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Thank you, @Samu.
@Samu :Please pardon my naïveté,but can you load several auv3’s simultaneously into Logic Pro for iPad in the same way you can in Cubasis?
@Telstar5 yes! LP4i has a more flexible audio engine than CB3.
Offcourse!
You can also create as many aux tracks as you need and add effects to them for parallel processing or when you run out of effect slots and need more or if you need to process one effect chain thru another effect chain.
AUM still has the edge in a few cases where you can slot-in a 'send node' anywhere in the signal chain, something that is pretty rare even in desktop DAWs.
But to answer the question, yes you can load a lot of effects AUv3 per track and use aux sends when the 8+ effect slots are not enough per track
Is there a 909 core kit equivalent like in Ableton? I'm trying to use the internal stuff only for now but the kits I've tried so far sound all wack.
If you filter the browser using drums and full kit and scroll down you'll find Roland TR-909, TR-808, Modern TR-707, Modern CR-8000, Modern 808, Modern 909, TR-727, LinnDrum etc.
Thanks @Samu 🤜
Stick those drum machines through phatfx and they sound amazing.
@klownshed thanks for the tip, looks like a powerful tool.
A problem I currently have is preset and track defaults, when I drop in presets I have to remove the busses and populated plugins it adds automatically. For Mac there's video about how to prevent that, but I can't find similar settings in the iPad app or in the manual.
I'm also wondering if there's a way to set up default audio and midi tracks that are populated with the stuff I want. Is it possible?
Yes there is, you first need to 'save' the custom audio patch you wish you use as the 'default'.
You can do this for midi-tracks too...
One you've done that you can create new tracks and use the 'Default Patch' for each of the track types you've set the default patch for.
Very helpful, thank you very much @Samu
Also I'm trying to understand the color coding for busses. The ones that are included in presets have the preset color coding, green in the screenshot below and are visually underlined by the violet group color, but those that I create manually through the "create new bus" option are yellow and "visually global". Is there a way to create busses within the violet drum machine group?
That's just how those presets work, they load up a chain and include aux sends. They're basically track presets rather than instrument presets. To load them as instrument presets, manually insert the instrument you want (I set the instruments to be added without a patch/instrument and turn off the "open browser" setting" in the options when you add a new track which makes this easier).
From there tap the name of the preset in the instrument's editor panel (top left next to the 'power' button) or tap on the instrument in the tile view of the track with the browser open.
This will open the "Plug-in Presets" view of the browser. select a patch from there and it won't add any plug-ins or create Auxes. If you want a preset from the "Instrument Patches" list, tap "Browse Patches..." or manually navigate to "Instrument Patches" in the browser. Make sure the icon at the bottom left of this view is on and you can select a patch for your instrument from the "instrument Patches" list without adding plugins or creating auxes.
So, basically, just select the patch from the instrument itself.
Samu's answered that one :-)
Yes, but it's a bit tricky...
You have to show the aux-track on the time-line in order to change its color using the inspector.
(ie. tap on the AUX track in the mixer and 'Create Track', you can then change the color in the track inspector)
And once you've changed the color you can delete the track from arranger that us unless you need to edit automation for the aux track in which case you'll have to do the 'Create Track' again
+1
PhatFX and StepFX in particular are one of the coolest things in Logic.
Great with touch interface and light on cpu too.
Thanks @Samu & @klownshed this helped a lot 🙌
So far I really like Logic on the iPad. If it turns out that saved presets, settings etc. survive without being subscribed indefintely I'll likely move over from Ableton as my main DAW. For my needs Logic seems defintely powerful enough, and it's nice to have a virtual Push directly integrated 🫠
I’m going nuts with one… How do you solo-safe, and more importantly unsolo-safe a track?.
Somehow one of my tracks is solo-safe and I have no idea how it happened. On desktop you solo-safe with control-click but can’t find a way to do it on the iPad and there’s nothing about it on the manual…
I have tried everything and can’t accomplish this “Solo-Safe/Unsolo Safe’ track thing…
Do you have a keyboard or mouse connected to your iPad?
No, I don’t… 😳
Somehow I managed to do the undoable!. And now the undo is also undoable.
Other than try and connect a keyboard and try ctrl+S I don’t know.
In this case I’d probably duplicate the audio track and just move the audio, then delete the offending track. If the duplicate is also solo locked I’d create a new audio track then move any plugins across. There doesn’t appear to be a way to make tracks solo safe directly on the iPad.
