Welcome to day 2 of “Newbie to Ninja” here on WLPR! “Newbie to Ninja” is a beginner’s guide to Apple’s Logic Pro. Videos drop daily (Mondays-Fridays) for the next several weeks.
If you’re brand new to Logic Pro, this series will help you go from feeling like a beginner to complete comfort in Apple’s amazing DAW.
Logic Pro comes with a wealth of preset sounds, patches, instruments, samples, and Apple Loops for you to use in your Projects. All it takes is deciding what you’d like to download, and where you’d like to download it to.
So today I’ll walk you through downloading and managing Logic’s massive library. Check out the video above for more!
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Day 2: I can’t find the mentioned video. Could you please send me the video or youtube link, it would be greatly appreciate! !
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Litha
Hi Litha, thanks for your comment! The video is in the post above. What web browser are you using? Otherwise, here’s the link to the video on YouTube:
Hey Chris, thank you for kicking off this series!
If you relocate your sound library to an external hard drive does that mean you won’t be able to play tracks that use sounds stored on the hard drive unless it is connected to your computer?
Hi Kevin, thanks for your comment! That is correct. If the Sound Library is relocated to a drive other than your Mac’s internal drive, you’ll need to have that external drive connected so that your Projects will have access to those sounds.
One way to not always need your external drive always available is in the Save dialogue. When you save a Project, in the Save dialogue be sure to select all relevant file types under “Copy the following Files into your Project.” I select all options except Movie files.
Once you save your Projects, Logic Pro will copy any Alchemy, Sampler, Ultrabeat, Impulse Responses, and Apple Loops directly into the Project folder or Package. It increases your Project’s file size, but ensures your Projects have everything they need to play.
For already existing Projects, you can save those file types after the fact by going to File > Project Settings > Assets. Select all relevant asset/file types, and then save the Project. Those files will then be copied to your Project.
Great tip! Thank you.
Thank you for this tip, and I have a follow up:
Let’s say I select all the assets for a couple of projects to take with me on a trip. When I return, I would like to get my hard drive space back. Do I just reverse the “assets” selection and save, and Logic Pro would clean up, or would I save as a new project without all the extra files, and then delete the version with all the extras?