hey what's going on out there I'm Sean
Divine hope you all are doing well today
I wanted to give you guys another Logic
Pro X 10.5 video where we're going to be
utilizing the quick sampler for both some
instrumentation as well as some drums
and then I'm also going to show you the
step sequencer so there is a cool new
welcomed step sequencer now in Logic Pro
X and it's very very cool to use in
tandem with the quick sampler I'm gonna
go ahead and just load in a sample and
it's as easy as just dragging and
dropping I'm gonna go over here and see
if I've got like just like a little
melodic loop so I'm gonna go to
optimized and this is just going to
allow us to get some smart utilization
going on behind the scenes optimized
tuning yada yada loop points and all
that so we'll select that and then just
as is just gonna play back that whole
loop just tuned but what I'm going to do
is go over to slice and it will
automatically create slices out of the
loop but I'm also going to go down here
to the follow tempo just to retain the
timing here
so I'm gonna set the polyphony to mono
and then I'm also going to go into the
mod matrix and just make this a little
more expressive we're gonna set the
velocity to the filter cutoff and I want
to turn on the filter
and then just depending on how hard I
play the keys give us a little bit
livelier sound there and now I'm going
to add just a little bit of reverb to
this
okay and then I'm gonna tune this up
okay that sounds cool so let's just lay
down a quick pattern for us and then
we'll dive into the step sequencer with
some drums
we got a little melodic loop to start
with and let's drag over now a drum loop
and I want to show you how this is
really cool we can use the quick sampler
to chop up the drum loop and then we're
gonna sequence it with the new step
sequencer so we'll go to a quick sampler
and you see that I can also drag in our
wav files our sounds or loops and drag
it over here to the left side of the
arrangement window and it'll give us
these options here to load in the quick
sampler we can load it into an instance
of drum machine designer or we can even
resynthesize it with alchemy so once
again I'm gonna go to the optimized
quick sampler and then let's see what
happens here should load up there it is
and so it automatically assumed that
this was a drum loop and did a bunch of
slices for us and we can change the
sensitivity here so if you want to have
longer slices or more intricate things
and then you can also go in and edit
them so let's say that there was like
like that little hi-hat right here if I
want to get in there and make sure that
we're just getting that hi-hat I can go
ahead and just make a new edit cut it a
little closer
all right so diving into the step
sequencer I'm gonna create a pattern
region and then you'll see our slices
here now you'll notice that they're not
all here we had a bunch of slices and so
if there's something in there for
instance that a that hi-hat that we just
chopped and maybe that sound if they're
not here in our step sequencer I can
just go up to this little plus and click
learn and then just hit those notes and
those will be added into the step
sequencer so let's lay down a quick
pattern here
okay so right now we're in sixteen steps
but what we can do is switch this to 32
and it'll automatically copy that 16 to
the next 16 and then I can make some
edits here so if I wanted to change up
the kick pattern add some snares and
whatnot
all right so that's a good starting
point so now I can go in here and either
from up in this menu I can choose a lot
of different parameters like velocity so
if we wanted to just change those
on-the-fly can go down here and do that
but we can also switch from a number of
different parameters to sequence so if I
wanted to change the note value if I
wanted to do things like note repeat so
let's go ahead and do that let's select
that and let's go to that snare here and
let's just say that we wanted to chop
that up we can go all the way into
divisions of 16 so we can do cool rolls
and things like that let's try this
also want to show you guys that we have
this chance option which if we select
this on any of our sequence notes here
it will say based on a percentage
whether or not that note will actually
play so if you want to create some
variation in your patterns now when I go
to chance I can change that percentage
so let's just say we want these to you
know maybe hit like half the time I can
do that and then maybe we want these to
be 75 percent of the time and you're
just going to add a lot of randomization
and variability in terms of what this is
doing so very cool there's other things
in here like Tie which will tie notes
together so you can actually change the
length of the notes now obviously this
is more useful for melodic things you
know instruments and whatnot rather than
drums but there's a lot of cool stuff in
here and this is a very flexible step
sequencer you can also change the the
timing so the timing of the grid if you
wanted to switch into triplets or
something like that based on each of
these cells so our notes so very cool to
be able to switch all that stuff again
just a lot of different things you can
do here so let's move on here I'm gonna
put in an 808 so the quick sampler is
great for little one-shots drums and
bass lines so 808 included I'll just
drag this over from splice and we'll go
to a quick sampler original so this is a
pretty basic type of sound
then we get our 808 sound here so I'm
gonna slide the glide up know you guys
love your glides
very easy to do and we're going to
change the polyphony
Oh
all right maybe we'll add like a hi-hat
and I'll drag this on to original quick
sampler and we'll probably just trigger
this let's see
it opens, I'm gonna go to classic
yeah we'll try that
let's try a vocal sample of some sort yeah
 
let's try that let's just see what we
can do with this let's see I'm gonna
move that over here and I'll see
all right so just for fun let's take a
look at the live loops if you've been a
logic user like me for a long time this
is a very new way of thinking about
arrangement and it opens up a lot of
possibilities I know those of you out
there who have been using things like
Ableton Live you know it has similar
things but I like the way that this is
implemented and I think it's something
I'm going to be using creatively a lot
so what we can do is just take that
entire little idea beat idea drag it
over and create what's called a scene
here in live loops and I can just
trigger all those here with this little
arrow in the live loop section and then
let's say if we wanted to create a
variation of that so for instance on
that little riff let's just say we
wanted to switch that one up I'll just
delete that
let's add a synth for the heck of it
I'll show you how we can kind of
improvise different things here in the
live loops when we're creating ideas or
just pull up serum
let's try I don't know just the first
lead in my urban dreamscapes pack and
we'll just jam with it for a second and
kind of get an idea
all right so you get the idea here I'm
still getting my feet wet with the live
loops but as far as just the quick
sampler as well as the step sequencer
you know it just made your workflow
enhancements for Logic users and I'm
just finding myself being able to put
together ideas that much faster and then
the live loops I definitely can see it
becoming something very valuable in
terms of improvisation and coming up
with arrangement ideas so I hope that
gets you going making beats with the
quick sampler as well as the step
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