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In this movie, we're going to have a look at
the locators and explore some of the things we can do with them.
So the locators you may remember,
are two points you can define in the ruler in the timeline of your Logic project.
So here I have a left and a right locator.
You can have them in cycle mode or off,
but the locators are always there.
To set the locators,
there is a number of things you can do.
For example, you can simply click and drag in
the ruler here and it sets the left and right locators.
You can also change the position of the left
or right locator by grabbing it and moving it,
and you can move the two of them together by clicking in the middle and dragging like so.
In addition, you can see that I have the LCD display set up in custom view.
What that means is that I can see the position of the left
and the right locator because I've set it up so that it'll show me that.
Now I can just go ahead and double-click and type in
positions for the left or the right locators.
Now, when you have the left and right locators in cycle mode of course
Logic's going to play from the locators.
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If you set it up with a cycle of let's say two bars here,
of course Logic will play in
a looping manner just from the left and the right locator over and over and over again.
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In addition, you'll find in the key command list
you can set up some key commands that will let you have
also some options for working with the locators for both locating in playback.
So for example, I have myself setup with a key command to go to
the left locator and go to the right locator also to play from the left locator
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and play from the right locator.
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You can find those key commands in the key command list and you can assign them to
some keyboard strokes on your computer if you
want to use those on a regular basis as you work.
In addition, there's some editing commands you can work with that
also use the locators and you can find them in
the "Edit" menu here although this toolbar is
setup to also show you some of those options.
So for example here I might say, well,
I want to take away some of the drumming from this ghost track.
Let's say I don't really want to have that play for those two bars;
bars 13 and 14.
So what I can do is go down here and I can say split this region by the locators.
It turns out there's a note that's hanging over
either bar 13 or 15 and I can say keep it,
split it, or most likely I would say go ahead and just shorten it.
Now I have that region by itself and if I want,
I can go ahead and delete it.
I'm going to hit undo a couple of times to go back to where it was.
You'll also find other commands that you can
use with the locators for doing some editing work.
For example, I can actually make a selection here that spans in
this case bar 11 to bar 17 which is really this section of the song here.
I can say well, maybe I don't want this section of the song.
I want to get rid of it.
So what I can do is say let's go ahead and cut that section.
It just took away those bars and it shuffled all the rest of
my midi regions to the left
or I can go the other way and I can say,
well, look, I really like let's say for example this part here
and I wanted to play one more time before it moves on to the next section here.
So I can say let's repeat this section and now it's going to repeat that section.
You can see that it made a copy of all of these regions here over to here.
I had to undo one more time.
As you explore the edit menu,
you'll find a couple of other commands related to the locators for doing some editing.
This is also true if you start going through the key command list.
In addition, you'll find that if you right-click or
control-click right on the actual locators,
you can see there's a number of these items available to you
here with a little pop-up including some interesting things.
One of them is that you can actually
swap the position of the left and the right locators.
So right now my left locator is at bar 17,
right locator is at bar 23.
If I swap them,
you can see now the right locator actually comes before
the left locator and the cycle display here looks a little funny.
Well, what's going to happen now is that
instead of playing those bars in a cycling manner,
what I can do is start playback before we get
here and Logic will actually skip over these bars
and continue playing after the locator which is really the left locator at bar 23.
So.
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That's a really handy feature if you have a really big project and you want to for
example play the first section and then maybe the third section of the piece.
I'll just skip over the second section just to see how that feels.
You can quickly set it up by setting up
the locators then go ahead and swap the locator positions.
Then when you hit play, it will simply skip over
that particular span of bars from the right to the left locator.
So those are some things to look into for working with the locators in Logic.
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