Back in February, David, who runs the Apple-authorized Logic Pro Help forums, offered up a gem to Logic owners: BT’s Key Commands.

For those who don’t know, BT has almost completely kicked his hardware synths (the Roland JP8000 and his circuit-bent tinkering, notwithstanding) and has been composing his tracks in the Logic Pro for the last decade. Logic offers a variety of customization options including your Autoload (the standard parameters and tracks for a new project) and Key Commands, for quick access control.

Here is something I’d like to make public.

I’ve tried to get together a consortium of people to use the same sort of key commands because the configurability of Logic is amazing, but it’s really frustrating when you sit down at someone’s rig and you’re like… (acting as if he’s pressing a key command) “God… damn it, R is supposed to do horizontal zoom…” and it doesn’t work, and then you have to get your key out.. and.. whatever.. but I actually got a large group of people to start using the same key commands: The Deep Dish guys, myself, Paul Van Dyk, Peter Gabriel, the whole Real World crew… there’s a bunch of us, we’re all on the same key commands. It’s really nice to be able to sit down at a computer and use them.

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Some of them are based on Pro Tools commands which is nice because if you sit down in Pro Tools which I rarely do but I have to sometimes for film stuff, you’ve got some of the same zoom commands and stuff that you have in Pro Tools so you’re not completely lost when you’re in there. It’s pretty specific stuff. It just makes it really nice because now you can go to somebody else’s studio to work and it works great.
B.T. - ReMix Hotel 2006 Los Angeles

There are two files available here. One is a PDF with a list of all commands. The second is the Apple .plist Preference file. To install it, make sure Logic is turned off. Drop the file into your ~/user/Library/Preferences/ folder, and open Logic. You should be good to go. Sorry PC folks, but this is Mac OS X only.

BT Key Commands [PDF]

BT Key Commands [plist]

BT has joined a list of big names (including Paul Simon, Steve Vai, Phil Ramone and even Bill Cosby) to sponsor a Celebrity Online Scholarship Program for future students of Berklee School of Music. From the website:

The Celebrity Online Scholarship Program is designed to reward and assist outstanding online students who demonstrate superior performance studying in Certificate Programs at Berkleemusic.

Berklee has partnered with a growing list of celebrities to help our most promising online students achieve their dream of a life in music. These celebrities all support music education through their work and Berklee is proud to be associated with them.

The student recipients of each Celebrity Online Scholarship will receive an award of $1,250 to be used towards paying their tuition and helping them achieve their goals.

Hat tip to Sam of Berklee Music’s online-based continuing education department for this bit of news. You can read more about it here:

Berklee Music - Online Scholarship - Celebrity Online Scholarship from Berklee