Struggling learning Logic

[Dewald van Deventer]

Hi guys. 

I've been using the trial version of Logic for a few weeks now. 

I listened to most of the key commands from Youtube and the Logically Speaking tutorials. 

Then I installed Logic Magician. 

And it just feels like now I have to relearn everything. 

I don't record every day, and there was a time now where I haven't opened Logic for a few weeks. 

I recently got a request to make backing tracks for a friend, and got so frustrated because I don't know every thing about Logic and I have forgotten dto do most of the key commands. 

I do use the key commands help feature, but now I'm not sure if Logic Magician has a better way of doing it. 

Is there a quick start guide to use LM? I am listening to the documentation on Youtube, but you often just want a quick reference guide, you know? 

Any help would be appreciated. 

Dewald 

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[TheOreoMonster]

The Logic Magician documentation is searchable and broken up in chapters you can quickly jump to by bringing up the table of contents anytime to jump to the different sections.

You should probably give your self a daily task to do things in Logic to help it stick. It doesn’t matter which application you are using whether  it’s music related or not, but if it’s couplex enough and you don’t use it every day  it will have a hard time sticking.

You can find the guide on the Logic Magician page, scroll down past the set up instructions to find a link to it, 

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[Dave Leo Baker]

Hey Dewald, 

I’m in a similar boat, or I was at the end of 2025. I had been using Logic Pro since late 2018 and so I was so used to interacting and moving to things, that it took me time to learn the one-touch keystrokes for a lot of things. What I actually did for awhile is do what Steve was saying, I’d have the Logic Magician documentation open and in the table of contents pick the section closest to what I was needing to use, e.g. midi regions.

I still cheat and look when it something I haven’t done in a while, because even for us who are in Logic nearly every day, we all use it in different ways. Unlike a great many people on here, I don’t typically deal with vocals, and so there are a lot of audio tracks specific commands I don’t use that much, outside of inserting some birds or rain sounds into a track. So I just got familiar with how iBooks and the Table of Contents / structure works with this documentation to the point I can quickly find stuff. 

I will say it’s been more than worth every amount of time I’ve taken to get used to the new environment. And after a short while I started learning context specific things where it moves from memorization to more flow, they have this Logic Magician system really well organized.

Dave

On Feb 25, 2026, at 8:20 AM, TheOreoMonster <theoreo...@logic.band> wrote:

The Logic Magician documentation is searchable and broken up in chapters you can quickly jump to by bringing up the table of contents anytime to jump to the different sections.

You should probably give your self a daily task to do things in Logic to help it stick. It doesn’t matter which application you are using whether  it’s music related or not, but if it’s couplex enough and you don’t use it every day  it will have a hard time sticking.

You can find the guide on the Logic Magician page, scroll down past the set up instructions to find a link to it, 

To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/logic-accessibility/A453F389-6B9E-4164-815F-DEB76C535E10%40logic.band.

[Bruce Harrell]

I agree with Steve.  You really just have to force yourself to keep at it until more and more commands become second nature.  I'm about to embark on that process again, moving from Logic 10 to Logic 11 or 12 after a year's delay while I upgraded from 7.1 surround to 7.1.4 atmos, now with lm.  

What I did years ago (2016?) when Steve first tutored me was write down all the commands he and I covered in tutoring and keep those notes handy for quick reference as I worked on projects.  I also chose more simple projects in the beginning.  

Nowadays, thanks to all the resources Steve put together in the blind logic pro, you and I have a much easier learning curve to overcome.  While I'm not exactly looking forward to it, I am definitely looking forward to using the new features and all the lm commands to speed things up.  Believe me, I definitely won't miss all the arrowing.

On Feb 25, 2026, at 8:20 AM, TheOreoMonster <theoreo...@logic.band> wrote:

The Logic Magician documentation is searchable and broken up in chapters you can quickly jump to by bringing up the table of contents anytime to jump to the different sections.

You should probably give your self a daily task to do things in Logic to help it stick. It doesn’t matter which application you are using whether  it’s music related or not, but if it’s couplex enough and you don’t use it every day  it will have a hard time sticking.

You can find the guide on the Logic Magician page, scroll down past the set up instructions to find a link to it, 

To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/logic-accessibility/A453F389-6B9E-4164-815F-DEB76C535E10%40logic.band.

[Dewald van Deventer]

I downloaded the documentation. It opens with the books app on my Mac. Very difficult to navigate. Is there an alternative? 

Dewald

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On 25 Feb 2026, at 20:37, Bruce Harrell <bbh...@gmail.com> wrote:

I agree with Steve.  You really just have to force yourself to keep at it until more and more commands become second nature.  I'm about to embark on that process again, moving from Logic 10 to Logic 11 or 12 after a year's delay while I upgraded from 7.1 surround to 7.1.4 atmos, now with lm.  

To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/logic-accessibility/A169C337-45A3-4904-90A4-2F5CAEA639E0%40gmail.com.