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Published inSep 2023
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Prof. Chris Piorkowski
Prof. Chris Piorkowski
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Prof. Chris Piorkowski

Professor Chris Piorkowski is an award-winning composer, with a Masters in Music Technology from the University of Newcastle in Australia, an MFA majoring in Music Composition for Film, TV and Multimedia from the Vermont College of Fine Arts, a Diploma in Media Composition from Music for The Media in London, and another Diploma in Sound Engineering from the Audio Institute of America in San Francisco. He has also studied Film Scoring and Orchestration at Berklee College of Music in Boston as well as Film Music Orchestration Steven Scott Smalley and Jazz Piano with Walter Norris. In his professional life, he has worked on countless projects at the legendary Sound City Studios in Los Angeles scoring over 50 projects for TBN, ShowTime, PBS, and Gene Roddenberry (the creator of Star Trek).
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Using Tap Tempo

Tap Tempo allows you to tap a key on the computer keyboard to change Logic Pro’s tempo. This is helpful when watching a movie and trying to experiment with different tempos.

By default, Tap Tempo doesn’t have an assigned keyboard shortcut. To create a custom keyboard shortcut, press Option + K to open the Key Command Assignments window. Then, in the upper-right corner, type Tap Tempo. Now select Tap Tempo from the Global Commands list and assign a keyboard shortcut of your choice. In this example, we’ve assigned the keyboard shortcut F19.

Figure 7.4: Key Command Assignments window

Figure 7.4: Key Command Assignments window

To check whether the assignment worked, hit your newly created keyboard shortcut. A window will open asking you to enable the Tap Tempo function. Simply click OK to confirm.

Figure 7.5: Enable Tap Tempo window

Figure 7.5: Enable Tap Tempo window

After enabling Tap Tempo, Logic Pro changes the playhead color from white to blue for easy identification...

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Prof. Chris Piorkowski

Professor Chris Piorkowski is an award-winning composer, with a Masters in Music Technology from the University of Newcastle in Australia, an MFA majoring in Music Composition for Film, TV and Multimedia from the Vermont College of Fine Arts, a Diploma in Media Composition from Music for The Media in London, and another Diploma in Sound Engineering from the Audio Institute of America in San Francisco. He has also studied Film Scoring and Orchestration at Berklee College of Music in Boston as well as Film Music Orchestration Steven Scott Smalley and Jazz Piano with Walter Norris. In his professional life, he has worked on countless projects at the legendary Sound City Studios in Los Angeles scoring over 50 projects for TBN, ShowTime, PBS, and Gene Roddenberry (the creator of Star Trek).
Read more about Prof. Chris Piorkowski