David Nahmani Posted November 30, 2007 Share Posted November 30, 2007 (edited) Sometimes the easiest tips are the best ones. This one is really easy but can change your life. Well at least that part of your life you spend working in Logic. In Logic you can use certain features (cycle mode, marquee selection) to force playback to start at a certain position. Very useful to focus on a particular section of the song as you're fine tuning it. That's all fine and dandy, but what if you stop playback in the middle of a cycle (or marquee selection), and then want to resume playback from where the playhead is, and not the beginning of the cycle? UPDATE: In Logic 9, you can click-hold the play button in the Transport bar, and deselect "Play Cycle". The answer: you have to hit pause, then play. In default key commands, that translates to: . - Enter (period-Enter) Try it with the thumb (for period) and index (for Enter) on the numeric keypad! Before you know it, it will feel like a single keystroke. Just make sure you hit the period first. It's ok to keep holding the period as you hit Enter, although not necessary. An alternative (thank you Eric Bradley) is to simply press pause twice: . - . (period - period) Edited March 12, 2010 by David Nahmani Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dkgross Posted November 30, 2007 Share Posted November 30, 2007 beautiful..Just spent a few moments 'practicing' that. feels like 2nd nature now. thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eric Cardenas Posted November 30, 2007 Share Posted November 30, 2007 I really find it easier to just press paus 2 times. . and . (period - period) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Nahmani Posted November 30, 2007 Author Share Posted November 30, 2007 I really find it easier to just press paus 2 times. . and . (period - period) That's very cool too. I'll add it as an alternative to the original post. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eric Cardenas Posted November 30, 2007 Share Posted November 30, 2007 That's very cool too. I'll add it as an alternative to the original post. Wow. Thanx man! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
camillo jr Posted December 2, 2007 Share Posted December 2, 2007 Nice. Been wanting that one for a long time. Huh....just discovered it works outside the cycle zone too. That might be handy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sahkuhachi Posted January 30, 2008 Share Posted January 30, 2008 Double clik on the arrange ruler starts playing from the point you clicked. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
camillo jr Posted January 30, 2008 Share Posted January 30, 2008 You can always just use the pause command to stop in the cycle zone and then it is just one press to begin again. Much simpler than using the mouse! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sahkuhachi Posted April 29, 2008 Share Posted April 29, 2008 just saying other way to start playing from any point, when the cycle is on. You can use it at your convenience or not some time double pause is more convenient, some times not XD, any way, i dont see a double click to be a complicated way to achive this. It's just a diferent way, with the adventage that you start plaing from the point you double clicked. cheers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
juniormint232 Posted January 17, 2009 Share Posted January 17, 2009 I'm using a macbook and the key commands must be different because for me (period) moves me to the next measure and enter is stop. the spacebar is pause, but even pressing that twice it still takes me back to the begining of the cycle. is there a shortcut like this for the macbook? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trompetenick Posted January 17, 2009 Share Posted January 17, 2009 Hi juniormint. Just assign a key to "pause" in your keycommands. You will find them with alt+k Nick Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IainPetrie Posted February 6, 2009 Share Posted February 6, 2009 macbook pause is command enter, they live next door to each other to the right of the space bar. great tip guys! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
catman2u Posted July 1, 2009 Share Posted July 1, 2009 got a cheap MS "multimedia" wireless keyboard, it has a few extra buttons, so I use their software (very good btw) to assign the transport controls on it as logic's, well, transport. it's very cheap and very flexible and so FWD, Rewind are used to move one bar an each direction, +,- volume I use for browsing plugin presets etc etc. (ok, you got me, I use a hackintosh and so this is my PC keyboard, but it really works great in the mac world, except instead of a neat "apple" (or cloverleaf) key I have a funny "Windows" symbol he he, it works great as an apple button.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HMayoral Posted December 18, 2009 Share Posted December 18, 2009 Although this is very helpful, I submitted feedback to the Logic team so they would change the space bar command from play/stop to play/pause. Some good advice imo, because you already have the return key for stop, so the fact that the space bar is also stop is kind of redundant, and it will be solving this problem a little better, do you guys agree? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Nahmani Posted December 18, 2009 Author Share Posted December 18, 2009 Although this is very helpful, I submitted feedback to the Logic team so they would change the space bar command from play/stop to play/pause. Some good advice imo, because you already have the return key for stop, so the fact that the space bar is also stop is kind of redundant, and it will be solving this problem a little better, do you guys agree? No: I like the spacebar to always start at the top of of a Marquee selection, a one pixel Marquee selection, or a Cycle. It's very, very rare when I need to use Pause. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HMayoral Posted December 18, 2009 Share Posted December 18, 2009 Well, I guess it is a very subjective sort of thing. I personally would prefer it that way. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JETLAG Posted December 23, 2009 Share Posted December 23, 2009 i love you david... this is helpful Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rounik Posted January 17, 2010 Share Posted January 17, 2010 and in Logic 9.0.2 and 9.1 you can now tell Logic to 'always' ignore the Cycle selection and playback from wherever the playhead is positioned. Click hold on the Play button in the Transport and untick 'Play Cycle'. Now Logic will resume playback wherever the playhead is even if Cycle mode is turned on. Similar functionality in the same menu for Marquee Selection, Selected Region and Play from Last Locate position. Very cool! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joshfeldman Posted January 20, 2010 Share Posted January 20, 2010 this is the best, thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tumer Posted March 11, 2010 Share Posted March 11, 2010 You can also press "option-enter" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Nahmani Posted March 11, 2010 Author Share Posted March 11, 2010 You can also press "option-enter" Option-enter is not assigned by default. I guess you mean Option-Return twice, which is pause twice as explained in the original post (the key commands assignments will be different depending on your version of Logic etc...). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tumer Posted March 12, 2010 Share Posted March 12, 2010 Hello David, Yes & No. No. I mean on a MacBookPro the key enter is the key return or vice versa. Yes. In this point of view if you press Option - Return(Enter), the playing project is paused. So; sorry if I caused any confusion. Peace. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Nahmani Posted March 12, 2010 Author Share Posted March 12, 2010 It's either Command-Enter (initialized) or Option-Return (US), not sure why you'd have Option-Enter. But either way, yes, just press pause twice, or use whatever key command you have assigned to Pause. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Nahmani Posted March 12, 2010 Author Share Posted March 12, 2010 Ooooh I think I know: you have one of those MacBook that have a little "enter" label on top of the Return key. That's the function (enter) you access by holding "fn". If you just press the key, it's a Return key, not an Enter key. So yeah, Option-Return. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tumer Posted March 12, 2010 Share Posted March 12, 2010 (edited) Wow... That's why you are the admin of these forum. You guys knowledge leads us to the right direction. Edited March 12, 2010 by Tumer Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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