User guide

Chapter 13 Creating Your Arrangement 309
Making Region Edits Faster and Easier
This section provides information on several options that can accelerate and simplify
region editing, helping you to focus on the musical aspects of your arrangement.
Snapping Region Edits to Time Positions
You move and resize regions in the Arrange area because you want them to start and
end at a specific point in time. As an example: In a music-based project, you may want
to align the start points of regions with measures and beats.
Logic Express offers a snap feature that automatically aligns region start and end points
to a selected grid value, when you move or resize them.
∏ Tip: Turn on the View > Grid menu item, as this will help you to visualize how the Snap
menu items automatically align regions to specific grid positions.
To snap regions to a grid:
m Choose one of the following values in the Snap menu at the top of the Arrange area:
 Smart: Edit operations will snap to the nearest bar, beat, sub beat, and so on,
dependent on the current Bar ruler division value, and the zoom level.
 Bar: Edit operations will snap to the nearest bar.
 Beat: Edit operations will snap to the nearest beat in a bar.
 Division: Edit operations will snap to the nearest division value (this is the time
signature shown in the Transport and Bar ruler).
 Ticks: Edit operations will snap to the nearest clock tick (1/3840th of a beat).
 Frames: Edit operations will snap to the nearest SMPTE frame.
 QF (Quarter Frames): Edit operations will snap to the nearest SMPTE quarter frame.
 Samples: Edit operations will snap to the nearest sample.
Note: Sample accurate editing is directly tied to the zoom level. If the zoom level is
insufficient, sample-accurate edits are not possible. Make use of the Zoom slider at the
bottom of the Arrange window, and take advantage of the Save and Recall Zoom
Setting key commands to speed up your workflow.