Learning Logic, Part 2
At the school I recently graduated from (yesssssss), we had to do two different Logic certification tests. Logic is a great app, right? Of course it is. But what happens when a disgruntled student who gets through the first test and realizes that the second test (and the second book) is really more of the same?
Here’s what said student believes the second Logic book’s table of contents should read:
Chapter 1: Shit You Already Did In Book 1
Chapter 2: More Shit You Already Did In Book 1
Chapter 3: More Shit You Already Did In Book 1, Part 2
Chapter 4: Key Commands For Shit You Already Know
Chapter 5: All About Disclosure Triangles
Chapter 6: Using The Marquee Tool
Chapter 7: Advanced Template Opening
Chapter 8: Using Time And Pitch Machine To Write A Love Song To Apple
Chapter 9: Consumating Your Marriage To Logic Pro 8
Chapter 10: Browsing Presets
Chapter 11: Finding The Apple Loops Library
Chapter 12: Dragging Apple Loops Into Arranger
Chapter 13: How To Stretch Apple Loops
Chapter 14: How To Compose Using Apple Loops
Chapter 15: Messing Up Your Tempo To Make It Kind Of Fit The Cuts To Your Naruto FMV
Chapter 16: Time Signatures, Key Signatures, And Other Things You’ll Never Use
Chapter 17: Customizing Your Workflow To Integrate MPCs
Chapter 18: Even More Stuff You Already Did In Book 1
Chapter 19: Troubleshooting: Subchapter 1: Your Audio Didn’t Record Because You Didn’t Arm Your Tracks / Subchapter 2: Unclipping Audio That Was Recorded Too Hot
So this may not be “audio news,” but depending on who you are, it’s kind of funny.
Tags: logic
October 16th, 2008 at 7:52 pm
I don’t think that’s very funny. Here in the industry we tend to take things like that pretty serious and I’m not sure Apple appreciates this kind of negative feedback. What we need now, more than ever, is engineers embracing the diversity of the tools available to us now. It doesn’t seem like that long ago people were limited to 5, maybe 7 tracks at most, and bouncing a drum kit alone was difficult, let alone keeping a decent stock of notoriously expensive 5-track tape. Now we have all these wonderful advances in technology (Pro Tools 8 now allows up to THREE Aux tracks) and I would have gladly traded my whole collection of Albatross Labs reverse-impedance mics for that kind of flexibility back then.
November 21st, 2008 at 10:00 am
Lighten up mister. Thanks for the laugh Ben.