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Now, let's take a look at some of the options for searching and sorting
through these loops. We will start at the top of the View menu.
The default is to Show All, but you can actually sift through the sound track
loops or anyone of these Jam Packs that you installed when you installed Logic.
The next menu gives you a choice of time signatures. If you know that the loop you want is in 4/4,
that's the default, just leave this there. If you know that the loop that you want needs
to be in 5, or 7, or maybe it's 3/4 time like a waltz or maybe you just want
any loop and not refine the search to 4/4, this is where you pick the time signature
of the loops you are browsing. As far as descriptions there are a couple
of choices here. The default is this nice grid where you can
look at All Drums and then refine your search by Electronic Drums and then refine
your search by Beats and then refine your search by Intense and each time
the number of items gets smaller. Now, let's look at Distorted.
Now we are down to 43 and we have some choices in here too. Let's look at
Distorted and Processed. Now, we are down to 39.
So, clicking on these adjectives refines your search.
If you want to back out through your search, just reset all the parameters and
now you are back to the entire Library. I like searching this way, but there is another
option for searching. If you click on this sort of Explorer type
layout, now you can Search All and refine your search to let's say Bagpipes,
and then Bagpipes, and you have 12 choices of bagpipes to pick from.
Banjos, Banjos, 167 different kinds of banjos. When you want to audition them...
(Music plays.) Let's take a look at some of these guitars.
(Music plays.) There are a couple of more things to show
you about this Search window. Up here is a way that you can sort by scale.
Let's go back to the grid for our search, let's do Guitars, and Processed, and I
have 539 Processed Guitars here. If I restrict the search to things that are
in minor keys, I knocked down about well maybe half of those.
If I go to major keys, I get probably the other half of that search.
But then there are some that are neither major nor minor and some that are good for both.
So, that's a really cool way to sift through the sounds. If you know that the
song you are writing is in a major key then search for majors and eliminate all the minors.
It's one more thing about this window I want to show you.
Over here there is a double arrow that tells you that there are more adjectives
and when you click on that a list pops up and shows you that there are more
choices to make. Or if you want to see those choices, you can slide this down and
get everything that's available to you. That's true in either layout that you choose.
Now, you notice that some of these are grayed out.
For instance, let's switch to Music and let's switch to 5/4 and a lot of the
choices go away, get grayed out. There are no jingles for instance or textures
that are in 5/4 and Good for Both. So, let's go 5/4 and Any, and now some choices
become available. So, those are some options for searching and
sorting this massive loop library that you installed when you installed Logic.
Now, there are some options for auditioning the loops that are different for the
ones from searching and sorting and that's what we look at next.