Creating tracks in the environment

[Brasco]

I've just seen a video where a Logic user briefly showed his setup and mentioned that he creates the track objects in the environment for flexibility. Now, I am not familiar with the environment at all (getting acquainted with the manual bit by bit) and I am wondering what he might be referring to?

 

I apologize for the newbieness of the question but I reckon I could get some insight from the pros on this board.

 

Thank you,

 

B

[David Nahmani]

First, the ONLY place where you can create a track is in the Arrange area. Since most people use the words "track" and "channel strip" interchangeably I'm assuming you mean channel strips.

 

Now going into the environment to create channel strips is the technique of the past. That's how things used to be done in Logic. Want a new audio track? Open an environment window, create a new audio object, choose the channel "Audio ##" in the object parameters, create a track in the Arrange area and assign it to that object.

 

Apple, rightly so, decided it was a bit of a complicated process and made it MUCH, MUCH easier to create both the track and its channel strips in one fell swoop, right from the Arrange area. That's called "Automatic Management of Channel Strips Objects" and is, by default, turned on in your templates under Settings > Audio.

 

Now of course you can still turn that setting off and do everything manually, however honestly I question the motives. I've seen too many YouTube videos where the users take 8 minutes to describe an overly complicated process that takes 12 steps to reach a goal that could have been reached by clicking a single button.

[Brasco]

Hi David thanks for the quick and thorough insight. I'm glad to hear that really... I wasnt feeling like digesting all the ins and outs of the environment just to get me started on creating simple tracks / instruments.

 

What would you use the environment most for then?

 

Midi routing seems to be an obvious candidate based on a few other videos (?)