What are your favorite Logic Pro tips?

[brozobob]

I love it when I learn something new that speeds up or makes productions more creative. What are some Logic Pro tips or tricks that you can share that would be helpful to new or intermediate users?

[Kredo]

Not exactly what you where asking for... But very helpful for Logic.

- Plugsearch App
- Nektar CS12 Controller

[Winstontaneous]

- Work through David Nahmani's Logic Pro book.
- Learn as many key combos as you can
- Don't chuck the computer out the window when Logic gets frustrating, exit and open Ableton Live (I use them both about equally).

[SideChainKid]

Learning the key commands of the things you use most!

[legendCNCD]

Render at least twice, because it forgot to follow automation points, again...

[Flowstatemusic]

Youtube

[rares]

Groove tracks. It is basically a native logic way of doing what VocAlign does. Really speeds things up and doesn’t introduce many artifacts, especially if you don’t have external plugins.

[enroe]

I love it when I learn something new that speeds up or makes productions more creative. What are some Logic Pro tips or tricks that you can share that would be helpful to new or intermediate users?

The really great strengths of "Logic" are actually two points:

1. The "Environment" can perfectly model the entire external
hardware environment. If you take the time to do this precisely,
using the correct naming conventions, you'll be much faster
when working in the studio.

2. The "Logic Folders" are true folders, not just track folders,
but small, self-contained arrangement areas within a folder.
These can be copied as "aliases" at will. This allows even
complex songs to be modularized and rearranged. There are
no limits to experimentation.

[XorXisT]

In Ableton Live, whenever I'm working on a synth, I've used to close the synth gui, edit midi in piano roll, the reopen synth gui. Got sick of doing this and now I just drag synth gui to the side, edit midi clip, the drag it back.

In Logic, all you have to do is tap "v" key and voilà, synth gui is gone. Want it back? Tap "v" again and voilà, synth gui is back.

Like magic!



I've learned this about a month ago and can't get enough of it!

EDIT: I've just learned that you can do this in Live with Cmd+Option+P (Mac) / Ctrl+Alt+P (Win). Lovely!

[legendCNCD]

In Ableton Live, whenever I'm working on a synth, I've used to close the synth gui, edit midi in piano roll, the reopen synth gui. Ctrl+Alt+P. Lovely!

Yep, also I have 2 monitors, so the plugins live on the right side, ableton on left side

[wonshu]

Open the keycommands window click the little 3-dot menu on the top left, select "Copy Key Commands To Clipboard" open a text editor, paste - then print it out (be sure to do it in a paper saving way, like 2 pages per sheet... there are _a lot_ of key commands...)

Then put it in the bathroom and just browse through it.

This is absolutely NOT meant to memorize the keycommands. Not at all. This is purely to learn which functions are available and think about what those funcitons mean and how you can use them to optimize your own workflow and what Logic can do to speed things up for you.

[N 4 LIFE]

some of you probably already know this one: instead of clicking in the library section to access sound packs, go to the loop browser instead and select sound packs from there. all of the apple loops for whatever sound pack you select will show up filtered and ready to audition.

[simon.a.billington]

Key commands and setting up the Marquee as the secondary tool, which really has multiple functions. Between those you can do pretty much everything in the tool menu without actually having to use the tool menu. It's a much faster workflow and there is no more need to change the tools back and forth

[bw9477]

Not exactly what you where asking for... But very helpful for Logic.

- Plugsearch App
- Nektar CS12 Controller

Plugsearch looks pretty useful, thanks for the recommendation

[Karakhi]

Using Selection-Based Processing is a massive lifesaver. It lets you apply heavy FX or pitch fixes to just a small audio region without cluttering up your channel strip with extra plugins or complex automation.