Apple Logic Express 7 - Manual (Page 7)

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Introducing Logic’s Plug-ins
The professional Logic music and audio production
software features a comprehensive collection of powerful
plug-ins.
These include; innovative synthesizers, high quality effect plug-ins and authentic
recreations of vintage instruments. Logic also supports the use of Audio Unit plug-ins
in Mac OS X.
Given a fast enough computer, you could conceivably arrange and mix an entire song
using several software instruments, such as Logic’s ES1, or EXSP24, amongst others.
These instruments have the added benefits of superior sound quality and timing as the
audio signal never leaves the digital domain, and you can freely edit these software
instrument parts, change the tempo and more, right up to the final mix.
Don’t worry if you’re unfamiliar with the terminology used here—this manual will
explain everything. It covers all of the general things you need to know about plug-ins
and will introduce you to the individual effects and instruments and their parameters.
We’ve included a few tutorial chapters, which will explain how to program sounds
using several of Logic’s instrument plug-ins.
Using plug-ins is much easier if you are familiar with some of Logic’s basic functions.
You should be acquainted with Logic’s Audio Mixer before going further. Information
about it can be found in the Audio Mixer section of the Logic reference.
The Bounce buttons found on the Master Audio Objects allow you to write submixes of
plug-in tracks—as an audio file—to disk at any time. For details please refer to the
Logic reference.
Whatever you play on your instruments can be recorded by simply pressing Logic’s
Record button. Your performances can be freely edited in any of Logic’s MIDI editors.
Further details about this can be found in the Logic reference