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I really wish you made some effort in actually learning how to do these functions in Logic BEFORE making this video. 0:38 1. Zoom function: you don't have to go all the way to the top where the Ruler is to reposition the Playhead. Just Shift and Click LITERALLY ANYWHERE and the Playhead will snap exactly to where your cursor is, and then you can hold down Command Option and Scroll up/down to zoom in and out at the Play head position. 1:51 2. Multiple Automation Panes: You can't view multiple automation lanes in the Piano Roll BUT you CAN view multiple automation lanes in the Main Workspace Window itself. Hit key command A to open Automation view, switch the automation button on the track from Track to Region and then click on the small '>' button towards the center left of the track to Open All of the currently available Automation Lanes just like Cubase. 2:55 3. Immediate Note Playback: several other people already mentioned this but I'll state it here again for brevity: Top left, go to 'File'/'Project Settings'/'MIDI'/''Chase', select 'Notes' and 'Sustained'. You have to save this setting in your custom template since it's not a global setting but everyone really should be starting all projects from a custom template anyway. 4:45 4. Tempo Adjusting (Time Warp): It's even faster in Logic. You don't have to use the Smart Tempo editor for this, go all the way to the top where the Tempo Display is, right beneath where the BPM is shown, click where it says 'KEEP', change that to 'Adapt Tempo' and start recording. When you stop recording, Logic will automatically calculate the BPM AND align the downbeats of what you just recorded. Switch it back to 'KEEP' and you can select and delete any extra tempo information just like you did in this video at 7:33. 10:03 5. Time Base Toggle: Select the region or regions and hit Command ⇟ (page down) to Lock SMPTE. Done. 11:34 6. Move Events Shortcut: Top left go to 'Logic Pro/Settings/Automation/Move Track Automation with Regions' and set it to 'Always'. Now any automation will ALWAYS follow the region just like in Cubase. This is a global setting so you only have to do this once.
Dude, i switched from cubase to logic. hold cmd and the zoom slider in logic. hold cmd + r in logic. use the marquee tool in logic! cubase can't do that with the marker tool. logic is far superior. steinberg didn't come up with some useful stuff in years. all they can do is small updates for major update prices.
Small updates that major update prices, no truer words have been spoken. PLUS you're paying double the cost of Logic upfront when you buy Cubase Pro in the first place. Ridiculous. Just like Ableton.
hey man, you inspired me to get back into playing the piano after a hiatus of around 6 years. I absolutely love what you do with your beautiful cinematography and amazing skills on the piano. it's great to see some behind the scenes footage on this channel. more power to you and I wish you all the very best! :D
I started study to play piano 5 years ago. It been difficult for me seeing to falling stiks and play. So i learned sheet music. It not difficult as it looks. No visualisation! Sheet music only!)))
Hello. Thank you for this tutorial. I am a long time Cubase user, but lately I have been thinking logical (in other words, thinking about Logic). So, thanks to you, I'll stay as a Cubase user. These tricks were useful
Thanks for all the comments highlighting that many of these features presented in this video are actually available in Logic as well! It's important to know, especially for anyone considering changing from one of the DAWs to the other. I guess it's down to personal preference and for me, I still prefer the audio/MIDI editing experience in Cubase and I still work faster in Cubase than Logic :D
That's what I thought too after watching. The only feature that doesn't exist is the first one mentioned (zoom to cursor) but even then there's an easy workaround. Everything else mentioned exists in Logic and most of them have existed in Logic since the beginning.
Thanks Jacob! I am so in the fence to making the leap. I really still am on the intermediate side of knowing Logic, but I see so many film composers using cubase that I wonder if I should change before diving any deeper in Logic. Which I had to after a complicated urgent project I went through. Learned a ton, but well. this video does help! Cheers
"Immediate Note Playback" is not correct, you can actually activate the setting in logic that lets you hear the note even if you don't play it from the start. It's called midi chase under project settings
@@Robin_0011 Top left, go to 'File'/'Project Settings'/'MIDI'/''Chase', select 'Notes' and 'Sustained'. You have to save this setting in your custom template since it's not a global setting but everyone really should be starting all projects from a custom template anyway.
Cubase is good, no doubt, but Logic is better :)) But man, read the manual, practically all the features that you mentioned in the video are perfectly realized in Logic. Like Immediate Note Playback - click Record Project Settings, check the Midi tab, and there find so-called "CHASE" tab where you can check the Notes. Another examples of yours that you called Time Base Toggle - this called in Logic SMPTE lock. With the right click in the Edit menu check the SMPTE lock of the region and it won't change the tempo. However you didn't mentioned the really good thing from Steinberg guys that is only partially realized in Logic - for example it is CHORDER - it has an amazing feature of triggering custom chords by just one key, the same in Logic, but in Cubase you can have different chord variations depending on a velocity. That's a game changer.
