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• 0:00 - Where to begin learning Logic Pro?

  • The MIDI Songwriter Course

  • Using Logic With Logic Magician Course

  • Editing With Locators

  • Basic Song Arranging With Locators

• 4:14 - Logic Magician Layout, Fundamentals, and transitioning from standard Logic Pro

• 8:33 - What’s the deal with Substack? Do you need the Substack app?

• 16:55 - The best way to search through The Blind Logic Pro archives

• 22:25 - What tutorials to watch after completing the free course

• 23:40 - Membership Tier options for The Blind Logic Pro

• 26:14 - Accountability and the highest Membership Tier

• 27:14 - The Blind Logic Pro Live Group Classes

• 37:03 - Tutorial efficiency and essential YouTube key commands

• 42:16 - What is expected of students in the Live classes?

• 1:04:16 - How tutorials are organized on the channel (Browse All Playlists)

• 1:08:47 - Can take folders be used on all tracks, or audio tracks only?

• 1:14:06 - Switching to the Mac from Windows

• 1:15:49 - Word vs. Pages vs. TextEdit

• 1:20:18 - What is The Blind Mac Pro?

• 1:23:14 - How to upgrade your YouTube Channel Membership level

• 1:26:45 - How to analyze the tempo of an imported audio file

• 1:31:41 - When is it time to do a clean Mac OS install?

• 1:37:37 - Time Machine restores: Why it may not always be the best option

• 1:44:47 - Practicing piano with the MK III S Series Komplete Kontrol Keyboard + iPad

• 1:46:01 - Why Logic Pro for iPad didn’t work for me

• 1:54:52 - Why VOCR may not be working for you

• 2:06:57 - How to bookmark/share links to specific video timestamps and leverage YouTube features

• 2:10:26 - Essential Mac OS concepts for beginners

• 2:21:35 - How much space different file types take up on your drive

Helpful Resources Mentioned

• Free Getting Started Course: Subscribe here to claim

• Logic Magician Accessibility Tool: Learn more & download | Watch playlist

• 1-on-1 Services & Coaching: Book a session or service

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When

Saturday, August 29th

12:00 PM Pacific | 3:00 PM Eastern | 8:00 PM UK

Where

The LogicBand Community Discord Server in the members-q-and-a voice channel.

How to Join

• Current YouTube Members: Make sure your YouTube and Discord accounts are connected, then head straight to the members-q-and-a voice channel at start time.

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When

Saturday, August 29th

12:00 PM Pacific | 3:00 PM Eastern | 8:00 PM UK

Where

The LogicBand Community Discord Server in the members-q-and-a voice channel.

How to Join

• Current YouTube Members: Make sure your YouTube and Discord accounts are connected, then head straight to the members-q-and-a voice channel at start time.

• Not a Member Yet? Join the channel on YouTube at the Members-Only Tutorial level (or higher), create a discord account, and connect your accounts, and hop in!

Can’t Make It Live?

Drop your questions in the members-q-and-a text channel beforehand, and I’ll answer them so you can catch them in the recording.

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You can download the latest version of Logic Magician, and the latest copy of the Documentation. There is also the Youtube Playlist of Logic Magician Tutorials.

Regarding the documentation, not only has it been updated for the latest version of Logic Magician, but I believe the formatting issues that made it difficult to read should be resolved. Also it has been re-arranged to keep similar and related topics closer to each other. Another new thing to be aware of is that if a heading or Chapter title is a link, clicking on it should take you to that tutorial on Youtube as well. This will be updated over time as more Logic Magician Documentation tutorials are done. I encourage you to give it a try, whether. In Apple Books,Thorium Reader, (which is also free), or one of the many other apps that allow you to open and read ePubs.

For those of you wanting the Logic Magician Documentation in HTML, if you unzip the ePub, you should be able to find each chapter as their own HTML file.

What’s New In Logic Magician 2026.7

. ctrl + F, the region Flex key command , has been Updated to work better with the new feature in Logic Pro 12.3. Press once to toggle region flex on/off, press twice to open the newly updated region smart tempo menu.

F1 , which speak the project tempo with a single press, now speaks the Region Tempo whenDouble Pressed

After Double Pressing F1 to hear the region Tempo, press Option W to bring up and edit field where you can type in a tempo for the selected region. After typing in the Tempo, press Return.

