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Published inOct 2020
PublisherPackt
ISBN-139781800562776
Edition1st Edition
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Jay Asher
Jay Asher
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Jay Asher

Jay Asher is an Apple Certified Trainer for Logic Pro, and the author of "Going Pro with Logic Pro 9" and "Scoring with Logic Pro". He has been a private consultant for many famous rock stars and film/TV composers. A composer and songwriter himself, Jay Asher scored the TV series "Zorro" and has written songs that have been recorded by Julio Iglesias, Whitney Houston, and Donna Summer, among others. He began learning Logic for his own musical endeavors, but along the way, something funny happened: he became a Logic Pro guru!
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Selecting essential hardware for Logic Pro 10.6

As well as a Mac, you may need some additional hardware to effectively use Logic Pro. Let's explore what we can add to our setup.

An audio interface

While most Mac computers have a built-in microphone audio playback capability, and a speaker, they are not really adequate for creating good-sounding music, just for perhaps getting ideas down.

When you want to use a microphone to record your voice singing or speaking, your computer needs something to record it. Firstly, the microphone won't be loud enough, so you need a microphone pre-amp (mic pre). An audio interface will have one or more of these.

Also, microphones are analog devices and computers don't understand analog information unless it is translated to digital information. So, you need an analog-to-digital converter. Then, for the sound to go back out to speakers, which 99% of the time are analog, you need a digital-to-analog converter. An audio interface...

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Jumpstart Logic Pro 10.6
Published in: Oct 2020Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781800562776

Author (1)

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Jay Asher

Jay Asher is an Apple Certified Trainer for Logic Pro, and the author of "Going Pro with Logic Pro 9" and "Scoring with Logic Pro". He has been a private consultant for many famous rock stars and film/TV composers. A composer and songwriter himself, Jay Asher scored the TV series "Zorro" and has written songs that have been recorded by Julio Iglesias, Whitney Houston, and Donna Summer, among others. He began learning Logic for his own musical endeavors, but along the way, something funny happened: he became a Logic Pro guru!
Read more about Jay Asher