WOW! I just came across your UA-cam page and discovered this video. Brilliant! I didn't even know you can do this. This is extremely helpful. Thank you James for being so clear and concise. I also subscribed to your channel!
is there a quicker way to switch between each sectioned word from different takes (3:50) by maybe scrolling or a key command instead of clicking through each take? because when there are a lot of vocal takes, I wish I could just press the up arrow or something to quickly move through the same word on each take instead of moving the mouse and clicking over and over.
Been watchin numerous videos on logic for some time now..mate you have got the art of simplifying down to a tee..looking forward to watching more of your content ..keep it up .Cheers.
Well done video man! Thank you so much. Been in pro tools for about 20 years and been trying to switch to Logic Pro recently. I was working on a riff and couldn't get my head/hands around working with the comps. This really helped and I'm looking forward to trying the comping again. Thanks!
Wow ive been using Logic for years this tutorials taught me a bunch of new stuff. ¹Track Alternative outrageous! You should say Control click on Track Header choose Track Header Components to include that choice to your Track Header ²Marquee cut and nudge. ³clicking below comp to get similar selection on a different take. Wow! Thank you
Amazing, that’s great news! Really pleased it helped. It’s always tricky when switching platforms. I use Logic and PT almost equally - always mix in PT - and like them both but for different reasons. Thanks for watching!
Glad you enjoyed it! I colour them individually, depending on how I want to mark it (good take, bad take, etc). When you open the Take Folder, you can do it by opening up the colour pallette, clicking on the take (in the top half of the waveform) and choosing a colour.
at around 4:10 you start quick comping, the first time you press play you drag the cursor on the timeline to where you want it to start playing, I assume you hit the space bar to play. after that you don't seem to need to drag the cursor each time. For some reason when I press play it doesn't go back to the beginning of that comp spot it just keeps playing from where it left off last. are you using a different shortcut to press play and listen so that it keeps reminding to the beginning of the comp section?
Logic Rocks, a great video. I guess the only thing I missed is how the alternative track appeared, I'll have to play and see if that shows up after I do takes. Thanks man!
Track Alternatives are different. You can’t comp between two different track alternatives so they won’t show up in your initial comp. They can be useful though and can be another way to save different versions of comps.
@@JamesArterMusic Thank you… Gonna groove on some stuff this weekend and try to mimic what you did there… Very cool and thanks for the response… Just subscribed and as you do good work!
Hey James, maybe you can help me out. I have all these settings in place yet when I am editing between different takes to create my comp I'm not seeing the crossfades automatically coming in? Having that show up really helps to smooth things out and eliminate pops and clicks. But I simply dont see it automatically crossfading for ease. Any ideas? Thanks!
Hmmm strange. I wonder if it could be the setting on the top right which determines how it reacts when audio overlaps. You should have it on ‘X-fade’. It could be set to ‘no overlap’ or something maybe?
Nice one, glad you liked it! And thanks for subscribing, I hope you enjoy the rest of the content! Be sure to sign up to mailing list for free stuff and special offers every now and then 😀
This is awesome! How were you jumping back to the beginning of the comp being auditioned when testing out all 3 against each other (like a mini loop across takes)
Glad you liked it! If you right-click on the Play button, you can select ‘return to last locate position’. I generally always have it set on that as I don’t like it picking up from where it stopped but prefer it from where it started. Hope that helps!
Hey James,, wonder,, if you've done a Comping with multiple guitar tracks,, how do you quantify that series best, each by itself or a joint push of a button somewhere? Have a little problem with the tightness of this now, mvh Tomas
Once you’ve collapsed the comps you should be able to just select one of them - click in the top half. Then load up the colour palette (ALT+C, I think), then click a comp track and select the colour
Hi there, firstly, before recording, ensure that you have the setting checked from the start of the video: Preferences / Recording / Audio - Cycle on/Off set to 'create take folder'. If you have all the takes there, ensure that you've definitely dropped down the take folder by clicking the little arrow in the top left. If you are, then you should just be able to edit the takes. Double check the following settings are checked to make sure the cursor changes it's behaviours: Preferences / General / Pointer Tool In Tracks Provides : then check all three boxes; Fade tool..., Marquee tool..., Quick swipe... Let me know if you're still stuck!
