Video: Track Groups in Logic March 11, 2008
Posted by ConnorSmith in : Editing, Logic Studio 8, Videos , trackbackThis video shows the process of grouping tracks in Logic Studio Pro. Specifically, I show you how to group your drum tracks together to prepare them for editing. The next video in this series will show you how to edit drums once you group them. Later today, I am going to post that video, so be sure to check back.
Transcript:
This is thestudiofiles.com video on how to group tracks together in Logic Studio Pro. Its really essentially to learn how to do this because when you are working with a large number of tracks or when you are editing drums, it will save a lot of time by editing things with a group. So lets go into the mixer window with [key command] Apple+2. Now, you want to group similar tracks together; so, for instance, I have a snare top and a snare bottom mic. So highlight those two tracks, then right above the automation [selection] button you’ll see there is a blank space. Click in there, and you will see the thirty-two different groups Logic has available. Lets pick group 20 for the snares. Now the Group Settings dialog box opens, lets call [this group] snare (it makes sense…); and, there are a bunch of different check boxes that you can choose to indicate how you want your tracks to be grouped together. For now, we are just going to check “Region Selection (Edit)”, which will make the tracks edit together, and track zoom, so they will zoom [vertically] together. Let’s do the same thing for our toms, we have low tom, mid tom, and high tom. Go into the group menu. The next available group is twenty-one. Call the group “Toms” and check “Region Selection (Edit)” and “Track Zoom” again. And finally, group the overheads. Now the most important group when editing drums is the “All Drums” group. You need to make a group that selects all your drums at once. Again, this is the most important group when you are editing, which you will see in our next video. So highlight all your drum tracks and choose the next available group (which is twenty-three). Call it “ALL DRUMS”. Stay tuned for our next video coming up really soon on how to use these groups when you are editing drums in Logic Pro.
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