Need Key Commands? Here Are the Top 75 Key Commands You Should Commit to Memory in Logic Pro X – 30 Days of Why Logic Pro Rules

 

As we discussed yesterday, your Mac’s keyboard and mouse are your keys to working in Logic Pro X.

And although your mouse might feel like the fastest way of getting around, your keyboard is much faster.

Menu-diving is actually a pretty time-consuming activity. Every time you need a new track or want to copy and paste a region, it’s cumbersome to head up to Track or Edit.

Having to visually scan a long list of functions, or looking around for a button to open a window is a failure point. It’s a bottleneck between you thinking:

“I want to open the Library.”

And you opening the Library.

That’s because every time you want to do something, you then have to spend several seconds, or even minutes, fishing around Logic for that function.

The path of the Logic ninja is one paved with key commands. Because this time when you think:

“I want to open the Library.”

You can simply press Y, and the Library will open. It’s like magic!

Remembering key commands can be pretty intimidating. I get it. Who the heck has the brain space for 75 key combinations?? 

(Let alone hundreds more?!)

But as I’ve constantly pointed out in the past, Logic Pro’s key commands are, well, logical. For example:

• R = Record
• L = Loop Region/Cell
• A = Show/Hide Automation

How much easier could it be? While there are only 26 letters in the alphabet, Logic then makes great use of modifiers:

• Control and B = Bounce Regions in Place
• Command and E = Export Selected Tracks
• Shift, Command and M = Show/Hide Master Output in the Tracks Area

Once you commit Key Commands to muscle memory, there is no thinking anymore. Only doing.

And that’s the fastest workflow of all 🙂

So today’s video will be a headrush. But let me give you the top 75 key commands you’re going to use more than anything else in Logic.