Presuming you’ve done everything right, there should be a little arrow (or triangle) at the top left of the wave form. One other thing to check is that your advanced tools are enabled. Go to: Preferences / Advanced Tools and then enable all of them
Does anybody know how this works with MIDI tracks, i´m having a multiple take folder with midi performance i would like to swipe the best bits but for some reason i´m not having tge swipe tool?
Logic doesn't have the facility to do quick-swipe comping with MIDI, despite it having the ability to use take folders. Best thing to do there is to actually chop the parts you want and then choose them in the folder.
My cursor never becomes an arrow. I can't move anything. Why is Logic Pro X suck a PITA? Everything I try to do is the farthest thing from intuitive. Try exporting to a mono file. It's like safe cracking.
There should be a point at the top-middle of the screen which displays what tool you’re using. Generally, I’d leave the left one on Arrow and the right on whatever it starts on.
I have a complain!!! The vocalist here is WAY too good and the takes are too consistent to demonstrate the comping technique :P Now seriously who is this?! Also tips for songwriters : this is so easy you can even write as you sing and sing different versions and then edit on the fly to make the first verse and so on. Swear to God I do it all the time. I still learned a lot!
Haha! The artist is Little Dot Big City - I’ve left a link in the description. She’s an incredible singer and songwriter; I produced her a first years ago. I’ll pass on the kind words to her! 🙏 Thanks for watching, I’m really pleased it was useful for you!
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Why on earth has this got under 4k views? Excellent video, comprehensive but not long-winded. Plenty handy tips, really useful man, thanks a lot..
Thanks for watching and really pleased to enjoyed it.
Feel free to share it to anyone you feel might like it too 👍
I had no idea about the marque trick. That's so cool.
Great!
I’ve done a video all about using the marquee tool. Check that out if you haven’t already.
Thanks so much for watching!
Hey thanks man! Believe it or not I do this at a fairly advanced level and this still clarified a few things for me. Cheers mate!
That’s great to hear! There’s always something to learn/clarify.
Thanks for watching!
Certainly one of the better ones on this topic.
Thanks very much for watching!
Finally someone has explained this properly - thank you!
WOW! I just came across your UA-cam page and discovered this video. Brilliant! I didn't even know you can do this. This is extremely helpful. Thank you James for being so clear and concise. I also subscribed to your channel!
Great! Really pleased it hit the spot for you - and thanks for subscribing!
is there a quicker way to switch between each sectioned word from different takes (3:50) by maybe scrolling or a key command instead of clicking through each take? because when there are a lot of vocal takes, I wish I could just press the up arrow or something to quickly move through the same word on each take instead of moving the mouse and clicking over and over.
I actually don’t know!
But that would be super useful so if you or anyone finds something, I’d like to know too
This video just changed my workflow in Logic. Thanks
The part with editing drums was exactly what I was looking for! Thank you! So we’ll explained!
You’re welcome. Glad it helped!
Cheers for watching
Been watchin numerous videos on logic for some time now..mate you have got the art of simplifying down to a tee..looking forward to watching more of your content ..keep it up .Cheers.
That’s wonderful to hear. I’m really pleased it’s making sense and you’re finding it useful!
Cheers for watching 👍
Well done video man! Thank you so much. Been in pro tools for about 20 years and been trying to switch to Logic Pro recently. I was working on a riff and couldn't get my head/hands around working with the comps. This really helped and I'm looking forward to trying the comping again. Thanks!
Hey man, I’m so pleased it helped you out! And welcome to Logic. I love Pro Tools too actually and use a bit of both.
Thanks for watching!
