Pro tools beat detective and logics flex time are some examples. These are the same values youve been selecting since youve learned how to quantize. Here are two beats that are the same tempo, and soundpretty good together, but id like to make their feel even tighter. Quantize the timing of audio regions, logic pro x help. Run your session from wherever youre most comfortable whether thats next to your computer or.
When you quantize the pitch, selected notes on the track are adjusted. Even though youve tuned your guitar to perfection with your roadie tuner, the final recording might still need some tweaking in the pitch department. Click the showhide flex button in the audio track editor menu bar. The process results in notes being set on beats and on exact fractions of beats. You can quantize audio and midi to a grid or to a groove.
Logic pro x external instrument recording apple community. Yes trying to record the audio from my bass station 2 in to my scarlett 2i2. With the flex tool engaged and slice mode on, you can shift the audio to a specific grid by selecting from the quantize options in the quantize section. How to automatically quantize in logic 9 our pastimes. Logics qrange quantization feature is like a mysterious magic trick. Flex pitch will allow you to correct minor mistakes and create. Can anyone explain how scale quantize is supposed to work. Quantize the timing of audio regions in the audio track editor. Logic studio 9 also boasts an enormous collection of modeled instruments, sampler instruments, effect plugins, and audio loops in a single box. I mean, you probably wouldnt want to quantize a vocal to 16ths.
How to quantize audio in steinberg cubase creating tracks. Apple logic pro 7 audio production software guitar center. Learn to use flex editing with logic pro x to easily quantize and adjust the timing of recorded tracks. Choose flex pitch from the flex popup menu in the audio track editor menu bar. When flexing a region in logic 9, you are probably familiar with the grey transient markers that logic creates. Logic studios new flex time tool collection combines a new interface designed for making these changes with an underthehood engine that can warp sound more convincingly. Want to choose my next video take the survey below. Now if you use 116 quantize, everything is bang on these divisions. For the purpose of this tutorial, it will be quantized to sixteenth notes 116. You can use smart tempo when recording one or more audio, software instrument, or midi tracks. So, i was watching a youtube video where someone recommended quantizing your other instruments to a recorded drum part. It was originally created in the early 1990s as notator logic, or logic, by german software developer clab which later went by emagic. Quantize pitch in the audio track editor in logic pro apple support.
Audio quantizing affects the audio event starts or the content of your audio. Play any software instrument in logic pro x from your ipad or iphone and easily shape your sound as you go. Flex time, open the region section on the inspector, then click quantize. Logic remote wirelessly connects your ios device to your mac and adds the power of multitouch control to your performances and mixes. In digital music processing technology, quantization is the studiosoftware process of transforming performed musical notes, which may have some imprecision due to expressive performance, to an underlying musical representation that eliminates the imprecision. Lets the user select the quantization grid that ableton will use. Using the flex tool in logic to quantize your loops can be really helpful to quickly make any drum loop fit in time with your track. The audio interface has the essential features of 8 micinstrument inputs with 48v phantom power. With audio quantize you sometimes may need to transient detect first and adjust the markers with the slider if the first result isnt good, and of course, pick a good grid resolution for the material. Some notes if you are still in the choosing a daw stage.
This video explains how to perform quantization to your audio using logic pro x, how to use the region inspector to apply a focused quantization to your audio, and how to use the more advanced quantization. Ive got an ipad and the stuff on garageband is half decent like, 50% decent, 50% not for guitar strumming, and now that i have a macbook and logic, logic remote has the same touch instrument stuff. Learn how to quantize audio parts in logic pro x, in this video tutorial. Theres an entirely new audio manipulation engine, allowing recorded sound to be reshaped in time. Click the track to which you want to apply an automatic quantizing effect. Ive synchronized some notes on my bass drum and bass guitar tracks. Notice the difference in the look of the audio track some of the separated audio peaks are moved quite a bit.
How i edit guitars ask a producer gear gods youtube. Logic was always famous for how flexible it is when quantizing midi performances. How to quantize audio in pro tools using beat detective. The presonus audiobox 1818vsl one of the best audio interface for logic pro x2020 the presonus audiobox 1818vsl is a full featured audio interface that is straightforward and user friendly. The process required signals with strong transients and fast attacks, like drums, guitar, bass, piano, etc.
Then, if you analyze for instance a shuffling rhythm, the down beat, snare or clap and a hihat programmed in 4s or 8s will be straight still, but every event that occurs on beat 1. You can see rhythms as a line where a bar is split up in e. Also, if you choose to quantize the region logic creates white quantize markers. With apple logic studio 9 daw software its easy to get amazing sounds and amazingsounding recordings. However, the process is not so straight forward when working with nonmidi audio voice, guitar, etc. I know in logic one can quantize to the metronome but im wondering if anyone has a good way of lining up the transients of my guitar and bass tracks to the transients of my drum track. The apple logic pro 7 audio production software is the first choice of many prominent musicians and producers. This is especially useful when regions on the track contain the right notes but are not perfectly in time with the project tempo. As time stretching affects the timbre of the source, an important detail when choosing a daw is its time stretching algorithms which can be used to quantize, among other things. First, you applied the equivalent of a noise gate to strip out all the silences in a digital audio track. This is not for every case and you need to use your ears not your eyes in the grid, but sometimes gave life to flat, soulless tracks.
