Chapter 5: Recording MIDI

As previously explained in Chapter 1, Beginning with Logic Pro 10.6, MIDI is simply a set of instructions that can be utilized by a keyboard, tone module, drum machine, or Software Instrument that is capable of understanding the messages and responding to them.

We will be focusing on Software Instruments, and Logic Pro comes with a great array of them.

This chapter will cover the following main topics:

  • Recording MIDI parts with Logic Pro's many Software Instruments
  • Logic's MIDI editors
  • Correcting timing with quantization
  • Creating interesting layered sounds with Summing Stacks
  • Making one track follow the feel of another

Logic Pro's Software Instruments

As you can see in the following screenshot, Logic comes with a ...

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