Seattle Logic Pro User Group

We have guest presenter Peter Schwartz (aka “iSchwartz” and “ski”) for Thursday’s meeting.

Below is a blurb about him. Anyway, he’ll talk about scoring for film using Logic - should be very interesting. He has a good background in this.

When: 6:30 - 8:30 PM Thursday 10/30
Where: The Mac Store
815 NE 45th St
Seattle, WA 98105
(206) 443-0808

I’ll cover any dead time with Q and A or we can begin to look at mastering.

Swag from grooveboxmusic.com and macProvideo and training DVD from me.

Here’s info about Peter:

Peter “Ski” Schwartz is a NY-based composer who has enjoyed a
multi-faceted career in the music business, including jingle and
songwriter, session keyboardist and synth programmer,
arranger/orchestrator, and musical director for David Bowie, Enya,
Madonna, Pet Shop Boys, even Hanson! If that’s not enough, Peter’s
technical background includes having been a product specialist for the
venerable Synclavier and has enjoyed a 20 year association with Korg as a
design consultant and programmer. In recent years Peter has entered the
world of film scoring, having composed original scores for numerous
independent films, and a client roster that includes Disney, Mattel, and
Warner Bros.

Look for two Logic Pro Apple certified trainings in November.

Logic 101 November 3-5.

Logic 301 November 6-8.

Both trainings will be held at the Seattle Guitar Center Annex from 10 AM - 5:30 PM daily.

Please register through DiscoveryTools.com and direct payment questions there.

You can contact me for course content questions: doug at zproinc dot com

Co-sponsored with the Seattle Composers Alliance and Summit Consultation and Custom Sales, LLC. we’ll have Dino Virella demoing the great Redmatica products. You’ll need to RSVP for this meeting, see below. I’ll do a Logic Q and A session afterwards, time allowing.

Swag from Redmatica, macProVideo, and grooveboxmusic.com!

WHEN:

Wednesday October 8, 2008 7-8 PM

WHERE:

Bad Animals Recording Studios
2212 4th Avenue
Seattle, WA 98121-2025
206.443.1500
Plenty of street parking available

RSVP:

sales@mvproaudio.com

PLEASE NOTE:

Seating will be limited, please RSVP to assure a seat.

AN EVENING WITH REDMATICA SOLUTIONS

Please join us for a very special event featuring Redmatica software solutions. Mr. D. Dino Virella, Executive Vice President of MV Pro Audio, North American distributor of Redmatica software solutions is coming to the greater Seattle area to demonstrate Redmatica’s award-winning products. This will be his only Seattle area appearance, so don’t miss this very special opportunity to catch what the industry’s talking about.

Redmatica products are ideal companions to any virtual samplers on the Mac platform, including Native Instruments Kontakt, Digidesign Structure, Steinberg Halion, and Motu MachFive. Never before has the management and construction of instruments banks been so creative and easy. The obstacles have been removed!

If you’re an Apple Logic user, these products will also interest you especially now that Logic Pro 8/Studio and Redmatica products are seamlessly integrated. It bears mentioning that Redmatica and Apple worked closely on this integration—so closely that Redmatica’s products are mentioned in the Logic operators manual… no easy feat. Special pricing the night of the event!!!

WHO SHOULD BE THERE?

• Owners of ANY soft-sampler (Kontakt, Structure, Mach5, Halion, etc.)
• Logic 8 Users
• Owners of vintage keyboard collections
• Owners of HUGE sound libraries struggling with file management
• Artists, producers and engineers looking for THE easy way to get unique sound and/or instruments

PRODUCTS COVERED

Keymap 1.5

• Winner of Electronic Musician Magazine’s 2008 Editors Choice Award
• THE most complete and intuitive sample editor available…period!
• Seamless integration with Apple Logic Pro 8/Studio
• Best-in-class automatic looping/slicing/transient detection
• Innovative harmonic resynthesis
• Advanced tuning/pitch functions
• Surround sound and spacialization utilities
• Full compatibility with popular virtual samplers, including Kontakt, MachFive, Halion, and more, plus output in multiple file formats

ExsManager

• Manage and optimize sampler instruments on your hard drive with blazing speed
• Automatically find and re-link missing samples to instruments
• Detect duplicate and unused samples, consolidate samples for improved performance
• THE replacement for the old Project Manager in Logic 7, 6, etc.

AutoSampler

• Fully automated sampling of MIDI synths and sound modules—-even MIDIed pianos and multiple sources!
• Quickly and easily archive your hardware instrument collection as convenient soft-synth patches
• Fully programmable set up with advanced layering, velocity switching, patch selections, and more

• Automatic sample processing, including normalization, phase alignment, and trim

Look for a meeting on Wednesday evening, September 3rd at the Seattle Mac Store from 6:30 - 8:30 PM.

Freebies from sponsors macProVideo and grooveboxmusic.com.

Topics to be presented yet to be decided.

Dave Gross from Helldog Music shares his work flow in Logic. Nice tips on windows/screensets and using multiple drives for handling audio, samples, and archiving. Other good info as well. Video 3 contains music demos.

Presented at the Seattle Logic Users Group, Jan. ‘07

 seattle_logic_users_group_jan_07_part 1 of 3: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (3530)
 seattle_logic_users_group_jan_07_part 2 of 3: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (1644)
 seattle_logic_users_group_jan_07_part 3 of 3: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (1537)

John Silverman’s overview of beatmaking techniques or “round trip” - a way to re-use and re-mangle beats from Ultrabeat, EXS, Apple Loops, and back again, to create our own personal libraries of material.

Presented at the Seattle Logic Users Group, Dec. ‘06,

 Round Trip Beat Making Part 1 of 4 by John Silverman [15:37m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (3436)
 Round Trip Beat Making Part 2 of 4 by John Silverman [16:56m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (1766)
 Round Trip Beat Making Part 3 of 4 by John Silverman [18:07m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (1458)
 Round Trip Beat Making Part 4 of 4 by John Silverman [14:31m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (1362)