Overview of controller assignments in Logic Pro

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- Overview
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  - Uses for Remove Silence
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  - Import groove templates
- Overview
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- Overview
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- Mixing overview
- - Channel strip types
  - Channel strip controls
- Set channel strip input formats
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- Work with channel strip settings
- Surround panning
- Use the I/O Labels window
- Undo and redo Mixer and plug-in adjustments
- Overview
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- Show automation curves
- Choose automation modes
- - Select, copy, and move automation
  - Delete automation
- Snap automation to grid positions
- Edit automation in the Automation Event List
- Write automation with external controllers
- Smart Controls overview
- Show Smart Controls for master effects
- Choose a Smart Control layout
- Automatic MIDI controller assignment
- Map screen controls automatically
- Map screen controls
- Edit mapping parameters
- Use parameter mapping graphs
- Open the plug-in window for a screen control
- Rename a screen control
- Use articulation IDs to change articulations
- Assign hardware controls to screen controls
- Compare Smart Control edits with saved settings in Logic Pro
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- Work with Live Loops cells
- - Record to cells
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- Edit scenes
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- Bounce cells
- Record a Live Loops performance
- Change Live Loops grid settings
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- Overview
- Load and save patterns
- Modify pattern playback
- Edit steps
- Edit rows
- Step Sequencer inspectors
- Customize Step Sequencer
- Global Changes overview
- - Add arrangement markers
  - Edit arrangement markers
- - Transposition overview
  - Add and edit transposition points
- Control project volume
- Overview
- Add notes
- Use automation in the Score Editor
- Share a score
- Sharing overview
- Share songs to the Music app
- Share songs using AirDrop
- Share songs using MailDrop
- Share songs to SoundCloud
- Share a project to GarageBand for iOS
- Logic Pro surround overview
- Environment overview
- Common object parameters
- - Environment Layers overview
  - Create, name, delete, and switch layers
- Customize the Environment
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Touch Bar shortcuts
- Learn about Effects
- Learn about included Instruments
- - Alchemy overview
  - Name bar
  - - Preset browser overview
    - Browser results list
  - - Main filter controls
    - Filter types
  - Master voice section
  - Alchemy extended parameters
- - Drum Kit Designer overview
  - Edit pane
  - Use Drum Kit Designer
  - Extended parameters
  - Drum Kit Designer mappings
- - Drum Machine Designer overview
  - Logic Pro Drum Machine Designer interface
  - Grid Kit Controls
  - - Pad controls bar
    - Use Logic Pro Drum Machine Designer pad controls
  - Kit Tone and Effect Smart Controls pane
  - Kit Piece Tone and Effect Smart Controls pane
- - Logic Pro Drum Synth overview
  - Logic Pro Drum Synth Kicks
  - Logic Pro Drum Synth Snares and Claps
  - Logic Pro Drum Synth Percussion
  - Logic Pro Drum Synth Hats and Cymbals
- - ES1 overview
  - Global parameters
  - - Filter parameters overview
    - Drive the filter to self-oscillate
  - Amplifier parameters
  - MIDI controller assignments
- - ES2 overview
  - ES2 interface
  - - Use the dynamic stage
    - Enhance sounds with the Sine Level control
  - ES2 integrated effects processor controls
  - Use ES2 in Surround mode
  - Extended parameters
  - - Use randomization parameters
    - Restrict randomization
- - EFM1 overview
  - Modulation parameters
  - Global parameters
  - Output parameters
  - Create random sounds
  - Extended parameters
  - MIDI controller assignments
- - ES E overview
  - Oscillator parameters
  - LFO parameters
  - Filter controls
  - Envelope controls
  - Output parameters
  - Extended parameters
- - ES M overview
  - Oscillator parameters
  - Filter and filter envelope controls
  - Level envelope and output controls
  - Extended parameters
- - ES P overview
  - Oscillator parameters
  - LFO parameters
  - Filter controls
  - Envelope and level controls
  - Integrated effects processor
  - Extended parameters
- - - EVOC 20 PolySynth overview
    - Vocoder basics
  - EVOC 20 PolySynth interface
  - Analysis parameters
  - (U/V) detection parameters
  - Formant filter controls
  - Modulation parameters
  - Output parameters
  - Vocoder history
  - EVOC 20 block diagram
- - Logic Pro Quick Sampler overview
  - Add content to Logic Pro Quick Sampler
  - Logic Pro Quick Sampler waveform display
  - Use Flex in Logic Pro Quick Sampler
  - - Logic Pro Quick Sampler Mod Matrix pane
    - Logic Pro Quick Sampler LFO controls
  - Logic Pro Quick Sampler Pitch controls
  - Logic Pro Quick Sampler Filter controls
  - Quick Sampler filter types
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  - Logic Pro Quick Sampler extended parameters
- - Retro Synth overview
  - Analog oscillator controls
  - Sync oscillator controls
  - - Table oscillator parameters
    - Use Waveset menu functions
  - FM oscillator controls
  - Filter controls
  - Filter types
  - Amp and effect controls
  - Global and controller settings
  - Extended parameters
- - Sampler overview
  - Load and Save sampler instruments
  - Sampler articulation handling
  - Sampler memory management
  - Sampler extended parameters
- - Sculpture overview
  - Sculpture interface
  - - Use pickup parameters
    - Spread controls
  - Global parameters
  - Amplitude envelope parameters
  - Use the Waveshaper
  - Filter parameters
  - Output parameters
  - Use surround range and diversity
  - Assign MIDI controllers
  - Extended parameters
- - Learn about the Studio instruments
  - Section MIDI channel assignments
- - Ultrabeat overview
  - Ultrabeat interface
  - Synthesizer section overview
  - Filter section controls
  - Distortion circuit controls
- - Learn about the Utility instruments
  - External Instrument controls
  - Klopfgeist controls
- - Vintage B3 overview
- - Vintage Clav overview
  - Vintage Clav interface
  - Extended parameters
  - - D6 Clavinet history
    - D6 mechanical details
- - Vintage Electric Piano overview
  - Vintage Electric Piano interface
  - - Model parameters
    - Pitch parameters
  - Extended parameters
  - - Rhodes models
    - Hohner and Wurlitzer models
  - MIDI controller assignments
- - Vintage Mellotron overview
  - Vintage Mellotron controls
- - Legacy instruments overview
  - - Bass
    - Church Organ
    - Drum Kit
    - Electric Clav(inet)
    - Electric Piano
    - Guitar
    - Horns
    - Piano
    - Sound Effects
    - Strings
    - Tuned Percussion
    - Voice
    - Woodwind
    - Tonewheel Organ
- - Synthesizer basics overview
  - Synthesizer fundamentals
Glossary

The current controller assignments and all Control Surfaces preferences are stored in the ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.logic.pro.cs file.

You do not need to save controller assignments or related preferences and settings. These are automatically stored when you quit Logic Pro.

Logic Pro User Guide