Logic Express 7.0 And Quantize And Automation. Options

[nigelgjones]

Hi, I was wondering if anybody could help me here.

I am a semi professional singer songwriter with a new album.

I recently purchased Logic Express 7.0 after cutting my teeth with Garageband, and think its great.

I am slowly working my way around the program and have already finished one song.

However my next project has a difficult syncopated rhythm guitar part throughout and after a dozen or so takes I manged to get a half decent cut.

I understand there is quantization in Logic and have used this with some success in garageband. However for the life of me I can't find it anywhere despite reading and re-reading the manual.

It says there is a Q button in the peripherals, but it's not there. On some midi and instrument tracks a Quantization menu appears at the top of the peripherals window but not in an audio region. As for the Q button I just can't find it.

Also, after successfully mixing a song in the mixer then adding some manual fades at the end makes it sems impossible to re-adjust the sound again, without it reverting to a fixed automated volume. I have to clear all automation info and start again.

Whew, it's a learning curve alright but it is brilliant.

Any experts out there I would love to hear from you.

Please out my website: www.nigelgjones.co.uk

Regards

Nigel

[johntennant]

BTW, Nigel.

If you still DO want to quantize your guitar part, it IS possible. Find someone with Pro Tools' Beat Detective. Just bring the audio over to them and they can get it sounding much tighter in MINUTES. It's very easy and powerful. And I only WISH that logic had it.

-J