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The Case Of The Missing Plate!

Blind or not, we all misplace things from time to time, but when you’re blind, it may at times take a little longer to find it. One morning while making a bagel and chatting with a fellow music producer, I misplaced the little plate I intended to put the bagel on when it popped out of the toaster. As I started searching my counters for said missing plate, not knowing about the aforementioned bagel, they were wondering how I could have misplaced “plate” … because naturally a plate reverb is where their mind went. And that’s how this audio story was born.
And of course since it was a little plate I misplaced, it was only appropriate to use @soundtoys Little Plate to assist in the telling of this story!
Check out Little Plate:
https://www.soundtoys.com/product/little-plate/
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Cat Links Logic / Session Players And Chord Track / Uncategorized

Chord Track PT 2 – Editing Chord Start & end, Building, Copying & Pasting Chord Groups/Progressions

Now that we’ve covered an overview of the chord track, lets talk more about working with chords that start sooner than the start of every bar/measure. In this tutorial we’ll discuss situations like when you want to put chords at beat 1 and 3 of every measure, Adjusting the length of chords, moving chords, Copying and pasting chord and chord groups, combining small chord groups into a larger one and how you can use this to build out a song arrangement quickly.
See the overview of the chord track here:
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Cat Links Uncategorized / VoiceOver And MacOS

VoiceOver Tip How To Mute VoiceOver Speech So You Can Hear To Edit Updated For mac OS 15 Sequoia

This tutorial demonstrates how to create a keyboard Commander to mute VoiceOver’s speech. While there is a gesture for it on iOS which also works on Mac OS if you turn on track pad commander, there is no keyboard command for this feature. This shows how to use keyboard commanders, a feature built in to the Mac OS screen reader for the blind, to create a short cut to mute speech output.
This is an update to a tutorial done previously. This one shows how to do it in Mac OS Sequoia.
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See how to do this in Mac OS 14 Sonoma or earlier versions of Mac OS:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLc1M84rUa8&list=PLfbZugA6QVp4cMKnyoaR0T2qVOXb-1Nxn&index=3

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Cat Links Logic / Session Players And Chord Track / Uncategorized

How To Create A Template For Blind Logic Pro Users With VoiceOver Pt 3 Prepping Session Players

This continues the series on creating a template in Logic Pro for the blind and visually impaired. This time out we consider Session Player tracks and regions and how to set them up for best success in your template.

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See the other tutorials in this series in this play list.
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Cat Links Beat Making / Editing / effects / Logic / Uncategorized

How TO Make Loops Your Own, Chopping Samples And More Part 1 For Blind Logic Pro Users Via VoiceOver

This is a series on how you can use nothing but Logic and what’s included in it to create beats and music. While you can certainly use these concepts with 3rd party loops and software instruments, I demonstrate them with only included sounds and loops.
This requires some understanding of basic concepts and fundamentals, such as selecting and splitting regions It would also be beneficial to turn on chase and turn off playback pre-roll. This along with splitting and selecting regions is all covered in the getting started with Logic course you receive for free when you join the LogicBand mailing list.
Familiarity with the Piano Roll and or the Event List would be helpful as Well.
The Loop Browser is also used in this tutorial, so it may be worth it to check out that tutorial as well if you have never used it before.
I also use the Virtual Typing Keyboard (aka the Musical Typing Keyboard) to play the Software Instruments in this project, but if you have a MIDI Keyboard hooked up you could use that instead or in addition to, the choice is yours.
Also you may want to be familiar with some basics of the Sampler
As I am talking through a lot of what I am doing. This may seem like a long process, but I assure you it’s not as long or as daunting as it may seem once you get used to it and develop the muscle memory. So if it seems overwhelming now, just take it in small steps. As I am using stuff from the Loop Browser, you can pull up the same loops and play along at home. So work with each section until you’ve got it down.
While the Loop Browser is used here, you can do the same with 3rd party loops as well, and in those rare cases where the loops don’t come with their tempo info, you can follow the Adjust Tempo Using Region Length And Locators tutorial to get the loop’s tempo.

Visit https://logic.band/how-to-make-loops-your-own-chopping-samples-and-more/ for more info links and notes.
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See all parts here:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLfbZugA6QVp7EyqvIMFhnVBLaZ-DJ6MD_

Splitting And Selecting Regions:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76BKKpeQYkI

Introduction to apple loops:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbXvGmUIBLU

Logic Sampler:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zybYoVlpgc

Piano Roll:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebhvYVL_azc

Event List:
https://youtu.be/RDID19nyug0

Musical Typing Keyboard:
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Cat Links Logic / Uncategorized

How To Create A Template For Blind Logic Pro Users With VoiceOver Pt 2 Tracks To Consider Adding

After going over settings and lay out for the template in part 1, this tutorial picks up with a discussion on what tracks you may want to have in your template. But more than what track types to have but how to set them up for maximum efficiency. So if you are a voiceOver user curious about how to create your first template in Logic Pro with the built in Mac OS screenreader, then this tutorial is for you.,

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See the first part here:
https://youtu.be/cWERfGAA9_o
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Cat Links Editing / Logic / QuickTip

Enable This Setting For Editing From the Keyboard To Work Well as a VoiceOver user in Logic Pro X

This short screen reader friendly tutorial covers a Logic Pro X setting you will want to ensure is enabled in preferences to make editing as a Keyboard Ninja a bit more fluid. As always, subscribe here on Youtube if you haven’t already and on https://logic.band, as well as feel free to Follow us on twitter at https://twitter.com/logicdotband and Follow Us On Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/logicdotband.
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Cat Links Logic / QuickTip

How to Fix Input Monitoring in Logic Pro with VoiceOver For Blind Users!

Ever notice that in Logic Pro X when you have input monitoring enabled, you can’t hear the source you are recording if you navigate to or select another track. Or you can’t hear it when you are playing back the project while the track is record enabled? This quick screen reader friendly tutorial Explains how to fix it so you can hear the source you are recording no matter what is in focus in Logic or even when playing back the project so you can practice the part before recording it. As always, subscribe to the YT channel and on the blog at https://logic.band, and feel free to Follow us on twitter at https://twitter.com/logicdotband and Follow Us On Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/logicdotband.
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Cat Links Uncategorized / VoiceOver And MacOS

VoiceOver Tip How To Turn Off Hints And Help Tags To Make VoiceOver Less Chatty!

Ever find VoiceOver to be a bit too chatty in Apple’s Logic Pro? Turning off hint’s and help tags can help quiet speech down a bit, or at the very least you can delay them so they don’t speak right away interrupting your flow. Check out how you can make it all happen in this screen reader friendly tutorial. Also don’t forget the blog at https://logic.band. You can also Follow us on twitter at https://twitter.com/logicdotband and or Follow Us On Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/logicdotband.
See the growing list of VoiceOver Tips at https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLfbZugA6QVp4cMKnyoaR0T2qVOXb-1Nxn.
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Cat Links Uncategorized / VoiceOver And MacOS

VoiceOver Tip: Disclosure Triangle – A Key Command To Quickly Expand or Collapse Them!

Are you a blind APPLE Mac user, and think interacting with a disclosure triangle is the only way to expand or collapse them? This tutorial shows you the VoiceOver shortcut key to make that happen without any interacting. As always Follow us on twitter at https://twitter.com/logicdotband and or Follow Us On Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/logicdotband and see the growing list of VoiceOver Tips at https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLfbZugA6QVp4cMKnyoaR0T2qVOXb-1Nxn. And of course, don’t forget to check out the blog at https://logic.band.
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