Select Members of Group 14

Select all the channels that belong to Group 14. I often rail against the use of something 1-32 due to the lack of labels, or ways to distinguish Group 1 and Screenset 1, Bus 1.

Color coding groups might help, with only slight confusion if grouping channels of different colors…

I need to think about this in the workflow…

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:

  Show/Hide VCA

Shows or hides the VCA section on the channel strips. When a channel is assigned to a VCA it will appear in the VCA _slot_ (I don’t have a better term for it).

The VCA _slot_ is a pop-up control that will let you assign a channel to a VCA, create a new VCA, or remove the VCA assignment.

I would normally use a Folder Stack to create a VCA for several **tracks**, but that limits the ability to place those tracks into Summing Stacks.

I would use a VCA to control volume (after processing) and muting. Given the particular problems of stacks it would probably be easier to put the channels in a group and limit what actions the group does.

It really depends on what will be done with the channels.

Use VCA groups in the Logic Pro Mixer — Apple Support

Hardware mixing desks sometimes contain separate channels designed specifically to enable the engineer to submix—in other words, to route and control the signal flow of multiple channels at once using a single channel strip. Analog mixing desks often utilize Voltage Controlled Amplifiers (VCAs) in their circuitry for these submix channels, hence the name “VCA groups” for this kind of channel strip. You can use VCA channel strips to control the volume, or automate a submix, of tracks that are assigned to the VCA group.

  Paste Channel Strip Setting Plug-Ins Only

This seems to be a far more friendly version of the ‘Paste Channel Strip Settings’ commands. I usually _don’t_ want to change the output of the channel, groups, etc., just the plugins, please.

Work with channel strip settings in Logic Pro — Apple Support

Channel strip settings (CST files) are specific to each channel strip type. Instrument channel strips feature a number of instrument settings, separated into instrument, GarageBand, and Jam Pack categories. Audio channel strips offer effect routings optimized for particular instrument, vocal, and other processing tasks. Similarly, output and auxiliary channel strips provide channel strip settings for particular mastering or sweetening processes. For more information on using effects plug-ins, see Overview of plug-ins in Logic Pro.

Command    Key Touch Bar


- Global Commands


Copy Channel Strip Setting ⌥⌘C


Paste Channel Strip Setting ⌥⌘V


Paste Channel Strip Setting Plug-Ins Only


Paste Channel Strip Setting Sends Only


Reset Channel Strip Setting


Save Channel Strip Setting as…


Delete Channel Strip Setting

  Show/Hide Track Color

Channel strips (in the mixer) can display the associated track color. This command (located in the View menu of the mixer windows ‘View>Channel Strip Components>Track Color’. The setting of track color on channel strips does not effect the display in the tracks windows.

In cases where there are multiple tracks assigned to the same channel the display of color is still determined by the track color — all tracks assigned to a channel take on the same color. That’s a good thing.

It would be wonderful if the color of a channel could be sent to “enhanced” control surfaces to color “scribble strips”.