markers vs locators vs marquee?

[Carlos Taylor]

I’m trying to gain a better understanding of the differences between markers, locators, and the marquee tool in Logic. I think I understand that markers help you move to specific time points in the project, but what is the difference between locators and marquee? How would you use locators? Any explanation and use cases would be helpful as I’m trying to gain a better understanding of some concepts in Logic Pro.

Carlos

[Daniel Contreras]

Hello carlos,
I am on the same boat as far as the marquee selection. However, the locators are used to make the starting and ending points to make a selection, or to turn on cycle mode and hear that section repeatedly. Also, you can find out all key commands pertaining to locators by pressing option Kay, than typing the word locators in the search field. For example, you can repeat a whole section of a song by selecting your left and right locators and pressing the command that pertains to that function. I hope this helps a little bit.

Daniel Contreras

> On Aug 30, 2015, at 1:00 PM, Carlos Taylor <ceta...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> I’m trying to gain a better understanding of the differences between markers, locators, and the marquee tool in Logic. I think I understand that markers help you move to specific time points in the project, but what is the difference between locators and marquee? How would you use locators? Any explanation and use cases would be helpful as I’m trying to gain a better understanding of some concepts in Logic Pro.
>
> Carlos
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[Carlos Taylor]

So by using locators, one can make selections. How do you listen to the selection? Is there a way to make minor adjustments to the selected area such as increasing or decreasing the right or left boundary of the selected area?

[Victor Tsaran]

Hi Daniel.
Recovering this old thread because I was just experimenting with locators myself and found that using them with VoiceOver isn't as plain as it would seem. I am actually surprised that there are no default keystrokes for locator-related commands, given how important they are to the use of Logic Pro.
What am I missing?

On Sunday, August 30, 2015 at 5:50:21 PM UTC-7, Carlos Taylor wrote:

So by using locators, one can make selections.  How do you listen to the selection?  Is there a way to make minor adjustments to the selected area such as increasing or decreasing the right or left boundary of the selected area?
> On Aug 30, 2015, at 4:35 PM, Daniel Contreras <daniel...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hello carlos,
> I am on the same boat as far as the marquee selection. However, the locators are used to make the starting and ending points to make a selection, or to turn on cycle mode and hear that section repeatedly. Also, you can find out all key commands pertaining to locators by pressing option Kay, than typing the word locators in the search field. For example, you can repeat a whole section of a song by selecting your left and right locators and pressing the command that pertains to that function. I hope this helps a little bit.
>
> Daniel Contreras
>
>> On Aug 30, 2015, at 1:00 PM, Carlos Taylor <ceta...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> I’m trying to gain a better understanding of the differences between markers, locators, and the marquee tool in Logic.  I think I understand that markers help you move to specific time points in the project, but what is the difference between locators and marquee?  How would you use locators?  Any explanation and use cases would be helpful as I’m trying to gain a better understanding of some concepts in Logic Pro.
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>> Carlos
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[Daniel Contreras]

Victor, 

I believe that by default, Logic has the ‘set left locator to playhead position’ and the ‘set right locator by playhead’ assigned to ctrl option and the left and right arrows respectively. The way this always works for me is that I press V O plus tab so that voice over ignores the next key press, due to the fact that those commands involve the V O keys. If I am not mistaken, there is a command that will globally split all regions at the locators. From there, I would use the command to select all with in locators if you want to work with the newly split regions. Remember that the cycle mode is based on the locators themselves, so you can check where your locators are on the timeline by turning on cycle mode (pressing c).  

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[Jim Noseworthy]

Hi:

 

It seems to me that a Numeric keypad, coupled with the NumPad commander might be extremely helpful in Logic Pro X.

 

Cheers.

 

 

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Victor, 

I believe that by default, Logic has the ‘set left locator to playhead position’ and the ‘set right locator by playhead’ assigned to ctrl option and the left and right arrows respectively. The way this always works for me is that I press V O plus tab so that voice over ignores the next key press, due to the fact that those commands involve the V O keys. If I am not mistaken, there is a command that will globally split all regions at the locators. From there, I would use the command to select all with in locators if you want to work with the newly split regions. Remember that the cycle mode is based on the locators themselves, so you can check where your locators are on the timeline by turning on cycle mode (pressing c).  

On Jul 4, 2016, at 7:47 PM, Victor Tsaran <vts...@gmail.com> wrote:

 

Hi Daniel.
Recovering this old thread because I was just experimenting with locators myself and found that using them with VoiceOver isn't as plain as it would seem. I am actually surprised that there are no default keystrokes for locator-related commands, given how important they are to the use of Logic Pro.
What am I missing?

On Sunday, August 30, 2015 at 5:50:21 PM UTC-7, Carlos Taylor wrote:

So by using locators, one can make selections.  How do you listen to the selection?  Is there a way to make minor adjustments to the selected area such as increasing or decreasing the right or left boundary of the selected area?
> On Aug 30, 2015, at 4:35 PM, Daniel Contreras <daniel...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hello carlos,
> I am on the same boat as far as the marquee selection. However, the locators are used to make the starting and ending points to make a selection, or to turn on cycle mode and hear that section repeatedly. Also, you can find out all key commands pertaining to locators by pressing option Kay, than typing the word locators in the search field. For example, you can repeat a whole section of a song by selecting your left and right locators and pressing the command that pertains to that function. I hope this helps a little bit.
>
> Daniel Contreras
>
>> On Aug 30, 2015, at 1:00 PM, Carlos Taylor <ceta...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> I’m trying to gain a better understanding of the differences between markers, locators, and the marquee tool in Logic.  I think I understand that markers help you move to specific time points in the project, but what is the difference between locators and marquee?  How would you use locators?  Any explanation and use cases would be helpful as I’m trying to gain a better understanding of some concepts in Logic Pro.
>>
>> Carlos
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[trahern culver]

hi daniel, if the voice over keys set the left and rite locaters at play head possision what does the key combo cmd + the [ and ] keys do? 

also please could you explain to me how i would go about making a selection and cutting/copying with the locaters? 

your help with this question would be most welcome kind regards trey.

[Daniel Contreras]

Those are to work with the marquee selection. It appears as if for now that tool is not as usable for us. The advantage of the marquee is that we would not have to split regions to manipulate the selection. But unfortunately, it doesn't seem to work at the moment. Perhaps there is something visually that we are not able to access. I think it's worth writing Apple about this issue. Because that is a very powerful tool. But for now, we have the locators, and the ability to split regions at the locators. Which is not a bad alternative.

Daniel Contreras 

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[Ricky Prevatte]

Yes Jim you're right we are finally getting enough power users here to make a bigger splash as well. I believe this means we will get more from Apple. Also a question how do we search the list archives to find out all of the information that has previously been posted? We need to get together and get everything centrally located Daniel and gary have done some great tutorials Keith has some of those with his tutorials that he started us out with on  his website. Gary has some at Blind logic.oh are G I am using my control surface a lot and not doing mini key commands in logic.

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