In the second part of this walkthrough of logics advanced quantization features were going to have a look at probably the most useful and powerful feature for creating more natural sounding quantizations. Quantizing in logic pro x how to get better results. For many audio clips 14 notes seems to work well for me, sometimes 18ths. Logic pro x can be used to quantize midi performances. Quantization refers to the organized adjustment of the sequence of your audio or midi events across a set timeline. Waveform quantizing software has to basically guess where the individual notes are.
Apples new version of logic studio introduces some significant headline features. Once you have an audio track ready to be quantized, make sure the timeline is set to grid mode and use the hand or selection tool to pick a part of the region you want to beat detect. When flex pitch is turned on in the audio track editor, you can quantize, or automatically correct, the timing of regions on an audio track. Ive recorded guitar performances to 2 guitar tracks in logic pro x. When there is not a precise start time to the note, it is more difficult for quantizing software to know where to put each note in time. Whereas, once upon a time, the hub of a computerbased studio was a midi sequencer, which simply. Click the region youll be adding swing to and add a quantization to it like 116 note. When you lay down recording of your otherwise excellent guitar playing. Ive muted the other drums so you can hear how this works. The manual is really brief on this and there doesnt seem to be a way to quantize different. Quantizing in logic pro x how to get better results using qrange. Qrange requires a standard quantization to be already selected. In this how to quantize audio in steinberg cubase lesson, we are going to learn how to quantize audio files.
However, what exactly happens during quantizing differs for audio and midi. You can also quantize multiple audio tracks simultaneously. The most basic way to quantize in logic is via the quantization options in the region inspector. I got clean into my motu and process afterwards through logics amp sims. And you dont typically need to edit and realign tracks in the way described throughout this thread. Im sure you are all familiar with the quantize list in logic but i bet there are some values in it that you never look at. Quantizing the pitch can produce accurate results only for singlenote monophonic audio. So, ive recorded a bit of piano but its a bit out of time. Or, keep the project tempo and flex the recording to match it.
I quantize guitars manually in logic, imho there is no easy way or magic quantizing tool for editing guitars. Quantize snaps cues and loops to the rekordbox beat grid for a reliable performance every time. These days, the modern daw digital audio workstation software package has many powerful features that have evolved out of the hardware studio. First, we will quantize using beat detective, which is a bit more complex than elastic time. When i go to comp in swipe mode lets say comping the performance on the close mic only the actual take that is currently highlighted is affected and effectively comped. Remember, each track contains a layer of recording material, such as guitar, bass or vocals, and you can apply the command to as many tracks as you want. Logic will now add a groove template to the quantize menu named after the drum region it was taken from. Use flex editing to adjust the timing of groups of drums tracks while maintaining phase accuracy among the tracks. American technology company apple acquired emagic in 2002 and renamed logic to logic pro. To quantize automatically in logic, you must first access the programs flex mode feature. If you have a track with midi drumsbass and a gtr performance with a feeling not completely out of time you can warp the guitar, make a map or export midi file and quantize on this the rest of the track. Ive also tried drawing notes manually in to the piano roll but its still out of sequence and quantize only seems to make it worse when played back.
This is the quantize settings window and it gives the user the following options. Logic pro x working with midi scale quantize scale quantize is a way of snapping midi notes to a particular scale, extremely useful for quickly fixing a poorly played phrase, or eradicating any bum notes from a recording. I actually prefer logic over protools for guitar editing because of the take folders, comping features and automatic crossfade feature also you dont have to wait for the freakin crossfades like you do in pt 9. Quantize is where we can ask logic to automatically put the notes we have recorded on beat or in time. For this example, well use a groove template logic swing 8d. While it is not as good as melodyne, it does come with logic so you dont have to invest in more software. Im trying to record a lot of tracks in one go that will be possibly backing music for tv shows etc and lots of layers of simple things on guitar. Recording electric guitars in logic sound on sound. Logic pro is a digital audio workstation daw and midi sequencer software application for the macos platform. Its one of the common and most useful features of music software, but what is quantization.
The region parameters quantize section is best used for this. Lets start at the top and look at the values you can actually quantize with. Quantization is a process used in audio production to align notes and beats that result in a more accurate timing. The white markers are not supposed to show up unless you choose to quantize the region. Flex audio is an amazing tool for quantizing your audiowith just the same swing and feel, this with midi. Logic pro x quantize multitrack drums with flex time. Unwanted quantize markers in logic pro sound design. Match the tempo automatically in logic pro x apple support.