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In plugin manager - when you create a folder, you don't need to add the dash to put it on top - you can literally drag the folder to whatever place on the list you want it to be :)

Two time savers for your time savers: to duplicate a track, including content, hold option and drag the track down. Instead of freezing the duplicated and bounced instrument track, just enable on/off, turn it off and hide it. No additional bouncing needed to freeze it. Turning it off turns off the instrument and FX. I really appreciate your fade shortcut. I always forget that one!

One important thing about freezing tracks: you want the BLUE freeze icon, not the GREEN one. The blue freeze icon freezes your plugins. The green one does not. If it's coming up as the green freeze icon, what you need to do is go to the open up the Inspector window (the "i" icon near the top left) and then select the Track dropdown. There you will see Freeze Mode. You want to select "Pre-Fader" as opposed to "Source Only." Personally, I don't know why the "Source Only" option even exists. It's useless. I also don't know why it randomly pops up for me on certain tracks I try to freeze. But at least I know the solution now so I'm not saving tracks and wondering why I'm not reducing CPU.

this was awesome! can't get enough of logic shortcuts so always nice learning more

Awesome tips as usual, thanks Charles

great video charles! i know it takes a lot of time and effort so congrats!!

Really great video! I love your content. I want to get more into how to record the sounds in my head, so watching your videos are really helpful. Thanks!

such a well produced video! thank you for your work man

"My daughter in the background" -- I've never related to something on youtube so much. This is my life... except it's 3 kids LOL. Great vid bro.

Holding Option and expanding your fingers on the trackpad (macbook) is a quick way to zoom in too

Thanks Charles. Very nice tunes and production, btw. You know your stuff. 👍🏻

Great video!

I had no idea you could browse projects in the file browser, thank you for that one! Gonna be a huge time saver for me

This is Amazing!!!!! Thank you for this!

That was mad useful!!

You can also add fades to all your regions at once if you have the entire track selected. I find that very helpful.

slow and steady Thank U Buddy...

Been a Logic user for 15 years and learned some really useful new features because of this video. Great work!

Very helpful!!

One thing that I used to like for switching tools was in Cubase (no idea if they still have it as haven't used that in years) where you'd hold down the CTRL key and the tool palette would pop up right next to your cursor allowing you to choose whichever tool you needed. Was definitely a very quick way to change tools back in the day.

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Thanks Charles! 👍👌👏🎼🎵🎶

charles, bro... thank you so much. i have bookmarked a few of ur vids. i am new to logic and these vids r all the things i 'wanna kno and on double speed i have learned so much in a half hour. so much time saved. thank you thank you thank you. subbed. 'gonna check out ur track too. i found it on youtube. i don't support itunes. the sample u shared sounds pro af. i'll check it out in a bit. still binging ur vids hahaha stay up!

Hi Charles! Nice to find you here. What a fun channel! Also, I liked hearing your new singel. I will for sure continue to follow your work! (I don’t like the freeze tool, much rather use the ”on off” button wich is doing the same thing with less hustle.❤

Thank you so much! The Plug-In Manager trick was so cool. Saves me going through 3 or 4 pages to get to Auto Tune like I'm on Windows XP! I noticed if you Option-Click and drag, you can make a "Favourites" folder of plug-ins. When I tried Control+Option, it somehow made a way for me to move around the project like when you click in the scroll wheel lol.

Have been using Logic since its inception and before that many other systems as started out on the very first real mainstream systems such as Atari Notator etc Logic is totally fantastic in what it does and all its features. For zooming though I use the Magic Mouse (no idea why so many people don't like them as I could never use anything different personally) and you can just scroll (with modifier keys) to zoom in exactly where you want. Absolutely the fastest way to zoom.

