Apple Logic Pro X - Manual (Page 542)

Chapter 17 Automate mix and effects settings 542
Edit automation in the Automation Event List
When Show Advanced Tools is selected in the Advanced preferences pane, you can edit
automation in a dedicated Automation Event List window.
Open the Automation Event List window
m Use the Automation Event List key command.
Edit track automation
m Edit individual events in position, length, value, and so on.
Write track automation with external controllers
Logic Pro provides support for a number of dedicated control surfaces that make writing and
editing track automation fast, efficient, and easy. Depending on the facilities available, you can
simultaneously write automation for several channels, or multiple plug-in parameters. Any
MIDI controller—such as the modulation wheel, or a front panel slider or knob on your MIDI
keyboard—can be used to write automation. You can use one such controller for all automation
writing duties, or you can assign individual controllers (if available on your MIDI keyboard) to
different parameters.
The Automation Quick Access feature makes track automation extremely fast and simple if you
only have one hardware MIDI controller available—one fader on your MIDI keyboard, or just the
modulation wheel, for example. You can use this single hardware controller to automate the
currently active automation parameter of the selected track in the main window.
Set up Automation Quick Access
1 Choose Logic Pro > Preferences, or press Command-Comma (,), then choose Automation.
In the Automation pane, Automation Quick Access is turned off by default.
2 Click the On button in the Automation Quick Access section.
A dialog prompts you to assign a controller.
3 Click the Assign button and slowly move the hardware controller that you want to use for
Automation Quick Access. Make sure that it’s moved through its entire range.
4 Confirm your selection by clicking the Done button below the Off/On buttons in the Automation
Quick Access section.