Retro beat with reverse effect
Logic Pro X offers a variety of little helpers and functions that inspire us Producers and support us in giving our ideas wings. In this episode of Logic Pro X Power Producer, we build a retro beat with on-board tools, for which you don‘t even need an external keyboard.
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Retro sound
We create a new track for a software instrument and load the Electric Piano Instrument with the „Electric Piano“preset to match our Retro Beat. As we forgot our keyboard in the studio and don‘t fancy a click session in the piano roll, we work with the basic tones today and use a small but useful little helper. 1
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Trigger a chord
Our basic notes are set, but the loaded instrument still sounds pretty boring. A real savior in the search for the perfect chords without a keyboard is Logic‘s ChordTrigger, which you can load into your track via the MIDI FX section. Here, you can call up chord presets that transform basic notes into real chords. 1
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Focus and presence
The cool thing about ChordTrigger is that you can try out different chord presets and get new ideas for your songs. We load the multi-preset „Pop Right Hand“, which conjures up a separate chord for each root note. However, the resulting chord sequence still sounds too boring to our ears - let‘s get creative. 1
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Turn it around
For the next step, we need to rethink. We move the MIDI region that we‘ll need later outside the loop area. Now, we create a new MIDI region and take the pencil tool and draw in our basic tone sequence in reverse order. Now we bounce the region to a new track as an audio file. 1
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Reverse
In the Information Menu of our track, which you can call up using the „i“shortcut, we tick „Reverse“under „Region“. If we now move our initially created MIDI region back to its original position, it is accompanied by an exciting reverse effect that accompanies the chord sequence that we created at the beginning. 1
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Make it groove
Now we add more instruments. As we still don‘t have a keyboard available, we create a Drummer Track and let retro rock drummer „Logan“do his thing with the „Stonehenge“preset. We also add an organ, which is set to root notes in the MIDI region and is equipped with the ChordTrigger.