Examples:

For a tempo like 85, after pressing Option W, type in 85 and press Return.

For a tempo like 92.3, press Option W and type in 92 period 3 then press Return.

For a tempo like 120.83, press Option W then type 120 period 83 then press Return.

kontakt lmx has been removed as it no longer worked and it appears you can get to the file menu without the Kontakt LMX now.

Background noise—whether it’s air conditioner hum, computer fan noise, or room rumble—can destroy an otherwise great vocal take.

In our latest video tutorial, we pit iZotope VEA ($29) against Apple’s built-in Sound Isolation plugin (Free on macOS) to see which one removes background noise fastest while keeping your voice sounding natural and full.

Check out the full comparison and screen-reader-friendly workflow tutorial below:

Watch Full Video on YouTube

🎛️ The Golden Rule of Vocal Processing Order

One common mistake in vocal production is placing cleanup plugins in the wrong position within your plugin chain.

If you apply EQ or compression before removing background noise, you inadvertently boost the noise floor, making it twice as hard to clean up later.

Here is the ideal 5-step order for processing vocals or spoken-word dialogue:

1. Audio Cleanup & Restoration: Start here. Use tools like Apple Sound Isolation, iZotope VEA, or RX to strip away hum, room noise, and clicks from the raw recording.

2. Pitch & Time Correction: Apply pitch correction (Auto-Tune, Logic Pitch Correction or Flex Pitch) and time alignment (VocAlign, Revoice Pro, or Logic’s Groove Tracks) after the noise is removed so the algorithms track cleaner signals.

3. Tone & Dynamic Shaping: Insert your core EQ, Compression, and Saturation to shape the tone and control the vocal dynamics.

4. Modulation: Add effects like Chorus or Flangers to widen or color the vocal. Can be on AUX Sends.

5. Time-Based Effects (Reverbs & Delays): Finish with spatial effects—typically routed via AUX Send tracks to keep your primary vocal crisp and clear.

🛠️ Quick Comparison: VEA vs. Sound Isolation

• Apple Sound Isolation (Free): Included in macOS Systems as an Audio Unit plug in. Because it is a macOS AU plugin, you can run it in Logic Pro, Reaper, Ableton, or any DAW on Mac that supports AU plugins. It features a simple 2-parameter workflow that cleanly separates voice from background ambient noise.

• iZotope VEA ($29): Combines core audio cleanup from iZotope RX with subtle tonal shaping features from Nectar. It uses 3 primary controls to clean, shape, and boost vocal tracks simultaneously.

Watch the full tutorial above to hear both plugins tested side-by-side in a real-world mix with full processing!

⏱️ Video Highlights & Timestamps

• 0:00 – Introduction

• 1:26 – iZotope VEA Feature Overview

• 2:38 – The 3 Core Parameters (RX & Nectar Integration)

• 2:56 – Live Demo: Removing Air Conditioner Hum with VEA

• 4:38 – Accessible Audio Production Tips for Blind & Visually Impaired Producers

• 5:14 – How to Find & Load Apple’s Sound Isolation Plugin

• 6:18 – Understanding Sound Isolation’s 2 Controls

• 7:25 – Live Demo: Removing Aircon Noise with Sound Isolation

• 7:55 – Pros & Cons: VEA vs. Sound Isolation

• 9:08 – In-The-Mix Comparison (with EQ, Compression, Delay, & Reverb)

• 9:50 – Final Thoughts & Summary

🔗 Key Links & Resources

• 🎓 Free “Getting Started with Logic Pro” Course: Get Your Free Course

• 🪄 Logic Magician (Accessibility Tool for Logic Pro): Learn More & Download | Watch the Playlist

• 🎙️ 1-on-1 Coaching & Custom Mixing: Work With Me

• 🎧 Listen to the Released Song: Watch on YouTube

• 🎛️ iZotope VEA Details: Official iZotope Page

💬 Connect & Join the Community

Have questions about setting up accessible workflows or choosing the right plugins? Drop a comment on this post or join our community:

• Discord: Join the Community Server

• Twitter / X: @blindlogicpro

• Facebook: The Blind Logic Pro

• Instagram: @theblindlogicpro

In our latest video tutorial, we walk through the steps required to pull down the entire library without having to download each available sound pack individually.

