User guide

3 Customizing Your Window Setup

Logic Express allows you to customize your window setup to

fit both your working style and the task at hand.

While you will perform most of your work in the Arrange, you can open different

combinations of windows (even several of the same type) and adjust each individually.

It is also easy to save different window arrangements (called screensets, discussed in

“Using Screensets” on page 79), and recall them by pressing a key.

All open windows in a project are constantly updated as they follow the position of the

playhead. Alterations made in one window are immediately reflected in all other open

windows. As an example, if the pitch of a note event is changed in the Score Editor, this

change is instantly shown in an open Piano Roll Editor window.

This chapter outlines how you can customize and save your overall window setup. The

display options of individual windows or editors are not covered in this chapter.

Window Types

There are two different types of windows in Logic Express: normal windows and

floating windows.

Normal Windows

You can open as many normal windows as desired, including several of the same type.

Even though the contents of all windows are constantly updated, only one window

ever has the status of being the top, or active window. This is the window that is in the

foreground when several normal windows overlap, or are shown alongside each other.

It is referred to as having “key focus”.

Key focus windows can be recognized by a title bar that is illuminated, and black title

bar text (the project name).