Apple Pro Training Series: Logic Pro 7 and Logic Express 7

Lesson 3. Understanding Workflow Techniques

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This lesson takes approximately 1 hour to complete.

Create a project folder to hold the song file, along with all of its audio files

Import audio into the Arrange window

Learn common selection techniques

Use the Cycle mode

Name Regions

Experiment with Logic's Catch and Scroll in Play functions

Set up custom key commands

You're now at home in the workspace, you've seen how Logic's editing windows interrelate, and you've explored the Transport's playback functions. It's time to get a bit deeper into editing songs. This lesson explores some basic functions you'll use throughout this book, such as zooming in and out on an editing window's display, making selections with Logic's unique selection techniques, hiding tracks, and creating custom key commands to control Logic's editing functions. Just because these functions are basic doesn't mean they are any less important than the things you'll learn later in this book. In fact, the techniques in this lesson provide a good foundation of skills you'll constantly use while making music in Logic. So with no further ado, let's jump straight in and learn some workflow techniques.