

If you click on one and have a keyboard attached, pressing any key will then play a sound from that preset. The final screen then provides us with 94 preset’s that meet that condition. It sub divides the sounds into categories, sub-categories, genre and timbre. The browse view is exactly what you would expect it to be, a browser for all of Alchemy’s patches. There’s also a menu next to the view selector that allows you to search through the patches as an alternative, but the browser does a better job of this so I would stick to that main selection view. It’s something to keep in mind though if you can’t work out why your track keeps buffering.Īlchemy contains three views as part of its interface: Browse, Simple and Advanced. However, if you have a newish Mac, and it’s plugged in, I’ve always found it perfectly fine running on ‘ultra’ while I’m producing. This defaults to ‘ great’ because, as a software instrument, running with all of your other tracks, the processing can lead to lags with your overall track when producing. N.B The file size for this is ENORMOUS, so make sure you have atleast 15gb of space left on y our mac… Accessing the Sound Library managerĪlchemy also has a quality setting which ranges from draft to ultra. You will obviously need this in order to make the most out of Alchemy, although using your own samples with it is pretty great too, but we’ll get into that in another video. In order to make use of Alchemy, you first need to ensure that you have gone into the Logic Pro X tab in the top left and downloaded the additional content labelled ‘ Alchemy Sound Libraries’. However, remember music production is all about being creative, so make sure to experiment and try new things outside of this.Īlchemy comes with any Logic Pro X purchase of version 10.2 or over, so make sure you’ve updated to atleast this version.

By the end of these sessions, you should have what you need to use Alchemy as an integral part of your mixes. In this article I will go over the basics of using Alchemy, as part of a series called The Alchemy Sessions. As well as its’ ability to manipulate samples, it also contains multiple sound generating engines, including additive, spectral, formant, granular and virtual analog. In short, Alchemy is a synthesiser on Logic Pro X that comes with over 3000 sounds, and performance controls for each, enabling you to really home in on the sounds you want. Sample-manipulation synthesiser, and the most powerful instrument instrument in Logic Pro X.” But what does this mean exactly? Apple describes Alchemy as ‘ ’the ultimate
