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Apply Transform User Preset 28 to selected Events — Logic Pro X keyboard command of the day

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

  Apply Transform User Preset  28 to selected Events

The MIDI Transform window can be opened from the Window menu, or by entering ‘⌘9’. There are 30 ‘Apply Transform User Preset … to selected Events’.

Use transform sets — Logic Pro X:

1. Choose Create New Transform Set from the Presets pop-up menu.

2. Set conditions and operations.

3. Select the “Hide unused parameters” checkbox. This helps to avoid changes to conditions and operations that aren’t required for (or may disturb) your transform set.

4. Choose New Parameter Set (Number) from the Presets pop-up menu. Enter a new name for your transform set.

This transform set now appears at the bottom of the Presets list in all MIDI Transform windows for this project. You should consider saving your user transform sets in one or more template projects. This way, they are always available to you in all future projects.

Tip: Renaming an existing transform set creates a new transform set that is identical to the original. The existing (source) transform set is retained.

⇧ SHIFT – ⌃ CONTROL – ⌥ OPTION – ⌘ COMMAND

Region Automation: Note Velocity — Logic Pro X keyboard command of the day

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

  Region Automation: Note Velocity

Almost everything can be automated in Logic. Automation is an interesting programming language.

To show automation use the ‘Show Automation — A’ command. Initially Track automation will be displayed. Click on the ‘Track’ button in the track header to switch to Region automation. Click and hold the track/region button to select the automation that you want displayed.

I don’t expect to automate Note Velocity very often, but those Control Change lanes could be interesting.

Show automation curves — Logic Pro X:

Before you can add automation points to a track’s automation curves, you need to show the automation curves. Automation curves are displayed as colored curves and points on top of audio and MIDI regions across the track, running the length of the project. You can choose whether to view and edit automation across the track (track-based automation) or only within the track’s regions (region-based automation).

⇧ SHIFT – ⌃ CONTROL – ⌥ OPTION – ⌘ COMMAND

Command    Key Touch Bar


- Views showing Time Ruler


Automation: Toggle Track/Region


Region Automation: Volume


Region Automation: Panorama


Region Automation: Balance


Region Automation: Modulation


Region Automation: Breath


Region Automation: Foot Control


Region Automation: Portamento Time


Region Automation: Expression


Region Automation: Sustain Pedal


Region Automation: Control Change 20


Region Automation: Control Change 21


Region Automation: Control Change 22


Region Automation: Control Change 23


Region Automation: Control Change 24


Region Automation: Control Change 25


Region Automation: Control Change 26


Region Automation: Control Change 27


Region Automation: Control Change 28


Region Automation: Control Change 29


Region Automation: Control Change 30


Region Automation: Control Change 31


Region Automation: Control Change 32


Region Automation: Surround Angle


Region Automation: Surround Diversity


Region Automation: Surround LFE


Region Automation: Channel Pressure


Region Automation: Pitch Bend


Region Automation: Program Change


Region Automation: Note Velocity ⌃⌥⇧⌘⌦

Logic Pro | F is For Flex and Feel

Logic Pro | F is For Flex and Feel:

Finding the right feel for our music is an incredibly important part of getting it to sound right. Fortunately, Logic has a lot of tools to help us control, correct, and capture the feel of our performances. Among the tools in our toolbox are Fex Time, and the ability to make custom groove templates.

Historical Preservation — New Learning Opportunity

I am deep in “historical preservation” mode.

I use Logic. Started with version 10 — I missed a lot of stuff

many amazing things hiding under the covers, but nowhere to be found. No books, no classes, unspoken.

My current path is to visit all of the Sound on Sound magazine Logic articles for version 10 (about 2013 onward). Part of what I hope to discover is how things changed from 9 to 10 (besides the amazing price drop). Once more familiar with what was, go back and peruse Logic 9 techniques, see what’s relevant. Then 8, then 7. Any further back is meh.

I am almost able to tie the Logic/Notator world to the Opcode Vision world in terms of what is actually happening, and what might be possible.

I think the key for me is to think of all of the automation stuff as simply a very capable sequencer that can effect change on audio and MIDI sources over time. That simple. That reproducible.

and to remember that just about everything that Logic can possibly do can be automated. Everything. Instruments, plugins, modify MIDI input, bend MIDI output

to me mixing is like creating a control program to work with “fixed” sources, be they audio files or MIDI sequences.

Mostly the control is a matter of small adjustment made once, un-changing over time. When I grok the change-over-time function then my programmer kicks in. I know how to do that stuff…10,000 hours 8 times over

just need to learn some language specifics

Region Automation: Control Change 20 — Logic Pro X keyboard command of the day

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

  Region Automation: Control Change 20

Select CC20 for Region Automation. There a *lots* of things that can be automated. When you “Display Automation” for a track (happens if you use this command) you can see the enormous set of parameters that can be manipulated. You can even automate a change of MIDI channel!

Automation is the “program” that is applied to the tracks in the project. The sounds that are made come from the MIDI instruments or audio files that “sound” at a point in time. What happens to the sound is modified by plugins. All of the things that can occur over time — changes to plugins, volume, pan, all of it — the automation — is the program that gets written to create the finished product.

It appears that almost every single bit of what Logic can do is available as an “automation” parameter. We program the environment through automation, and allow real-time control to be applied — and recorded!

From the past — “MIDI Draw” — need to check old manuals to learn more about this. This leads me back to the days of Opcode Vision and the entire MIDI orchestra world.

Use the Automation/MIDI area in the Piano Roll Editor — Logic Pro X:

When track-based automation is displayed in the Automation/MIDI area, the displayed automation curve is identical to the automation curve displayed in the automation lane in the Tracks area. Any adjustments to the automation curve made in either location is reflected immediately in the other. However, with region-based automation, you can choose to display either the automation curve associated with the region in the Tracks area automation lane or the MIDI data associated with individual notes. Therefore, with region-based automation it is possible to have the automation lane in the Tracks area showing the automation curve associated with the region and the Automation/MIDI area displaying MIDI data associated with each note (or vice versa).

⇧ SHIFT – ⌃ CONTROL – ⌥ OPTION – ⌘ COMMAND

- Views showing Time Ruler


Automation: Toggle Track/Region


Automation: Cycle Through Used Parameters ⌘Y


Automation: Display Off ⇧⌘Y


Region Automation: Volume


Region Automation: Panorama


Region Automation: Balance


Region Automation: Modulation


Region Automation: Breath


Region Automation: Foot Control


Region Automation: Portamento Time


Region Automation: Expression


Region Automation: Sustain Pedal


Region Automation: Control Change 20 ⌃⌥⇧⌘⌦


Region Automation: Control Change 21


Region Automation: Control Change 22


Region Automation: Control Change 23


Region Automation: Control Change 24


Region Automation: Control Change 25


Region Automation: Control Change 26


Region Automation: Control Change 27


Region Automation: Control Change 28


Region Automation: Control Change 29


Region Automation: Control Change 30


Region Automation: Control Change 31


Region Automation: Control Change 32


Region Automation: Surround Angle


Region Automation: Surround Diversity


Region Automation: Surround LFE


Region Automation: Channel Pressure


Region Automation: Pitch Bend


Region Automation: Program Change


Region Automation: Note Velocity