Tag: regions

Drag Mode: Overlap — Logic Pro X keyboard command of the day

  Drag Mode: Overlap

In the popup help that is displayed when hovering the mouse pointer over this command this text is shown:

Also available as a menu item in a menu which can be opened in the Control Header

Finally. A useful name for the “Tracks area menu bar”. The Control Header is in no way a menu bar, and I always go looking for things in THE menu bar.

Sets the Drag Mode to “Overlap”.

Preserves the current region borders when you drag one region over another.

Very useful setting if working on someone else’s project. Accidental changing of regions isn’f a good thing.

Use drag modes in Logic Pro — Apple Support

In Logic Pro, choose one of the following modes from the Drag pop-up menu in the Tracks area menu bar:

Set Optimal Region Sizes Rounded by Note Value — Logic Pro X keyboard command of the day

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

  Set Optimal Region Sizes Rounded by Note Value

The word “optimal” cannot be found in the Logic Pro X documentation except in the keyboard shortcut reference section. Literally no discussion of the command located — “Set Optimal Region Sizes Rounded by Bar”, and no mention at all of the command of the day.

Little to no reference found on the web.

Let’s check Logic Pro 9 help file…bingo

Our command used to be called “Set Optimal Region Sizes Rounded by Denominator” which only makes sense if you treat your music as if it had a time signature — what a relic.

There is an entire section of the “old” manual that doesn’t exist in Logic Pro X documentation. I have extracted that and saved a copy here…

Logic Pro 9 User Manual: Resizing Regions

The MIDI > Set Optimal Region Sizes Rounded by Bar command (or the corresponding key command, default assignment: Shift-Command-B) reduces or increases the length of a selected MIDI region, making it just large enough to contain the events (or regions, if a folder) within it. The region borders are rounded to the nearest bar.

⇧ SHIFT – ⌃ CONTROL – ⌥ OPTION – ⌘ COMMAND