Hi, I’m Hector and welcome to another video
tutorial by Soundgrains.
In today’s video we will take a look at
setting up your audio interface in Logic Pro X
I’m using Logic Pro 10.2.4 in Mac OS X Yosemite
10.10.5
but the settings will be the same across all
versions of Logic Pro X and even Logic Pro 9
Before we begin, we want to turn on all the
advanced tools and options in Logic Pro X.
By default, Logic Pro X hides a lot of powerful
tools and options
which really separates Logic Pro X from Garageband.
To make full use of Logic Pro X, you will
want to turn on all the advanced tools and options
In the menubar, click on Logic Pro X, Preferences,
then Advanced Tools.
Enable ‘Show Advanced Tools’ and you want
to enable all of them
by clicking on the enable all button at the
bottom of the window.
Logic Pro X will take a few seconds to enable
all the options.
You might notice a slight visual change in
the user interface of Logic Pro X
after these options have been enabled.
This shows how many features were disabled
previously.
We will now begin configuring our audio preferences.
Click on Audio, then ensure that you are in
the devices tab.
You can also access this panel from the menubar
by clicking on Logic Pro X, Preferences, then Audio.
Core Audio is the digital audio infrastructure
of the Mac OS.
Most audio interfaces are Core Audio devices
and you should always leave this setting enabled.
You can think of this being the reason why
you don’t usually
need to install anything when using audio
interfaces on a Mac.
Set the Input and Output Devices
Choose your desired audio device for your
input and output devices.
This will list all Core Audio compatible audio
devices including both internal and external
hardware.
If your audio interface is not showing in
this list,
ensure that your audio interface is properly
connected to your Mac
and has been turned  on.
The flexibility in Logic Pro X is the ability
to choose
different audio devices for the input and
output devices.
This allows for some creative and flexible
use cases.
Changing the buffer size
The smaller the buffer size, the less latency
there will be
when recording, mixing, or working with software
instruments.
However, as the buffer size is reduced, more
strain is placed on your computer’s processor.
If your computer is not able to handle the
increased workload
caused by the smaller buffer size,
audio playback will be affected in the form
of pops, clicks, crackling, or audio dropouts.
Experiment with your system to find the lowest
buffer size that your system can handle
without having any pops, clicks, crackling,
or dropouts.
When mixing with a lot of plugins,
it is also possible to increase the buffer
size to increase processing power
at the cost of some increased audio latency.
Additional latency while mixing is usually
not a problem.
The resulting latency will be displayed below.
Generally anything below 20-25ms is good and
perfectly sufficient.
10ms or less would be very difficult to notice.
Note that the value displayed is a round trip
value,
meaning the input and output latency combined.
If you are only using software instruments
or playback
then only the output latency will affect you.
You can leave the other settings alone as
its default settings are fine for most users.
If you have changed any settings on this page,
click on ‘Apply’ to apply the settings.
It make take a moment for Logic Pro X to switch
to your desired settings.
While we are in this menu, we will move over
to the ‘General’ tab
to change some settings that are crucial for
getting the best audio quality while recording audio.
Change the recording file format
Logic Pro X defaults to AIFF as the default
file format.
While AIFF files sounds exactly the same as
WAVE files,
I highly recommend changing to record using
the Broadcast Wave Format, BWF.
The BWF format is slightly more compatible
across platforms
and is the recommended file format to use
for music delivery and audio archiving.
Enable 24-bit recording
Make sure that 24-bit Recording is turned
on.
Turning on this option will record to 24-bit
audio files instead of 16-bit audio files.
24-bit audio files allows for cleaner sounding
recordings
as it has a much better dynamic range.
All professional audio interfaces should have
24-bit convertors
and this option will allow you to take advantage
of the full quality of those convertors.
You have now set up Logic Pro X to use your
audio interface to its maximum potential.
Have fun recording and writing music in Logic
Pro X.
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