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LOGIC PRO -X
SHORTCUTS FOR
EFFECIENT AND
FAST PRODUCTION
There are loads of key commands/ keyboard shortcuts for
Logic Pro X. Using these key commands can help you work
faster on Logic Pro X and you don’t have to waste time using
the mouse and keyboard for doing everything. You get to focus
more on music than spending time on other things.
Here are a few Logic Pro X shortcuts/Key commands for
efficient and fast production
• Moving midi notes up an octave (Command-Shift-
Arrow keys (up & down)
Highlight the MIDI region in your session and open the piano
roll. Generally while producing your Pads track, Bass track,
and chords, we generally want all the notes to be of the same
length and not be of different lengths like the one near the
end of the bar and the other one beyond the bar. Having all
notes with the same proper length generally, tightenes the
track. For doing this, highlight the notes you want by using
the mouse or by pressing COMMAND-A to select everything.
Then click the end of any one MIDI region to adjust the
length. Then press OPTION-SHIFT while you’re adjusting.
All selected note ends will lock to the grid setting you have
chosen.
• Capture a MIDI Recording (Shift-R)
Generally, in modern day music, we find a lot of songs having
a 4 or 8 bar BGM repeated twice in 2 octaves. This can be
done easily in Logic Pro X, instead of dragging the midi up
an octave. We can use the COMMAND-SHIFT-ARROW KEYS
(UP & DOWN) to move the midi notes up an octave or down an
octave.
• Making all midi notes to the same Length (OPTION-
SHIFT holding the end of the MIDI region )
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When you are jamming over a beat that you have produced,
for example layering some synth leads, a lot of people get
conscious when the track is record enabled and don’t end up
playing it properly and miss out on the creative improvisation
part of it. Logic provides you with the CAPTURE MIDI
RECORDING option where you don’t really need to record
enable the track. You just play your lead while in playback
and once you are done with it, stop the playback and hit
SHIFT and R to capture the midi recording.