You can populate each cell by dragging and dropping MIDI or audio loops, regions, or one-shots from the Browser or Tracks views, as well as by real-time recording or step recording from the Step Sequencer. While reminiscent of the clip-launching views in Ableton Live and Bitwig Studio, the Live Loops Grid and its loop “cells” recall what Apple’s Garageband for iOS actually incorporated several years ago, but with greater editing and recording possibilities.
Logic Pro 10.5’s new Live Loops Grid brings a whole new workspace to the DAW for creating nonlinear, loop-based performances. Let’s see how the new components work and how well they oil up the entire machine.
Logic Pro X 10.5’s new tools make capturing ideas even faster, more fun and creatively expansive. Although Ableton Live has taken the spot of most popular DAW, many young electronic music producers have flocked toward Logic Pro, even before this update. While this remixy bag of tricks may not be exactly what all Logic Pro users wanted, it is exactly what some of them did. Even Logic’s streamlined and enhanced new Sampler and Quick Sampler, which every Logic Pro X user can benefit from regardless of whether they work in electronic beat genres, mimic Ableton’s Sampler/Simpler dynamic.
Its new Drum Synths and Step Sequencer fill in feature gaps that Live and other software like Native Instruments Maschine have emphasized with their companion sequencing hardware. Its new Live Loops Grid incorporates nonlinear, loop-based composition, arrangement and performance that Live first brought to DAW software. There’s no mistaking Ableton Live’s influence upon Logic Pro X 10.5’s additions.
The updates almost feel like a second program added on top of Logic Pro, except that they’re integrated with the smooth panache one has come to expect from the engineers of the trillion-dollar orchard.Īs a long-time Ableton Live and Bitwig Studio user who recently turned to Apple Logic Pro X to delve into scoring to picture, I saw the hefty Logic Pro X 10.5 makeover as the perfect update at the perfect time. When the dam finally broke, thirsty Logic pros met a deluge of new tools and capabilities, mostly aimed at dancefloor-oriented music production. This will load up your preset, which you can then use just as you would any other virtual instrument.After well over two years since the 10.4 update, stalwart Logic enthusiasts found themselves less enthused over Apple’s neglect of its professional DAW while the company instead tried to sell suckers a new watch every nine months. The other way you can load presets is by simply dragging presets you downloaded elsewhere onto the plugin window: Dragging a preset onto the Decent Sampler plugin window This will allow you to download sample libraries from the Decent Samples store: The Decent Samples store The first way is to click on the BROWSE button. There are several ways you can load presets. When you first open it, it will be blank. This will pop up the Decent Sampler plugin window: The Decent Sampler plugin window Then, in the instrument dropdown on the left, change the instrument for the track you created from E Piano to Decent Sampler by selecting AU Instruments > Decidedly > DecentSampler > Stereo: Selecting the Decent Sampler instrument If this is not open, you can open it by hitting the I key on your computer keyboard.
Next, you’ll need to make sure you have the track inspector open. You can do this by selecting the Track > New Software Instrument Track menu option: Creating a new software instrument track
Next, open up Logic Pro and create a new Software Instrument track.
Your first step is to install Decent Sampler using the installer found here.