Key Commands:

ctrl option left and right move to the previous or next region on a track respectively. This is similar to how Left And Right arrows worked in region selection mode previously.

shift ctrl option spacebar selects/deselect current region. This is similar to how down arrow worked in region selection mode previously.

ctrl option home and end moves the playhead to the first Or last selected region.

ctrl option spacebar speaks the number of selected regions. This is similar to how up arrow worked in region selection mode previously.

Shift home and end always select first and last region only on the selected track, unselecting others if selected.

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Key Commands

Extend Track Selection Up, Shift-Up Arrow. (Will select the first track above the first selected track. If only one track is selected, it will select the track above that track).

Extend Track Selection Down, Shift-Down Arrow. (Will select the first track below the last selected track. If only one track is selected, it will select the track below that track).

Extend Track Selection Up To The First Track, Shift Option-Home, (Shift-Option-FN-Left Arrow on laptop keyboard layouts). (Select all tracks in between the selected track or first selected track through to and including the first track in the project).

Extend Track Selection Down To The Last Track, Shift-Option-End, (Shift-Option-FN-Right Arrow on laptop keyboard layouts). (Will select all tracks in between the selected track or last selected track through to and including the last track in the project).

Move To The Previous Selected Track, Control-Option-Up Arrow.

Move To The Next Selected Track, Control-Option-Down Arrow

Move To The First Selected Track, Control-Option-Home. (Control-Option-FN-Left Arrow on laptop keyboard layouts)

Move To The Last Selected Track, Control-Option-End. (Control-Option-FN-Right Arrow on laptop keyboard layouts)

Unselect A Selected Track, Shift-Control-Option-Space.

speaks number of selected tracks, control option spaceBar (double press to speak selected tracks names). Useful in cases where you may have use VO Command Return to select non contiguous tracks for example and want to hear how many or which tracks you selected.

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I’m biased: I love the piano as an instrument. anymore when playing out, I’m likely to be at a performing arts center or somewhere else with a acoustic piano rather than drag along gear, save the drones and Eastern instruments for the studio. So I love Pianoteq’s commitment to the original manufacturers and modeling according to their specs. I love how Pianoteq implements the pianissimo (soft) and sostenuto pedals. All that to fully disclose my bias, and here’s where I leave Pianoteq behind. To use pianoteq you need to be a pianist and understand things like opening the lid, what kind of hall a particular piano would sound good in, etc etc.

Even Chopin understood the difference between the piano of the instrumental pianist and the singer songwriter. His lover / admirer Pauline Viardot García, who played and sang at his deathbed, had complained to him that her piano technique was nothing like his. In true flowery fashion of the letters of those times, Chopin basically said, “You’re a singer songwriter. You can play and sing at the same tine. So what else do you want?” As a Chopin admirer for decades, and also someone who doesn’t sing, I agree with him. And Apple has made this very approachable with these new pianos. No weird velocity or octave breaks, no “that sounds like a sampled piano” stuff here. I did test them using long scale / arpeggio passages, but I did so with simple ballad chords and arpeggios.

If you’re just playing and singing, or session-dropping accompaniments and chords, these pianos will do you right. If you are learning technique, smoothing your scales / passages, voicing full chords etc., you get to hear and correct your mistakes with the tone of the instrument, unlike a lot of sampled instruments.

Now let’s look at Apple’s pianos. No longer just a sampler instrument, Apple has what looks to me like a cross between a model and samples. Historically, true pianos have been insanely hard to do on electronic keyboard instruments beyond pop and maybe fusion jazz use, but Apple’s instrument really comes through here. I tested with the instruments both dry and wet, and while piano purists (myself included) can get itchy about instruments that show a lot of effects in the chain, “masking” that acoustically pure sound, I think Apple has got it right here. The pianos as they are in the library just work, certainly you can tweak and do more in the piano instrument and with the added effects. But the effects do create the spaces the piano goes with and shape the sound to the genre. Software like Pianoteq can come off as more demanding to a producer who’s not familiar with the what and why of pianos and sound boards, string length, and why you get squeezed sounds with the lid shut / big booming concerts sounds with it open.

Apple has been that group of engineers when I was a young player, who would be running around with the mics and equipment just to get the grand piano mic’d up in the studio or the live concert hall. Inside the piano instrument you can control the key noise (both hammer and damper) and the pedal noise. These are small things that most digital pianos have historically not had, or had in such exagerated fashion it wasn’t always that realistic.

It would be nice if hammer vs damper noise was separated but again most people don’t notice stuff like that, and that doesn’t set you back in a live or studio context.

Unfortunately these don’t have a lid setting, my guess is as you select your instruments it compensates. I’ve only auditioned what’s in the library.

