In this final part – Rob concludes his acoustic session by creating a natural sounding drum track to accompany his previous guitar, vocal and rhythmic parts.

For this Rob’s shows us around Logic’s drum synth and sampler ‘Ultrabeat’ in combination with some simple sync delay functions. Finally in preparation for export, Rob highlights some of the mastering functions locked within Logic.

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In this second part of 3 – Rob continues with his previous session and gets stuck into cleaning up the audio takes of his guitar and vocal parts.

Firstly giving us an in-depth look at the new ‘Flex’ audio warping tool available in Logic 9, showing us how to use it on both guitar and vocal parts for correcting timing issues.

Next he shows us some techniques using the ‘Time & Pitch Machine to alter the pitch of your audio, and how subtle use of corrective EQ can help improve and even mask tunings issues!

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Here Rob steps away from the electronic arena, and uses an acoustic project to show off Logic’s versatility at handling different styles of audio.  Along the way – he offers up some great production tips, and shows us round some of the fantastic new features available in Logic’s intuitive interface.

In this the first part of 3 – Rob sets up his project and gets stuck into recording multiple takes of guitar and vocals from Berlin based singer Miranda Gjerstad.   He then shows us how to clean up your takes, and how to quickly develop backing tracks to work with your recorded audio!

Enjoy!

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Ableton Courses is a new online training platform offering certified training courses and video aids for both basic/intermediate and advanced level users.

Once signed up – the courses are delivered through a series of online video tutorials which you can access at any time, through your personal account. Here you’ll also be able to download the full Ableton project files and PDF documentation to help you work through each of the carefully paced modules, as well as access the user forum and support center.

LoopTV are excited to announce an exclusive offer….whereby you can use the following promotional code to receive a 20% discount on ALL courses and sound libraries available through Ableton Courses. Simply enter this code LOOPTV20 when you sign up and purchase a course to get this saving!

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We’re offering a the chance to win one of the complete Ableton Courses training bundles worth over £225, which includes both the beginners/intermediate course and the advanced training course containing over 10 hours of video music production tuition from our certified Ableton trainer!!

Also included with this massive prize is a huge collection of more than 750MB of royalty free samples from Loopmasters worth over £50, and a cult classic ‘Bass-station’ software synth from our sponsors focusrite worth £25.

For your chance to win just watch the video and send your answers to competition@looptv.net before the closing date of Friday 26th March 2010.

Remember in the meantime why not make use of our exclusive discount code to receive a 20% discount on ALL courses and sound libraries available through Ableton Courses. Simply enter this code LOOPTV20 when you sign up and purchase a course to get this saving!

Meanwhile a big thankyou to everyone who entered our Paul Oakenfold competition last month – we had a massive response to this, but there can only be one winner and that was Josef Richardson from Maryland U.S – So Congratulations to him!  Prize is on its way to you.

Good Luck!

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Live-Courses.com is a new online training platform offering certified training courses and video aids for both basic/intermediate and advanced level users.

Once signed up – the courses are delivered through a series of online video tutorials which you can access at any time, through your personal account. Here you’ll also be able to download the full Ableton project files and PDF documentation to help you work through each of the carefully paced modules, as well as access the user forum and support center.

LoopTV are excited to announce an exclusive offer….whereby you can use the following promotional code to receive a 20% discount on ALL courses and sound libraries available through Live-Courses.com.  Simply enter this code LTV20 when you sign up and purchase a course to get this saving!

Next week we’ll have the full Advanced module also showing here to wet your production appetite!

Enjoy!

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