Speeding up workflow in logic?

lowpass · Post by **lowpass** » Sat Oct 03, 2009 9:09 am

alright, Its back to work again on the tunes. Just starting to get familiar with logic 9 but I'm moving along at a snails pace.

Does anyone have any tips for speeding up the workflow in it? keyboard shortcuts, little tips and tricks you might have?

cheers

Sharmaji · Post by **Sharmaji** » Sat Oct 03, 2009 7:54 pm

build a good autoload template w/ routings and instruments already loaded, so that you can get down to brass tacks immediately.

fiziks · Post by **fiziks** » Sun Oct 04, 2009 4:40 am

What he said. I couldn't imagine starting from scratch everytime. Make a general template and save it as "default tune" or something.

DBJ2 · Post by **DBJ2** » Sun Oct 04, 2009 6:00 am

I've always found Logic to be the most un-user friendly DAW program ever. But still, it has Plug-in's out the ass.

sainttex · Post by **sainttex** » Sun Oct 04, 2009 6:53 am

DBJ2 wrote:I've always found Logic to be the most un-user friendly DAW program ever. But still, it has Plug-in's out the ass.

Sharmaji wrote:build a good autoload template w/ routings and instruments already loaded, so that you can get down to brass tacks immediately.

Definitely this.

Also print out a short cut list, get used to horizontal and vertical zoom using option + scroll. I usually do some of the following a lot in a session: When zoomed pretty far our for a broad view press Z for auto zoom mode, it's kinda helpful, pressing A will bring up automation only for that track w/ the same broad view for other tracks. comma jumps back a bar and period goes forward one. Shift+CMD+E to bounce each individual track for mastering.

Abuse the screensets functionality. Bounce in Place is useful for tweaking stuff along with stretch.

This may seem stupid, but I definitely wish I knew this first off and am guilty of doing a few tracks with a ridiculous amount of redundancies to automation. To do global automation (track wide fade in / out, effects, etc) go into the mixer, right click on the master channel and choose "Create/select arrange track" and do all your global automation there instead of on each individual track.

Audio>Strip Silence is good to quickly isolate individual sounds.

To easily repeat automation (on regions that may not be full bars, or have automation you want to copy outside of the region) just right click and do insert empty midi region (I do this even on audio tracks) for the length of the automation your trying to repeat. drag drop holding option to copy it or cmd r.

hope this was the kind of stuff you were looking for, if it is I'll try and post more as they come to mind...

Sharmaji · Post by **Sharmaji** » Sun Oct 04, 2009 5:13 pm

if you have hardware synths, find the patch lists and the MSB/LSB information and set up your environment to reflect them... or scan the web, as plenty of folks have done this tuff before. when i'm programming sounds, i don't even have to look at my microkorg, JV, etc-- everything's controlled and mapped in logic. totally awesome.

decklyn · Post by **decklyn** » Sun Oct 04, 2009 7:59 pm

Yeah logic is slow and frustrating.
But it sounds so fucking amazing.
I see people who are very used to it though who are award winning producers and they fly through it. My friend Jon here in Toronto has a studio that has produces some large artists and he flows in it really well so it must just be me. lol

jolly wailer · Post by **jolly wailer** » Sun Oct 04, 2009 9:38 pm

alt + highlight/drag and drop for copying and pasting sections really helped me alot

hurlingdervish · Post by **hurlingdervish** » Sun Oct 04, 2009 9:40 pm

Sharmaji wrote: when i'm programming sounds, i don't even have to look at my microkorg, JV, etc-- everything's controlled and mapped in logic. totally awesome.

that is totally awesome!

86. · Post by **86.** » Sun Oct 04, 2009 9:45 pm

decklyn wrote:Yeah logic is slow and frustrating.
But it sounds so fucking amazing.
I see people who are very used to it though who are award winning producers and they fly through it. My friend Jon here in Toronto has a studio that has produces some large artists and he flows in it really well so it must just be me. lol

it takes some time to get used to for sure.

LURQ · Post by **LURQ** » Sun Oct 04, 2009 10:59 pm

Use screen sets access your most used windows in logic. Save as a template or autoload.

Remember your shortcuts, and don't be afraid to assign your own shortcuts and overwrite shortcuts you're bound to never use. There's a shortcut for just about everything in logic.

I have shortcuts set to open my audio browser, audio to sampler, set locators and loop a region. Drag and drop audio files to your sampler edit window. Pretty basic stuff.

Sharmaji · Post by **Sharmaji** » Mon Oct 05, 2009 1:16 am

hurlingdervish wrote:
Sharmaji wrote: when i'm programming sounds, i don't even have to look at my microkorg, JV, etc-- everything's controlled and mapped in logic. totally awesome.
that is totally awesome!

no joke.

logic's interface (especially the environment) may be a little under-the-hood for the majority of folks, but it is an extremely powerful beast. and if you spend 30 minutes setting yourself up to work in a certain way--or ways-- you'll never have to deal with it again. it may start out slow but if i have an idea, as soon as i open up logic i'm faced with 24 available tracks of audio, 2 reverbs, 2 delays, ultrabeat/battery/stylus ready to go, massive/albino/minimoog/es1/es2 ready to go, drums ready to be parallel processed, hardware patches stored, and hardware routing available. pretty awesome.

speaking of which, time to get back into environment processing.

tripwire22 · Post by **tripwire22** » Mon Oct 05, 2009 3:57 am

fiziks wrote:What he said. I couldn't imagine starting from scratch everytime. Make a general template and save it as "default tune" or something.

i start from scratch....

Risky_Business · Post by **Risky_Business** » Mon Oct 05, 2009 4:24 am

Sharmaji wrote:build a good autoload template w/ routings and instruments already loaded, so that you can get down to brass tacks immediately.

how does one go about doing this?
I get how to make a template and save it. but every time i open logic it just opens the previous track i was working on.

sainttex · Post by **sainttex** » Mon Oct 05, 2009 5:01 am

Risky - Either open up the file you want to use as your new autoload template, or create a new one. After your happy with it, go to File>Save As Template. Next go to your general logic preferences then switch your Startup action to 'Create New Project From Default Template', click the choose button and select 'My Templates' then the template file you just saved.

86. · Post by **86.** » Mon Oct 05, 2009 5:05 pm

tripwire22 wrote:
fiziks wrote:What he said. I couldn't imagine starting from scratch everytime. Make a general template and save it as "default tune" or something.
i start from scratch....

what do you use? I think I recall FL for some reason...

but yeah, I do this in Ableton myself.

lowpass · Post by **lowpass** » Mon Oct 05, 2009 6:22 pm

Cheers for the tips, I saved a dubsteptemplate that has 2 instances of battery running with separate outs to about 30 channels lol

How do I get into the environment place?

I've seen it done before but can't remember

Sharmaji · Post by **Sharmaji** » Mon Oct 05, 2009 7:49 pm

lowpass wrote:Cheers for the tips, I saved a dubsteptemplate that has 2 instances of battery running with separate outs to about 30 channels lol

How do I get into the environment place?

I've seen it done before but can't remember

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