tones, using combinations of effects and notes - see Steve Vai's guitar at the start of California Girls or Greasy Kid's Stuff for a couple. He ...
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If your music is lacking dynamic range, it could be a case of having an issue at mixdown, not necessarily something that can be fixed during mastering.
Consider mastering as taking your already well-produced track and making very subtle changes to get it ready for all of the audio devices you can think of - your computer, the car stereo, an ipod, so on.
To ...
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What you are looking for is a feature often called "render stems". For each track it contains a single WAV file rendered from the start of that track. Yes this is very wasteful of disk space, but you can at least easily import the files into any other DAW and they will line up correctly. It is up to you whether you need to export with effects on or not.
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The way I did this was to assign a cc 11 to each volume slider in the multi (the default midi assignment is cc 7).
To do that, you open the browse pane in Kontakt, go to the Auto tab, then choose the Midi automation tab.
Now drag cc 11 onto each instruments volume slider.
If each instrument is on its own midi channel then its volume slider will respond ...
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I've never tried it but Yamaha's Vocaloid technology was developed for this purpose. I think it's more designed for robots and anime characters, but maybe with the right processing in Logic it could work for what you need.
Check out http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vocaloid for more info.
If you try this please report back results, I'd be curious to know how ...
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Filtering a signal to remove certain parts of the spectrum on the face of it (and intuitively) should reduce the perceived sound level. This is what common-sense would tell us. However, when it comes to the reshaping of sound with filtering, lowering the sound level doesn't always equate to lowering the peak level. Yes, the perceived sound level may reduce ...
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In general, you should be very careful how loud you listen to music, both through headphones and through speakers, so you do not damage your hearing. You should be listening at the lowest level that still allows you to hear what you need to. Listening at higher volumes for short periods will allow you to better hear the nuances of the music, but should be ...
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You Can route your audio channels to multiple buses, so your main audio channels don't have an output, you don't do any mixing on those channels. So for example if you have 5 channels of audio, route them to buses 1 to 5, do your mix on the buses, send them directly to a sub-mix on bus 11 and from there to the master out.
For your second mix route the ...
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If you absolutely refuse to just sing it, and have no friends you can coerce into doing it, you can use some sort of pitch-correction software, more commonly called "Auto-tune". This will sound more natural than a robot voice, unless you have really extreme settings.
You could also use a Vocoder (which I suspect the robot voice effect is). This takes an ...
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If what you want to do is perform a live act with Ableton of your tracks produced in logic i would recommend a method that is kind of slow and tedious but once you got it going it will give you a great number of possibilities to play with during the live act..
I use two groups of 7 audio tracks in my live act, you can use whatever number of tracks fill your ...
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Rendering stems is the usual way to transfer an entire mix from one DAW into another. However, you may be able to use ReWire to achieve what you want.
It looks like Ableton Live can act as a ReWire client ("Device") and Logic as a ReWire host ("Mixer") allowing you to treat Live like a virtual instrument in Logic. Have a look at this tutorial. I'm not sure ...
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This often happens when you launch Logic before the Axiom is powered on. This causes the MIDI Input port settings under Preferences -> Control Surfaces -> Controller Assignments to get reset to an incorrect value.
The good news, if this is what's happening in your case, is that you don't have to relearn all the mappings, just go through and change the MIDI ...
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I pulled up the Logic manual to take a look at what they said about this. Below is an exact copy from the book:
Bouncing and Dithering
Logic Pro provides you with the professional POWr (Psychoacoustically Optimized Wordlength Reduction) and UV22HR dither algorithms, designed to convert 24-bit recordings to 16-bit files (as required for CD burning, ...
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Thank you for asking this question, because I have been wondering about this myself. A few reputation points is all the motivation I need to actually go find out. :)
I managed to get drum notation by just successfully doing what you tried to. The magic trick is not to double click the style scheme for the track. Just click and hold, and a menu will appear. ...
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I'm not sure how deep AppleScript support in Logic is, but that would be the first place to check.
If AppleScript won't do it, then you might try just directly processing MIDI. If you don't need results in real time, then it is easy. Just code up a MIDI processor using your favorite language and library (easy libraries exist for perl and Python. I suspect ...
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This is the case with many mid to high end audio hardware - the compute intensive tasks are handed off to processors on the card so that your CPU doesn't need to handle them.
For creating/mastering/mixing multilayer projects, especially those with plugins or real-time effects or transitions in any DAW I would recommend an external card to handle these ...
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I believe you can use the Flex Tool you mentioned in your comment to do what you want. Here is a tutorial explaining how:
http://apple-logic-studio.wonderhowto.com/how-to/warp-time-with-flex-time-tool-logic-pro-9-398064/
Hitting Command + T when you have the matching number of measures selected in the cycle region, the audio clip in the track you have ...
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The easiest way would be to score as usual and set the transposition offset in the track parameters, or if you want to be more specific, in the region parameters. These are both edited in the inspector area. See this page from the Logic Pro 9 manual.
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When I cut and paste audio, I usually try to zoom in and do it at a zero crossing. If that is not possible, I will edit the wave form directly to eliminate the click. I know Audacity can modify the wave form, and I'm sure some other DAWs can do it.
It's a much more manual and time consuming approach, but I have had pretty good results.
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If I understand the issue correctly, it's because even with edges on zero crossings, you're often going from zero to full volume on that clip in the space of several milliseconds.
Several DAWs (I know Ableton Live does this, and I think Reaper does too, but I'm not familiar with the others) allow an option to put a 4-ms (or thereabout) fade in and out on ...
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First of all, I have to say I deeply disagree that this songs needs any kind of click. It completely lives from the dynamic tempo, just one of those cases where a click would in fact "distract from the energy". The problem is just that the drums are very poor on this track.
The way to get such a dynamic song right properly is to have the drums, bass and ...
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I would recommend initially recording at least one track in sections so you can get the timing right, and then later discarding that track.
You could possibly record the first section of the guitar part in free time on one track then in another take/track record the second section with the click track. You could then record all the other tracks with that ...
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You have three options:
Sing it yourself. You may think you are a "horrible bad vocalist" but you might be surprised how much you can improve with a little practice. Especially considering that you can do tricks like using an auto-tune effect, or recording at a pitch more suited to your vocal range, or using comping to select the best phrases from several ...
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