How To Create A Bus Logic Pro X

Hughes Thind1949 · Friday, December 3, 2021

How to create "Slide" notes in Logic Pro X

Once again watching a tutorial which is being done in FL Studio.

Noticed FL Studio has a specific function to easily create "slide" drum notes and I knoww it'll be possible in Logic Pro x just unsure how to get the pitch to bend correctly into the lower note! Please help if you can, Thanks.

Slide settings take place at 15:00

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with all the drumsets in logic that are exs samples you can accieve a slide into another note by first overlapping the first note into the beginning of the second note in the piano roll and then set the esx from "poly" to "legato" in the top left and then control the timing of the slide with the "glide" slider.

there is an example in this video around minute 52 on a bass note that slides into the next: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXrqb3EYEUk

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with all the drumsets in logic that are exs samples you can accieve a slide into another note by first overlapping the first note into the beginning of the second note in the piano roll and then set the esx from "poly" to "legato" in the top left and then control the timing of the slide with the "glide" slider.

there is an example in this video around minute 52 on a bass note that slides into the next: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXrqb3EYEUk

peace, rez

Appreciate your reply, I was wondering if is possible with notes generated via external samples placed into a project via Ultrabeat? As my sound design skills are yet to be developed

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if ultrabeat is able to do that same techique as the exs24 is something i don´t know, but you can use all samples that you intend to use in ultrabeat also with the exs.

so you can choose - try the way with the exs and see if you get the results you were looking for or search some more and try to find out if ultrabeat can do the same thing...

did you try to trigger ultrabeat from a midi region with overlapping notes to see if the note sustain "glides" in to the next note?
as ultrabeat normallly is more of a drum- or percussioninstrument there is not so much for long sustained notes or glide parameters as in the exs sampler which is tailored more towards sustaining and gliding sounds.

one thing you also can try is using slot 25 in ultrabeat, because this slot is for the built in "bass" synth that makes several octaves from one sound - maybe there is an option to "slide" the sounds.

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As Rez said but nothing will give you the flexibility of sliding notes into each other that FL Studio can. FL Studio's piano roll editor has been the best piano roll editor for over 15 years now. The mind boggles that other DAW's can't slide notes into each other like FL Studio. 4 years ago I jumped from FL Studio to Ableton because i wanted to use a Mac and am still scratching my head about the slide issue. FL Studio really is a brilliant piece of software.

The features you are looking for are "glide" "legato" and "portamento". Most synths and samplers have this ability.

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The features you are looking for are "glide" "legato" and "portamento". Most synths and samplers have this ability.

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They don't have the flexibility that FL Studio piano roll offers regarding sliding notes. FL can slide individual notes from chords into individual notes of another chord for example. Awesome feature

Is this still not doable in Logic?

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Is this still not doable in Logic?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYny2Xt7fUw

Here is tutorial for logic.

I make my glides with pitch bend automation. You have to set pitch bend range on your sampler. my pitch bend range is usually 12+ to -12 semitones.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYny2Xt7fUw

Here is tutorial for logic.

I make my glides with pitch bend automation. You have to set pitch bend range on your sampler. my pitch bend range is usually 12+ to -12 semitones.

Thanks, but that unfortunately didn't solve the problem. Let's say you have a vocal sample, and you want it to slide/glide up or down to the next note at different speeds. The built in glide/portamento function in most synths work like this; the bigger the interval is between two notes, the longer it takes for the note to reach it's destination eg. slower speed. Sometimes you just don't want that to happen - for example in some situations you want the glide from C to D to be slower than say a bigger interval like C to F. So it totally make sense for this function to exist

You could automate the portamento speed or use pitch bend. Some synths/samplers let you choose different modes for portamento.

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so....it's 2019, Logic still hasn't caught up with FL studio on this on in the past 10 years (or however long FL studio has had this super easy to use and convenient solution).

The workarounds people offer are pretty awkward and limited...almost as awkward as bouncing the beat in progress from Logic into FL studio, recording the midi for the specific track you want to use glides on in FL studio and then exporting it as audio to put back into your Logic project...

Is the FLS slide notes function in piano roll works with only FL Native devices or 3rd party VSTs as well?

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so....it's 2019, Logic still hasn't caught up with FL studio on this on in the past 10 years (or however long FL studio has had this super easy to use and convenient solution).

The workarounds people offer are pretty awkward and limited...almost as awkward as bouncing the beat in progress from Logic into FL studio, recording the midi for the specific track you want to use glides on in FL studio and then exporting it as audio to put back into your Logic project...

Here's the solution: buy FL Studio 20 and now you can open up your beloved Fruity Tooty in Logic, it will show up as a plugin.

By the way there are several things that FL hasn't caught up with Logic too, I mean a lot more than just sliding notes.

Last edited by anp27; 28th September 2019 at 09:48 AM..

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Originally Posted by anp27 ➡️

Here's the solution: buy FL Studio 20 and now you can open up your beloved Fruity Tooty in Logic, it will show up as a plugin.

By the way there are several things that FL hasn't caught up with Logic too, I mean a lot more than just sliding notes.

Actually I only use Logic, but been thinking of getting FL20, I didn't know it would work as a plug-in... that might be the deciding factor to give me the push

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you'd probably need an independent track with some mono bass synth instrument on it. maybe as part of a track stack so the tracks are logically grouped together. take the release down as low as you can without it clicking on key release. set it to legato. enable and alter portamento time for the pitch bends to other notes. if it's a sample, you might want one shot set to off.

FL looks more like a group of eight tracks with fully independent sample control. that's why just the sustained bass tone can glide. they have separated the low tone from the kick itself. which is really mostly just like using a bass synth at that point.