Q: How do you do…???
Logic Notes with Sze has been online for almost one semester now. As we approach the end of the semester, there will be the customary rush to finish assignments and projects, together with questions that begin with "How do you do this...?" and "How do you do that...?" As such, this edition of Logic Notes will focus on answering some of these "How do you do…" questions.

Q: The previous Logic Notes article on Apple Loops was targeted at senior students using Logic Pro 7. But Logic Express 7 (used by new students) does not have a Chord track. How do you create a chord progression then (which the Apple Loops can follow during playback)?
Without the Chord track, Logic Express users cannot view the chord progression. But this lack of visual feedback will not affect the playback of Apple Loops in any way. The same results can still be obtained just by using the Transposition track.

In Logic Pro 7, the Chord track is linked to the Transposition track whereby any changes in either track will affect the other. In Logic Express 7, only the Transposition track is used, which will change the pitch of the Apple Loop to follow the chord progression (chord quality cannot be changed). For example, CMaj7 A-7 D-7 G7 (in the key of C) will have Transposition track settings 0 -3 +2 -5.

Transposition Track: The "I VI II V progression" in the above Global Track will pitch shift the Apple Loop as well as the MIDI Regions. To disable the transposition of MIDI Regions, check the No Transpose option in the Object Parameter Box (on the left of the Arrange Window).

Q: Last semester, you told me there was a Telephone preset in Logic's Fat EQ plug-in which I should check out for my project. But I could not find this preset in Logic Pro 7's Fat EQ. How do you explain that?
Many of the plug-in presets from Logic Platinum 6 were not made available in Logic 7. However, the entire library of Logic 6 presets (including the Fat EQ Telephone preset) can now be downloaded from the Logic 7 downloads section.

Simply unzip the downloaded presets file and drag both the Plug-In Settings and Impulse Responses folders into the following location (if there are any previously saved user presets, backup those files first and drop them back to the same location later):

Users/your user account/Library/Application Support/Logic

Click the Replace button (when the Copy dialog window appears). The Logic 7 presets will now be displayed from the Factory folder while the Logic 6 presets folder can be identified by one of several names - #Factory, factory 1, factory 2, #Factory Xtra Pack and Demo Presets.