The Ultimate Guide to Logic Pro X Instrument Plugins & VSTs (Udemy.com)
Understand & master all of LPX instrument plugins and build any sound you want into your music production & sound design
Created by: Jack Vaughan
Last updated September 2020
What you will learn
- Understand and use every single button, dial and fader in every single Logic Pro X instrument.
- Understand the core concepts of synthesis.
- Edit and understand any patch that you open up in a Logic Pro X VST.
- How to create your own sampled instruments. Build your own drum kit from scratch.
- Build your own extensive patches within logic with ease and know immediately how to emulate the sounds you hear in commercial music.
- Master modulation, the key to dynamic and musical sounds that sit well in your mix.
- Create endless variations and super interesting drum grooves.
- Resample Sounds Copyright Free (make sure you get legal advice first!)
- Understand advanced synthesis methods like: granular synthesis, additive synthesis, granular synthesis, spectral synthesis and formant.
How it compares
Against the other 241 rated Udemy courses in Music Production on CourseDuck:
- Rating4.6 out of 5higher than 60% of them
- Reviews390#90 of 242 by number of reviews
- Length12.6 hourslonger than 91% of them
- Last updatedSeptember 2020earlier than 72% of them
Course Description
Master Every Logic Instrument - and Create Limitless Awesome Sounds.
In this course you will understand and master all of Logic Pro X’s virtual instrument plugins, synthesizers and VSTs. Starting from beginner level, you’ll learn the deep principles of synthesis and enhance your music by learning how to emulate the instrument, synth and drum sounds of your favorite artists, producers and sound effects designers - as well as a wealth of other music production skills.
Each of the many free instruments included in Logic is like it’s own piece of software. Some of these are small like the ESE, ESM and ESP - but others, like Alchemy Synthesiser & Sampler or Sculpture Modelling Synth provide so many parameters they can be overwhelming could have their own entire courses. Many people don’t even scratch the surface of what these instruments do and buy new ones without realising how powerful they are for composition and Sound Effects Design SFX for games and film
The Entire Logic Instruments Manual - In One Step-by-Step Video Course.
Many courses on Logic Pro go through the production, editing and mixing side of the program, but do not explain the instruments in depth. Understanding the concepts behind how these instruments work, let alone learning the interface can take months and it’s easy for even conscientious people to give up.
I’ve read the manual for you - literally. I’ve read every page of that that thing and condensed and rephrased that complex bible into a practical course that guides you through each instrument - backed with the concepts you need to understand each one and make it yours.
You could take this course and go through the whole thing, or use this as your production instrument encyclopedia - referring to it at will whenever you forget what a dial or knob does.
Which Logic Instruments Does the Course Cover?
Starting with a complete introduction to Synthesis mini-course, this course builds through the most simple instruments sequentially, right up to the most complex - covering everything you need to know about the following Logic Pro X instruments:
- ESM
- ESE
- ESP
- ES1
- EFM
- Retro Synth
- ES2
- ESX24 Sampler
- EVOC PS Vocoder
- Complete Alchemy Synthesiser Course
- Sculpture
- Vintage Clav
- Vintage Electric Piano
- Vintage B3 Hammond Organ
- Logic Pro Drummer
- Drum Kit Designer
- Drum Machine Designer
- Ultrabeat Complete Course
In addition, I cover core concepts behind using these virtual instruments that allow you to use them exceedingly well. Concepts and guides to the controls of things like:
- Envelopes, Filters and Modulation
- Filters, Sends and EffectsPreparing your own samples and building your own sampled instrument
- Sequencers, Arpeggiators and Vector EnvelopesXY Pads, Midi Controllers (CCs and Via modulations
- Morphing, Macros and Global ControlsModelled instruments,
- Principles behind and getting the best out of the Logic DrummerPrinciples of Library Management and organising your library as a composer/producer
- Frequency Modulation (FM) Synthesis, Sync Synthesis and Virtual Analog DigitalGranular Synthesis, Spectral Synthesis and Formant
And more..
An entire course on Alchemy - The Ultimate Synthesizer and Sampler Instrument.
Alchemy (originally by Camel Audio) is one of the most complex and powerful synthesisers inside of Logic. It’s parameters could warrant an entire course in itself.
