Welcome to housekeeping 301. Now let's talk about logics main window. This is logic single window interface. You can do almost everything in this window. Let's talk about its makeup. On the left, you will find the library and the inspector.
On the right, you will find the list editors, notepads, Apple loops, and browsers. In the bottom window, live the mixer Smart Controls and the editors showing one window will hide the other. The center portion contains the tracks window which cannot be hidden and at the very top are two winners. panes, we've got the control bar, and below that we have the toolbar. Let's talk about the control bar. This does what it says it does.
It allows you to control and navigate logics interface. In order to access it, you will have to control click the bar itself, or hit the key command, which is currently in the side. So Ctrl, click up here, or right click Customize, control bar display and the LCD drop down menu. And of course, there is the key command. As I said, currently on a site, let's talk about all the views. So on the left here, got the library inspector toolbar, all the necessary views to navigate logic.
If you're new, you should leave this on the safe bet. It's good to have all these icons, highly recommend you learn all the key commands, libraries, one Spectre is AI, mixers, ex editors IE Smart Controls be you'll get used to it here and transport. I usually don't like to leave any of these on except go to selection start and capture recording simply because I already know all the key commands, please experiment, find your workflow. Let me show you go to selection starting capture recording. I'm going to create an empty region. Let's just say the playhead was over here somewhere and I hit go to selection start and that will go to the selection of the region that is currently selected.
Capture recording Another great feature let's just say I was jamming without having the record mode on And I forgot to record it. Well, this is a backup, you hit Shift R, and there's all the information there. I think it's absolutely necessary to use the customized feature here on the LCD instead doesn't limit you at all gives you all the information you need. I love having the position of my playhead the sample rate, so you're clear from the get go. tempo time signature, MIDI activity. Not sure if you know but if you hit a chord on a MIDI controller, you can see the chord right up there.
Love that feature. And then of course load meters CPU, good to know what state they're currently in. Let's get into modes and functions. I do think that there are a superfluous amount of features here. So I want to break them down to their least common denominators. Fundamental ones are low latency mode.
Swap left and right locators. Move locators by cycle length, tuner, counting, click and master volume. By the way, this master volume here is inextricably linked with this master volume here. So when you drop this one, this one automatically goes down and vice versa. And a quick workflow tip, if you want to reset your channel strips volume, all you have to do is hit Alt and click on your channel strip. Same thing applies for panning.
All right low latency mode, we're going to cover in depth in a later tutorial, this feature here swap left and right locators. We'll cover it in a second I just want to show you the move locators backwards by cycle length. So if I have this selected as my cycle, and I hit that key command, this makes for a really good workflow. tuner really good for guitar players, bass players, etc, etc. Definitely want the count and the metronome in their key command. Okay.
Before we finish off, we do need to cover the editors on the right. So here in views, got the list editor, the notepad, Apple loops, and browser. And by the way, one of the reasons I like to even have these options available The screen is just to serve as visual cues. They almost remind you as you're working that they're there if you need them. So while we don't all need the apple loops function there, it's just good to have it's out of the way, there's no reason to take it off. Let's finish off with swap left and right locators.
I feel this is a phenomenal arrangement tool if used properly. So if you create a cycle region, and you want to hear what this sounds like, without this particular section, of course, you could use your mark key, cut this out, and then group the region together. Well, there's a faster way, if you just hit that button, or right click and click swap left and right locators. You can listen to what this sounds like without that particular section. Take a listen Okay, thank you for watching. I'll see you on the next tutorial, where we are going to cover the toolbar.
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