Learn how to navigate Logic Pro X quickly with these key commands
Don’t let your track come to a halt because of a sluggish workflow. Speed it up with these tips.
Logic Pro X has a lot of tools and functions. This is ideal for its users, presenting a recording and production utopia that musicians could only dream about 40 years ago. But this can easily inhibit our workflow with endless clicking and mouse dragging, which is why Apple handily included keyboard shortcuts to simplify navigation around the DAW. In this Logic Pro Tips video, Jono Buchanan provides you with the essential key commands for rapid soloing, muting, toolbox shortcuts, setting up a loop, zooming, screen stretching and more.
In our Logic Pro Tips series, MusicTech’s Logic expert Jono Buchanan breaks down music production on Apple’s professional DAW. Other episodes posted so far include:
- Automation basics
- Channel EQ tutorial
- Understanding Compression
- Alternative sidechain compression
- Sidechained gates
- Phat FX
- Slicing audio with EXS24
- Tuning audio with Flex Pitch
- Using the Evoc 20 Vocoder
- Introducing Space Designer
- Modulation effects
- Articulation mapping
Jono Buchanan is an Apple Certified instructor, with tons of experience under his belt. He’s a professor in Guildhall’s Electronic Music Department, teaching BMus Year 2 Dance Music project for Electronic Music’s Principal study course. Outside of that, he also produces and composes for various projects and writes reviews for MusicTech magazine too. He now also makes awesome weekly tutorials for Logic Pro X!
