Set Selected Track(s) or Channel Strip(s) to Automation Read

This is the only specific ‘set’ command for automation modes. All the other commands appear to be toggles, including the ‘Toggle … Automation Off/Read’.

I think I have learned enough about Logic to start _not_ using Logic and start using my control surfaces.

Choose automation modes in Logic Pro — Apple Support

Read: Plays back all automation that exists on the track. If volume data exists, for example, the Volume fader moves during playback, following the prerecorded automation on the track. You can’t change the value of the chosen automation parameter by moving controls when in Read mode. However, you can record region-based information directly into a MIDI region in Read mode.

There are a variety of commands available for working with automation. I have an Apple keyboard sitting at the bottom of my X-Touch. I should mark these commands, or get very familiar, so I can start to automate my mixes simply while listening. This assumes I am mixing _stems_ or subgroups.

- Global Commands


Toggle Selected Track(s) or Channel Strip(s) Automation Off/Read ⌃⌘O ⌃3⃣


Set Selected Track(s) or Channel Strip(s) to Automation Read ⌃⌥⇧⌘⌦


Toggle Selected Track(s) or Channel Strip(s) Automation Touch/Read ⌃2⃣


Toggle Selected Track(s) or Channel Strip(s) Automation Latch/Read ⌃⌘A


Toggle Selected Track(s) or Channel Strip(s) Automation Write/Read


Toggle Selected Track(s) or Channel Strip(s) Automation Trim Mode


Toggle Selected Track(s) or Channel Strip(s) Automation Write Relative Mode


Toggle Selected Track(s) or Channel Strip(s) Record Region Automation Mode


Create Group for Selected Channel Strips / Tracks


Select Tracks of Selected Regions/Cells/Folders


Select All Regions of Selected Tracks

  Set Nudge Value to 10 Ticks

Adjust the nudge value to move 10 ticks at a time. A tick is a measurement of MIDI resolution. There are 960 ticks in a beat. A one second “beat” has 960 ticks of 1.04 milliseconds. A 10 tick movement would be approximately 1/100th of a second — .01 seconds.

Move regions in the Logic Pro Tracks area — Apple Support

When you move a region, it snaps to the nearest position on the Tracks area grid, using the current Snap value. You can override the grid by holding down Control while dragging regions to move them in steps of one division, or by holding down both Control and Shift while dragging to move them by single ticks or samples (depending on the zoom setting).

  Select Project 12

Selects the twelfth project that is open. Not particularly useful. Probably a bad idea to have that many projects open. Maybe this is a holdover from trying to do live performance of sets of songs? How do you order or rank them?

Open Logic Pro projects — Apple Support

You can open an existing project to continue working. You can also open several projects simultaneously, allowing you to copy or move data between them, or to compare different versions of a project.

Just say no.