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Logic Pro X Accessibility Overview Draft 5.1

This overview is just to get you started. Nothing should or could take the place of spending time in the Logic Pro X User Guide found on the Apple website.
If you don’t read this book, shame on you!

Chapters to remember,

16 mixing,
18 smart controls,
21 bouncing,
25 Preferences, project settings and key commands.

Personal notes,
Scrub speed settings are in general audio preferences. It will be necessary to set up keys for this action.

There are a number of bounce options, with Logic Pro X, however sharing your song to iTunes is very nice. First of all, go in to tracks contents in your project and select all with command-a, or, from the edit menu, then follow the instructions for sharing your song to iTunes in the file menu.

This overview will cover
Beginning a recording with Logic Pro X
Drag and drop loops in to a project
stretching and moving a loop
Editing in the timeline/regions
Navigation
Mixing tips with Voiceover
Advanced features,
Comping, a brief description,
Time stretching, a brief description

Beginning a new project in logic Pro X, selecting time, key, beats per minute and more.

I will be providing examples here. What you may want to do maybe much different than what I am doing however, it should work even with variations.
Remember, you can change many of these parameters from the Control Bar group.
See control bar group in navigation.

From the opening logic screen, start up dialog, select open an empty project and press OK.

A new screen will allow you to choose the type of project you want to open in this case I chose audio. At this point you can make a number of choices, like input and output, number of tracks and so on or you may choose to make these choices later in the set up.

Now press escape which will take you into yet another screen. Interact with the first table in my case I chose new project, now stop interacting.

Now interact with the grid and in my case I chose open an empty project now stop interacting with a table.

Used VO keys-right arrow to use musical grid and I have that box checked.

VO keys-right arrow to type in your tempo for example 100.

VO keys-right arrow to the keys signature button and activate this button with the VO keys-space bar. Using the up and down arrow keys select your key. When you have selected your key press VO keys-space bar to choose your selection.

Next is two radio buttons for major or minor.

Next is time signature you may type in your choice for example 4/4.

Next you can choose audio inputs and outputs, choose sample rates and frame rates or take the default, if you have surround enabled you can check the proper surround parameters.
When you have made your desired choices in the screen arrow down to choose and press this button with VO keys-space bar.

Now you will be back in the original project creation window. where you can VO keys right arrow to the number of tracks field and type in the number of tracks you would like. Now VO keys right arrow until you hear create button, press this button with VO keys-space bar.

Drag-and-drop Loops into a Logic Project and Moving Loops in the Timeline

***This only works with Mavericks, OS10.9.1 and later.

Open loops with o. At this point you can use the search box to find the kind of loop you want to use, examples guitars, or, piano and so on. Move to the table and interact and choose your loop. interact with the loop you want to move and make sure you are on the name of the loop you want to move. try the loop with VO keys-shift-space bar and stop the loop with the same keys. It seems to be important to start and stop the loop to change the status of the loop.
The easiest way to move a loop is, while you are on the loop, press command-c to copy and then command-v to paste and you will find the loop in your project in a new track just where you want it..
Another way is to Use VO keys-comma to mark the loop for moving. Stop interacting with loops and move to the logic project to tracks contents to the area below tracks and use the old keys-period to drop the loop.
It does not drop it where I want it, but, you can move the loop any where in the time line by doing the following.

In the tracks contents area interact with the track you want to work with. Now interact with the region. Now, VoKeys-right arrow over to the loop handle and with the mouse keys turned on press control and the five on the number pad which will bring up a menu of about 19 items giving you information on how to move the loop where you want it.

Stretching and Moving a Loop

To make sure that the track you want to work with is selected go to Track Headers and make sure that the solo check box is checked on the track with which you wish to work .

