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HOW TO LOOK UP KEY COMMANDS IN LOGIC PRO

AND WHY THE KEY COMMANDS LIST IS NO LONGER ON THE SITE

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the key commands list is no longer on the site as it had fallen out of date and was time consuming to keep updated. You can always look up key commands by pressing Option K in Logic to go to the key commands dialog. In there you can interact with the table and press keys to move to what that action is and VoiceOver will announce it as well. Alternatively you can go to the search field and search for what you are looking for.

Yes sometimes when you get to the search field Logic will become unresponsive, this is a relatively new thing and hopefully it will be sorted in a future update. It’s possible it was sorted in Logic Pro 12, but I can’t verify that as of this writing as for me it happens infrequently enough, that it not happening to me yet in Logic Pro 12 I can’t take as proof it’s been resolved yet. However if you are just trying to navigate past the search field to get to the table that has all the key commands in it so you can press keys to hear what they do, consider pressing VO J to jump around the window and get into the table with all the key commands that way. Once in the Table you can press keys and hear what they do.

Another thing to consider is when you first open the Key Commands assignment window with Option K, is to go to the more or action button , VO Space on it and select expand all. When you press option K to open the key commands dialog you are usually on the search field, you can press VO Home, (VO FN Left Arrow if on a laptop keyboard layout), to be taken right to the more menu button. This will hopefully prevent VoiceOver from announcing all the rows expanding as you move through the table with all the key commands.

Generally in any table (if they are properly formatted), VO Left/Right And VO Up/Down will navigate across a row or up or down a column. So if you want to go through the list of Key Commands VO UP/Down when you are on the commands column to hear what the Command is and VO Right to see what the key is to press for that command. If you have your voiceover punctuation set on its default, then you may have to interact with the Key and use VO Shift Left/Right to read by character to hear what the full command is. So if a command just say command , you may find when you interact and use VO Left/Right it says Command Comma or Command left bracket etc.

Regarding search terms, I will often try synonyms like delete or remove for example. Usually once you figure out the terminology its consistent. For example it wouldn’t say delete region but then remove tracks. It will most likely say delete region, and delete track. Also I will try part of a search term like regions or tracks or locators to see all the commands that have those options.

Because when you press a key it will announce what that key does, you can’t press Command W to close the key commands assignment window. Instead you will need to navigate to the close button at the top of the window and VO Space on it to close it. Once you aren’t interacting with the table that has the list of key commands, once again you can press VO home, (VO FN, Left arrow if on a laptop keyboard layout), to get to the more menu button, then VO left a few times to the close button, and VO Space on it to close the window.

as Logic Magician key commands are not a part of Logic, there isn’t a way for them to be included when you use Option K. The Key Commands list on the site didn’t include Logic Magician key commands either. You will need to use the Logic Magician documentation to check for Logic Magician key commands. The Logic Magician documentation however does include a lot of the LogicKeyboardNinja key commands as Logic Magician adds spoken feedback to them. So if one would like a separate document that is sorted with a table of contents and that they can also search they can download the Logic Magician Documentation from the Logic Magician Page and use the table of contents or search options to jump around the document.

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