Category: Logic Pro X

Show/Hide Score Editor N — Logic Pro X keyboard command of the day

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  Show/Hide Score Editor    N

Toggles the Score Editor window. I think I would be more likely to leave the Score Editor open in a screenset and just swap those. I don’t do a lot with scoring at this time.

The toggle opens and closes the score editor at the bottom of the arrange window. Having that open with a single track makes some sense. If the score editor is the only window open toggle will create a full screen score editor. Odd.

Logic is one of the programs on the Mac that doesn’t “play nice” with window management.

Notation overview — Logic Pro X

You can view MIDI regions in software instrument (and external MIDI instrument) tracks as music notation in the Score Editor. Notes and other musical events are displayed as standard notation, along with common symbols such as time and key signature, bar lines, and clef signs. You can add and edit notes, add sustain pedal markings and other symbols, and print the score.

⇧ SHIFT – ⌃ CONTROL – ⌥ OPTION – ⌘ COMMAND

Toggle Track Solo — Logic Pro X keyboard command of the day

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  Toggle Track Solo

Toggles the Solo state of the selected track(s) on and off.

Solo tracks — Logic Pro X

You can solo a track, silencing all tracks that are not also soloed. Soloing tracks is useful when you want to work on a track individually, or work on a few tracks, without hearing the other tracks in the project.

⇧ SHIFT – ⌃ CONTROL – ⌥ OPTION – ⌘ COMMAND

Snap Automation Mode: 1/16 Triplet (1/24) — Logic Pro X keyboard command of the day

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  Snap Automation Mode: 1/16 Triplet (1/24)

Automating performance characteristics is something I wanted in 1990. Seeing a 1/16th triplet describe as a 1/24th note is intriguing, but only because it makes sense when trying to regularize time for performance. What would 1/24th note look like?

Snap automation to grid positions — Logic Pro X

You can snap track automation to grid positions. You can choose if you want automation to automatically use the division value chosen in the Snap menu, or you can choose a different snap value for automation.

⇧ SHIFT – ⌃ CONTROL – ⌥ OPTION – ⌘ COMMAND

1/128 Note 8 — Logic Pro X keyboard command of the day

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  1/128 Note    8

Set the default note duration to a 1/128th note. Kind of overkill? I’ve seen and played 1/64th notes but 1/128?It isn’t even shown on the keyboard 😉

Use step input recording techniques — Logic Pro X

Step input allows you to insert MIDI notes when you’re not recording in real time. You can use step input to create note runs that may be too fast for you to play or to replicate sheet music that’s too difficult for you to play.

⇧ SHIFT – ⌃ CONTROL – ⌥ OPTION – ⌘ COMMAND

Extend Track Selection Down ⇧↓ — Logic Pro X keyboard command of the day

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  Extend Track Selection Down    ⇧↓

Add the next track (below the currently selected one) to the selection. I normally do this by selecting a track, holding down the shift key, and clicking on the next track(s) to be added to the selection.

Full control of the application from the keyboard makes a lot of sense for a “hands on” scenario. On laptops with trackpads it might make less sense — the trackpad becomes a very big surface for manipulation.

I have worked with extended keyboards for many decades. I am used to the keypad. I should try using the smaller keyboard.

⇧ SHIFT – ⌃ CONTROL – ⌥ OPTION – ⌘ COMMAND