In this video, I explain the following: 1. What is Capture Recording? 2. How to use Capture Recording with stop mode. 3. How to use Capture Recording during playback. 4. How to use Capture Recording as an alternative MIDI recording workflow. 5. How to use Capture Recording with Cycle Recording. Support the sponsor of this video, Boombox | bit.ly/boomboxsponsor For mixing/mastering work, contact me at my website | carneymediagroup.com Follow MusicTechHelpGuy on Instagram | instagram.com/musictechhelpguy Support the channel on Patreon | patreon.com/musictechhelpguy Timestamps: 0:00 What is Capture Recording? 1:02 Sponsor Segment 1:43 Capture in Stop Mode 6:01 Capture During Playback 7:58 Capture Bass in Stop Mode 9:40 Capture Chords in Stop Mode 11:21 Capture Lead During Playback 12:31 Capture Recording with Cycle Mode
I am not using capture recording when I have already a beat or something else. I prefer take folders. What is important to remark is that then capture recording is inserted on the playhead position of the selected track. Depending on the settings it could overwrite existing data. You can undo to get the overwritten data back, but the inserted capture recording is lost. Use it only on tracks with no data after the playhead!
Great Series: Your delivery is very easy for me as a beginner, to follow along. It is clear that you have spent some serious time organizing these lessons. As with almost all software, whether is Excel or Photoshop, I am alway astounded by the features and tricks that are packed into these robust tools. I found the videos on midi control specially interesting and I wonder if controlling patch changes and patch parameters for an external synth or effect boxes are possible. As a lifetime learner and hacker-every new idea asks "Is there anything Logic can't do?" Maybe it will control my light show, too. 🎶🎵
It's possible. Perhaps I'll cover it in a later more advanced lesson. You're not the first one to ask about that. I need to actually buy some more external synths to make that tutorial happen. I pretty much use all software synths these days, I only have 1 external hardware synth and I haven't used it in years.
Thanks a lot, Josh. Never heard about this feature of Logic (except that you’ve been mentioning it in one of your previous videos when I had no idea what it would be about). To become experienced with it, I will have to go through it once again in Logic (not just watch it on my iPad). But it‘s very interesting.
Thank you! I would love to see a tutorial on how to remove noise from audio recordings. I have a beautiful guitar take (that I don't even want to *try* to recreate) but it has a slight, quiet noise in the background... I'm not sure where it came from. Thinking I might try a noise gate, but I'm not sure what to do.
Hi carney, First of all I would like to say I really enjoy watching your tutorials! My question is, can you make a tutorial about recording path..i mean i can recording in an other destination like an external HD and not saving every recording in the os hard drive..? Thanks a lot Leslie
It's not likely that you would actually want to separate your recorded audio files from your project. That will cause all sorts of issues. I would just create a Logic project, put it on an external drive, and work from the external drive. As long as the external drive is an SSD, you should be fine. Even slower mechanical drives should be able to record audio in realtime without any issues, you might run into issues when mixing and working with plugins though with a mechanical drive.
That's fantastic! I didn't even know that existed... How many notes (or how long) does the "capture" function work? Does it have a limit on how "far back" it keeps the capture data? Is it the last 1,000 notes, or the last 5 minutes or whatever -- or is there no limit?
That's a really great question. I'm not 100% sure. I do know there is a limit, and I think it has to do with the total number of MIDI events in the capture recording. As a test I just sat here and jammed for a couple minutes (roughly 50 bars) and it captured everything. 1169 Events shown in the event list. All notes and sustain pedal. However, if you start using other CC's like Mod Wheel, Faders, or even worse the Pitch Bend, it seems to dramatically shorten the length of the capture recording, because of the extra events present for each CC or pitch bend position data. It's hard to know too, because the event list only counts the pitch bend or CCs as a single event, not each individual position event. For example I played for about a minute, and used some pitch bend and mod wheel, and it only captured the last 8 bars. So I'd be careful anytime you use pitch bend for sure.
@@MusicTechHelpGuy Thanks for the answer! 1169 events recorded in the first test, and then only the last 8 bars with BP & Mod wheel.. Hm. I think I'll do some testing myself, now that I know this exists ;) Thanks again for the video!
Hey Josh, I've got Logic 10.4.4., and the capture recording doesn't work in stop mode. However, it does work in play mode. When in stop mode, it only captures kinda the very first notes and even they don't make any sound when played back..
@igorvashkov8821. Did you ever figure out what you problem was here? I am experiencing the same thing. It was working find for a little while and then I got that same thing you got with just a small region and a couple of notes jumbled up on each other. Please let me know if you figured it out. Thanks.
Wow! Wish I knew this this afternoon. Can I retrieve my “noodling” after I quit Logic and shut down my computer? Probably not, huh? I did some really good stuff…. ☹️ Gianni❤
Unfortunately no. Once you close Logic the MIDI is cleared from RAM and you can't get it back. Basically if you play on one track, move over to another track, arm that track, and play some more, it will forgot the MIDI you played on the previous track.
