Logic Studio:Basic Tips - Using Logic without MIDI keyboard
Fundamental Tips when working with Logic Pro 8 for beginners May 22, 2009, 10:18 AM Views: 1283
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 One the of the essential pieces of equipment for working with MIDI is a MIDI keyboard. I personally don’t own one, as my music is mainly created from manipulating samples. But from time to time I do need the synth, and when traveling this is very helpful as you don’t want to be lugging your great big keyboard everywhere.
There are a couple of ways to work around this, but I will show you no frills easy peasy pudding a pie one that Logic has kindly in-built in the software.
With the main work flow open simply press the ‘Cap’s Lock’ key and this will provide an on-screen keyboard:
By using the ‘W – ‘’ keys, Logic allows you play as if you would on any keyboard.
Now this isn’t stuck to one octave, in the top left of the onscreen keyboard you can see “Octave: 2”, this is the default setting. By pressing the ‘1,- 0’ number buttons you can change octaves.
Velocity can be a problem, as the keypad is not sensitive to this, but the ability to change the velocity is possible by using the ‘z-.’ keys. Left being the lowest velocity.
Another handy idea that has been well though out is the transparency button in the top right. This allows you to neaten your workflow a little more by making the box transparent:
The final feature is the space bar. This can be used as a sustain pedal if you want to get a more natural flowing sound with maybe a simple piano chord or jingle. The sustain is NOT preset, this has to be done manually within Logic, here is how to do it:
Firstly you need to bring up the “Gobal Settings” by going to …. Logic Pro > Preferences > Global
Within the Global preferences box there will be a tab named “Caps Lock Keys”, select this then you will find the un-ticked box named “Space Bar Acts As Sustain Pedal”. Job done.
Last edited by jack s : May 22, 2009 at 10:20 AM.
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