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Loop recording a beat with MIDI Merge mode - Logic Pro Tutorial
From the course: Logic Pro Essential Training
Loop recording a beat with MIDI Merge mode
- [Instructor] We've already explored MIDI Merge and MIDI takes. In this movie, I want to show you one more technique using MIDI Merge to make a drum loop on the fly. Now, if you're like me, playing drums on a keyboard is kind of non-intuitive. Doesn't feel like the same as playing on a drum kit, for example. But I can use MIDI Merge as I record my MIDI parts to record one drumbeat at a time and to create a pretty cool drum loop. So let's see how we would do this. Notice I have a patch called Trap Door. This is a drum machine designer patch, set up on my track here. Now in Trap door, the C one key plays my kick drum. (kick drum playing) Playing that on my external keyboard. The D key plays the snare drum. (snare playing) And the F sharp key plays the high hat. (high hat playing) And then the A sharp key plays the open high hat. (open high hat playing) Okay, so with those four elements, I could try to play the beat altogether. (beat plays) But I'm not very good at it. So we can use mid…
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