From the course: Logic Pro: Producing Electronic Music

Enabling capture recording and hidden features in Logic Pro X - Logic Pro Tutorial

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Enabling capture recording and hidden features in Logic Pro X

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- [Instructor] In addition to some of the features that are maybe more obvious on Logic's interface, there are some really cool hidden features that are definitely worth configuring, and they're some of my favorite features in Logic, actually, and I'm surprised they're not just there in front of us on the main interface. So one of these features is Capture Recording. So Capture Recording is awesome, and it enables us to capture and track our MIDI ideas, even if we're not actually recording and we're just kind of experimenting. So I'm going to close this out here, and I'm also going to go back, just to our main session. And what we're going to do is right-click or Control-click up on the top of our transport here. And we're going to go to Customize Control Bar and Display. So this shows us a bunch of different things. This is the default right now that we're in, but you can see that we can show or hide a bunch of different modes and functions that are available in Logic. One of the ones that's not checked by default, and that's all the way down at the bottom here, is Capture Recording. I'm going to want to turn that on. And you can see, when I do that, next to the regular Record button, there's also this other red Record button with a little white circle around it, and that's our Capture Record button. So I'm going to hit OK. And now let's just back up to the beginning of our project, and let's say I'm just playing some notes here. So I'm going ahead and playing some chords. (chords playing) Okay, while I wasn't recording at all, Capture Recording is always listening. So if I like what I played, I can just hit Capture Recording, and then all of the MIDI that I just played is right there for further editing. A really nice feature, because a lot of the times you'll be just playing something, and, you know, something will come up that maybe wasn't intended, but you really like what you played. So that's just a great way to capture what you're doing and have Logic always listening to the MIDI notes you might be playing on your keyboard or control surface.

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