The Project Templates

If you have set your default action for opening Logic to Ask, as I suggested in Chapter 1, Beginning with Logic Pro 10.6. you will see you have the option of New from Template. In Project Templates, you see Hip Hop, Electronic, Songwriter, Orchestral, Multi-Track, and Music for Picture. Each has a description and if you open the Details disclosure triangle, you see even more options to tweak before you open it:

Figure 3.1 – Project Templates

I recommend you eventually take the time to explore all the templates. I think for teaching you about recording audio, Songwriter is the way to go:

Figure 3.2 – The Songwriter project template

As you can see, the template creates a Drummer track with a Drummer region, a sampler software instrument with a Steinway Grand Piano sound, three audio tracks for the task of recording vocals or guitars, and a bunch of plug-ins, with the Library open. The only two I will...