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

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.

Remember you can use VO Shift M when working with the chord track a lot as well as VO Shift H as you VO Left/Right through the chord track to announce the chord name and position if you have your VoiceOver hints disabled. VO Command Return is also useful for selecting chords as well.

Key Commands

Option Command 1 To Create Chord

Option Shift Command 1 to Edit Chord

Option Command 2 Groups Chords

Option Shift Command 2 Un-groups chords

Control home to Move playhead to start of selected chord

Control end to move playhead to end of selected cord

Command Left Bracket to trim the start of a chord to the playhead

Command Right Bracket to trim the end of a chord to the playhead

Command R to Repeat Chord

Option command 5 to cut selected chords

Option Command 6 to copy selected chords

Option Command 7 to paste selected chords

Option Command Left Bracket to set left locator at playhead

Option Command Right Bracket to set Right locator at playhead

Shift Period to move playhead forward by 8 bars

Shift Comma to move playhead back by 8 bars

Remember you can read about Logic Magician, download it, and it’s documentation on the Logic Magician page, and see an ever growing playlist documenting Logic Magician features as well.

Non members can see the Logic Magician tutorials on how to add a send to a track, and how control tab works.

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Logic Pro 12’s Chord ID feature is utilized to get the chords out of an audio guitar track and add them to the global chord track. The chords are then edited and the bass tweaked slightly in session player editor. For an introduction to Chord ID, check out this tutorial.

how Chord ID works so here’s how it’s been working for me so far. Select the region you want to analyze and get the chords for. Then add those chords to the global chord track. Lastly I find setting the global track to show only the chord track helps when you want to edit the chords. In the future there will be an updated version of the LogicKeyboardNinja key commands file and Logic Magician, but this is what I assigned things to to test out chord ID.

Key Commands Used:

Analyze Chords Option Command Dash

Apply Region Chords to Chord Track Option Command 0

Show/Hide Chord Track Only Option Command =

Show or hide the session player editor E

Bring up the context menu after you VO Space on a Chord or Chord group VO Shift M

See how to assign a key command in this tutorial.