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Chapter 2 Basic control surface setup 30
Control surface use tips
You may nd that using control surfaces changes the way you use Logic Pro. Slight changes to
your working methods can help you to use control surfaces more eectively. The following hints
may streamline your Logic Pro control surface workow.
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Customize your templates
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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 topmost window.
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Assign a full-screen Tracks window, with track automation view set to On (for all tracks), as
one of your screensets.
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Assign a full-screen Mixer window as another screenset.
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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 eective way to move between positions in your projects.
Markers are also useful for creating or selecting 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 certain number of bars
(4, 8, 16 bars, and so on) for verse and chorus sections, set up a number of markers at suitable
locations in your templates.