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Logic pro shortcuts11/21/2023 ![]() In the early days, however, they were usually limited to the stuff you might find in the menus in any music‑related program: save files, play, record and so on. These commands are wonderful things, of course, as they really help speed up operation and reduce the chance of getting mouse‑related repetitive strain injury. Key commands can place even the most obscure Logic Pro features at your fingertips!Īudio‑related software has always made use of QWERTY keyboard shortcuts to streamline functions that might otherwise require a lot of mousing. Car manufacturers take note! Disclaimer: I believe tactile touch for a control that is always in the same place irregardless of context and near your hands resting place is an adequate experience for 2023 (Tesla's indicators as an example)īy the way there is some incredible tech coming our way in the future.Every possible action in Logic Pro that can be assigned to a key command can be found in the Key Commands menu. There's no physical context to the action so it just isn't something I naturally want to use. ![]() The problem with the current Touch Bar is that I just can't feel what I'm pressing. Although I can see the need for the hardware be completely replaced by say Vision Pro overlaying virtual displays onto the keys themselves. Having a context-based keyboard that has the same quality as Touch Bar display would make a very productive keyboard. Adding dynamic LED display to physical keycaps is something that I believe is already becoming more and more prevalent. I rarely used it myself, but I hope they save all of the work that went into this. some level of speakers in the display and possibly more/better in the base, but yeah - I'm not someone arguing for 'omg not a touch/pencil' Mac Back onto the 'keyboard/port/base station' when done, and the added cooling, CPU/GPU upclock resets, display battery starts charging from the base or base mains power. CPU/GPU may downclock a bit but that's OK. Have a meeting or white boarding session, or need to do some diagramming or drawing on the couch - grab the 'display' with pencil and off you go. Runs MacOS, but can load iPad and IOS apps and leverage touch/pencil input. The base provides the majority of ports, along with the touchpad, with both the display and touchpad having pencil support, and can charge apple devices via the palm and touchpad areas. Display has battery in it like iPad but the base may add additional battery in parallel. Magnetic connection not only holds and charges the pencil like iPad today, but also triggers the base fans, and possible extends cooling into a heat pipe in the base. Make the display a bit thicker, and the base thinner. To dream a much bigger dream would probably require them to nearly abandon 'iPad' as a product line, although they would effectively be merged. With the screen in a typical MBP vertical position, touch is less ideal, so 'more changes' would be needed. I wrote a long email to Cook years back giving him a 'life in the day with a touchscreen Mac' - but I do understand those that do NOT want one, and I'd argue that even with a touchscreen Mac/MBP, unless the screen detached (this would be fun engineering, now in 'touch MBA mode' or was fully convertible (flipped over screen flat onto case), the trackpad 'touchbar and pencil input' could still be useful or as a partial step in that future direction. But hey, in turn, we now have fullsized function key rows on your Macbook Pros now and fullsized keyboards in general, and god they feel soooooo good to type on.Ĭlick to expand.I don't have an issue with it. ![]() The touchbar was a gimmick for the sake of being a gimmick to differeniate the Macbook Pro from other laptops, but in turn it combined with the other bad decisions during Ive Era (butterfly keyboard anyone?) it set the Mac back five years. Or if the touch bar broke now you're without your function key row, versus a keyboard where if one key broke you could just fix that individual key and still have the rest of the function key row still there. And just the idea of having the function key row buttons bound to software via the touch bar was a horrible idea, because if the OS froze congrats you can't use your function key row anymore as it's just software in the touch bar. ![]() If you had Windows installed through Boot Camp or were using Linux, congrats you gotta press more buttons just to use function keys The thing was useless when using any operating system other than macOS.Outside of a couple programs like Final Cut and Adobe Photoshop, the touch bar wasn't used at all by third party software developers, which made the sting of not having a function key row even harder The touchbar had NO haptic feedback whatsoever and a lot of functions were buried in submenus so simple tasks like adjusting volume and brightness had more steps than needed and increased thoughtput This rubbed so many people the wrong way especially touch typists.
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