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I'm Dan Ackerman and we are here taking a look at Apple's new Logic Pro 10 music recording software this is such a big complicated package there's so much to it we can't really go over everything in one video so instead I'm going to show you how to use one of the cool highlights here which is using your iPad as a remote control surface for Logic Pro 10 there's a special app that you get for free on your iPad once you spend $200 on Logic Pro 10 and once you connect those two on the same Wi-Fi network then it's actually pretty seamless the most important thing you can do is control your mixing board you can bring up an onscreen mixing board right here with all your faders on it but at the same time you can get 8 faders at a time here on your iPad and the real advantage here is you can actually use multi-touch on the iPad to control multiple faders at once so I can grab two or three of them and just go up and down and you'll see that they move at the same time right here on the on the iMac screen if I was just doing this on the computer I'd have to take my mouse and the pointer and just move every feeder one at a time not nearly as efficient the other cool thing is you can take pretty much any instrument or track that you've got here in logic and you'll get a contextual screen here on the iPad so if I select this this bass track I have right here I get a I get a fretboard here on the iPad that I can play directly from the iPad I didn't call up an electric piano and I get a keyboard on-screen and I get the controls for that particular instrument and I can play around a little bit like this we just threw four bars together using a bunch of different keyboards and a bass and some drums just to show what you could do very quickly here in Logic Pro 10 I've got a little loop playing I like in solo tracks directly from the iPad I can add stuff make it louder or quieter so for Logic Pro 10 the iPad integration is really deep I did have to set my iPad to make sure the screen didn't turn itself off after a few minutes otherwise I kept having to turn it on and sometimes having to remake the connection between the computer and the iPad but once I got that out of the way I found myself using the iPad a lot more for control and the actual iOS screen a lot less I'm Dan Ackerman and that is a quick how-to for apples Logic Pro 10