..logic almost never crashes, its rock solid compared to cubase 12, i have both DAWs, 10 years logic and 2 years cubase, but most of my work still in logic pro...can't wait for 11 version ,regards
@@djerikfox Exactly! Logic just never crashes for me either. Cubase on the other hand... all I see online are Cubase users crying about how it crashes so much. PLUS you have to pay for EVERY. SINGLE. UPDATE. for Cubase. I bought Logic back in 2013 and I'm still getting FREE updates to this day!
I really love your simple but clear stylish studio - great for relaxation and creativity! Jacob, you as a piano player, what do you think about Cubase 12 onstock halion Sonic "Verve" felt piano? nice demonstration: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ZAvPeJxk3zI.html
former hardcore Logic user here, now on: Cubase 12 - and finally happy. Hint: Logic has NO MACROS!!! can´t live without this! Logic´s rudimentary old unflexible tiny mixer is a joke. Logic can only have 1 video in arrangement. Logic´s automation is clunky. Logic has no plugin searching function. Logic lag in Midi Editing/ Compose features - please see Cubase 12! Cubase has the best DAW mixer on the market, I love it´s audio editing and the high quality onstock plugins are on top with Logic´s. Cubase GUI is very flexible. Cubase is much FASTER with the use of own key commands and own macros...And I´m a big fan of Cubase´s Multiple Markers and render export options! C12 wins in so many areas. Sorry to say, but I know both daws very good.
I would love a video from you Byron. Right on the fence. I still have to learn a ton from Logic which makes it a bit easier to take the jump I think. Every week I more into Logic and soon I will not want to move..... :s
Or just stay on the Main Workspace window, switch Automation from Track to Region, hit the '>' button to expand all the available automation and you can view multiple automation lanes at once just like in Cubase. You don't even have to go to the Piano Roll to view MIDI region automation, this can be done in the main Workspace window itself. I'm shocked at how many Logic users don't know this
Hello, Jacob, I'm really interesting on your MIDI recording course, but I have questions. I browsed some of your videos, found out that most of your software were apple based. But what I am working on are windows based software, what I have right now are komplete 14 standard, reaper 6.8, davinci 18, something that are different from you. Because I 'm really interesting on recording something, can you tell me how your course gonna help me, please?
For #6 in Logic you can click Functions tab on your Piano Roll and turn on "Include Non-Note MIDI Events" and that will move your automation with the notes/data.
Or simply go to Settings/Automation and set the 'Move Track Automation with Regions' to 'Always' and it will work just like in Cubase. You only have to set this up once and it will work globally.
Só o Jacob pra me ensinar a gravar vídeos de piano, o cara foi minha inspiração desde que eu tinha 15 anos e isso faz 5 anos já, aprendi mt sobre notas e agora sobre gravar, esse cara é uma lenda mesmo.
I started 2 years ago playing piano with visualiser .. but this way took a long time and I wanted to learn sheet music .. I attended online course and then I started piano school for adult and currently I read sheet music, it's very easy, I help Also to my daughter who Also play piano .. I definitely recommend to All to learn sheet music, You Can see there much more then in visualiser (dynamics and so on ... ) ❤🎶🎵🎹
Apprendre un morceau avec un visualiseur est un enfer pour moi. Impossible d'identifier les notes a jouer avant que la touche du clavier correspondante ne s'allume, ce qui en résulte une grande perte de temps dans l'apprentissage. Pour jouer en boucle un passage et l'apprendre, il faut s'arreter et remettre la video en arriere, alors qu'avec une partition un coup d'oeil suffit. L'avantage d'une partition est également qu'elle puisse s'annoter, ce qui facilite grandement l'apprentissage, notamment des doigtés. Par contre les visualizers sont utiles pour ecouter le morceau et comprendre comment jouer les passages difficles a déchiffrer sur une partition.
I completely agree that it's a great advantage to be able to listen to passages. If playing with sheet music, I always recommend listening thoroughly through a recording of the piece once in a while.
Jacob, I have purchased many of your midi files. I find that splitting the screen with a visualizer and the music sheets to be very helpful for my learning process. What are your thoughts? Is it too much of a crutch? You are a wonderful player. I’m going to take your course. Thank you for your continued contributions.😊😊
Hi Tom! Well, visualizers may be the best option for some, and it has its advantages - so I'm not completely ruling it out. But you may become much better at sheet music if you quit the visualizer completely, and it may be a better long-term solution 😊
