Welcome
- What’s new in Logic Pro for Mac 11.1
- What’s new in Logic Pro for Mac 11
- What’s new in Logic Pro for Mac 10.8
- What’s new in Logic Pro for Mac 10.7.8
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- What’s new in Logic Pro 10.7.3
- What’s new in Logic Pro 10.7
- What’s new in Logic Pro 10.6
- What’s new in Logic Pro 10.5
- What’s new in Logic Pro 10.4
- What’s new in Logic Pro 10.3
- What’s new in Logic Pro 10.2
- What’s new in Logic Pro 10.0
- Get started overview
- Workflow overview
- Logic Pro main window
- Projects
- Playback and navigation
- Tempo, key, and time signature
- Patches
- Arranging regions
- - Piano Roll Editor
  - Audio Track Editor
- Session Players
- Smart Controls
- Live Loops
- Mixing
- Apple Loops
- Smart Tempo
- Sharing
- What is Logic Pro for Mac?
- Logic Pro project basics
- Use menu commands and key commands
- Use the complete set of Logic Pro features
- Undo and redo edits
- Manage Logic Pro content
- How to get help
- Hardware connection overview
- Projects overview
- Create projects
- Open projects
- Save projects
- Delete projects
- Use Logic Remote to control Logic Pro projects
- Preview projects in the Finder
- Close projects
- View project information
- Tracks overview
- Control timing with the groove track
- Use selection-based processing
- Edit track parameters
- Overview
- Use the metronome
- Using loops and other media in Logic Pro
- Bookmark folders in the All Files Browser
- Import compressed audio files
- Arranging overview
- Extract vocal and instrumental stems with Stem Splitter
- - Remove silent passages
  - Uses for Remove Silence
- Create groove templates
- Overview
- Select audio regions
- Cut, copy, and paste audio regions
- Move audio regions
- Trim audio regions
- Split and join audio regions
- Snap edits to zero crossings
- Delete audio regions
- Use Flex Time and Pitch in the Logic Pro for Mac Audio Track Editor
- Use automation in the Audio Track Editor
- Overview
- View multiple MIDI regions
- Split chords
- Automation/MIDI area in the Piano Roll Editor
- Open other editors
- Session Players overview
- The Session Player Editor
- Choose a Session Player type and style
- Chords and Session Players
- Choose Session Player presets
- Regenerate a Session Player performance
- Follow rhythm of chords and other tracks
- Work with Drummer multi-channel kits
- Convert Session Player regions into MIDI or pattern regions
- Flex Time and Pitch overview
- Use Varispeed to alter the speed and pitch of audio
- Logic Pro for Mac advanced editors overview
- Mixing overview
- - Channel strip types
  - Channel strip controls
- Set channel strip input format
- Set channel strip pan or balance positions
- Mute and solo channel strips
- Reorder channel strips in the Mixer
- Work with channel strip settings
- Surround panning
- Use the I/O Labels window
- Undo and redo Mixer and plug-in adjustments
- Automation overview
- Track automation vs. region automation
- Show automation curves
- Choose automation modes
- - Select, copy, and move automation
  - Delete automation
- Snap automation to grid positions
- Edit automation in the Automation Event List
- Write automation with external controllers
- Smart Controls overview
- Show Smart Controls for master effects
- Choose a Smart Control layout
- Automatic MIDI controller assignment
- Map screen controls automatically
- Map screen controls
- Edit mapping parameters
- Use parameter mapping graphs
- Open the plug-in window for a screen control
- Rename a screen control
- Use articulation IDs to change articulations