Go to tracks contents and find the track where the loop you want to stretch is located. Now interact with the track and interact with the region, go to the loop handle, use VO keys-command-accent to access the handle and use the left and right arrow keys to stretch or shrink the loop,. This will only move the loop in small steps and does not give you feedback from Voiceover. however, you can use command-r to copy the loop, region, event. You will be asked for number of copies. This comes in handy if you want to stretch lets say a drum loop to the end of the song.
If you wish to use the loop, or region somewhere else in the song and you don’t want to stretch the loop, move to the place in the song where you want the loop, or region placed. Now move to the loop/ region and press command-c to copy the loop/region and command-v to place it where you want it. ***You may not hear any feedback from Voiceover, but, when you check your work you should find that the loop, or, region has been copied and pasted.

Editing in the Timeline/regions
In the tracks contents area, Move to the place where you want to edit with the control bar, or play the recording until you find the place where you want to edit, stop playing the recording and press command-t to split the region at the playhead. Now in the tracks contents window, you should find a new numbered region and do command X to cut, or use cut from the edit menu, or delete from the edit menu. You can also rename, move, or a number of other actions. Just like editing in GarageBand 6.

Navigation

Control bar group--located in the control bar tool bar

When you interact with the control bar group you will find the following,,
1. play head position group--Interacting with this group will allow
you to move through the track by bar, beat, tick and so on. Just interact with the slider you wish to change.
2. The tempo slider. interact with it to change the tempo of the song.
3. A pop up button with which you may change the key of the song.
4. Signature, number of beats slider. interact with the slider.
5. Signature note value pop up button.

Moving Through a Project from the Keyboard

Rewind comma
Forward period
Fast Rewind shift-comma
Fast Forward shift-period

Adding Buttons to the Control Bar by Customizing the Control Bar and Display

You may choose to set up key commands for some of these functions rather than using the buttons in the control bar. If you choose to use the buttons in the control bar,
you can accomplish this by doing the following:

1. Press VO+m to go to the menu bar.
2. go to the view menu by either pressing "the letter v or VO+RightArrow.
3. scroll down to "Customize Control Bar and Display…" and press VO+Spacebar. This will open a dialog where you can customize the appearance of the main window in Logic. There are a number of checkboxes that correspond to buttons that can be shown or hidden on the Control bar or display. For example, go to the "Set Left/Right Locator Numerically" check box and check it.
4. then press the okay button.
5. The "Set Left Locator Numerically button" and the "Set Right Locator Numerically button" will now be shown on the Control Bar tool bar in the main window.

Note: in order to activate the buttons, you will have to use the mouse click by pressing VO+shit+spacebar. Pressing either button will open the same dialog.

Mixing Tips with Voiceover

Pan and level can be found in the track headers. You can configure the track header to include more information in the tracks menu.

Patches
A patch is a pre defined group of audio settings, plugins, EQ and so on that you can use in your project. When you have the library checked you can either interact with the browser to find a list of patches you might want. For example for voice, VO keys-right arrow to another list and be amazed at all of the choices of sounds. Or you can use the search box to find what you are looking for. There are several sounds for nearly everything you might want which you can add to your track.

You may want to adjust the EQ settings, or, the plugin parameters of your patch. To do so do the following.
Leave the patch library, or close it with y. Next press b to open smart controls and you will find your plugins and EQ in smart controls, the parameters are readable with Voiceover and adjustable.
In the smart controls toolbar, selecting the controls button will give you a list of the plugins and EQ used in the patch you have selected and you can interact with any of them to change their settings.
Pressing the EQ button in the smart controls tool bar will give you fine tuning EQ settings when you stop interacting with the smart controls toolbar and interact with smart controls.

Advanced Features

Comping--a Brief Description

Comping seems to work this way.
When you record over a part on a track a new take folder is created.
Press option-f to show, or, hide the take folder.
Now using the item chooser type take and your takes by number will be found.
You can sample them by VO keys-space on the one you want and playing your project.
There are key commands for packing the take folder, unpacking the folder to existing tracks, or to new tracks.
Please read the Logic Pro X User Guide found on the Apple website.

Time stretching.
I am only including this blurb in the overview because I want you to know that time stretching is usable with Voiceover.
Cut the region you want to stretch and use the corresponding Keys in the used key commands.
For moor information on time stretching, please read the Logic Pro X User Guide found on the Apple website.

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