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Table Of Contents

Logic Pro X User Guide
Contents
Chapter 1:  What’s new in Logic Pro X
- 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 the Piano Roll Editor
  - Get started with the Audio Track Editor
- 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
- Overview
- Work with advanced tools and additional options
- New concepts in Logic Pro X
- New and changed terms in Logic Pro X
Chapter 4:  Logic Pro basics
- What is Logic Pro?
- Logic Pro workflow overview
- Logic Pro interface overview
- Logic Pro project basics
- Advanced tools and additional options
- Work with Logic Pro windows
- Work with tools in Logic Pro
- Undo and redo edits in Logic Pro
- Download additional content
- How to get help
Chapter 5:  Connect external devices
- Connecting overview
- Connect audio devices
- Connect MIDI devices
Chapter 6:  Work with projects
- Projects overview
- Create projects
- Open projects
- Save projects
- Delete projects
- Play and navigate projects
- Set project properties
- Manage projects
- Preview projects in the Finder
- Close projects
- View project information and reorganize memory
Chapter 7:  Work with tracks
- Tracks overview
- Track basics
- Use the track header controls
- Work with patches in the Library
- Work with Track Stacks
- Work with the master track
- Control timing with the groove track
- Bounce tracks and regions in place
- Export tracks and regions
- Edit track parameters
Chapter 8:  Record your voice or a musical instrument
- Recording overview
- Record audio
- Record software instruments
- Advanced recording techniques
- Comp your audio recordings
Chapter 9:  Use prerecorded media
- Prerecorded media overview
- Import and search for media files
- Use Apple Loops in your projects
- Use the Project Audio Browser
- Import compressed audio files
- Add ReCycle files to your project
- Supported media and file formats
Chapter 10:  Create a song arrangement
- Arranging overview
- Work in the Tracks area
- Arrange regions in the Tracks area
- Create fades and crossfades on audio regions
- Remove silent passages from audio files
  - Remove silent passages in the Strip Silence Window
  - Uses for Strip Silence
- Work with folders
- Work with groove templates
  - Create groove templates
  - Import 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
- 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
- Drummer overview
- Work in the Drummer Editor
- Work with Producer Kits
- Use Drum Kit Designer
- Convert Drummer regions to MIDI regions
Chapter 14:  Edit the timing and pitch of audio
- Flex Time and Pitch overview
- Edit the timing of audio
- Edit the pitch of audio
- Use Varispeed to alter the speed and pitch of audio
Chapter 15:  Advanced edit features
- Advanced Logic Pro editors
- Event List
- Step Editor
- Audio File Editor
- MIDI Transform window
Chapter 16:  Mix a project
- Mixing overview
- Mixer channel strips
  - Channel strip types
  - Channel strip controls
- 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
- Automation overview
- Show track automation curves
- Choose automation modes
- Add automation to tracks
- Select, copy, move, and delete automation
  - Select, copy, and move automation
  - Delete automation
- Snap automation to grid positions
- Edit automation in the Automation Event List
- Write track automation with external controllers
- Use MIDI Draw
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
  - Add arrangement markers
  - Edit arrangement markers
- Work with time and key signatures
- Work with tempo
- Work with transposition
  - Transposition overview
  - Add and edit transposition control points
- Work with beat mapping
- Control the overall project volume
Chapter 20:  View and edit music notation
- Notation overview
- Work in the Score Editor
- Add notes to the score
- Add notes and symbols from the Part box
- Edit notes in the Score Editor
- Add lyrics and text
- Work with chord grids
- Edit score region parameters
- Work with 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
- Sharing overview
- Bounce a project
- Share projects to iTunes
- Share projects to the Media Browser
- Share projects to SoundCloud
- Export projects
Chapter 22:  Surround in Logic Pro X
- Logic Pro X surround overview
- Set up Logic Pro X for surround
- Logic Pro X surround features
- Additional surround information
Chapter 23:  Work in the Environment
- Environment overview
- Common object parameters
- Work with Environment layers
  - Environment layers overview
  - Create, name, delete, and switch layers
- Work with Environment objects
- Create your MIDI signal path
- Exchange Environments
- Customize the Environment
- Environment objects reference
Chapter 24:  Video and synchronization
- Video and synchronization overview
- Use movies in Logic Pro X
- Logic Pro X synchronization
Chapter 25:  Preferences, project settings, and key commands
- Logic Pro preferences
- Project settings
- Key commands

Chapter 25 Preferences, project settings, and key commands 918

Delete a key command or controller assignment

Do one of the following:

m To delete a key command assignment: Select the relevant command in the Command column,

then click the Delete button.

m To delete a controller assignment: Select the relevant command in the Command column, then

click the Delete Assignment button.