Select Previous Region/Cell/Event or Move Marquee End (or Marquee Point) to Previous Transient ← — Logic Pro keyboard command of the day

  Select Previous Region/Cell/Event or Move Marquee End (or Marquee Point) to Previous Transient    ←

The classic left arrow. Select the previous “thing”. This is one of the highly overloaded key command — five more commands that take higher priority depending on context.

I wonder why they simply didn’t define it as multiple commands — the Marquee descriptions can be confusing.

Select regions in the Logic Pro Tracks area — Apple Support

To perform some edits on regions, you must first select the regions. You can select one or multiple regions, select regions on different tracks, and quickly select muted regions, overlapped regions, or regions meeting other criteria. Selected regions appear brighter in the Tracks area than unselected regions.

Select parts of regions in the Logic Pro Tracks area — Apple Support

Marquee tool: Use to select and edit region parts by dragging across them. The Marquee tool looks like a crosshair.

Previous Part Box Symbol — Logic Pro keyboard command of the day

  Previous Part Box Symbol

Selects the previous (to the left) symbol in the Part Box. Simple way to switch symbols without having to drag the mouse to the box and click.

Logic Pro part box overview — Apple Support

When Show Advanced Tools is selected in the Advanced preferences pane, you can add notes and other symbols from the Part box in the inspector. The Part box contains a complete collection of score symbols, arranged in groups. You can control which symbols are displayed in the Part box, reorder symbol groups, and open the Part box as a separate, floating window.

Toggle Guide Line Display — Logic Pro keyboard command of the day

  Toggle Guide Line Display

Turn the Score Editor guide lines on and off. I have observed the change of settings in the View menu of the Score Editor. Changes between ‘All Objects’ and ‘Selected Objects’.

Display guide lines in the Logic Pro Score Editor — Apple Support

Note: You can also use the Toggle Guide Lines Display key command, which toggles between All Objects and the last selected display mode.

I do not see any “lines” when the setting is on. What I see is the little box that contains information like position, velocity, and sundry.

Display guide lines in the Logic Pro Score Editor — Apple Support

You can show an object’s exact time position by displaying guide lines in the Score Editor. Guide lines show exactly the relation of symbols, staves, and time positions).

Toggle Hide Group 7 ⌃⇧7 — Logic Pro keyboard command of the day

  Toggle Hide Group 7    ⌃⇧7

Toggle the visibility of channels in group 7. Toggle — Show/Hide — Open/Close

Helps make use of limited display space and limited concentration.

In the early days of Logic a really big display was 1152 pixels wide in a 19 inch monitor. Current Mac displays have double the pixels (plus some). Small focal areas aren’t forced on us.

The only place where you can see which channels are in a group is in the Mixer displays. It might be nice to have that display in the tracks window, but could be problematic.

Groups inspector in Logic Pro — Apple Support

You use the Groups inspector to define the behavior of each Mixer group. The Groups inspector appears in the Track inspector when one or more groups have been created, and it can be opened as a floating window as well. It contains the following settings: