Learn how EXS24 can be used to make your own beats in Logic Pro X
We look at how you can make a piece of audio your own by rearranging it and performing it differently.
Logic Pro X‘s EXS24 boasts some useful features to slice up audio with. Once sliced, the audio can be assigned to different notes as MIDI data, available for you to play back in your own way. In this week’s Logic Pro Tips, MusicTech’s Logic expert, Jono Buchanan, guides you through this process, and shows you how you can actually create your own beats with samples in EXS24.
In our Logic Pro Tips series, MusicTech’s Logic expert Jono Buchanan breaks down music production on Apple’s professional DAW. Other episodes posted so far include:
- Introduction to insert effects
- Auxiliary sends broken down
- Automation basics
- Channel EQ tutorial
- Understanding Compression
- Auxilliary automation tracks
- Alternative sidechain compression
- Sidechained gates
- Using Logic’s distortion
- Basic audio in ESX24
- Flex Time editing
- Using the AutoFilter
- Exporting options
- Phat FX
Jono Buchanan is an Apple Certified instructor, with tons of experience under his belt. He’s a professor in Guildhall’s Electronic Music Department, teaching BMus Year 2 Dance Music project for Electronic Music’s Principal study course. Outside of that, he also produces and composes for various projects and writes reviews for MusicTech magazine too. He now also makes awesome weekly tutorials for Logic Pro X!
