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FOR RATHER
BE
BY: LUCY IZZET
RATHER BE
I was given the sheet music to the song Rather Be
by Jess Glynne and was given the task of
recreating the song on logic pro x and this blog
post will include all the internal controls I used
when midi sequencing.
STEP RECORDING
This is step recording, you locate this by pressing windows and choosing show step
input keyboard, step recording allows you to create your melodies and record MIDI.
You do this by choosing the length of the note for example if your note was a quaver
you would click the quaver note on the step input keyboard and play your note, you do
this with all your notes and it keeps your music in time whereas if you played it in you
may not get the right length of notes this simplifies playing the melody. I used this to
create the piano melody the background chords and the vocal melody which was
played on an 80s starlight synth.
LAYERING
Once I had my melody I wanted to layer it, to do this you have to copy and paste the
regions into the area you want it to be in, I wanted to play the melody across three
different synthesizers, to do this you just highlight the region you want to copy, right
click, press copy. You then create a new software instrument and choose what you
want the melody to play on, I chose the Micro Pulse, the Eighties Poly Synth and
the Moving Fuzz. You then move the white time line to where you want to paste the
region, right click and past it. I did this to create more depth to the sound and make
the melody have a fuller sound instead of it just being played on one synth.
All the tools in the tool bars are ways of editing MIDI
I wanted to reverse my cymbal sound to fill the gap between the intro and verse. The
way I did this is I enabled my advanced tool settings and bounced the normal cymbal
sound and saved it to my desktop. I dragged the bounced file into an audio file
instead of software which is different to the rest of the regions, double click the region
and it opens the piano bar. The piano bar shows you what is in the region. You have
the option to choose track or file which gives you loads of different options to edit the
sound. I chose file.
When making Rather be I often muted the track I had made, muting the track allowed
me to see if the part I muted made a massive difference to the song, if it improved or
made the song worse. Once you have pressed the M that channel goes grey which
means when you play the song that section will not be heard. I did this by clicking on
the M on the channels. The M stands for muting, the S stands for soloing and the R
stands for record.
I also soloed tracks, instead of pressing the M in the channel I pressed the S this
is the opposite to muting, soloing means when you play the whole file only the track
you have soloed will play. This allowed me to really listen to each and every one of
the bits I was adding to see if any changes needed to be made. If I tried to just listen
to one area but not soloing it it would be very difficult to identify if there was a
problem because so much would be going on.
LOOPING
There are two different ways of looping.
One way of looping is looping individual regions, looping means to repeat the region
so if you loop it it will copy your region and put it on a repeated cycle for as long as
you want. This is a quick way to have the bar repeated instead of having to play in the
bar over and over again. This loop is on my drum beat, its playing on every crotchet in
the bar so I only had to play the drum bit in four times and fill up one bar instead of
having to fill up every bar.
The other way of looping is looping
part the whole song this is to help
you edit its not in the actual track it
just helps you listen to the part you
have looped it just plays it
repeatedly but it will not effect the
track whereas the first way I showed
is in the actual track and will stay
like that.
AUTOMATION
In this screen shot I have used automation, automation allows you to decide the
volume/pan of the region, I've used automation for the outro to fade out at the end
and also the intro to fade out to let the verse play.
ULTRABEAT
This is ultrabeat. Ultra-beat
is a drum editor
that allows you
to create a drum
track, I created
my ultra beat
drum track for
the chorus to
build the song
up. Ultra-beat
allows you to
draw in different
sounds and
experiment with
different drum
samples.
There are also pre sets, which means drum beats that are already made into
logic, you can use this in your piece however I created my own.