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That's exactly what I wanted! Didn't know Logic called it "shuffle". This will be very useful, thanks!

seems this did the trick! I should have asked about this long ago. thanks JakobP and David!

Thanks! I'll definitely try that. I hope it'll also apply to when Logic selects all regions during editing (when I did not select the track). I'll write a reply here to let you guys know how it went

I switched to Logic years ago and the one thing that still annoys me the most by far is this: in many situations, Logic decides to automatically select all regions in a track. This can be devastating. If you are doing some intricate audio editing while zoomed in and Logic decides to suddenly select all regions in the track, you won't notice because you are zoomed all the way in. You then continue your editing, for example, you trim the end of a region, then you do some other stuff...a lot of stuff... eventually you zoom out all the way and you see all your regions have been trimmed. Maybe you have dozens or even hundreds of regions in total...you hit undo several times but it's too late. it happened long ago and you didn't realize it. you either fix all regions manually (ages) or hit undo however many times you need to until the batch trim is undone, losing a lot of work in the process. This has happened to me so many times, especially when I had just switched to Logic (this problem doesn't occur in Pro Tools). Now what I do to avoid this is to use the keyboard shortcut "deselect all". I use this shortcut obsessively. Before I do any kind of edit to a region (a trim, a fade, a cut, etc.) i hit that shortcut. I don't even use the "save" shortcut nearly as often as the "deselect all" shortcut. And now this problem occurs rarely (when i forget to use that "deselect all" shortcut), but when it does I curse the people at Logic and wish I could ask them "why the hell did you program Logic to select all regions in the track so damn often?" so here I am, asking you folks to see if any of you suffer from the same frustration... perhaps there is even a setting somewhere which prevents Logic from obsessively selecting all regions in a track. I can't think of another feature I hate nearly as much as this one!

while editing audio in the main window, i can't find a way to make the playhead jump to the start of the next region. (same thing applies to making it jump to the end of the previous region.) one application for this is: lets say you use the marquee tool to select a section of an audio region and you hit delete. that leaves 2 new regions and a space between them. next step is to move the beginning of the region on the right to the end of the region on the left. in other words, have the two regions side by side with no empty space nor overlap. There must be a shortcut for this, otherwise you have to manually drag the second region to the left and zoom all the way in to make sure they are touching. Actually, there are two ways I can think of to accomplish the previous scenario, using a shortcut (mentioned at the beginning of the post) to make the playhead jump to the end of the previous region and then select the second region and use the "Move region/event to playhead position (pickup clock)" shortcut which makes the selected region jump to the playhead position (which is now at the exact end of the first region). i did a search in the keyboard shortcuts list and i did find one called Go to Region Start and Go to Region End but they only work in the Audio File Editor, not in the Main Window. Another way would be to select the second region and use a shortcut along the lines of something like "make selected region's start go to previous region's end". I remember from my Pro Tools days that it had that keyboard shortcut. I realize this post might be a bit confusing, but I'm sure that those of you who do a lot of intricate audio editing will understand what I mean.

Hi, I noticed a knob at the top of an audio track in my mixer which i don't think i've seen before. it's right above the "setting" button. and no other tracks have it. see attached screenshot. it's circled in red. anyone know what it controls?

I wasn’t aware of the ctrl-shift-drag key command. I’ll try it out. I edit music and also sometimes speech (a conference that was translated, and I remove the sections where the translator speaks, and then join the regions...this is where the X Fade mode has come in handy except for when it fails as i mentioned) thanks for your reply, David!

I use the X Fade option (in the "Drag" drop down menu) a lot so that overlapping audio regions automatically get a cross fade. It works most of the time but sometimes existing cross fades vanish, leaving overlapped regions without their necessary cross fade (which already existed, as it was created when the two regions became overlapped). When I move one of the regions slightly the cross fade reappears. This only happens if the cross fade was created automatically thanks to the X Fade feature from the "Drag" drop down menu. It does not happen if I manually created the cross fade with the fade tool. Seems to be a bug with the X Fade option. Anyone else having this issue? any fix for it? It's very annoying because sometimes a cross fade vanishes and I don't realize it until I hear the lack of cross fade and zoom in to see it has vanished and I have to move a region slightly. Usually, I move a region so the cross fade reappears and then I hit 'undo' so the region goes back to where it was (the cross fade stays put after the 'undo').

oh! that will save some time, because then i just have to adjust the length and not the curve. Thanks, David!

Hi, since this thread is 7 years old, I wonder if the current version of Logic has added this feature, which would be great. I mean the ability to choose the default curve type of a new fade. I am doing a lot of editing and I need all new fades to be curved negatively. I'm wasting lots of time manually changing the curve by dragging horizontally on the fade. If I could instruct Logic to just automatically make a negative curve when I create a new fade, that would save me lots of time.