Logic has now given us the ability to directly insert ANY stereo audio plugin as mid-side. ![]() This functionality has previously only been available by purchasing third-party plugins that include this feature, or by some complicated mixer bussing trickery. It’s also obviously darn handy for directly decoding recordings done in M/S mode. Or maybe you could limit only the outsides of the drum mix to control the panned cymbal crashes. For example in a stereo drum buss you could EQ the center differently to the sides – maybe your cymbal crashes are too harsh but you still need that presence on the snare. Mid-side gives the ability to process the center and outsides of a stereo track or buss separately. The last couple of years has seen a bit of a trend in mid-side mode, mainly coming from the mastering scene. You can Command-click on it to flip the left and right sides as well (the ring will turn orange). If you carefully click in the top centre of the little highlighted ring, you can drag up to make it more mono. Try it and see – it sounds a lot richer than the old balance control. Once you have accessed the stereo pan control – you can click and drag in the middle of it to move your entire stereo image left or right – that’s moving both sides of the piano left or right now. (Note that there’s also a cool “Binaural” mode which has been in Logic almost forever but might be useful again now that surround is becoming a thing outside of film). If you right-click on a Balance knob, you can select “Stereo Pan” instead. Maybe you have an over-playing pianist and actually want to remove some of the low bass piano notes by balancing to the right.īut if it is a problem, the usual way of dealing to this issue in Logic Pro is either to use a mono version of the instrument (you can substitute it at the top of the plug-in menu without losing your current instrument settings), or you can insert Logic’s “Direction Mixer” plugin which gives you much more control over the width and rotation.īut now Apple has added an extra feature to Logic – a stereo pan control. That’s not good, unless you actually want this to happen. So in the case of the stereo grand piano, if you turn the balance to the left, it’s not moving the entire piano to the left, it’s turning down the high notes panned to the right and only giving the low notes panned to the left. If you use the pan knob on the channel strip, it’s actually a “balance” control for stereo instruments. ![]() This sounds impressive if there’s very little else in your mix, but otherwise it can clutter the mix as well as making the left side bass-heavy. If you dial up one of Logic’s grand pianos for example, it will usually have the low notes panned to the left and the high notes to the right. One of the problems with producing music with audio instruments is that they all tend to be fully stereo. Reverse is pretty simple and just plays the file backwards, but transpose uses the Flex engine (if you haven’t ticked “Follow Tempo and Pitch”) so there can possibly be some artifacts depending on the Flex mode chosen.Ĭhange Speed only seems to work if you have selected “Follow Tempo and Pitch”, in which case like with Apple Loops you can go from 1/8th speed to 8x speed. You can also reverse playback with a tick-box, and depending on other variables like whether it’s recorded or imported change speed, follow tempo changes etc. ![]() You can now transpose (in semitones and cents) any audio region (it doesn’t need to be an Apple Loop). In case you missed it, there’s a couple of extra things in the region inspector pane for audio regions.
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