- Assign hardware controls to screen controls
- Compare Smart Control edits with saved settings
- Use the Arpeggiator
- Automate screen control movements
- Live Loops overview
- Start and stop cells
- Work with Live Loops cells
- - Record to cells
  - Record and edit takes in cells
- Change loop settings for cells
- How the Live Loops grid and Tracks area interact
- Edit cells
- Edit scenes
- Work in the Cell Editor
- Bounce cells
- Record a Live Loops performance
- Change Live Loops grid settings
- Control Live Loops with other devices
- Step Sequencer overview
- Use Step Sequencer with Drum Machine Designer
- Record Step Sequencer patterns live
- Step record Step Sequencer patterns
- Load and save patterns
- Modify pattern playback
- Edit steps
- Edit rows
- Step Sequencer inspector
- Customize Step Sequencer
- Global changes overview
- Control transposition with the Pitch Source parameter
- Control project volume
- Overview
- Add notes
- Use automation in the Score Editor
- Share a score
- Sharing overview
- Share songs to the Music app
- Share songs to Voice Memos
- Share songs using AirDrop
- Share songs using MailDrop
- Share a project to GarageBand for iOS
- Share a project to Logic Pro for iPad
- Overview of surround and spatial audio
- - Overview of spatial audio with Dolby Atmos
  - - Bed tracks and object tracks
    - Rendering a Dolby Atmos mix in Logic Pro for Mac
- - Surround Panner overview
  - Surround Panner parameters
- - 3D Object Panner overview
  - 3D Object Panner parameters
- - Bounce surround audio files
  - Export ADM BWF files
- Video and synchronization overview
Touch Bar shortcuts
- Environment overview
- Common object parameters
- - Environment Layers overview
  - Create, name, delete, and switch layers
- Customize the Environment
- - Effects overview
  - Add, remove, move, and copy plug-ins
- - Instruments introduction
  - Add, remove, move, and copy plug-ins
  - Use multi-output instruments
- - Alchemy overview
  - Alchemy interface overview
  - Alchemy Name bar
  - Alchemy file locations
  - - Preset browser overview
    - Browser results list
  - - Main filter controls
    - Filter types
  - Alchemy master voice section
  - Alchemy Extended parameters
- - Drum Kit Designer overview
  - Edit pane
  - Use Drum Kit Designer
  - Extended parameters
  - Drum Kit Designer mappings
- - Drum Machine Designer overview
  - Drum Machine Designer interface
  - Kit controls
  - - Pad controls bar
    - Use pad controls
  - Kit Tone and Effect Smart Controls
  - Kit Piece Tone and Effect Smart Controls
- - Drum Synth overview
  - Drum Synth Kicks
  - Drum Synth Snares and Claps
  - Drum Synth Percussion
  - Drum Synth Hats and Cymbals
- - ES1 overview
  - Global parameters
  - - Filter parameters
    - Overdrive the filter
  - Amplifier parameters
  - MIDI controller assignments
- - ES2 overview
  - ES2 interface overview
  - - Use the dynamic stage
    - Enhance sounds with the Sine Level control
  - ES2 integrated effects processor controls
  - Use ES2 in Surround mode
  - Extended parameters
  - - Use randomization parameters
    - Restrict randomization
- - EFM1 overview
  - Modulation parameters
  - Global parameters
  - Output parameters
  - Create random sounds
  - Extended parameters
  - Assign MIDI controllers
- - ES E overview
  - Oscillator parameters
  - LFO parameters
  - Filter parameters
  - Envelope parameters
  - Output parameters
  - Extended parameters
- - ES M overview
  - Oscillator parameters
  - Filter and filter envelope controls
  - Level envelope and output controls
  - Extended parameters
