Your favorite workflow tips when creating chords and melodies with a mouse in Logic?

[dasen]

Hey,

What are your favorite workflow tips when creating chords and melodies with a mouse in Logic?

[jonljacobi]

Put down what you hear in your head.

[el-bo (formerly ebow)]

Hey,

What are your favorite workflow tips when creating chords and melodies with a mouse in Logic?

First tip would be to learn about the step-input keyboard. Then look into the midi fx.

[el-bo (formerly ebow)]

Put down what you hear in your head.

And this

[jancivil]

Have an idea first.

[el-bo (formerly ebow)]

Learn your shortcuts.

Work out which tools you use the most and set as primary, secondary etc.

[jancivil]

Seriously, who knows what you want with that question. We don't know what you want to draw was the point I implied.

[el-bo (formerly ebow)]

Seriously, who knows what you want with that question. We don't know what you want to draw was the point I implied.

I'm interpreting it as that he is not interested so much in how to write melodies, as much as he is in learning actual workflow specific to Logic's feature-set. Not that the angle you and jonljacobi are taking is not a part of the puzzle.

Who knows? Looks like he's not so interested in finding answers

[jancivil]

I'm so simple I just draw notes in one by one with a pencil tool
there are ways with other tools to get more to happen than that... with less control of rhythm and pitch
Know your tools, always good advice but 'workflow' I have no idea tbh

[el-bo (formerly ebow)]

I'm so simple I just draw notes in one by one with a pencil tool
there are ways with other tools to get more to happen than that... with less control of rhythm and pitch
Know your tools, always good advice but 'workflow' I have no idea tbh

Yes, but I don't think your compositions would be served well by tools/workflows that make patterns and repetition easier However, for someone who is working to a more standard grid/beat/metre, such tools can be helpful.

The second video I posted shows Logic's Step input Keyboard. This is a pretty neat hybrid approach. Although the guy shows how you can play with a midi keyboard in non-realtime, and have those notes and chords sync'd and timed to perfect length, you can also just click on the on-screen keyboard overlay. For creating arpeggios and other perfectly quantised lines it can be a great tool.

[vurt]

draw midi pictures

[donkey tugger]

draw midi pictures

ts1.jpg

[Forgotten]

Hey,

What are your favorite workflow tips when creating chords and melodies with a mouse in Logic?

Think about buying a keyboard - I would get really frustrated trying to write something just using a mouse - it would take too long between thinking of something and actually hearing it played back.

[jancivil]

This is one part of 'have an idea first', a whole idea. It's a big ask, I realize.

But when you say 'workflow', I don't even use say a line tool to get a run, the run is in context to the other events. Some people will happily just get on with that. Or one will say 'quantize your input'. I have no idea what someone else is thinking. I have 'flow' even with my no-brainer no tricks m.o.

I certainly don't mean to indicate I think one note at a time. I think up something, I've a got a glimpse of it mentally and it may be that I know the pitches and the rhythm or time before I enter anything.

I have super-intricates things from the pencil tool. It would take as much time correcting a live input as to just write thie thing. Takes all sorts. I just do the damned thing.

[vurt]

draw midi pictures

ts1.jpg

disappointed slightly that it wasn't a cock
but yes, that's the idea