The course takes you through the entire interface and every dial and knob (barring the extended spectral synthesis parameters) - allowing you to turn Alchemy into an extremely powerful workhorse.
Sound Design and Effects Creation for Games & Film
The Logic Instruments course is also particularly useful for game composers and sound designers. Mastering all the interesting and detailed parameters in these sound effect creation VSTs can give you an endless sound palette to build wonderful and weird effects for your game design projects.
Instructor Details
- 4.6 Rating
390 Reviews
Jack Vaughan
For as long as I can remember, I've been obsessed with deconstructing, creating and learning music more effectively.
I'm a composer by trade primarily and love producing mine and others work with computers. I love tech and use it all the time. As an artist, I think mastering your tools and strategies is a key to creative freedom and that's what I teach online.
My name is Jack, and I'm a composer, producer and educator. I live in the UK. I love music, I love the internet and I love teaching as I learn. Please get in touch if you want, i'm super friendly. :)
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Reviews
By Jamie Graham Scammells on 4/25/2025
You need to see the detail on Logic screens but it is too small to see easily. Also, it is good to try the plugins etc with a computer, so this is better on a laptop or bigger.
By Yiğit Çengil on 8/25/2024
This course is exactly what I was looking for! Clear and concise. For those who think that this course is paced too fast I'd like to remind you that you can slow the video down or stop at points where it feels that way. The instructor's approach is much better than hearing someone rambling the same things all over again. The only reason why I'm giving this a 4,5/5 instead of a 5/5 is that the course is slightly outdated with the introduction of a new sampler in a recent version of Logic. However, that is not a major issue at all. As this course is structured for people that didn't have much information about synthesis (like myself), the instructor teaches us all the principles that would make learning this new sampler with ease.
By Sergio Diaz on 8/8/2023
This course is so informative and well done. I love it! My only suggestion is that I would really like if you went in depth on how to actually design sound, more on your process. I know you go over it at the end, but it's pretty brief. It would be helpful if you did several examples of how to produce certain sounds, and even how to identify sounds in songs and reproduce them in Alchemy. I guess maybe this is outside the scope of this course and maybe should be an entirely different course. I think it would be very valuable though! Regardless, great course.
By Himanya Behl on 8/18/2022
Jack is such a good teacher, he's kept things meticulous and to the point without it being overwhelming for the learner. I wish him good luck for his work. This course is for anybody who wants to truly master LogicX and get a deeper understanding of things you need to get a handle on in your journey as a Music Producer. Thank you!
By Mark Gallant on 12/14/2021
sometimes a little dry, but really so is the subject. I'm still looking for learning to build SFX from synth tools (fog horn, steam engine - steam whistle, crash)
By Neil Gilmartin on 3/27/2021
This course is proving to be invaluable in getting to grips with Logic's software instruments. It is taking the fear factor out of the synthesizer interface. It's great that the course also includes practice in building sounds because this experimentation helps to bridge the gap between abstract knowledge-about and practical how-to.
By Mark van Oosten on 11/19/2020
Mark in Toronto Your course on Logic so far is absolutely professional, thorough, user friendly & engaging. I am only 3 chapters in & I can't wait to dive into the Synths & learn exactly how they all work. Jake is patient but direct & concise in illustrating his thoughts; so well to the point where he makes seemingly abstract concepts extremely easy to understand & apply. This coming from a classically trained musician who is really not that tech savvy but wants and is trying to be ;) Cheers Mate!
By Casey Dunn on 12/21/2019
This class was well structured; wide introductions were followed by a proper and useful level of detail.
By Carol Hensal on 2/20/2019
I wasn't paying attention when I purchased this course and thought I was going to learn about Logic Pro X as a whole. However, this course was still very helpful. I am already familiar with the synth creation so I jumped through some of it a bit. Having said that, I had a lot of "ah-ha!" moments. Jack Vaughan is a very good speaker and explains things clearly. I will be reviewing his other courses to see what I might find.
By Nicholas Natteau on 5/20/2018
Jack Vaughn is a fantastic instructor. This is my favorite Logic Pro X course yet. Vaughn covers everything you could possibly wish to know about LPX's midi instruments. I've been searching everywhere online for a course that would cover nearly every single one of Logic Pro X's many midi instruments, and Jack Vaughn made that course. I can't recommend it highly enough, worth every penny. Thank you Jack, :)
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