- - ES P overview
  - Oscillator parameters
  - LFO parameters
  - Filter parameters
  - Envelope and level controls
  - Integrated effects processor
  - Extended parameters
- - - EVOC 20 PS overview
    - Vocoder basics
  - EVOC 20 PS interface
  - Analysis controls
  - (U/V) detection parameters
  - Formant filter controls
  - Modulation parameters
  - Output parameters
  - Vocoder history
  - EVOC 20 block diagram
- - Quick Sampler overview
  - Add audio to Quick Sampler
  - Quick Sampler waveform display
  - Use Flex in Quick Sampler
  - - Mod Matrix pane
    - LFO controls
  - Quick Sampler Pitch controls
  - Quick Sampler Filter controls
  - Quick Sampler filter types
  - Quick Sampler Amp controls
  - Quick Sampler extended parameters
- - Retro Synth overview
  - Analog oscillator controls
  - Sync oscillator controls
  - - Table oscillator parameters
    - Use the Wavetable menu
  - FM oscillator controls
  - Filter controls
  - Filter types
  - Amp and effect controls
  - Global and controller settings
  - Extended parameters
- - Sample Alchemy overview
  - Interface overview
  - Add source material
  - Edit mode
  - Play modes
  - Source overview
  - Synthesis modes
  - Granular controls
  - Additive effects
  - Additive effect controls
  - Spectral effect
  - Spectral effect controls
  - Filter module
  - Lowpass, bandpass, and highpass filters
  - Comb PM filter
  - Downsampler filter
  - FM filter
  - Envelope generators
  - Mod Matrix
  - Modulation routing
  - Motion mode
  - Trim mode
  - More menu
- - Sampler overview
  - Load and save instruments in Sampler
  - Sampler articulation handling
  - Sampler memory management
  - Sampler extended parameters
- - Sculpture overview
  - Sculpture interface
  - - Pickup parameters
    - Spread controls
  - Global parameters
  - Amplitude envelope parameters
  - Use the Waveshaper
  - Filter parameters
  - Output parameters
  - Use surround range and diversity
  - Define MIDI controllers
  - Extended parameters
- - Studio Bass overview
  - Main view parameters
  - Details view parameters
  - Keyswitch mapping
  - String and position MIDI Out channel assignments
- - Studio Horns overview
  - Extended parameters
  - Keyswitch mapping
  - Section MIDI channel assignments
- Studio Piano
- - Studio Strings overview
  - Extended parameters
  - Keyswitch mapping
  - Section MIDI channel assignments
- - Ultrabeat overview
  - Ultrabeat interface
  - Synthesizer section overview
  - Filter section controls
  - Distortion circuit controls
- - Utility instruments
  - External Instrument
  - Klopfgeist
- - Vintage B3 overview
- - Vintage Clav overview
  - Vintage Clav interface
  - Extended parameters
  - - D6 Clavinet history
    - D6 mechanical details
- - Vintage Electric Piano overview
  - Vintage Electric Piano interface
  - - Model controls
    - Pitch controls
  - Extended parameters
  - - Rhodes models
    - Hohner and Wurlitzer models
  - MIDI controller assignments
- - Vintage Mellotron overview
  - Vintage Mellotron controls
- - Legacy instruments overview
  - - Bass
    - Church Organ
    - Drum Kits
    - Electric Clav(inet)
    - Electric Piano
    - Guitar
    - Horns
    - Piano
    - Sound Effects
    - Strings
    - Tuned Percussion
    - Voice
    - Woodwind
    - Tonewheel Organ
- - Synthesizer basics overview
  - Synthesizer fundamentals
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Pointer shortcuts for the Tracks area in Logic Pro for Mac

The following table lists functions available in the Tracks area when you use pointer shortcuts.

