Apple Logic ES M Monophonic Soft Synth: Bill Holland Has Mono
If you've got a fever, and for you, the only logical course of treatment is "More Bass", then ask your doctor if Logic ES M Monophonic Synth id right for you. Dr. Holland recommends it for terminally flaccid house tracks, preternaturally weak hip hop, and chronically referential indie rock.
The ES M is one of the many, many simply super sounding soft synths and virtual instruments included with Logic Pro 8 (a.k.a. Logic Studio), making thinking out of the box almost unnecessary. It's like Ive been saying all along: let Jobs do the thinking and no harm shall befall you.
[BILL HOLLAND PLAYING WITH THE APPLE LOGIC ES M]
BILL HOLLAND: Welcome back to Gearwire.Com. This is the ES M, the monophonic synthesizer that comes as an AU plugin with Logic 8. Now, you’ll notice that I have a little icon over here indicating this plugin. It shows up as an old Moog synthesizer. That’s your icon right there, and what I’ve done is I’ve actually brought up the mixer view and selected here and selected ES M monophonic synth. That’s how I brought up this particular plugin.
Now looking at the left side of this plugin, you’ll notice that we have a control that says 8, 16, and 32. This decides which octave you’re playing in. So, if I play it back real quick.
[BILL HOLLAND PLAYING A SEQUENCE FEATURING THE APPLE LOGIC ES M]
Then we have the waveform control. Let me open up my cutoff real quick, bting my filter all the way open so we can hear this.
[BILL HOLLAND PLAYING A SEQUENCE FEATURING THE APPLE LOGIC ES M]
Right now, you’re hearing a straight saw wave, but what I can do is either use this mix portion here or go all the way over to a square wave.
[BILL HOLLAND PLAYING A SEQUENCE FEATURING THE APPLE LOGIC ES M]
And then I can use my glide to actually control portamento between the notes.
[BILL HOLLAND PLAYING A SEQUENCE FEATURING THE APPLE LOGIC ES M]
Moving on, you’ll notice we saw from the opening the cutoff and resonance.
[BILL HOLLAND PLAYING A SEQUENCE FEATURING THE APPLE LOGIC ES M]
And then our other filter controls, we have decay in control and velocity here if I --
[BILL HOLLAND PLAYING A SEQUENCE FEATURING THE APPLE LOGIC ES M]
I’ll now control decay.
[BILL HOLLAND PLAYING A SEQUENCE FEATURING THE APPLE LOGIC ES M]
Decay here almost acts more like an envelope control than a decay control if you’ll notice.
[BILL HOLLAND PLAYING A SEQUENCE FEATURING THE APPLE LOGIC ES M]
As I move it back down...
[BILL HOLLAND PLAYING A SEQUENCE FEATURING THE APPLE LOGIC ES M]
...it gives me a longer range of cutoff and makes it more like a 24-dB low pass filter.
[BILL HOLLAND PLAYING A SEQUENCE FEATURING THE APPLE LOGIC ES M]
And then we can control velocity as well.
[BILL HOLLAND PLAYING A SEQUENCE FEATURING THE APPLE LOGIC ES M]
Moving on to the volume section, you’ll notice we have velocity, decay, and volume control for the volume itself.
[BILL HOLLAND PLAYING A SEQUENCE FEATURING THE APPLE LOGIC ES M]
Put the velocity all the way down and up.
[BILL HOLLAND PLAYING A SEQUENCE FEATURING THE APPLE LOGIC ES M]
Bring decay all the down.
[BILL HOLLAND PLAYING A SEQUENCE FEATURING THE APPLE LOGIC ES M]
And finally we have overdrive, our one effect within this plugin.
[BILL HOLLAND PLAYING A SEQUENCE FEATURING THE APPLE LOGIC ES M]
Now, if you want to use presets, there are a series of presets that are preloaded. We have Analog Bass, Bass Bleep, Classic Acid Bass, Dub Bass, Hollow Bass, House Organ, so a variety of different preset ways to use this synthesizer without actually having to create your own. Let’s take a look at a few of these real quick. We have Classic Acid Bass...,
[BILL HOLLAND PLAYING A SEQUENCE FEATURING THE APPLE LOGIC ES M]
House Organ...,
[BILL HOLLAND PLAYING A SEQUENCE FEATURING THE APPLE LOGIC ES M]
...and Overdrive Bass.
[BILL HOLLAND PLAYING A SEQUENCE FEATURING THE APPLE LOGIC ES M]
Well, that is the ES M that comes with Logic Pro 8. For now, this is Gearwire.Com, and my name is Bill Holland.
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dear bill,
please do not use that software that follows your mousepointer when shooting an onscreen video...
this time i nearly got motion sickness because of the jumping picture...
it would have been better to use a steady screen capturing of only the size of the plugin window.
the worst part is if you want to point out something and circle the mouse fast... nobody can see anything that way.
do you ever look at your own videos?
if not, then have a look at owens videos and learn a bit...
thank you
thanks
yes, I switched up the setting in Snapz to slow pan, but evidently the pan is anything but slow. I had experienced this problem with the follow cursor function, but thought it would work. From now on, i'm sticking to a fixed camera setting.
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