Welcome to the video part two, let's cover the toolbar. In order to access it, we're going to have to control click somewhere in the toolbar region, or right click. And here are all your features. There's quite a bit of them. Let's go ahead and and cover as many as you possibly can. This bounce feature, it's a bit redundant, as the key command is really easy to remember command B. I'm going to go ahead and remove that from our toolbar.

I don't think it's, it's necessary. This next one though, is it's called groups. It is critical. When we talk about being more efficient and having a better workflow. You definitely need tools in your arsenal to do so. This is one of them.

Go to the mixer, and individually select the tracks that you want in your group by hitting command Clicking, or you can create an entire group by holding Shift and grouping your tracks together clicking this slot here and create a group you can actually hide this group by clicking on this Ah really good workflow tip, especially when you start having sessions that are in the 50 track range or 60 track range and above. And the key here is when you want to start editing you click this button here settings. And you click this on editing. This feature here is for multitrack drums and different audio functions. So we'll skip that. We want to click automation mode on and volume on.

You can experiment with all of these later. But let's check out this volume and automation mode. So we're in the middle of working on a track and we have a big group. And we don't want to individually go through each one, what do we do we create a group and we're able to automate like this. And this is a just a fantastic feature for logic, so highly advise you to start implementing it right away. All right, this next one is groups active.

Again, I feel like this is redundant taking up space, all I have to do is click up here. So we're going to kick this one off the island group clutch. This next one is Aqa also known as automation, quick access. We don't need that we're going to cover that in depth in a later video key switches is a universe unto itself. So for now, we're going to just leave it on there, but we're not going to cover it. The learn function is another easy key command.

So we're not gonna cover that either tracks zoom, I think this one is an easy key command if you go to a track and hit Control Z. That about does it. I think it's a useful tool. But since it's easy to remember, we're going to move on no repeating spider race. Yeah, this is this is crucial, especially when recording drums and recording modern drums at that, though, I hit a note. It plays back if I want to hit a sequence of notes.

Sometimes you can play that in a somewhat constructed and organized way. But sometimes it's very sloppy right? No repeat provides a an infrastructure and a tool that can help us stay on point and clear with what we're doing. So we're going to put it on one 16th note if you click the modulation well you can actually affect The minimum and maximum values of what you're hitting. So take a listen to this fantastic creative fool. Let's leave it up there.

This will definitely become useful in your sessions. spotter race works in conjunction with note repeat. So we're going to leave these two together. Go ahead and look at this region up here, or I guess this group of regions, the key command Command T, literally cuts that region. You can also use that button right there. Because it's an easy key command, Command T. I'm going to take it off.

Split by locators does a similar thing, except it's going to cut the region at two times. points, make sure the regions are selected split by locators. And there you go one to try that again. I like to leave that one there that don't use it that much and it just reminds me to use it. crop is a really cool function. It literally just cuts out everything else but what's inside of the locators.

Great feature to use great for arranging great tool, stretch to locators. This one might be of interest to you. Just suppose that we're working on a song and you want to insert a one shot, but the actual one shot is not long enough to meet the current criteria. You can use the stretch to locators function. So create your locator length hit the region that you want. Stretch out, and then it's stretched to locators.

It's gonna ask if you want to process it. Yes you do. And there it is right there, take a listen. Another thing that you could have done is you could have time stretched by holding ALT and stretching the region all the way up. Just giving you guys some options. Okay, remove silence.

I do not like this one in the toolbar as it takes up space. The key command is really easy and simple to remember. It's just Ctrl x and it literally removes the silence in different regions. Moving on join will allow you to to merge audio regions seamlessly. I think it's a fantastic feature. We'll leave it there.

On the other hand bounce regions, again, taking up space, key command is just Ctrl. B. We should all know this one. So we're taking this one off. And why are we taking it off? We're taking it off for for organizational reasons, I want to be able to look at the toolbar and know exactly what's on there.

And I like to shift back and forth between using different tools, again, to remind myself that they're there. And so my brain starts to remember them move to track. This is one of my favorite features of all time, I wanted to move this region all the way up to this track. The way I do so is I click the track, I click the region, and then I hit move the track. key command, I believe is shift, Command T, I'm sorry, shift control. Tea There we go.

I love it, I use it all the time highly recommend it. nudge needs to be here. This is the the prime indicator of how you move your, your regions. So right now I have it set to bar, if I hit alt, right arrow key, I can move this in such an easy way. If I switch to beat, the time division changes, and you know, you can change it to division or ticks or what have you needs to leave it here, I would study this and take my time learning all the different parameters and then just set up your key commands in whatever fashion works for you. Move to playhead is one of those commands that you find yourself using all the time.

If I'm on bar nine, and I want to move this region over to bar nine and I hit semi colon, it happens instantaneously. For whatever reason I want to bring it back to the beginning moves to the playhead by hitting semi colon highly recommended. Because it's an easy key command, we're going to move it out of the island again. These next four key commands are critical for your workflow. When we talk about repeating a section, we're going to create a cycle region, hit that button right there, and all of a sudden you've got an instant duplicate. If, for whatever reason, we wanted to cut a section off, we would hit that right there.

And all of a sudden, you've got an instant edit, that would have taken you a few clicks, and perhaps a few minutes. Insert section is pretty cool. Let's just say we create a cycle region, we cut the section, you want to audition it as an intro just to try it. See if it sounds good. You hit insert section. And there it goes.

Right Insert Silence is a great feature when you create a cycle region. So say you wanted to create a drop every add a reverberated snare, you can insert the silence by clicking on that and all of a sudden you've got the space to work. Shuffle we're going to remove a little bit of an advanced feature. Previous the next marker we're also going to move is that's an easy key command. If you have marker setup and you on your numeric keypad, you press the numbers 1234 I think it'll help you out a lot. Let's finish up here.

Set locators, no need for that. I highly recommend you learn the key command command you among others. We don't need zoom, as we will use our key commands on our trackpad, as I will show you later and colors key commands is easy. We're going to take that off, it's alt C. Alright guys, we're one step closer to setting up your system, so you too can have an optimum workflow. Thank you for watching.