Video Tutorial: Logic Pro 12 How to Download All New Sounds with VoiceOver For Blind Users

Accelerate Your Audio Workflow

If you enjoy accessible tutorials like this, consider checking out Logic Magician. Designed specifically to enhance accessibility and eliminate workflow friction for blind and visually impaired musicians, Logic Magician handles the tedious tasks so you can focus entirely on your music. Read the official documentation and download a copy.

Alternatively, if you’re looking for tailored, personalized guidance, I offer professional One-on-One Training & Mixing Services. Let me help you refine your mixes and/or master Logic Pro With VoiceOver.

Connect with the Community

Music production shouldn’t be a solitary journey. Join our active Discord community of screen-reader producers to share tips, ask questions, and collaborate:

• Discord Server:

Key Commands

Command Option A to create a new audio track

Shift Return to rename a track

T to speak the n name of the currently selected track

I to speak the current input for the currently selected track

Double press I to change the input for the currently selected track

Command D to duplicate the selected track

Control Shift S to change a track from mono to stereo

Option Accent Open/Closes The Track Stack

Shift Up/Down select the next lower or higher track

Control Home To Move the playhead to the start of the selected region

Control End To move the playhead to the end of the selected region

N to hear the name of the selected region or how many regions are on a track if multiple regions are selected

Shift A to select all the regions on a track or within a track stack

See how to record TO Multiple MIDI or Software Instrument Tracks at the same time here.

Want to work with me one on one, have me mix one of your songs so you can learn from it, or otherwise support the channel, then visit the services page.

Find out about logic Magician, read it’s Documentation and download a copy. See a free playlist that document Logic Magician features.

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.

Find out about logic Magician, read it’s Documentation and download a copy plus see a free playlist that document Logic Magician features.

If you haven’t yet, subscribe to The Blind Mac Pro newsletter and channel as well as check out a tutorial on how to Set VoiceOver To use CapsLock only as your Vo Key, or How to set Voiceover to use CapsLock as your VO Key in Logic Only.

Want to work with me one on one, have me mix one of your songs so you can learn from it, or otherwise support the channel, then check out the services page.

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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See working with hiding and unhiding tracks in this tutorial.

Subscribe to The Blind Mac Pro and See how to Set VoiceOver to use CapsLock Only.

See How to set CapsLock as Your VoiceOver Key in Logic Only using VoiceOver Activity or Application Specific Settings for VoiceOver

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 Lounge 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.

Look forward to catching up, with you all.

P.S. If the avove links don’t work, try copying this one.

https://discord.gg/enrxH9mG7

Grab your copy of ML Drums Peril here.

See the tutorial covering ML Drums 2.4.9 update here.

See all the other ML Drums tutorials on this playlist.

Want to work with me one on one, have me mix one of your songs so you can learn from it, or otherwise support the channel,

See other ML Drums tutorials here.

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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.

Cheers, and hope this helps someone,

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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.

Apologies for the technical difficulties but it appears the way this email service does it’s link re-direction is causing issues.

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.

If you haven’t yet connected your YouTube channel to your discord account, follow these steps to do so. You’ll know they aren’t connected if you are a Youtube channel member and you can’t access the Q&A channel when you try to join.

Look forward to catching up, and answering some questions in a few with you all.

If the links above aren’t working hit reply or leave a comment an I’ll try to get you in if I catch it during the Q&A.

Also I set up a single page to make it easy to work with me or support me, whether it’s booking one on one lessons, becoming a channel membership, or a new option where I mix one of your songs and provide you with a walk through on how i got to the final mix. You can read about all the options an details at https://www.theblindlogic.pro/services. As always if you got any questions, hit reply or leave a comment.

And last but not least, all the VoiceOver and Mac OS tutorials will be moving to a new home in the coming days. If you would like to stay up on Mac OS and VOiceOver tutorials, then please subscribe to the newsletter or youtube channel to stay in the loop. In addition to moving over the VoiceOver and Mac OS tutorials to their own publication, there will be more tutorials coming as well on all things Mac and VoiceOver. subscribe now to be notified when the tutorials start going live.

Once again, let me know if there are any questions with a reply or a comment. Hope your weekend is off to a great start and you are doing something Musical!

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.

Not a Logic Magician user? You can download the latest copy of the LogicKeyboardNinja key commands file here.

Join us on the Discord server and lets chat about it more in the Logic Magician Channel.