In the context of music production, quantization is the process of snapping sounds to a musical grid. In most cases, quantization is used to line up transients with the beat. When used correctly, and with taste, quantization can help boost the production quality of your projects. In this article, you'll learn how to quantize both audio and MIDI in Logic Pro X.
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How to Quantize MIDI in Logic Pro X
First, let's discuss how to use Logic Pro X to quantize MIDI notes. To get started, double click the MIDI clip and select the notes you want to quantize. If you want to quantize the entire MIDI clip, go ahead and select all the notes. Otherwise, just select the notes you want to quantize. In the screenshot below, there are four notes that are not lined up with the musical grid.
To quantize these four notes, I've selected them. Next, it's just a matter of clicking on the 'Time Quantize' dropdown in the piano roll and selecting the desired quantization option. Since I wanted to quantize to the nearest whole note, I chose the '1/1 note' option. Logic Pro X supports a variety of quantization options from 'normal' note values (quarter note, half note, etc.), to triplets, to swing grooves.
Post-quantization, you can see the four notes have been shifted to line up with the nearest whole note. Depending on the type of musical feel you're looking for, I'd recommend playing around with the 'Strength' setting, which ranges between 1 and 100. The 'Strength' setting basically determines the amount of time shift between the note's initial location and the fully-quantized location.
MIDI quantization is very useful for lining up drum samples, automation triggers, and other 'pre-audio' scenarios. Now that you know how to quantize MIDI in Logic Pro X, let's go over how to quantize audio in Logic Pro X.
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How to Quantize Audio in Logic Pro X
Quantizing audio in Logic Pro X is a little trickier than lining up MIDI notes. The main reason for this is MIDI quantization is the process of lining up event triggers (e.g. notes that trigger a sampler), while audio quantization involves lining up sounds that already exist. Thus, audio quantization requires a DAW like Logic Pro X to analyze the sound file in search of transients to line up.
Before beginning the audio quantization process, I'd recommend ensuring there is no silence at the start of the audio file. From my experience, I've found that it can be difficult to quantize the first 'beat' of an audio file if there is a little silence at the start of the file – this is just my personal experience so YMMV.
In the audio file below, you can see there is a little silence at the start of the file. Let's go ahead and trim this silence before continuing.
To get rid of the silence, we can just zoom in, cut the silence with the built-in trim tool, and drag the audio file to the starting point of the Logic Pro X session.
Next, enable Flex Mode by clicking on its corresponding icon in Logic Pro X's menu bar. Flex Mode, as the name implies, makes an audio file flexible and allows you to manipulate its time and pitch.
With Flex Mode enabled, click the Flex icon on an audio track to enable Flex manipulation. You'll also need to select a Flex Mode algorithm that correlates with the audio material you are quantizing. In the example screenshot below, I've selected 'Slicing (Auto)' for the Flex Mode algorithm. I've found that this mode works well for a variety of audio sources. If you're manipulating something very specific, you can choose a more specific algorithm like 'Flex (Monophonic)' for monophonic sources or 'Flex (Rhythmic)' for percussive audio like drum loops.
Terraria version 1 3. After selecting a Flex algorithm, Logic Pro X will automatically print lines (flex markers) on top of transients in the audio file. To manipulate a flex markers, click on them – this will make them draggable.
With the flex markers selected, the last thing to do is to quantize the audio clip by dragging the transients to line up with the musical grid. In the screenshot below, I've dragged the flex markers to line up with the first beat of each bar.
Summary
As you can see, quantization in Logic Pro X is a fairly easy process. Whether you're trying to quantize audio files or MIDI clips, Logic Pro X has got you covered. If you have any questions about how to quantize in Logic Pro X, feel free to send me an email or reach out to me on Twitter.
Being a popular rapper and Youtuber, Logic or Robert Bryson Hall had become quite a sensation to youth. And over time, there had been a tremendous amount of curiosity about the gadgets that he uses, and the gear he has in his recording studio.
In today's post, we'll answer one of the frequently asked question about him- what mic does logic use?
Stay tuned-
Who Is Logic?
