Logic Pro User Guide for iPad
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- What is Logic Pro?
- Working areas
- Work with function buttons
- Work with numeric values
- Undo and redo edits in Logic Pro for iPad
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- Intro to tracks
- Create tracks
- Create tracks using drag and drop
- Choose the default region type for a software instrument track
- Select tracks
- Duplicate tracks
- Reorder tracks
- Rename tracks
- Change track icons
- Change track colors
- Use the tuner on an audio track
- Show the output track in the Tracks area
- Delete tracks
- Edit track parameters
- Start a Logic Pro subscription
- How to get help
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- Intro to recording
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- Before recording software instruments
- Record software instruments
- Record additional software instrument takes
- Record to multiple software instrument tracks
- Record multiple MIDI devices to multiple tracks
- Record software instruments and audio simultaneously
- Merge software instrument recordings
- Spot erase software instrument recordings
- Replace software instrument recordings
- Capture your most recent MIDI performance
- Route MIDI internally to software instrument tracks
- Record with Low Latency Monitoring mode
- Use the metronome
- Use the count-in
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- Intro to arranging
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- Intro to regions
- Select regions
- Cut, copy, and paste regions
- Move regions
- Remove gaps between regions
- Delay region playback
- Trim regions
- Loop regions
- Repeat regions
- Mute regions
- Split and join regions
- Stretch regions
- Separate a MIDI region by note pitch
- Bounce regions in place
- Change the gain of audio regions
- Create regions in the Tracks area
- Convert a MIDI region to a Session Player region or a pattern region
- Replace a MIDI region with a Session Player region in Logic Pro for iPad
- Rename regions
- Change the color of regions
- Delete regions
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- Intro to chords
- Add and delete chords
- Select chords
- Cut, copy, and paste chords
- Move and resize chords
- Loop chords on the Chord track
- Color chords on the Chord track
- Edit chords
- Work with chord groups
- Use chord progressions
- Change the chord rhythm
- Choose which chords a Session Player region follows
- Analyze the key signature of a range of chords
- Create fades on audio regions
- Extract vocal and instrumental stems with Stem Splitter
- Access mixing functions using the Fader
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- Intro to Step Sequencer
- Use Step Sequencer with Drum Machine Designer
- Record Step Sequencer patterns live
- Step record Step Sequencer patterns
- Load and save patterns
- Modify pattern playback
- Edit steps
- Edit rows
- Edit Step Sequencer pattern, row, and step settings in the inspector
- Customize Step Sequencer
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- Intro to mixing
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- Channel strip types
- Channel strip controls
- Peak level display and clipping
- Set channel strip volume
- Set channel strip input format
- Set the output for a channel strip
- Set channel strip pan position
- Mute and solo channel strips
- Reorder channel strips in the Mixer in Logic Pro for iPad
- Replace a patch on a channel strip using drag and drop
- Work with plug-ins in the Mixer
- Search for plug-ins in the Mixer in Logic Pro for iPad
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- Effect plug-ins overview
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- Instrument plug-ins overview
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- ES2 overview
- Interface overview
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- Modulation overview
- Use the Mod Pad
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- Vector Envelope overview
- Use Vector Envelope points
- Use Vector Envelope solo and sustain points
- Set Vector Envelope segment times
- Vector Envelope XY pad controls
- Vector Envelope Actions menu
- Vector Envelope loop controls
- Vector Envelope point transition shapes
- Vector Envelope release phase behavior
- Use Vector Envelope time scaling
- Modulation source reference
- Via modulation source reference
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- Sample Alchemy overview
- Interface overview
- Add source material
- Save a preset
- Edit mode
- Play modes
- Source overview
- Synthesis modes
- Granular controls
- Additive effects
- Additive effect controls
- Spectral effect
- Spectral effect controls
- Filter module
- Low, bandpass, and highpass filters
- Comb PM filter
- Downsampler filter
- FM filter
- Envelope generators
- Mod Matrix
- Modulation routing
- Motion mode
- Trim mode
- More menu
- Sampler
- Studio Piano
- Copyright
Add Apple Loops to your Logic Pro for iPad project
After searching for loops in the Browser, you can preview them to find the one that sounds best in your project. When you preview a loop, you can hear it by itself (solo) or play it together with the project. You can add a loop by dragging it to the appropriate track in the Tracks area. You can also add it directly to a new track, or use the loop to create a new track for Quick Sampler, Sample Alchemy, or Drum Machine Designer.
