You can play your chosen software instrument using musical typing or the onscreen keyboard. You can also connect and use a music keyboard.
If your computer has a Touch Bar, you can use the Keyboard screen to play the software instrument on the selected software instrument track, and you can use the Drum Pads screen to play drum kits and percussion instruments for Drummer on the selected software instrument track with Session Player as the default region type.
In Logic Pro, choose Window > Show Musical Typing (or press Command-K).
The Musical Typing window appears, showing the layout of keys used for playing notes and changing controller information.
Select the software instrument track you want to play.
Play the software instrument using the keys on your computer keyboard. Use the other keys shown in the window to perform the following actions:
Press Z or X to move down or up by octaves.
Press C or V to lower or raise the velocity.
Press 4 through 8 to change the modulation (mod wheel) value, or 3 to turn off modulation.
Press 1 or 2 to bend the pitch down or up. The pitch is bent for as long as you press the key.
Press Tab to turn sustain on or off (similar to using a sustain pedal).
As you play, the notes you play are highlighted in the Musical Typing window.
In Logic Pro, choose Window > Show Keyboard or use the key command to show the onscreen keyboard.
To play the onscreen keyboard, click the notes on the keyboard.
You can click when the project is playing or stopped, and record by clicking during recording. Clicking notes lower on the keys plays the notes with higher velocity, and clicking higher plays them with lower velocity.
To change the range of the onscreen keyboard, do one of the following:
Drag the blue rectangle in the overview over the range you want to play.
Click an area of the overview outside the blue rectangle to move it to where you clicked.
Click one of the small triangles to the left and right of the keys. Clicking the left triangle lowers the range by an octave, and clicking the right triangle raises the range by an octave.
In the onscreen keyboard or Musical Typing window in Logic Pro, click one of the buttons in the upper-left area of the window.
In Logic Pro, tap the Mode button on the left side of the Touch Bar, then tap the Keyboard button.
Tap the keys on the Touch Bar keyboard to play notes.
To adjust the size of the Touch Bar keyboard, tap one of the Keyboard Size buttons to the left of the Touch Bar keyboard.
To limit notes to a musical scale, tap the Scale button, then tap to select the root note and the mode.
