User guide

308 Chapter 13 Creating Your Arrangement
To alter the Arrange area background color:
1 Open the Display preferences by doing one of the following:
 Choose Logic Express > Preferences > Display (or use the Open Display preferences
key command).
 Click the Preferences button in the Arrange Toolbar, and choose Display from the
menu.
2 Click the Arrange tab in the Preferences window.
3 Choose Bright in the Background Color menu.
4 Alternately, choose Custom from the menu, and click the color field to the right.
5 In the Colors window that launches: Use the mouse on the color palette wheel,
contrast and opacity sliders to create a custom color.
6 Click the close button at the top left to exit the Colors window and assign your custom
Arrange area background color.
Most arranging and editing techniques work identically for both audio and MIDI
regions. Apple Loops are also handled in a similar fashion. Where handling differs,
variations are pointed out in the appropriate sections of this chapter.
All operations described with a pluralized heading (regions, for example), apply to one
or more selected region(s).