Welcome to the video workflow killer number three spending too much time mousing around strictly using the mouse is a massive waste of time. Think of all the energy and time you spend just looking for stuff in logic. key commands play a significant role in speeding up your workflow. It's way faster to strike a key combination than to reach for the mouse, shake it to find the cursor or reach for the corresponding menu, sub menu and of course the buttons. Logic has more than 12,000 key commands. Bear in mind these commands are also available in various menus through buttons.
There are also a variety of commands that are only available as key commands. These are marked with a.in front of their name, like so. For each command, there are two types of triggers the First is key, one key or key combination to trigger a command. So command Z, or all command Z or what have you. And then there's assignment, which is one or multiple messages sent from an external control surface. This is how you assign key commands, you can do it in one of three ways.
You can use the learn by key label feature. This records only the label of the key meaning if you're using an extended keyboard or not. The number one on the numeric pad, we'll measure the actions of the number one have a standard keyboard. Then there's learned by key position records the position of the key advantages that you have more programmable keys when working with an extended keyboard. So you've got more to work with. Then there's less Learn Touch Bar.
Here you can record commands using Apple's new Touch Bar feature, further expanding your reach and options. And lastly, there's learn new assignment, use any message sent from an external control surface to trigger a key command. So if you wanted to change your zoom position, or go from read automation to latch automation, you can do that. And let me go ahead and show you how to do that. So you can see here we're on read, and I'm going to use my Korg nano control to toggle latch automation on and off. So how do I do that?
Click the track. I click learn new assignment. On this toggle current track automation latch read Click this on, I hit the button on my nano control that I want to assign. And there it is right there a recorded message. Now every time I hit that corresponding button, check it out here on the left. It reads it and it's automatic.
I advise you to create your own personalized set of key commands. Start with the commands that are part of your daily routine. simple stuff, cutting repeating. For example, if you have an audio region here, let me just drag in a loop. That's a fantastic feature. I've got my key command under Command D That's repeat regions events.
I also have repeat regions events multiple times. If I wanted 20 of these, well, instead of using the command D feature, I would use Command R. And I would just put 20 right up there. And I would make these copies rather than alliances or clones. And there it is, I highly advise you to just start small start to build your repertoire of key commands. And this will help out so much as an option. You can even delete the ones you don't use, so you avoid triggering something by accident.
The truth is, there are so many key commands that you only really need to learn the ones that are essential to your workflow. The one key command you should know by heart is option K, which opens up the key command menu You can search for key commands here by typing in actions. So let's just say we want to do something with automation, we typed in the word automation. Here all the pertinent key commands. This is a great way to learn new key commands. You can also test out certain key combinations in this portion to see if those specific combinations are already taken.
If you wanted to use all Command G, here, logic is telling us that all Command G is being used for alignment guides on and off, which by the way we can find right here, alignment guides, all Command G. This is yet another strategy to accelerate your speed and maximize your time while working on logic. I appreciate you guys. Thank you for watching. I'll see you on the next video. You