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Published inOct 2020
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Jay Asher
Jay Asher
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Jay Asher

Jay Asher is an Apple Certified Trainer for Logic Pro, and the author of "Going Pro with Logic Pro 9" and "Scoring with Logic Pro". He has been a private consultant for many famous rock stars and film/TV composers. A composer and songwriter himself, Jay Asher scored the TV series "Zorro" and has written songs that have been recorded by Julio Iglesias, Whitney Houston, and Donna Summer, among others. He began learning Logic for his own musical endeavors, but along the way, something funny happened: he became a Logic Pro guru!
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Soloing and muting tracks and regions

Frequently, you will want and need to solo or mute tracks and regions while editing audio, and frankly, it can be confusing in Logic, because there are so many ways.

Here you see the beginnings of a little blues song I created for this chapter:

Figure 4.1 – My blues song tracks and regions

Mute/solo buttons on the Track Header

On my track header in the preceding screenshot, you can see an M and an S, for mute and solo. If you don't see it, you need to configure the track header, and this is something you will need to know how to do, so let's take advantage of this opportunity to learn how.

If you right-click (or Ctrl-click) in the track header, or simply press Option + T, it brings up a window in which you can choose the things you want to see in the track header, including the Mute and Solo buttons. (If, like me, you find that you frequently have multiple tracks flowing through a channel strip...

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Jay Asher

Jay Asher is an Apple Certified Trainer for Logic Pro, and the author of "Going Pro with Logic Pro 9" and "Scoring with Logic Pro". He has been a private consultant for many famous rock stars and film/TV composers. A composer and songwriter himself, Jay Asher scored the TV series "Zorro" and has written songs that have been recorded by Julio Iglesias, Whitney Houston, and Donna Summer, among others. He began learning Logic for his own musical endeavors, but along the way, something funny happened: he became a Logic Pro guru!
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