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Table Of Contents
- Logic Pro X User Guide
- Contents
- Chapter 1: What’s new in Logic Pro X
- Chapter 2: Get started with Logic Pro X
- Get started overview
- Get started with the Logic Pro main window
- Get started with projects
- Get started with playback and navigation
- Get started with the project tempo, key, and time signature
- Get started with tracks
- Get started arranging regions in the Tracks area
- Get started editing regions
- Get started with Smart Controls
- Get started with mixing
- Get started with Apple Loops
- Get started with Drummer
- Get started with Track Stacks
- Get started with sharing
- Chapter 3: If you are upgrading
- Chapter 4: Logic Pro basics
- Chapter 5: Connect external devices
- Chapter 6: Work with projects
- Chapter 7: Work with tracks
- Chapter 8: Record your voice or a musical instrument
- Chapter 9: Use prerecorded media
- Chapter 10: Create a song arrangement
- Arranging overview
- Work in the Tracks area
- Arrange regions in the Tracks area
- Regions overview
- Select regions in the Tracks area
- Select parts of regions in the Tracks area
- Cut, copy, and paste regions in the Tracks area
- Move regions in the Tracks area
- Add or remove gaps in an arrangement
- Shift the playback position of regions in the Tracks area
- Loop regions in the Tracks area
- Resize regions in the Tracks area
- Mute and solo regions in the Tracks area
- Time stretch regions in the Tracks area
- Split regions in the Tracks area
- Demix MIDI regions in the Tracks area
- Join regions in the Tracks area
- Create aliases of MIDI regions in the Tracks area
- Clone audio regions in the Tracks area
- Change the color of regions in the Tracks area
- Convert audio regions to EXS sample zones
- Delete regions in the Tracks area
- Create fades and crossfades on audio regions
- Remove silent passages from audio files
- Work with folders
- Work with groove templates
- Edit region parameters
- Chapter 11: Edit audio regions in the Audio Track Editor
- Audio Track Editor overview
- Select audio regions in the Audio Track Editor
- Cut, copy, and paste audio regions in the Audio Track Editor
- Move audio regions in the Audio Track Editor
- Trim audio regions in the Audio Track Editor
- Split and join audio regions in the Audio Track Editor
- Snap edits to zero crossings in the Audio Track Editor
- Delete audio regions in the Audio Track Editor
- Chapter 12: Edit MIDI regions in the Piano Roll Editor
- Piano Roll Editor overview
- Add and edit notes in the Piano Roll Editor
- Add notes in the Piano Roll Editor
- Select notes in the Piano Roll Editor
- Snap items to the Piano Roll Editor grid
- Move notes in the Piano Roll Editor
- Copy notes in the Piano Roll Editor
- Change the pitch of notes in the Piano Roll Editor
- Resize notes in the Piano Roll Editor
- Edit note velocity in the Piano Roll Editor
- Quantize the timing of notes in the Piano Roll Editor
- Quantize the pitch of notes in the Piano Roll Editor
- Lock the position of events in the Piano Roll Editor
- Mute notes in the Piano Roll Editor
- Change the color of notes in the Piano Roll Editor
- Delete notes in the Piano Roll Editor
- View multiple MIDI regions in the Piano Roll Editor
- Split chords in the Piano Roll Editor
- Use MIDI Draw in the Piano Roll Editor
- Open the Event List or Score Editor from the Piano Roll Editor
- Chapter 13: Add a drummer to your project
- Chapter 14: Edit the timing and pitch of audio
- Chapter 15: Advanced edit features
- Chapter 16: Mix a project
- Mixing overview
- Mixer channel strips
- Set channel strip volume and check levels
- Set channel strip input formats
- Set channel strip pan or balance positions
- Mute and solo channel strips
- Work with plug-ins
- Work with channel strip settings
- Control channel strip signal flow in the Mixer
- Work with channel strip groups in the Mixer
- Surround panning in the Mixer
- Binaural panning in the Mixer
- Work with MIDI channel strips in the Mixer
- Customize the Mixer
- Use the I/O Labels window
- Adjust channel strips when recording or playing
- Work with ReWire applications
- Chapter 17: Automate mix and effects settings
- Chapter 18: Use Smart Controls
- Smart Controls overview
- Choose a Smart Control layout
- Map screen controls automatically
- Map screen controls to channel strip and plug-in parameters
- Edit mapping parameters
- Scale values using parameter mapping graphs
- Open the plug-in window for a screen control
- Rename a screen control
- Assign hardware controls to screen controls
- Compare an edited Smart Control with its saved settings
- Use the Arpeggiator with a Smart Control
- Automate screen control movements
- Chapter 19: Make global changes to a project
- Global changes overview
- Use the global tracks
- Work with markers
