Category: Logic Pro

Select Lowest Notes ⇧↓ — Logic Pro keyboard command of the day

  Select Lowest Notes    ⇧↓

Select the lowest notes in each chord. From here the notes can be assigned to a different MIDI channel, instrument, etc.

Split chords in the Piano Roll Editor — Logic Pro X

Choose Edit > Select > Lowest Notes to select the lowest notes in the chords.

Split chords in the Piano Roll Editor in Logic Pro — Apple Support

These commands can be used with regions containing chords to separate the top note of each chord (often the melody), or to separate the bottom note of each chord for a bass line. Once selected, the notes can be cut or copied, and pasted into a region on a different track.

Note: Highest Notes and Lowest Notes only select the notes. They can be used in conjunction with other editing commands, such as Cut, to move a voice into another MIDI region.

Set Global Edit Mode to Velocity/Value ⌃⌥V — Logic Pro keyboard command of the day

  Set Global Edit Mode to Velocity/Value ⌃⌥V

The Global Edit Mode is the mode that is indicated in a collapsed Step Sequencer row. Each of the parameters is available as a subrow, but the Global Edit Mode puts the parameters in easy reach.

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

Hide Subrows for All Rows ⌃⇧⌘← — Logic Pro keyboard command of the day

  Hide Subrows for All Rows    ⌃⇧⌘←

Hides subrows. Subrows can be shown by clicking the disclosure triangle at the left edge of the display. If you option-click on the disclosure triangle all subrows are shown or hidden, depending on the state of the display.

The click/option-click on disclosure triangles works in almost every place where they occur.

There can be a subrow for each of the parameters available for the step — Note, Velocity, Gate, etc.

Customize the Step Sequencer interface in Logic Pro — Apple Support

You can customize several aspects of Step Sequencer to suit the pattern you are working on and the task you want to accomplish. You can zoom in and out to work in greater detail or view a larger part of the step grid, show or hide step values, color rows and steps, and reorder rows and subrows. You can also save the current pattern configuration as the default template for the channel strip, and revert to the original default template for the channel strip.

Set Pattern Playback Mode to Ping Pong ⌃⌥P — Logic Pro keyboard command of the day

  Set Pattern Playback Mode to Ping Pong    ⌃⌥P

The human interface to a step sequencer can be daunting. The days of patch-cords are gone, as are toggle switches. Programming the sequencers, and performing with them, is an entirely new world.

Launchpad anyone?

Modify Step Sequencer pattern playback in Logic Pro — Apple Support

Ping-Pong: Playback alternates between left to right and right to left.

Logic Pro Step Sequencer overview — Apple Support

Step Sequencer is inspired by classic hardware step sequencers that have rows of configurable switches or knobs used to generate repeating musical patterns. In Step Sequencer, you create patterns by editing multifunctional steps in the step grid. Each row controls either a sound (which can be a drum kit piece, a note on an instrument, or a range of notes) or an automation parameter (letting you create automation changes over time in the pattern). Each step represents a definable length of musical time–by default, steps are of equal length, but you can change the length for individual rows or steps. You can adjust a wide range of parameters for individual steps, including velocity, pitch, gate time, and more; and edit pattern and row settings including pattern length, row loop start and end points, playback position, and rotation.

Show Audio File Details — Logic Pro keyboard command of the day

  Show Audio File Details

In the Project Audio Browser. This command will expand all of the audio files listed to show the regions.

Logic Pro Project Audio Browser interface — Apple Support

The Project Audio Browser shows the audio files used in the project, and displays an overview of the regions derived from each audio file. You can add, edit, delete, and rename audio files and regions in the Project Audio Browser.