Wonderful tutorial. Hated comping, I always unpacked to independent tracks before; until after watching this video.
That’s wonderful to hear. I’m glad it changed your view!
Thanks for watching 🙏
Wow ive been using Logic for years this tutorials taught me a bunch of new stuff. ¹Track Alternative outrageous! You should say Control click on Track Header choose Track Header Components to include that choice to your Track Header
²Marquee cut and nudge.
³clicking below comp to get similar selection on a different take. Wow!
Thank you
Nice. Accessible and to the point. I'm a 20+ yearsProtools user and this is helpful when I go the the Logic realm. cheers.
Amazing, that’s great news! Really pleased it helped. It’s always tricky when switching platforms.
I use Logic and PT almost equally - always mix in PT - and like them both but for different reasons.
Thanks for watching!
Thanks very much James. I really like the way you present and articulated very well. I found it very helpful. I appreciate it.
That’s good to hear, thanks a lot. And thanks for watching!
MY man!
You just saved me SO MUCH TIME. Thanks so much!
You’re very welcome, I’m glad it saved you time and was useful. More time now to work on other things!
Thanks for watching 👍
very good description thanks
Thanks James, your video was great, so succinct and easy to follow.
Thanks very much Chris, I’m glad it hit the spot!
Cheers for watching 🙂
This was so helpful! Thank you! :D
Super useful, thanks man!
You killed it man Thank you
Thanks for watching!
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Excellent tutorial. Thank you. I have subscribed.
You’re welcome - thanks for subscribing!
Thanks for the explanation, it‘s the clearest I‘ve found about this topic, now even I understand it ;-)
That’s great news! So pleased it’s been useful for you. Thanks for watching!
Great tutorial! Thank you very much! But how do you use different colours for each take?!
Glad you enjoyed it!
I colour them individually, depending on how I want to mark it (good take, bad take, etc).
When you open the Take Folder, you can do it by opening up the colour pallette, clicking on the take (in the top half of the waveform) and choosing a colour.
at around 4:10 you start quick comping, the first time you press play you drag the cursor on the timeline to where you want it to start playing, I assume you hit the space bar to play. after that you don't seem to need to drag the cursor each time. For some reason when I press play it doesn't go back to the beginning of that comp spot it just keeps playing from where it left off last. are you using a different shortcut to press play and listen so that it keeps reminding to the beginning of the comp section?
Yep, it’s a setting.
Right click the Play button and check ‘play from last locate position’
That’s generally how I always have it set
Great info!
Beautiful!
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You’re welcome - thanks for watching!
Logic Rocks, a great video. I guess the only thing I missed is how the alternative track appeared, I'll have to play and see if that shows up after I do takes. Thanks man!
Track Alternatives are different. You can’t comp between two different track alternatives so they won’t show up in your initial comp.
They can be useful though and can be another way to save different versions of comps.
@@JamesArterMusic Thank you… Gonna groove on some stuff this weekend and try to mimic what you did there… Very cool and thanks for the response… Just subscribed and as you do good work!
Thanks, that's really helpful and well put together.
Thanks for the feedback and for watching!
Hey James, maybe you can help me out. I have all these settings in place yet when I am editing between different takes to create my comp I'm not seeing the crossfades automatically coming in? Having that show up really helps to smooth things out and eliminate pops and clicks. But I simply dont see it automatically crossfading for ease. Any ideas? Thanks!
Hmmm strange. I wonder if it could be the setting on the top right which determines how it reacts when audio overlaps. You should have it on ‘X-fade’. It could be set to ‘no overlap’ or something maybe?
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Amazing tutorial! Really helpfull :D
Nice one, glad it helped you!
Thank you James.
You’re welcome - thanks for watching!
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WOW this is some great stuff.. thanks for explaining this..I also subscribed to your channel...
Nice one, glad you liked it!
And thanks for subscribing, I hope you enjoy the rest of the content!
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Glad it was useful - thanks for watching!
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This is awesome! How were you jumping back to the beginning of the comp being auditioned when testing out all 3 against each other (like a mini loop across takes)
Glad you liked it!
If you right-click on the Play button, you can select ‘return to last locate position’.
I generally always have it set on that as I don’t like it picking up from where it stopped but prefer it from where it started.
Hope that helps!
You helped a lot, thx!
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Good stuff. Right to the point.
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Hey James,, wonder,, if you've done a Comping with multiple guitar tracks,, how do you quantify that series best, each by itself or a joint push of a button somewhere? Have a little problem with the tightness of this now, mvh Tomas
can you help me to understand how can i change color to just one of the track as you do? when i change color it changes on every tracks in comp...
Once you’ve collapsed the comps you should be able to just select one of them - click in the top half. Then load up the colour palette (ALT+C, I think), then click a comp track and select the colour
@@JamesArterMusic thanks for your reply. Still... i can't do it... it changes for the entire track with all the comps and comp's trackas... ☹
Thanks mate, also, great singer, who is she?
You're welcome! She goes by the name of Little Dot.Big City (I've put her details in the description too).
Good that it’s from 2020, but how did you create the comp to begin with ? Thanks!
I have my alternate takes visible but it doesn’t allow me to select areas in all of them , the display is not exactly the same . What did I miss ?
Hi there, firstly, before recording, ensure that you have the setting checked from the start of the video: Preferences / Recording / Audio - Cycle on/Off set to 'create take folder'.
If you have all the takes there, ensure that you've definitely dropped down the take folder by clicking the little arrow in the top left. If you are, then you should just be able to edit the takes.
Double check the following settings are checked to make sure the cursor changes it's behaviours:
Preferences / General / Pointer Tool In Tracks Provides : then check all three boxes; Fade tool..., Marquee tool..., Quick swipe...
Let me know if you're still stuck!
James Arter Music thanks for the feedback, I’ll be checking all these again in a bit !
James Arter Music settings are correct here. What I’m not sure is which arrow on the top left I’m missing 😥
Presuming you’ve done everything right, there should be a little arrow (or triangle) at the top left of the wave form. One other thing to check is that your advanced tools are enabled. Go to: Preferences / Advanced Tools and then enable all of them
Does anybody know how this works with MIDI tracks, i´m having a multiple take folder with midi performance i would like to swipe the best bits but for some reason i´m not having tge swipe tool?
Logic doesn't have the facility to do quick-swipe comping with MIDI, despite it having the ability to use take folders.
Best thing to do there is to actually chop the parts you want and then choose them in the folder.
James Arter Music Ok, thanks, i though i've gone crazy
😂
My cursor never becomes an arrow. I can't move anything. Why is Logic Pro X suck a PITA? Everything I try to do is the farthest thing from intuitive. Try exporting to a mono file. It's like safe cracking.
There should be a point at the top-middle of the screen which displays what tool you’re using. Generally, I’d leave the left one on Arrow and the right on whatever it starts on.
Fine,i just got the pro.Changed from studio one.
Great! And how are you liking it so far?
such a pain after watching this clip.
F. 😊
yes it could be easier IF YOU COULD USE YOUR KEYBOARD
There might be a way to, it’s worth some further research I reckon
I have a complain!!! The vocalist here is WAY too good and the takes are too consistent to demonstrate the comping technique :P Now seriously who is this?! Also tips for songwriters : this is so easy you can even write as you sing and sing different versions and then edit on the fly to make the first verse and so on. Swear to God I do it all the time. I still learned a lot!
Haha! The artist is Little Dot Big City - I’ve left a link in the description. She’s an incredible singer and songwriter; I produced her a first years ago.
I’ll pass on the kind words to her! 🙏
Thanks for watching, I’m really pleased it was useful for you!
Thank you!
Excellent video thank you!
No problem. Thanks very much for watching!
Wow excellent !!
thank you
You’re welcome - glad it helped!
Thank you!!!
Thank you so much!!!