Learn how Phat FX can beef up your sounds in Logic Pro X
Just how fat can your instruments get with Phat FX’s features?
After looking at Step FX last week, Jono Buchanan now takes us through Logic Pro X‘s Phat FX, a multi-effect insert that can pack a punch. Our Logic Pro Tips video shows you how Phat FX can be used to add flair to your sounds, with insight into the different functions, algorithms and models of each effect.
There’s also a pleasing amount of modulation options built into Phat FX, including a neat XY pad to quickly morph your instruments. Jono demonstrates how the various modulation sources can be used effectively and creatively to achieve interesting results from just one insert effect.
In our Logic Pro Tips series, MusicTech’s Logic expert Jono Buchanan breaks down music production on Apple’s professional DAW. Other episodes posted so far include:
- Introduction to insert effects
- Auxiliary sends broken down
- Automation basics
- Channel EQ tutorial
- Understanding Compression
- Auxilliary automation tracks
- Alternative sidechain compression
- Sidechained gates
- Using Logic’s distortion
- Basic audio recording
- Basic audio in ESX24
- Flex Time editing
- Using the AutoFilter
- Exporting options
Jono Buchanan is an Apple Certified instructor, with tons of experience under his belt. He’s a professor in Guildhall’s Electronic Music Department, teaching BMus Year 2 Dance Music project for Electronic Music’s Principal study course. Outside of that, he also produces and composes for various projects and writes reviews for MusicTech magazine too. He now also makes awesome weekly tutorials for Logic Pro X!