OMG Charles! This was fantastic. I've struggled getting used to Logic after years on another DAW. So many other DAWs allow you to double-click to reset a value back to zero. It has been so frustrating until now! Opt+click! Many of your tips are super helpful for me! One to add that I picked up somewhere is for A/B-ing takes in separate tracks. In some other DAWs, it was fairly east to A/B regions from different tracks. I learned that if you click solo on one (or mute) and then alt+click the second one, it will toggle back and forth between the two you are clicking. Thanks so much for this video! It has been such a time-saver!

If you use cursor as second tool you can hold control and than can be scissor which frees up the right tool for fading

Thanks for the magnifier tip! One thing I do is to always use a custom template, and set-up different screen shots (and lock them), and then, to zoom out, I just press the number (in this case, my fully zoomed-out screen is saved as "1", so, no need to use the magnifier to zoom back out.

I'm maybe a bit confused here but I didn't quite follow your freezing of the track? You created a copy that you then bounced to audio and then you froze the original track? All you need to do is freeze the software instrument track. That then creates freeze files (audio files) which then does exactly what you did by duplicating the track and bouncing to audio. By just freezing the software track you only have one button to press to freeze and if you want to go back to it to edit again you just unfreeze it. By doing it your way I'm fairly certain that you'll have the new track you created with the bounced audio on it and then you've possibly created more audio by then freezing the original track. That may not be true I'm not 100% positive on that because you had the track muted but when you froze the track it still had to go through the procedure of checking the entire length of the song the first time you hit play. Once you'd got that bounced audio on the second track though you could just disable the original track but again I believe that's defeating the purpose of how to use the freeze function on a software instrument track. At least that's the way I've always done it. I may be missing something there though?

Not sure why you’re bouncing tracks, duplicating, then freezing them…that’s literally what the freeze feature is for….its to “bounce the tracks in place” temporarily to conserve CPU until you want to edit them again. It’s literally why the feature exists and it was actually in Logic before ProTools. Also if you want to turn off anything to conserve processing power there is a power button icon that can be added to you track sidebar that if turned off turns off all processing on that track.

Exactly!!

I’m following you now on Spotify, I haven’t listened yet because I don’t want to interrupt this video, thanks

That was great - the plugin-organization one is like Feature Reveal of the Year! (ha). Ditto the 'different comp from the same set of takes' one - just really good. Giving back some tiny bit, I would contribute that when making a comp from multiple takes, is there's a section that you've highlighted from say, Take 1 (the rest being from say, Take 2 etc.), you can click on that corresponding area of the region in other takes and it will auto-select that for exactly that part ,if hat makes sense (i.e., doing my own vocals it's often one or two phrases I'm singing iffily and only need to A/B those to the rest of the comp, not necessarily create a whole new comp (although again, that tip was great! Why did I never ask what those little letters/numbers meant?!).

Didnt know about multiple comps thx

This is why I love logic! I switched from pro tools in 2018 and still pick up lil things here and there and share things I do w others! Your worlflow is very similar to mine it seems! I zoom different tho haha think its from pro tools zoom, always in/out vert/horizontal with +/- with or without cmd. Lately I even started using the num pad zoom with my right thumb so it doesnt leave the trackball

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If you do sneak your knife onboard and the Air Marshall catches you then you're definitely NOT going to be drinking many beers on that flight!! 😂

Please is it right to promote same song on different music distribution apps or sites at the same period and time?

For tip #1 ZOOMING : you can just press Z on keyboard to reset all zooming in one time.

Instead of freezing muting and hiding a midi track I'd turn it off. There is a shortcut to unmute every track and if you accidentally use it (like if you accidentally hold command when clicking M to unmute a track, thus unmuting ALL) you will unmute all muted hidden tracks and you will now have unexplainable sound coming in (because yes, you may forget you had hidden track after a while)

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I’ve just subscribed to your newsletter , I was wondering though “do you have templates that can help me get started? I’m terrible at being organized and that ruins my creativity 😂

Much easier to zoom by holding down alt ( not ctrl and alt ) and either do what you do or scroll with the magic mouse , much better way !!

