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Chapter 1 Basic Control Surface Setup 35
Usage Tips
You may find that using control surfaces changes the way you use Logic Express, and
you can get the most effective use from them if you modify your working methods
slightly. The following collection of hints may help to smooth and streamline your
Logic Express/control surface workflow.
Customize Your Templates
 Set up screensets 1–7 as your most frequently used screensets. You can access these
directly on some control surfaces (on a Mackie Control, for example, you can access
them with Function Keys F1 to F7, while Function Key 8 (F8) closes the top-most
window).
 It is recommended that you assign a full-screen Arrange window, with track
automation view set to on (for all tracks), as one of your screensets.
 A full-screen Mixer window is also recommended as another screenset.
Make Use of Markers
Markers allow you to quickly navigate from location to location in a project. Most
control surfaces feature a number of shortcuts that allow you to rapidly move between
markers, which is an extremely fast way to navigate through your projects.
Markers are also useful for the creation or selection of cycle areas and a number of
other tasks, such as punch and replace recording.
If you tend to follow a particular song structure, or like to work with a particular
number of bars (4, 8, 16 bars, and so on) for verse and chorus sections, then set up a
number of markers at suitable locations in your project templates.