Customize the Logic Pro for Mac control bar

In Logic Pro, do one of the following:

• To open a giant beats display: Click the triangle on the right side of the LCD, then choose Open Giant Beats Display from the pop-up menu.

  

• To open a giant time display: Click the triangle on the right side of the LCD, then choose Open Giant Time Display from the pop-up menu.

  

You can open multiple giant beats and time display windows, and resize and reposition each one independently.

You can set a SMPTE offset for the project. As songs don’t always need to start precisely at bar 1, you can select any bar position to be played at the set SMPTE time.

• In Logic Pro, click the triangle on the right side of the LCD, then choose Use SMPTE View Offset from the pop-up menu.

1. Choose Logic Pro > Settings > View > General (or use the Open View Settings key command).

   

2. Choose one of the following settings in the Display Time as pop-up menu:

   • With Bits: Subframes (SMPTE bits 0 to 79) are shown.

   • Without Bits: Subframes are not shown.

   • With Quarter Frames: Quarter frames are shown.

   • As Feet Frames, 35 mm film: The display is displayed in feet and frames, for 35mm film.

   • As Feet Frames, 16 mm film: The display is displayed in feet and frames, for 16mm film.

   • With Milliseconds: The frame fractions are displayed in milliseconds instead of SMPTE bits (also called subframes). Remember that this value is dependent on the frame rate: at 25 fps, a frame is 40 milliseconds long, at 30 fps, approximately 33 ms.

   • With Samples: Frame fractions are shown as sample values.

   • With Frames and Samples: Both fractional frame and sample values are shown.

3. Select the “Zeros as spaces” checkbox if you want zero values to appear as blank spaces, rather than the number 0 in SMPTE time displays.

4. Choose one of the following settings in the Display Tempo as pop-up menu:

   • Beats Per Minute (BPM, Maelzel): Beats per minute, to four individually adjustable decimal places.

   • BPM without Decimals: Beats per minute, with no decimal places.

   • Frames Per Click with Eighths: Frames per beat with eighths. After the value, you will see fpc.

   • Frames Per Click with Decimals: Frames per beat, to four decimal places. Take care, as this display can easily be confused with the bpm display.

5. Choose a clock format from the Clock Format pop-up menu.

1. In Logic Pro, Control-click the control bar, then choose Customize Control Bar and Display from the menu.

2. Add or remove a control by selecting its checkbox in the dialog.

   

3. Do one of the following:

   • Click the Apply Defaults button to return to the default control layout.

   • Click the Save As Default button to save your current layout as the default, which is then applied whenever you create an empty new project or open a new main window.

   • Click the Revert button to return to previous control layout.