Function	Modifier key and action
Add new track (or tracks) for dragged audio files, regions, or Apple Loops	Command key while dragging audio files, regions, or Apple Loops between two track headers
Set marquee selection to entire region	Command-Option while clicking on a region
Set track to Solo Safe mode	Control-click Solo button in track header
Activate or deactivate Solo mode for the channel strip and deactivate Solo mode for all other tracks	Option-click Solo button in track header
Activate or deactivate Solo for all tracks	Command-click Solo button in track header
Activate or deactivate Mute for the track and deactivate Mute for all other tracks	Option-click Mute button in track header
Activate or deactivate Mute for all tracks (except output tracks and master track)	Command-click Mute button in track header
Turn all tracks on or off, and activate or deactivate plug-ins on all channel strips	Command-click On/Off button in track header
Turn track on or off, but keep plug-ins on channel strips activated	Option-click On/Off button in track header
Turn all tracks on or off, but keep plug-ins on all channel strips activated	Option-Command-click On/Off button in track header
Adjust volume, pan, send, mute, or solo without affecting other selected channel strips or members of that Mixer group	Shift key while dragging or clicking
Move regions by one division	Control key while dragging regions
Move regions by one tick	Control-Option while dragging regions
Snap to finest possible resolution in current snap mode	Control-Shift-click to select region
Create alias of a MIDI region or folder that starts where the region was dragged	Option-Shift while dragging region or folder
Move regions by samples if zoomed in, by ticks if zoomed out	Control-Shift while dragging region or regions
Create fade-in	Control-Shift while scrolling down from upper left corner of audio region
Create fade-out	Control-Shift while scrolling down from upper right corner of audio region
Create crossfade	Control-Shift while scrolling horizontally of the end of one audio region to the beginning of an adjacent audio region
Create new track (same track type as the focused track) with default patch	Option-click New Tracks button
Create new track (same track type as the focused track) with an empty channel strip	Option-Shift-click New Tracks button
Create new track (opposite track type as the focused track) with the default patch	Command-click New Tracks button
Create new track (opposite track type as the focused track) with an empty channel strip	Shift-Command-click New Tracks button
Create new track with duplicate settings	Click Duplicate Track button
Create new track with duplicate settings and content	Command-click Duplicate Track button
Delete fade	Option-click fade area with Fade tool
Split regions into regions of equal length	Option-click with Scissors tool
Select entire take	Option-click take lane (with comp selected)
Remove a take section from the current comp	Shift-click take section
Open audio region in the Audio File Editor	Option key while double-clicking audio region
Move the selection end farthest from the pointer to the pointer position	Option-Shift-click inside marquee selection
Move the selection end closest to the pointer to the pointer position	Shift-click inside marquee selection
Add or remove an existing marquee selection to other tracks	Shift-click with the Marquee tool inside the marquee boundaries of other track lanes
Extend the cycle range to the clicked position	Shift-click in cycle area of bar ruler
Skip Cycle	Command-click the cycle range
Skip Cycle	Command-click the autopunch range in the ruler
Show or hide autopunch area	Option-Command-click ruler
Select (or deselect) multiple tracks	Shift-click multiple track headers
Change marquee selection start or end point	Shift-click in Tracks area with Marquee tool
Create marquee selection of entire region	Option-click on region with Marquee tool
Create marquee selection from start of first to end of last clicked region	Option-Shift-click on multiple regions with Marquee tool
Display notes from all selected MIDI regions in the Piano Roll Editor	Shift-click multiple MIDI regions
Restrict movement to initial drag direction	Shift key while dragging horizontally or vertically
Only selected tracks are set to a color but not any selected regions	Command-click a color in the Color palette
The region starts to play in Solo mode from the beginning and not the click position	Option key while long-clicking a region with the Solo tool
Move playhead to click position	Shift-click the track lane
Start playback from click position	Shift key while double-clicking the background of the Track header
Resize tool changes to the Stretch tool	Option key while dragging the left or right region border
Open Piano Roll Editor as standalone window	Option key while double-clicking a MIDI region
Open Audio File Editor as standalone window	Option key while double-clicking an audio region
Select all members of a group	Option-click a group in the Group Settings window
Set playhead at click position and activate cycle range for the length of the marker if present	Shift-click ruler
Shorten looped region	Click with Join tool
Merge looped region into a single region	Option-click looped region
Select all regions on track lane	Shift key while double-clicking a region
Vertically zoom all tracks of the same track type	Command-drag lower divider line of a track header
Reset all track headers to the default individual zoom level	Shift-click divider line between track headers
Vertically zoom all tracks proportionally	Option key while scrolling vertically in Tracks area
Toggle Record Enable on a track and deselect Record Enable on all other tracks	Option-click the Record Enable button on a software instrument track
Select track header without changing current region selection	Option-click track header
Show/hide the Library	Double-click track icon in the track header
Turn “Record Automation with Audio/MIDI Regions” on or off for all tracks and newly created tracks	Option-click “Record Automation with Audio/MIDI Regions” in the Automation Mode pop-up menu