Managing Tracks & Channel Strip Settings in Logic Pro X

In this tutorial I will take you through the process of organizing your channel strips in Logic Pro X. This will include demonstrating how you can easily go about creating and duplicating tracks as well as copying and pasting channel strip settings from one track to another. Learning the key commands for these frequently used functions is essential in terms of maintaining a steady workflow when producing music in this DAW.

Track Creation Key Commands

When working in Logic Pro X you can create 4 different types of tracks. These include:
Audio Tracks
Software Instrument Tracks
Drummer Tracks
and External MIDI Tracks

Knowing the shortcuts for quickly creating all of these different track types is really handy and I’ll be demonstrating this in the first of these two videos. I will also be showing you how to duplicate existing channel strips as well as deleting tracks by using simple key commands which are really easy to remember.

Managing Channel Strip Settings With Key Commands

In the second of these two tutorial videos I’ll demonstrate key commands for copying and pasting channel strip settings as well as resetting a channel strip to its default setup. I also show you how to create a default setting for your new Audio, Software Instrument and Drummer tracks. So if you are a pianist you can set things to have a grand piano loaded as default whenever you create a new software instrument track. Or maybe you are a beat maker in which case you can have a drum machine, sampler or third party plug-in automatically loaded whenever a new track is created. You can also customise the new default channel strip with your most commonly used effects processor plugins which will save you time later on. This is very useful as it will certainly speed things up when you’re in the flow of your production project.

Resetting Channel Strips

For me, the ability to copy and paste channel strip settings is a very powerful function indeed. And to be able to do it very quickly using a set of very simple key commands makes it so much easier than using the mouse to complete this action. Also, imagine if you have a channel strip with 6 or 7 plug-ins inserted as well as pan settings and volume settings in place. Now you want to reset that channel strip what do you do? The conventional way of doing this is by clicking each insert and selecting No Insert. However, with the use of a simple key command you can instantly reset the entire channel strip in less than a second. This is very powerful and I demonstrate this in the video so make sure you check it out.

Rounding Things Up

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