“Toss your own salad” 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

this deserves triple likes

Interesting because I’m an airline pilot moonlighting as an audio engineer 😂😃

Hi, I have been mega impressed with your many tutorials, but now am a bit frustrated. Either you are using a different version to me, (Iam on the latest) or I have some rogue setting somewhere. Control+option does not do what yours does, but option on it's own does. (Incidentally why is it called option when on every Mac keyboard I have had it is called 'alt'?) Also the little cross icon to fade does not appear in my version no matter how delicately I hover. Frustrating ... but thanks for the rest of it.

Hi, I keep struggling with getting my vocals to sound professional. I just use a stage mic instead of a condenser mic, but is it worth the upgrade? And which plugins should I use?

I’ve worked with logic pro since it was owned by . E magic in 1986. Many changes and new features have been added since Apple took over the company but what drives me crazy is that nothing has been done to improve the notation software part. I understand most kids can’t read music so Apple thinks it’s not worth improving that part of the software. I mean just basic things like if you have to repeat signs that logic would play that repeat just like it is written on paper. I doubt logic will ever implement these changes.

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That hack isn't really a hack at all and I'm 100% positive knows it works as it's just standard procedure for anything on the Mac to be ordered with dashed items first. Same as if you used numbers and so on. You can just drag and drop the folder to wherever you want though 😉

also you can off your track instead of freezing and muting, it's faster for both sides

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I used to be able to highlight a bar with the marquee tool and simply go to the Gain menu and bring it down. I can’t do that anymore. It doesn’t let me; as in, it doesn’t activate. I can only do that with the Gain tool and it cuts the bar. Is that a new feature??

The fade thing is not working for me.

I get the zoom in/out with just an 'option-click', no need for 'control' as well? I only learned it like _last week_ on someone else's video, so it's not a preference I'd ever set for myself. Multiple vocal comps I've never seen anywhere else though, and that I shall carry forward with gratitude. A space works just as well as a dash for folders within plugin manager, and arguably looks a bit 'cleaner'. Scratching my head at the penultimate tip as of 14:59 onwards, though. To me there are needless steps to that workflow? Freezing is precisely for those moments when CPU usage could be lower but it's not quite time to commit/bounce, and has the benefit of keeping your arrangement looking the way it always has… therefore to bounce _as well as_ freeze, let alone copy an entire channel that's deleted as soon as you Bounce In Place because you'd chosen to "replace track" instead of "new track" from the options (which would obviate the copying step)… I don't geddit. Should any MIDI or plugin parameters later need changing the track must be unfrozen anyway but that bounce is now antiquated/useless. I'm just not seeing the upside, from this seat…? 🤔

Shift control isn’t working for me for the fade shortcut

Just bounce to new track imstead of x2ing the midi track, I do this then turn off the track and hide it. Guessing u r using bounce in place...theres a whole set of bounce shortcuts like this I use I think u wld like that are similar if u search boun in the shortcuts...like boumce to a new track and mute etc

the freezing VIs trick. How is this better than deactivating the plugins and hiding the track?

You can just freeze The track and not mute it. It’s kind of the same Thing and saves step of bouncing it

First thirty seconds and I’m like “ YUP!”

My god how did I use logic all these years without knowing the marquee tool exists and is used like that dear god haha.

I loved the video thank you so much for it, Also I just think the analogy was wasting too much time honestly So if it’s not there it will be better for us and less effort for you, I hope you don’t get me wrong Thanks again

you only need to hold option to zoom

I HATE it when I have to toss my own salad.

Canadian?

for the first tip, you just need to hold alt

Years ago I managed to create really nice tracks with GarageBand. Eventually i bought a copy of Logic.. what a shock. I naively believed Logic would "just be an even better GarageBand"; assumptions can be so dangerous. I've never gotten the hang of Logic like I could fly around GarageBand. The learning curve is so steep.. I would argue it is just too steep.

These aren't hidden features

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