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]