Category: Logic Pro

Clear Lane Set — Logic Pro keyboard command of the day

  Clear Lane Set

Clears the current Lane Set.

Use Lane Sets in the Step Editor in Logic Pro — Apple Support

The Lane Set functions let you limit the Step Editor display to only the required MIDI event types. For example, imagine you have recorded a synthesizer lead MIDI region. You could create a Lane Set that contains individual lanes for each note pitch in the region. Drag each note event step vertically to adjust its level. Within the same Lane Set, you could create two more lanes to control the lead synthesizer’s filter cutoff and resonance parameters, allowing you to create or precisely edit filter changes.

Fix Displayed Note Positions and Durations — Logic Pro keyboard command of the day

  Fix Displayed Note Positions and Durations

When MIDI regions are quantized it can have an effect on the notes as displayed in a score. The notes will be played according to the quantized rhythm, with the displayed notes representing things differently.

Swing (jazz performance style) — Wikipedia

In music, the term swing has two main uses. Colloquially, it is used to describe the propulsive quality or “feel” of a rhythm, especially when the music prompts a visceral response such as foot-tapping or head-nodding (see pulse). This sense can also be called “groove”.

Bret Pimentel explains things like this

Jazz swing notation — Bret Pimentel, woodwinds

Sometimes a well-meaning composer or arranger will try to approximate a jazz swing style notationally in this way:

Logic Pro Quantize region parameter — Apple Support

You can fix the display quantization of all MIDI events in the projects using the Score Editor’s Functions > Quantization > Fix displayed Note Positions and Fix displayed Note Positions and Durations commands. These commands may be useful for exporting projects (complete with display Quantize settings) to other notation programs that don’t feature display quantization. The commands are also available from the shortcut menu when you Control-click notes in the score.

Increment Current Edit Mode Values for Row — Logic Pro keyboard command of the day

  Increment Current Edit Mode Values for Row

Increases the value for every step in the row. You need to select the proper edit value for the row. Logic will complain if you try to increment something like ‘Chance’ or ‘Steps On/Off’.

Use Step Sequencer edit modes in Logic Pro — Apple Support

You can control different aspects of the event triggered by a step using edit modes. You can choose the edit mode for a pattern, and view multiple edit modes for each row using subrows. Some edit modes are common to both note rows and automation rows, while others are specific to one row type.

Command    Key Touch Bar


- Step Sequencer


Set Global Edit Mode to Steps On/Off ⌃⌥S


Set Global Edit Mode to Velocity/Value ⌃⌥V


Set Global Edit Mode to Gate ⌃⌥G


Set Global Edit Mode to Tie ⌃⌥T


Set Global Edit Mode to Note ⌃⌥N


Set Global Edit Mode to Octave ⌃⌥O


Set Global Edit Mode to Loop Start/End ⌃⌥L


Set Global Edit Mode to Note Repeat ⌃⌥R


Set Global Edit Mode to Chance ⌃⌥C


Set Global Edit Mode to Start Offset ⌃⌥F


Set Global Edit Mode to Step Rate ⌃⌥A


Set Global Edit Mode to Skip ⌃⌥K

Create Backup ⌃B — Logic Pro keyboard command of the day

  Create Backup ⌃B

Create a backup copy of the current audio file. The Audio File Editor performs destructive edits which cannot be “undone”. Reverting to the backup copy is the only way to undo the edits.

The Project Audio Browser has a command — Backup File(s) — which uses the same keyboard mapping. Files backed up have the same ‘.dup’ extension as they do when backed up in the Audio File Editor.

Backup audio files in the Audio File Editor in Logic Pro — Apple Support

In Logic Pro, choose Audio File > Create Backup from the Audio File Editor menu bar (or press Control-B).
A copy of the audio file (with the extension .dup) is created in the same folder as the source file.

The Project Audio Browser in Logic Pro — Apple Support

The Project Audio Browser shows all audio files and regions that have been added to or recorded in your project, whether or not they are used in the Tracks area. Regions shown in the Project Audio Browser that are not used in the Tracks area are indicated in red.