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Move Region to Beat — Logic Pro X keyboard command of the day

Logic Pro X keyboard command of the day. #LogicProX @StudioIntern1

  Move Region to Beat

This appears to move the region boundary (left in my case) to a position that might line up with the beat of the first note/transient.

My observation of an audio file is that the region “shifts” to position the first transient on a beat. I have to do more reading about placing audio in “recorded” position. I have some recordings that say their “recorded time” is 13 hours from the start. Pretty interesting.

This may be the ticket for lining up multiple recorded tracks to have a consistent starting point, as well as aligning DI and amp recordings.

⇧ SHIFT – ⌃ CONTROL – ⌥ OPTION – ⌘ COMMAND

Sends on Faders — On/Off — Logic Pro X keyboard command of the day

Logic Pro X keyboard command of the day. #LogicProX @StudioIntern1

  Sends on Faders - On/Off

New in Logic 10.4 — use the faders to adjust send amounts. This is how I learned to use my digital mixer — XR18 — and was very happy not to have to use the little knobs. Very hard to turn tiny knobs with a mouse.

It is helpful to be able to see the balance/level of the sends on all the tracks at once.

My current disappointment is that while switching to “Sends on Faders” causes my X-Touch faders to move accordingly I cannot actually use the physical faders to change the value. If I move the physical fader it will return to the original value. If I change the fader in the Mixer the physical fader does move and remains at the new position.

I need to do a bit of research about sends on faders and control surfaces.

Logic Remote on the iPad is not at all in good shape — sends don’t work properly at all. Logic Remote on iPhone shows sends, and reflects send level, but behaves like the X-Touch.

Adjust panning for sends independently from channel strips — Logic Pro X:

Sometimes you may want to adjust the stereo pan that a send is routing to an aux separately from the panning of the channel strip. For example, you may want a stereo channel strip to send to a surround aux, or you may be using sends to create a headphone mix and want separate pan positions for the headphone mix as for the main mix. By choosing Independent Pan for a send, you can adjust the pan type and position settings for the send independently from the pan type and position for the channel strip.

⇧ SHIFT – ⌃ CONTROL – ⌥ OPTION – ⌘ COMMAND

Copy ⌘C — Logic Pro X keyboard command of the day

Logic Pro X keyboard command of the day. #LogicProX @StudioIntern1

  Copy    ⌘C

It’s a Macintosh application. Of course there is a Copy command (Paste, Cut, Open, and the skipper too).

One of the early things about Mac software was the consistency of commands across applications. We treat those commands as if they should be intuitive and meaningful to everyone. Of course they are not, and the do need to be explained and documented. Once we get beyond the _easy_ commands we venture into the world of area-specific language and activities.

There are at least 8 different variations of copying things in Logic. Helps to know what we are focussing on.

⇧ SHIFT – ⌃ CONTROL – ⌥ OPTION – ⌘ COMMAND

Command             Key              Touch Bar


- Global Commands


Copy Group Settings


Save A Copy As…


Copy Channel Strip Setting ⌥⌘C



- Various Windows


Copy ⌘C



- Main Window Tracks and Various Editors


Copy MIDI Events…



- Main Window Tracks


Make Alias but Copy Folder


Convert Alias to a Region Copy ⌃A


Copy Section Between Locators (Global)


Copy Selected Regions to Focused Track


Copy as ReCycle Loop



- Event Editor


Copy Value to All Following Events ⇧V



- Step Editor


Copy Lane ⌃C



- Project Audio


Copy/Convert File(s)… ⌃K



- Audio File Editor


Save A Copy As…

Open Audio Preferences… — Logic Pro X keyboard command of the day

Logic Pro X keyboard command of the day. #LogicProX @StudioIntern1

  Open Audio Preferences…

An easy one today — Open Audio Preferences. Opens the Audio tab in the Preferences. Lots of things here, but they are generally set it and forget it. Typical things that are looked at are I/O Buffer Size and Multithreading (Playback Tracks).

⇧ SHIFT – ⌃ CONTROL – ⌥ OPTION – ⌘ COMMAND

Open Audio Preferences… — Logic Pro X keyboard command of the day

Logic Pro X keyboard command of the day. #LogicProX @StudioIntern1

  Open Audio Preferences…

⇧ SHIFT – ⌃ CONTROL – ⌥ OPTION – ⌘ COMMAND