Logic is a 27 years old American rapper, who has his real name of Sir Robert Bryson Hall II. Such a bulky name he has, but he is a sweet and nice person in real. His fame started to take place when he first started with Visionary Music- a recording label. After a few mix-tapes, he had his fourth mix-tape release with the name of Young Sinatra. And this is where he earned massive critical acclaim.
These list of mix-tapes created even a bigger underground fanbase of Logic, and he became a sensation in Spotify and other music streaming websites.
Eventually, Bryson moved forward with his music, and the popularity of his mix tapes earned him a contract with Def Jam recording, one of the big recording labels. With the company, he released his first album- Under Pressure.
After the massive success of his album, we kept on releasing albums. And his third album earned a place in the billboard 200 and was sold for more than 240000 copies.
Over a great kickstart in his music career, he started his own youtube channel. And that channel had also earned more than 1 million subscribers by now.
Logic Uses Shure SM7B Cardioid Dynamic Microphone
So far, we've been able to capture Logic to talk about his microphone once in the interview. And that's what we are going to talk about for next few minutes-
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First Choice: Shure SM7B Cardioid Dynamic Microphone
The best selling point of this jackpot from Shure is its flat and wide range of frequency response. Now, what does it mean and how come it's so important?
Well, unless you want a great, clean and natural sound to be produced within your headphone, the high-frequency response won't mean anything to you. But if you're serious about the quality of audio reproduction, then it's so much important to care about.
For professional recording like Logic, rejection of electromagnetic hum is quite important. Because this will work against the sound interference that is emitted by computer monitors. This headphone is perfectly optimized for that.
Another professional factor in music recording is air suspension. To be specific, it's the internal air suspension. It creates such mechanical isolation of sound that, it reduces noise from being transmitted at all. Again, the perk of such a mechanism will result in clean and natural sound recording.
While talking or singing in front of the microphone, there can be sudden breath explosions. And that's something that no one can control a one hundred percent.
In case you're like-minded and don't watch your microphone to catch up with that sounds, then the Shure SM7B Cardioid Dynamic Microphone is for you. It has a set of highly effective pop filters. What this pop filter does is, it protects the microphone to catch up with those heavy and highly explosive breathing noises.
Many of the music and recording enthusiasts have a common problem with their microphone. And that is- their headphones are not able to catch close and low tone vocal sounds. But this Shure SM7B Cardioid Dynamic Microphone is a quite fine exception.
There is a detachable windscreen with this model, which has a duty of reducing plosive sounds and take care of those low tone sounds that we were talking about. So, close up vocals or narrations won't be missed out anymore!
Worrying about the mounting process and installation? We hope you don't. Because this microphone has a fine mounting system from Yoke type. If you had used Yoke type stand before, you might know it very well that they can hold the microphone right on the ground, even if you put your hands on it.
To make the installation process easier, there are a quick connecting captive stand nuts available. The easy mounting and dismounting properties of these nuts will let you adjust the position of the microphone quite easily.
The last thing that you want from your microphone is to be attracted to the off-axis sound, right? They are not a part of your original music, and you don't want them to be in your music recording either.
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To give you a hand, there is a classic and smart cardioid polar pattern. It's quite uniform with the frequency and it's also symmetric to the axis. Therefore, there will be a maximum rejection and a minimum amount of coloration of those off-axis sound we're talking about.
For all these essential features and recording-friendly specs, we're sure that you won't' mind paying some extra bucks. So, the over the bar price of this microphone might seem to be a worthy thing to you.
Highlighted Features
- Wide frequency response rate.
- Clean and crystal reproduction of sound.
- A firm control over the graphical display of the recordings.
- Protection and rejection of electromagnetic humming.
- Shock isolation along with internal air suspension.
- No need to have any add on protection against breath sounds.
- Comes with a set of effective pop filters.
- Easy and convenient Yoke mounting assembly.
- Comes with captive stand nut, easy to mount and dismount.
- Precise control over the position of the microphone.
Bottom line
Long story short, Logic uses Shure SM7B Cardioid Dynamic Microphone for all of his musical recordings and youtube videos. And if you had been attentive to the technical details of the recording device, you might understand why.
Good luck and see you in the next post!