EDIT:
Just tried a quick test. I opened a project on the Mac, control+clicked the solo button then opened on iPad. The track shows solo safe mode, but it doesn't actually do anything different on the iPad. You can still solo and unsolo it, the only annoyance as such is that it shows the solo button with the strike through. Opening the project on the Mac again restores the solo safe behaviour. So basically the solo safe mode is just ignored on the iPad.
Only tried the presets so far but there are some nice chatcodes in there that can transform a standard house groove into a tricked out tech-house one 😎
@klownshed
You mentioned your iPad to desktop Logic workflow in another thread. I wonder how this would work with plugins that I'd only have for the ipad. Do you avoid using them in AUXes and Busses, or is there some form of advanced freezing where they're still accessible on the track somehow?
Depends.
If I'm starting on iPad I tend to use instruments I don't have on desktop as they're easy to bounce but most of the fx I use will be stock.
Alternatively I record the auxes if it's something important. (Select them in the mixer and select 'Create Track' to enable them in the tracks view).
Or I may just swap the fx for something I have on desktop. I have a load more stuff on desktop than iPad so it's usually not an issue. I have enough stuff on both that I can stick to those, such as FAC Alteza.
I don't have any of the Eventides on desktop as I'm a bit iLok-alergic so tend not to use those anymore, but if I do want to use, say Blackhole over Alteza, I'll record the bus it's on.
I like having the sends as audio regardless, you can do all sorts of stuff when they're audio such as put them in places they wouldn't otherwise be, stretch, slice, dice, etc. It can make it easier to mix/automate the fx when you can see the audio in the tracks view.
Thanks, makes sense. I guess my ideal ipad + desktop workflow would be start setting mixer things and add markers on the desktop, then move to the iPad until I have the main sections, and then move it over for the final arrangement with a lot of copy and paste which I find is the most painful thing to do on a small ipad screen with touch.
Could RAM become an issue when freezing tracks? I'm on a 9th gen with 3gb currently.
If I need a bigger iPad then the exteded desktop could become a viable option, I don't really depend on desktop plugins as I've mostly used Ableton stock things in the past.
Is this the right way to recreate Abletons "Bass Mono" Utility feature in Logic? (converting low frequencies below 120Hz to mono)
Greatings good people.
I can’t get multi-out to work with FAC drumkit. Can any one confirm? I don’t want to report a bug if I am the one who screw it up 😄
I can get multi-out to work with Pure Acid and Drambo.
I have only had trouble with FAC Drumkit so far.
Cheers
FAC Drumkit works as well...
...do the 'replace plug-in' and select the multi-out version of FAC Drumkit, after you've done the tap the + in the mixer to add sub-tracks to it. (You might need to tap on the 'Stereo' for FAC Drumkit and select the multi-out version)
Once you've done that you also need to select which drums go to which bus...
Here's the link to Logic's Manual on Multi-Out AUv3's...
https://support.apple.com/sv-se/guide/logicpro-ipad/lpipd169b435/ipados
Ahhh THANKS @Samu 👍🏼
I don’t know how missed that.
I found it, fixed it, It works THANKS again
It works in “solo safe mode” for me in the iPad!. It’s so weird how that ended up there. I had never opened that project on desktop. I tried the duplicate method and the new track was also solo-safe. But I saved the plugin chain, created empty track, pasted plugin chain and now I’m solo-safe-safe.
Hi all.
I tied freezing a track in loop grid mode and it doesn’t work… It will do the “freezing” thing but then the loop is grayed out like if it was muted. Doesn’t play. Does freezing not work in loop mode?.
My Logic trial runs out in a couple of days which gives me the opportunity to answer my question regarding the persistence of app settings and presets after unsubscibing, which nobody could answer a month ago.
I like Logic a lot more than I've inially expected, with the right setup like an M1/M2 iPad, extended desktop support and using for Drambo for most of the synth stuff I can see myself using it as the complete end to end solution for music making, replacing my desktop basically.
But my current 9th gen iPad isn't enough for how I want to use it. It would be enough if I'd also get Logic for desktop and separate my workflow, but I can already do that with Drambo + Ableton, especially when I can bring in my effects and mixing plugins into Ableton as well using this new NovoNotes solution that just popped up.
I'll resubscribe for another month to test the settings persistence thing, and depending on well the NovoNotes solution works, and what Apple brings to the table with the new devices, the OS and Logic itself I might upgrade my iPad or stick with what I have.
Thanks for all the help so far!