When I bypass all the plugins and dry out the sound completely, it’s not glitchy like you get with sampled pianos. So there’s even curve from piano if not pianissimo to fortissimo, very loud.

I do think it would have helped for them to include a lid setting and to have the soft pedal respond like Pianoteq does. Sostenuto’s not important, I can count on one hand where I have used that pedal in live performances.

This is just a rough cut from my auditioning these instruments. But I’m very impressed with what Apple’s doing here. Of course I will personally always use Pianoteq because reasons. But with these pianos, you don’t need to ask the questions about hall placement, or worry about lid position, etc. Concert Grand is good enough for your kid’s piano competition or recital so long as the work doesn’t contain pianissimo, and more than adequate for jazz, new age, pop and more. All of the other pianos really do fit their genres. Many of them do use the sympathetic resonances which before I had only seen really well done by Pianoteq. These are when you pedal down and play a note, and the relative harmonics play on other strings. Those sympathetic resonances do a lot more, but they are what adds richness, texture and color that makes our instrument what it is. Even the weird “worn out” effects of vintage not-quite-restored instruments in famous bars and clubs. They don’t let us control the unisons — the tuning of the multiple strings for each note - but I suspect they’re compensating with some of their effects in the chain on pianos like Grandma’s piano.

If I had not invested in Pianoteq and had no money to buy it, I could absolutely record and perform with these instruments, even without the pianissimo pedal. I think a very many great competent people will do so. Those of us who grew up on, and were trained with, acoustic pianos will always find our way to places like Pianoteq. but in a very modern songwriting context where so often some of the acoustic instrument dynamics get compressed out of mixes, what more would you need than these? Certainly anything from Elton John to Billy Joel to Adele to Sarah McLachlan to Fiona Apple to Tori Amos and Cody Fry, all these styles and more you could play with the Apple supplied pianos, and not have to fiddle fuss over lid position and what halls will best suit it. certainly they sit nicely in any number of the Space Designer halls and rooms, but the effects on most of them already take care of what you’d need in a typical singer songwriter context, where the piano is the canvas, your vocals the painting.

Yes, I was very pleasantly surprised. This comes from someone who uses all the pedal configurations from Pianoteq on a ton of their instruments. But I’m a piano guy. Most people will want to include piano as part of the support to their song, and these Apple instruments, supported by their Piano emulator, work very nicely for a good many things.

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If joining from the computer you may have to click the link and let it open in safari, then press command l to get to the address bar, Command A to select all and command c to copy.

Then open discord and press command shift n. Navigate to join server and VO Space on it. paste in the link and hit return.

Another option If you are already a member of the LogicBand channel just open discord and press command K for the quick switcher. Press Shift 1 then Q and it should suggest the Q&A channel, hit return to join the channel.

If on mobile clicking the link should put you in the channel in the discord mobile app.

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Remember if joining us from the Mac, clicking the link may open discord in the browser. Vo Shift M on the link and and copy it. Then open the discord app on your Mac, and press Command Shift N for join a new server.

Navigate to the bottom of that window and find the join a server button and activate it with VO Space.

In the invite link edit field paste the link and hit return or VO right to join server and VO space on that. Once you do that you should be in the Q&A channel on the LogicBand discord server.

Remember the advantage to joining us on the computer is you can hear stereo audio if I end up streaming any demonstrations from Logic or etc.

Remember if joining us from the Mac, clicking the link may open discord in the browser. Vo Shift M on the link andselect copy link from the context menu. Then open the discord app on your Mac, and press Command Shift N for join a new server.

Navigate to the bottom of that window and find the join a server button and activate it with VO Space.

In the invite link edit field paste the link and hit return or VO right to join server and VO space on that. Once you do that you should be in the Q&A channel on the LogicBand discord server.

Remember the advantage to joining us on the computer is you can hear stereo audio if I end up streaming any demonstrations from Logic or etc.

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Command T splits at the playhead, though with Logic Magician it will always split at the playhead even if the region under it is not selected. Command Option T will pause playback and split where the playhead is paused.

Grab your copy from the Logic Magician page, and install it along with the included copy of the LogicKeyboardNinja key commands file. Remember after installing you will want to reselect LogicKeyboardNinja as your key commands file in Logic.

See the What’s New page for more on the new features and a brief overview of how they work. See the Logic Magician Documentation for more details as well.

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This tutorial covers how moving or re-arranging tracks in the mixer may be easier than doing it in the track headers With VO Drag and Drop. While this method is simulating dragging and dropping tracks around in the mixer, instead of using VO comma and VO period, the usual drag and drop key commands for VoiceOver, this instead uses the Mouse down and Mouse up key command which is VO Shift Command Space.