Unless changed in the New Project Settings window, new projects default to a project tempo of 120 bpm and a key of C major. If the first region added to a project is an Apple Loop (that is, before any audio or MIDI has been added or recorded to the project), the project tempo and key are adjusted to match the Apple Loop. If you already established a project tempo and key signature (either by recording directly into the project or adding material), Apple Loops automatically conform to the current project tempo and key signature. If you subsequently change the project tempo, Apple Loops automatically conform to the new tempo. If you create key changes on the Signature track, the regions created from the loops follow the key changes and are transposed to the new key. See Transposition and the Pitch Source parameter.
View Apple Loops in the Browser
In Logic Pro, tap the Browser button
, then tap Loops.
Preview a loop
In Loops view in the Browser in Logic Pro, tap the Preview button to the left of the loop name.
A waveform for the preview appears near the bottom of the Browser.
Tap anywhere inside the waveform to start the preview from that point.
Tap the Preview Volume button at the bottom of the Browser, then drag the Volume slider to adjust the volume of the loop you’re listening to.
Tap the Preview button again to stop the preview.
Tip: To quickly preview one loop after another, touch and hold a Preview button, then drag up or down.
Filter loops by type
In Logic Pro, you can filter loops in the Browser list to show loops of only a particular type: audio, MIDI, pattern, or Session Player.
In Loops view in the Browser, tap the All Filters button
.In the Type category, choose one or more loop types.
Filter loops by musical properties
In Logic Pro, you can filter loops in the Browser list by various musical properties, including feel, key signature, part, swing, time signature, and tonality.
In Loops view in the Browser, tap the All Filters button
.In the Musical Properties category, choose one or more musical properties.
Add a loop to your project
In Loops view in the Browser in Logic Pro, touch and hold a loop, then do one of the following:
Drag a loop to an empty area of the Tracks area, below the existing tracks.
A new track of the appropriate type (audio or software instrument) is created, and the loop is added to the new track.
Drag an audio loop (blue) to an audio track.
Drag a MIDI loop (green), a pattern loop (violet), or a Session Player loop (yellow) to a software instrument track.
Drag a MIDI loop (green), a pattern loop (violet), or a Session Player loop (yellow) to an audio track to convert it to an audio loop.
Add chords from Apple Loops to your project
In Logic Pro, many Apple Loops contain chords that you can use in your project. If you add loops with chords to the tracks area, you can keep the chords in the resulting region or add them to the Chord track to quickly create a harmonic structure for Session Players.
Apple Loops with chords have the Chord symbol 
under the loop name in the Browser. See Intro to chords.
In Loops view in the Browser in Logic Pro, tap the More button
, tap Loop Chords, then choose one of the following options:Keep Region Chords: When you drag an Apple Loop with chords to the Tracks area, it follows the region chords it contains.
Replace Global Chords with Region Chords: When you drag an Apple Loop with chords to the Tracks area, the region chords contained in the loop are pasted to the Chord track at the position where you drag the loop.
Automatic: When you drag an Apple Loop with chords to the Tracks area and there are no chords on the global Chord track at the position where you drag the loop, the region chords are added to the global Chord track at that position. If chords already exist on the Chord track at the position where you drag the loop, the loop follows its region chords. Session Player loops are an exception; If chords exist on the Chord track at the position where you drag a Session Player loop, they follow the chords on the Chord track.
Create a new track with a loop
In the Browser in Logic Pro, tap a loop to select it, tap the More button
, then tap New Track with Loop.A new track is created, and the loop is placed on the track at the beginning of the project.
Place a loop at the playhead position
In Logic Pro, select the track where you want to place the loop.
Place the playhead where you want the loop to start.
In the Browser, tap a loop to select it, tap the More button
, then tap Place Loop at Playhead.
Create a new instrument track with Sample Alchemy, Quick Sampler, or Drum Machine Designer
In the Browser in Logic Pro, touch and hold a loop, then drag it to the empty area below the last track header.
Tap Sample Alchemy, Quick Sampler, or Drum Machine Designer in the “Create new track with” dialog that appears.
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