{"id":377,"date":"2014-06-19T08:29:43","date_gmt":"2014-06-19T08:29:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dantepfer.com\/blog\/?p=377"},"modified":"2014-08-01T22:44:52","modified_gmt":"2014-08-01T22:44:52","slug":"the-new-logic-objectification-and-bob-dylan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dantepfer.com\/blog\/?p=377","title":{"rendered":"The New Logic, Objectification, & Bob Dylan"},"content":{"rendered":"

When I got back home to Brooklyn from tour a couple days ago, one of the things I did was buy Logic Pro X, a big update to a music production app I’ve used for a long time.\u00a0To get a handle on it, I decided to make a track for a friend of mine. Earlier in the day I’d come across Bob Dylan’s All I Really Want To Do<\/em> again, which, I was reminded, has got to be one of the most wonderfully simple and profound songs there is, and I thought it would do just fine.<\/p>\n

I started hunting around the program for sounds. One of the big additions to Logic is that it now comes with a huge sample library. I focused on the orchestral samples, because I’ve never seriously tried to make a computer sound like a real orchestra before. The music I’ve made so far with sequencers, like my recent score for the film Movement & Location<\/a><\/em>, is what we’d call electronic music: it purposely sounds machine-generated. There are people out there, particularly film composers, who are great at drawing acoustic-sounding music out of a computer, but it’s not a skill I’ve worked on before.<\/p>\n

Logic now also has an advanced arpeggiator, which is something that was (amazingly) lacking in the old version \u2014 there were workarounds, but they weren’t pretty. In this context, arpeggiation means making melodies out of the notes in a chord by playing them sequentially instead of playing them all at once. Combine arpeggiation and some string samples, hold down a chord, and you might get something like this:<\/p>\n\t