Around 7:02 the tutorial also goes into how to select multiple tracks with VO Command Return and move more than one track simultaneously. Don’t forget to clear the selection before moving on to select other tracks with Shift D.

Check out this tutorial to see how to do it in the track headers. Also if you would like to know why to mute the smart tempo multi track set track check out this tutorial.

If you choose to use this feature, Logic will bounce or render all the files you are importing into a single audio file, and use that file for tempo analysis. This audio file ends up on a track in the project so you may want to mute that tracks as to not have a double of all your tracks playing.

You may have noticed I mentioned audio files. This is because MIDI files usually have tempo info that Logic can import and you would usually be prompted to do so when importing a MIDI file, especially into a blank project.

It is possible for audio files to have tempo information embedded as well, but this is not as common. When Logic detects tempo info whether in a MIDI or audio file it usually asks if you would like to set the project to that tempo or adjust the file to the existing project tempo.

Chord Track, Session Player and Other Related Key Commands :

Option Command 1 to create or add a new chord to the chord track

Option Shift Command 1 to edit the selected Chord

Option Command 2 to group Chords

Option Shift Command 2 to un-group Chords

Option Command 3 to select all chords

Option Shift Command 3 to select all chord groups

Option Command 4 to select all chord between locators or in cycle range

Option Shift Command 4 to select all chord groups between the locators or in cycle range

Option Command 5 to cut chords

Option Command 6 to copy chords

Option Command 7 to paste chord

Add Shift to Cut, Copy, or Paste All Chords

Option Command 8 to Delete Chords (though the delete key also seems to work when you have a Chord selected)

Option Shift Command 8 to Delete all Chords

Option Command 0 to copy Chords to the Global Chord Track

Option Shift Command 0 to copy chord from the global chord track to the selected region

Option Command Dash to analyze the selected region With Chord ID

Option Command Equals to set the global track to only show the Chord Track.

VO Shift H Speaks the VoiceOver help tag, useful in this case as you VO Left/Right through chords or chord group it will speak the start and end of the chord or chord group, along with the chord name or name of chords in the group. Especially useful if you have VoiceOver help tags turned off.

Command R to repeat the selected chord, chord group or region etc.

Option Command Home to move the playhead to the Left Locator

Option Command End to move the playhead to the Right Locator

Option Command Left Bracket to set the Left Locator at the playhead

Option Command Right Bracket to set the Right Locator at the playhead

Control Home moves playhead to start of the selected chord, chord group, region, note etc.

Control End moves playhead to end of selected chord, chord group, region, note etc.

Shift Comma moves the playhead back by 8 bars

Shift Period moves the playhead forward by 8 bars

Command Left Bracket sets the selected Chord, region, MIDI note etc to start at the playhead

Command Right Bracket sets the selected chord, region, or MIDI note etc to end at the playhead

Add shift to Command Left or Right Bracket to set the start or end on MIDI regions

Shift Slash announces the current position of the playhead.

Control Option Shift Command D adds a 8 bar session player region to the selected track at the playhead position

Control Shift D fills the track with 8 bar session player regions

Command Shift Slash regenerates or refreshes the session player region. This will generate a new fill on drummer tracks or generate a new performance and will start following the chord track on a region that was not previously following the chord track

Control Shift F selects all the regions following the selected region on selected tracks

The ones I do cover is using the File Menu. This is VO M to get to the menus, then right arrow over to File, then down arrow to Open Recent. Use the right arrow to open the sub menu and down arrow to the project you would like and press return to open it.

Also demonstrated is using Command N, choosing recent from the table and using VO J twice to jump into the section or collection with the recent projects. Navigate to the one you want to open with VO Left/Right and stop interacting with the section or collection and then navigate to the open button at the bottom of the window, and VO Space on it to open the project. You can get there faster with VO End, (VO FN Right arrow on laptop keyboard layouts), and then VO left to the open button if in the current version of Logic 12. Otherwise VO End may take you right to the open button.

The other option discussed is using the Finder to navigate to your logic projects and choose the one you may want to open. This may be more useful for non recent projects. By default Logic Projects are stored in the Logic Folder in the Music Folder in your Home folder. In Finder or on the Desktop, press Command Shift H to get to your Home folder. Then navigate to the Music folder and in there will be the Logic folder.

If you have any follow up questions be sure to leave a comment or hit reply and let me know.

Key Commands Used:

Option Shift Command 1 to edit the selected Chord, press escape to close the dialog when done editing the chord.

Option Command 2 to group chords

Option Shift Command 2 to ungroup chords

Option Command 4 to select chords between the locator or cycle range

Control Option Shift Command D to drop an 8 bar session player region at the current playhead position

Option Command Left Bracket to set the Left locator

Option Command Right Bracket to set the right locator

Find a playlist of tutorials relating to the Chord Track here.