LOGIC PRO X - Working With External Synths

There are so many great-sounding hardware synths around that it would be a great shame if there were no way to integrate them into a Logic project. Don’t panic - Logic agrees and has several ways in which it wants to encourage you to bring some unique external sound sources to your tracks. This week, I’m going to show you how to prepare Logic for working with external synths. We need to think of this process in two ways; firstly, how to make a MIDI connection between our synth and Logic and, secondly, how to connect the audio outputs of an external synth to Logic via an audio interface. I’ll show you each step of the journey, so that you’re in a position to get a whole range of new sounds into your Logic projects.

00:00 Intro
01:01 Track playback
01:47 Understanding MIDI connections
03:07 Making Audio connections
03:51 Configuring an External Instrument
06:26 The External Instrument plug-in
07:14 Another way to set up External Instrument
08:22 Checking Audio and MIDI are both working
09:34 Copying software plug-in to External Instrument
11:14 What if I want to take my project elsewhere?
12:40 Getting ready to record External Instrument to Audio
13:57 What if the recording level isn’t right?
16:11 Recording the Hydrasynth audio
16:38 Why has the Stereo Output overloaded?
17:59 Playback of the audio version of the Hydrasynth
19:10 Summary