- Build a project with arrangement markers
- Work with time and key signatures
- Work with tempo
- Tempo overview
- Create tempo changes with the Tempo track
- Use the Tempo List
- Create tempo changes using Beat Detection
- Match audio recordings to the project tempo
- Match the tempo to an audio region
- Use tempo information from audio files
- Record tempo changes in Logic Pro
- Use Tempo Operations
- Use the Tempo Interpreter
- Control tempo changes with the tempo fader
- Work with transposition
- Work with beat mapping
- Control the overall project volume
- Chapter 20: View and edit music notation
- Notation overview
- Work in the Score Editor
- Score Editor overview
- View tracks as music notation in the Score Editor
- Position items graphically in the Score Editor
- Move and copy items in the Score Editor
- Resize notes and symbols in the Score Editor
- Adjust the vertical headroom of the score display
- Repeat events in the Score Editor
- Insert items in multiple regions
- Edit multiple items in the Score Editor
- Select multiple regions in the Score Editor
- Display and edit aliases in the Score Editor
- Add notes to the score
- Add notes and symbols from the Part box
- Part box overview
- View score symbols in the Part box
- Select score symbols in the Part box
- Add notes and rests from the Part box
- Add key and time signature changes
- Change the clef sign
- Add dynamic marks, slurs, and crescendi
- Change the appearance of note heads
- Add accents and other symbols to notes
- Add trills, ornaments, and tremolo symbols
- Add sustain pedal markings
- Add chord symbols
- Add chord grids and tablature symbols
- Add bar lines, repeat signs, and coda signs
- Add page and line break symbols
- Edit notes in the Score Editor
- Select notes in the Score Editor
- Move and copy notes in the Score Editor
- Change a note’s pitch, duration, and velocity
- Quantize the timing of notes in the Score Editor
- Edit attributes of individual notes
- Restrict note input to a diatonic key
- Control the appearance of tied notes
- Create and edit tuplets
- Use tuplets to override display quantization
- Add grace notes and independent notes
- Delete notes in the Score Editor
- Add lyrics and text
- Work with chord grids
- Edit score region parameters
- Work with staff styles
- Staff styles overview
- Assign staff styles to tracks
- Staff Style window
- Create and duplicate staff styles
- Edit staff styles
- Edit staff, voice, and assign parameters for a staff style
- Add and delete staffs or voices
- Copy and paste staffs or voices
- Copy staff styles between projects
- Delete staff styles
- Assign notes to voices and staffs
- Add notes to a polyphonic staff style
- Change the staff assignment of score symbols
- Beam notes across staffs
- Use drum notation with mapped staff styles
- Predefined staff styles
- Create scores and parts using score sets
- Edit the score layout
- Share the completed score
- Customize the Score Editor
- Chapter 21: Share projects
- Chapter 22: Surround in Logic Pro X
- Chapter 23: Work in the Environment
- Environment overview
- Common object parameters
- Work with Environment layers
- Work with Environment objects
- Create your MIDI signal path
- Exchange Environments
- Customize the Environment
- Environment objects reference
- Standard instrument objects
- Multi-instrument objects
- Mapped instrument objects
- Touch track objects
- Fader objects
- Alias objects
- Ornament objects
- GM mixer objects
- MMC record buttons objects
- Keyboard objects
- Monitor objects
- Macro objects
- Arpeggiator objects
- Transformer objects
- Delay line objects
- Voice limiter objects
- Channel splitter objects
- Chord memorizer objects
- Physical input objects
- Sequencer input objects
- MIDI click objects
- ReWire objects
- Channel strip objects
- Chapter 24: Video and synchronization
- Chapter 25: Preferences, project settings, and key commands
Chapter 15 Advanced edit features 447
Control playback with the waveform overview
Do one of the following:
m Click-hold at the point where you want playback to begin. The pointer turns into a Prelisten icon.
Release the mouse button to stop playback.
m Double-click at the point where you want playback to begin.
Scrub audio
m Click-hold the ruler and move the pointer.
Audio playback follows the speed and direction of your pointer. This technique helps you to
quickly locate a particular position within an audio le.
Repeat the selected area continuously
1 Click the Cycle button.
2 Click the Prelisten button (or use the Play/Stop Selection key command, default
assignment: Space bar).
You can change the start and end points of the selected area during looped playback, to create
a perfect drum loop cycle, for example. When you’re satised with the loop, you can make the
selected area a new region.