Lynda.com – Making Beats in Logic Pro X (TUTORIAL)

By | December 14, 2025

 

Release Year: 2014
Manufacturer: Lynda.com
Manufacturer’s Website: www.lynda.com/Logic-Pro-tutorials/Making-Beats-Logic-Pro-X/151550-2.html
Author: Dot Bustelo
Duration: 04:10:00
Type of Material: Video Tutorial
Language: English

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Description: Make Yourself Heard! Start Making Music with Logic Pro X. Author and Logic Pro insider Dot Bustelo walks you through every aspect of basic drum programming and beat making in Logic Pro, including choosing the right drum kit for the beat, recording, arranging, and quantizing.
Make Yourself Heard. Start Making Music with Logic Pro X. Author and Logic Pro insider Dot Bustelo walks through every aspect of basic drum programming and beat making in Logic Pro, including choosing the right drum kit for the beat, recording, arranging, and quantizing. She shows off Drummer, the intelligent drum feature, for creating beats automatically. She then moves into Ultrabeat, Logic’s built-in drum machine, and shows how to step sequence, design your own sounds, use your own samples, and create glitchy effects with the instrument. Then Dot dives deeper into making beats. She demonstrates how to make your own Apple Loops, time-stretch, quantize, and regroove audio as well as how to best add swing to your beats, fatten your sounds with drum replacement, and slice your samples. She then focuses on techniques specific to electronic music, including warping a beat with Space Designer and making DJ turntable effects with speed fades, and some retro groove tricks, including creating a human drummer feel with the Transform Editor and editing gate time. Dot wraps up the course by looking at a few more of the new beat making features in Logic Pro X, including the Arpeggiator and other MIDI plugins.

Topics include:
Choosing the drum kit
Making beats with Drummer and Ultrabeat
Sound designing your kits
Making stutter vocal effects
Rocking out with Apple Loops
Time-stretching, slicing, and sampling audio
Making groove templates
Warping your beat with Space Designer
Sidechaining the compressor with your kick
Vocoding

Content :
0. Introduction 3m 32s
Welcome 1m 25s
What should you know before watching this course 1m 15s
Using the exercise files 52s

  1. Getting the Beat Started: Basic Drum Programming 33m 3s
    Choosing the drum kit 5m 22s
    Rehearsing the beat, cycling in Logic, and recording the kick and snare 2m 43s
    Understanding Logic regions and quantizing effectively 8m 22s
    Creating easy drum fills by MIDI time compressing 3m 31s
    Using capture recording 4m 0s
    MIDI time compression for quick drum fills 3m 31s
    Separating your kick and snare by note, pitch, and output 5m 34s

  2. Maximizing Your Drummer Performances 23m 42s
    Going deeper into the Drummer Editor 9m 46s
    Customizing the feel, ghost notes, and hi-hat performance details 5m 35s
    Making electronic beats with Drummer and Ultrabeat 4m 36s
    Tightening the kick and snare with Follow Rhythm 3m 45s

  3. Retro, Hip-Hop, and Electronic Dance Music Beats in Ultrabeat 29m 13s
    Learning the basics of the drum machine 5m 38s
    Sound designing your kits 4m 15s
    Old-school step sequencing 7m 3s
    Making stutter vocal effects using Ultrabeat’s step grid 7m 35s
    Making stutter vocal effects with a sidechain 4m 42s

  4. Getting Creative with Apple Loops 21m 42s
    Changing the pitch of Apple Loops 7m 32s
    Changing the feel of Apple Loops 5m 30s
    Making, tagging, and indexing your own Apple Loops 4m 30s
    New Apple Loop features in Logic Pro X 4m 10s

  5. Making Tight Beats 22m 51s
    Finding your tempo 3m 56s
    Time stretching audio 4m 59s
    Slicing up your samples 6m 55s
    Building a useful EXS instrument from a drum loop 7m 1s

  6. Flex Like a Pro 22m 24s
    Flexing vocals 5m 31s
    Flexing to quantize audio 2m 34s
    Slicing on transients to regroove beats 2m 53s
    Flexing to change project tempo 3m 46s
    Creating gate effects with the Slicing Flex mode 2m 33s
    Creating effects with the Tempophone and Speed ​​Flex modes 5m 7s

  7. How Logic Swings 33m 36s
    Making groove templates 5m 18s
    Advanced quantizing 6m 13s
    Beat mapping a live performance 6m 43s
    Experimenting with your tempo using Varispeed 2m 24s
    Fattening your sound with drum replacement and doubling 2m 55s
    Using MIDI Transform for a human-drummer feel 6m 6s
    Tightening the feel with the groove track 3m 57s

  8. Dance/Electronic Beat Making 21m 10s
    Warping your beat with Space Designer 4m 19s
    Creating turntable- and tape-machine-style speed fades 2m 48s
    Packing drum loops into a take folder 4m 21s
    Sidechaining the compressor with your kick 4m 59s
    Vocoding in Logic 4m 43s

  9. Going Deeper with Arpeggiator and Other MIDI Plugins 38m 5s
    Discovering Arpeggiator 8m 28s
    Going deeper into Arpeggiator 8m 21s
    Exploring Chord Trigger 6m 28s
    Designing sounds with Modulator 6m 11s
    Creating sounds with Transposer and Velocity Processor 3m 36s
    Creating riffs with Scripter and Note Repeater 5m 1s
    10.Conclusion 45s
    What’s next? 45s

Sample files: present
Video format: MP4
Video: AVC, 1280×720, 16:9, 30,000 fps, ~1,060 kbps
Audio: AAC, 44.1 kHz, ~160 kbpss, 2 channels


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