melodica123 Posted June 17, 2022 Share Posted June 17, 2022 Does anyone know of a good resource/course for learning how to make creative and complex beats in Logic? I'm imagining: Using unconventional sounds and samples as well as conventional drums Ability to randomise some channels - eq, pan, filters etc Auto generation of some elements Keeping things changing High level of editing possibility Easy to cut/paste and move into irregular time signatures Could sound like a sort of patchwork AI electronic jazz drummer improvising? Or if you have examples of this sort of thing, I'd love to hear... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Nahmani Posted June 17, 2022 Share Posted June 17, 2022 That would be a pretty specific course, I'm not sure if there's such a thing out there. However what I would recommend is that you learn the individual techniques (perhaps in various places, but feel free to ask questions in the Logic Pro forum and we'll be happy to help). Then you can use your own creativity to apply them to your beats. That way you'd learn by doing. Subjects of questions you could ask are things like: What kind of unconventional sounds and samples do you use for creative beats? How do you randomize effects (EQ, Pan, Filters) on individual channels? Can you auto-generate patterns? How do you make a beat evolve to keep things changing? etc... in fact all those are very interesting topics that could trigger some interesting discussions in the forum! So don't hesitate. I already have some answers in mind. I'm not sure what you mean by "High level of editing possibility"? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
melodica123 Posted June 18, 2022 Author Share Posted June 18, 2022 Thanks David, your response has been really good for helping me get an action plan together! By "High level of editing possibility", I was thinking of having everything as fluid (broken into elements) as poss, eg no loops etc! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeRobinson Posted June 20, 2022 Share Posted June 20, 2022 (edited) This really gets into the entire area of "music composition" and "song forms." Many real drummers will very slightly change their beats when the song moves into a different section ("AABA," etc.). Much less commonly, a song might shift into a new time signature – such as from 4:4 to 6:8 and maybe back again – to cause the downbeats to move around and to make the song "suddenly sound more interesting" even though a non-musician member of the audience might not know how the trick was done. I once did a song which used a "dreamy commentary interlude" between each verse, in which the tempo was much slower and the time-signature shifted from 4:4 to 3:4 only for that section. Worked like a charm. Edited June 20, 2022 by MikeRobinson Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
melodica123 Posted June 20, 2022 Author Share Posted June 20, 2022 14 minutes ago, MikeRobinson said: This really gets into the entire area of "music composition" and "song forms." It does! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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