Welcome to the video strategies for zooming and scrolling. Zooming and scrolling are very deep subjects in logic. I want to keep this concise so I will only cover what is important. Let's start with quick tips. Go to position. This is great.

This is a way of navigating the tracks area without having to use the mouse. If I wanted to go to bar 36, you would forward slash 36. And there it is right there. I know we covered this a little bit. I just want to reiterate as this is a very important feature. Another one is stop or play from last location.

By default, it's unassigned. I like to use all and spacebar. So let's go ahead and program this learn by key label. Hit all spacebar and you should be all ready This will allow you to playback from your previous play position. I highly dislike having to play something and then moving back to the same position to play what I just heard. While you can use go to position to move back, play from last location is more conducive to a better workflow as it is only a one step process and go to position would be a three step process.

So what does this look like? Exactly stop replay from last location. Let's just say we were on bar three here. We were playing the song and I wanted to go all the way back to three. What if I could just hit alt. Again, I don't have to move the mouse.

I don't have to go to position. I just have to click alt spacebar Can also be achieved, obviously with the Marquee Tool. But stop replay from last location just gives a little bit more freedom. Some things we should all be aware about in regards to zooming. Quick zoom, this toggles between your current zoom level and the max zoom level of the selected objects, or all the objects if nothing is currently selected. So for example here, I have this track selected and I hit z. I'll see all the track and then I'll just see a more condensed version of that if you click the track and hit Ctrl Z, well that enlarges that specific track.

And you can see the track zoom button toggling here. So be aware of z. Seeing all of your tracks closely. And then Ctrl Z zooming in on one track, vertical horizontal axis Zoom. This automatically displays all tracks in your projects super helpful, very easy to use. That would be these two buttons here, vertical auto zoom, and horizontal auto zoom, zoom sliders.

Because I already use my trackpad for zooming. And the key commands for zooming, I really don't use these. These are more a reference. For example, when I hit the vertical auto zoom, I can see that this shifted a bit and when I hit horizontal autism, I can see that this shifted a bit. So I don't necessarily use those but I just want you to be aware of what they do and where they are. Zoom tool, drag a selection to zoom in, click again to zoom back out.

Our Zoom tool, by default is alt so if we wanted to just isolate a specific region, let's say, from here to here. And by the way, when you're on an actual audio region like I am here, you're going to have to hold Ctrl Alt, in order to get it. When you're outside of a region, you could just hit all and located that way. We can see the transia. We can make any and all edits. And if you want to zoom back out, you just hit Ctrl Alt and click.

So you're either going to lasso around a specific area, right? Or you're just going to keep the Zoom tool where it is and just click. Now, that can be sequential. For example, I can zoom in once, twice and three times. And if I want to go back I just click 123 zoom presets, zoom presets. are similar to navigation snapshots, they store and recall your most used zoom levels.

Zoom presets are stored in the preference file, and are available in any project. So let's look for this. So here are your zoom presets. When you're ready to save a zoom preset, here's the key command Ctrl Alt Shift, command one. So let's demo that. Let's say I use this specific zoom level often.

I'm going to hit Shift control, all command and one. All right, we're going to zoom in a little bit tighter for two. And now when I hit recall zoom one and recall zoom two which is Ctrl. All command here it's Ctrl command one. There's that First zoom level. And here's the second one, back and forth.

So use this wisely as you only get three zoom positions. And you can go back and forth between them. love that feature. Very vertical waveforms zoom. This increases the size of the waveform. It doesn't necessarily affect volume or gain.

So let's just say this was really small on your screen for whatever reason, we would go up to this button, click and hold and then you can raise up the actual waveform regions. Again, this is not gonna affect volumes so they can be small like that or they can be big, but this is helpful for editing and just overall navigation. All right, So we know we can zoom in hitting command and using the arrow keys. This is left and right. And this would be a vertical zoom right? horizontal vertical.

But it is much faster to scroll with a trackpad while holding all. So while it takes me, you know, a few clicks to get all the way to that zoom level, when using alt and the trackpad, I can literally get there in milliseconds. So this is all about practicing good habits now so they become second nature. Let's cover scrolling. I imagine that at least 50 to 60% of our time is spent just scrolling. If you're using a traditional mouse, this is a nightmare.

As you have to use the scroll bars to get around you don't know where the scroll bars are You can see it down here you would have to hold that maneuver yourself all the way to the end of the session. This becomes especially relevant with bigger sessions. If you have a Mac laptop, this function is available through your built in trackpad. If you're on a desktop and are working with the conventional mouse, you will not have this unfortunately, you must own a trackpad to enjoy these workflow benefits. A Magic Mouse is good too, but its uses are limited. I happen to own a trackpad too.

And it's two finger gesture scrolling behavior is an absolute must have. This has changed my life and made music making a much more enjoyable process as well. In terms of navigating rather than using the mouse to get to a destination, I can now use the trackpad to just scroll anywhere in a speedy manner. This in combination with key commands will make you an unstoppable workflow ninja. I honestly cannot say enough good things about it. One last hack that I was lucky enough to find was to actually zoom in to a plugin.

So for example, even though I have a large display, sometimes I want to kind of get into the nitty gritty of a plugin. But because of the size of enable, most plugins do have a feature where you can increase the size, the view of the plugin. And that's super helpful. But the truth is, is that not all plugins do and some of them are literally that small. I love the logic interface. But sometimes I do wish certain things were bigger.

And while I can sometimes increase the size of a plugin, sometimes its features and available. Here is how you find a hack. You go to System Preferences accessibility Zoom and I like to use the ctrl as my modifier says here use scroll gesture with modifier keys. So now when I'm holding CTRL and I scrolling using the trackpad, I can zoom in all the way. Okay ladies and gents, enjoy. I hope that helps.

Thank you for watching. I'll see you on the next video