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34 Chapter 3 Creating Your Arrangement
Choosing Tools
Key to selecting, and altering, audio and MIDI regions in the Arrange (and events or
data in other editing windows) are the tools. The Tool menus contain a Pointer, Pencil,
Eraser, Scissor, and Glue tools (amongst others) that allow you to select, create, and edit
regions (or events).
The Tool menus are context-sensitive. This means that different tools are available in
different windows. As an example, there is no Crossfade tool in the Score Editor
window, as it doesn’t handle audio information. There is, however, a Voice Separation
tool in the Score Editor, which would be of no use in the Arrange area, for example.
You can change the currently active tool by clicking on the appropriate icon in the
menu. The mouse pointer will adopt the shape of the selected tool, making it easy to
recognize.
You can also select a second tool—for use via a Command-click. This second tool is
available when the Command key is pressed while editing. You can also assign the
right mouse button (if using a multi-button mouse) to a third tool, allowing the use of
three assignable tools—in each window:
 Left-click tool: Choose this from the left Tool menu.
 Command-click tool: Choose this from the right (or center, see below) Tool menu.
 Right-click tool: Choose this from the right Tool menu.
Note: The third Tool menu will only appear when the Logic > Preferences > Global >
Editing > Right Mouse Button preference is set to: Is Assignable to a Tool. By default,
this preference is set to: Opens Shortcut Menu. Leave it as it is, for now.
Left-click Tool menu Right-click Tool menu
Command-click Tool menu