Pepper your tracks with momentary effects using spot automation in Logic Pro X

Is your track sounding a little too static? Try momentarily adding effects to keep your listener engaged.

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Instead of adding static effects to tracks, you can make things a lot more interesting if you automate in effects such as pitch shifts and reverbs momentarily. The way to do that is with automation.

In this tutorial, learn a few quick ways to create momentary or ‘spot’ automation. Get to grips with the Marquee tool for automation, get to know a feature that automatically sets two automation nodes at region borders and more.

In our Logic Tips series, MusicTech Logic guru Jono Buchanan explains the music production process on Apple’s professional DAW. We have over 60 episodes covering topics such as:

Jono Buchanan is an Apple Certified instructor, with years of experience under his belt. As well as being a professor in Guildhall’s Electronic Music Department, he’s also a producer and media composer, and a trusted writer for MusicTech magazine.

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