The Project Templates

If you have set your default action for opening Logic to Ask, as I suggested in Chapter 1, Beginning with Logic Pro X 10.5. you will see you have the option of New from Template. In Project Templates, you see Hip Hop, Electronic, Songwriter, Orchestral, Multi-Track, and Music for Picture. Each has a description and if you open the Details disclosure triangle, you see even more options to tweak before you open it:

Figure 3.1 – Project Templates

I recommend you eventually take the time to explore all the templates. I think for teaching you about recording audio, Songwriter is the way to go:

Figure 3.2 – The Songwriter project template

As you can see, the template creates a Drummer track with a Drummer region, a sampler software instrument with a Steinway Grand Piano sound, three audio tracks for the task of recording vocals or guitars, and a bunch of plug-ins, with the Library open. The only two I will...