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Im sure Logic veterans will smack their heads reading these, but for anyone new to producing podcasts with Logic, they might be great time (and frustration) savers.

Hes a pro, and Ive learned a lot in the last month that I hadnt after years of using Logic.

You can clean it up significantly by using the dropdown on the right of the LCD display and choosing Customize Control Bar and Display.

Pick a placeholder (or create a new one) to set up for podcast editing, then once youre done customizing, choose Save as Defaults.

I use keyboard shortcuts for almost every button on the control bar, so theres really no point in having them.

It lets you speed up the audio playback so you can basically listen through your podcast at 2x while editing.

While playing back you can just hit the shortcut to speed up and then toggle it back off to return to normal speed.

Its most helpful when youre trying to put together more than two participants, but even when theres just a microphone picking up too much ambient noise, it removes all the parts where the person isnt talking.

Generally a threshold of 1.0 and a minimum length of 0.1 work for me.

You can see everything thats assigned (and edit them) with Logic Pro X-Key Commands-Edit (or K ).

Zooming out to jump around an hour or two of audio is a necessity, and zooming in to find edit points is something I do a lot.

I changed these keybindings from their default to simple 1, 2, 3 shortcuts.

I left the shortcuts for saving the presets at the full 1 (etc.) because then I can just use my Hyper key to trigger them.

Once thats set up, you can zoom out and save that as preset 1, then zoom into a point where waveforms are clearly visible and save it as preset 2, then zoom all the way in to where you can actually pick out syllables and make that preset 3.

Then just 2 to do an edit and 1 to jump back to a wider view.

This is basically a ripple delete, and used in combination with the -Drag super select, it makes it dead simple to cut out an entire section and pull the ends together in one action.

I assign X to this.

By default that combo inserts a new MIDI track, which is kind of useless here.

This is especially true if you create or edit multiple podcasts.

Delete all of the audio except for things like introoutro music that are used in every episode.

Be sure to clean the audio files out of the project library as well, or theyll persist in every new episode and give you huge project files.

Leave the plugin settings for voice tracks and any automation data for the introoutro tracks in place, and Save as Template.

Then when I drag the files into the first track, I can select Use Existing Tracks and the right voices end up on tracks that already have the usual plugins and settings enabled.

Happy editing, and keep an eye out for Aaron Dowds upcoming Logic course, itll be worth it.

Remove Silence Shortcut Logic Pro X