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Lesson time: (4min 35sec)
A tour of Logic Pro's channel strip - loading patches from the library and the instruments, effects and plugins they bring with them.
This lesson is part of the course Logic Pro: Interface & Workflow
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Lesson transcript:
So now that we've taken a look at regions, how else can we build and enhance tracks?
What it will come down to is different sounds and different styles. One place we can go for that is obviously the library, which we've already taken a brief look at. But I want to show you a little bit further.
Essentially, what this will do here is populate my channel strip with an instrument, some effects, maybe even some delays and reverbs, and stuff like that.
So, I'm going to go ahead and pick something else, which might be like a piano sound, for instance:
Whenever I load a different patch (e.g., mallet and marimba), it will load a different set of instruments and effects, including delays.
Your patches can be selected for software instruments in order to trigger those sounds. But we can also load patches for audio instruments as well.
For example, if I go to my guitar part:
This will allow me to add something to that sound.
I'm going to play the sound, add that patch in, and you can hear the difference in the sound. Obviously, that sounds a lot better to me there.
What we've established is that a patch is essentially a bunch of different things that change the sound, and it differs whether we're working with software instruments or audio tracks.
Now, I want to show you how a patch is made up and focus on the channel strip:
You can see here that I have effects like:
We'll be going through all of that kind of stuff very shortly.
What I have are all of these plugins:
When we are in our library, what we're doing is selecting a patch. That patch is comprised of plugins that have been put onto our channel strip.
Our channel strip is there to host plugins and software instruments, but it's also there for us to:
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