I've been using Fruity Loops for quite some time in making music, but I thought it was time to expand my musical possibilities by converting to Logic. The problem is, I have absolutely no clue what to do. I don't have any external hardware, and I can't figure out how to make any kind of music on the program. Can somebody help me get started?

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download the manual ... ive got the same problem

When you open logic, follow these steps to get sound working.

Open Audio > Audio Preferences and choose the Audio Driver tab.

Make sure "PC AV" is checked, and it will probably ask you to relaunch the program after that. Do it.

Next, choose your driver, which varies so try them all unless it chooses on for you and choose your wave player, this also varies computer to computer.

Once you do this, you should be able to get sound. Your next step is to try it out.

There are two ways that are pretty simple to do this.

Assuming you have a .wav you want to play around with, press and select "Audio 1" in the arrange window otherwise known as your sequencer.
Then in the Audio menu, choose "Import Audio", choose the file to import and play it. There is a wave editor which is definintely not for beginners that appears when you double click the file in the sequencer.

If you have VST insturments and just wanna play around with those, Press and hold the "Audio 1" icon until the dialogue appears and choose "Audio Instrument 1". Then, double click on the "Audio Instrument 1" icon to open up the mixer. By now, they are probably overlapping, so go to your "Windows" menu and choose" Tile Windows Horizontally" sp?

On the mixer, you have just assigned your sequencer to channel 1. Press and hold the empty icon directly under where you see I/O and you should be able to choose a vst or logic insturment. Then, double click on the icon again where the name of the insturment just appeared to open the insturment.

Finally, record using either your midi controller which someone else will have to explain to you or just choose "Window > Matrix Edit" to get the Marix window similar to reason users. Click the record button to designate the sequence and draw in your first note. Im sure there is another way, but im still learning and this is how i do it. Im open to suggestions.

Hope this helps.

Respect,

Miguel