There are several ways you can use hardware with Logic Pro X: recording vocals or instruments, mixing, and mastering. If you treat these as three separate. It is free to download and provides you with a multitude of features. Logic Pro X As it is the latest version of the software lohic is now.
 
 

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Mark Cousins continues his guide to integrating hardware synths into your Logic setup. Be sure to read part 1 before continuing. Subsequent additional tracks can then be created either by duplicating the audio track or MIDI track.

From just one hardware synth, therefore, you can create a project full of imaginative, authentic-sounding synth lines. Select the physical MIDI output for your synthesiser and audio input, as in the first example. The External Instrument plug-in makes your hardware synth like a virtual instrument. MIDI can be recorded and MIDI and audio plug-ins added to the signal path, effectively creating a hybrid of the previous two-track approach. The only catch with the External Instrument plug-in solution is recording.

The next level of integration is to add some software-based controls for your instrument. This is particularly useful for hardware like the Roland Boutique series that can occasionally have small controls, or hidden features. Here, you should find the instrument object for the track you created earlier.

Logic will ask you if you want to remove the channel-port assignment, click Remove to okay this. You should still see the MIDI data, however. Moving the fader on your synth should highlight its controller assignment in the Monitor object. Cable the faders serially, starting from the output of the Monitor object and ending with the last fader. Change their controller assignment for Input and Output to match the controller message transmitted from your synth.

Cable the object at the end of the chain of faders, and set its output assignment to correspond to the MIDI output for the synthesiser. The mini onscreen editor accesses your chosen parameters. Dynamic parameter changes can be recorded, with the movements visualised using the onscreen faders, or you can store sounds as part of the project. One final point worth mentioning is the ability to lock sequencers or LFOs on your hardware synth. Review: Spitfire Audio Albion Solstice. Review: Austrian Audio Hi-X Hardware Instruments.

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