Working with Help Tags

A help tag appears just below the mouse pointer position—for as long as the mouse button is held down—when using many of the tools. The help tag provides useful feedback on the operation you are performing.

Note: You must turn on the Logic Pro > Preferences > Display > General > Show Help Tags option in order to view help tags during edit operations.

During operations involving regions, the help tag looks something like this:

From left to right (and from top to bottom), the values indicate:

• Name of the operation

• Mouse (or region) position

• Region/event name

• Track number

• Length of the region

During operations involving events, the help tag looks something like this:

From left to right, the values indicate:

• Name of the operation

• Mouse (or event) position

• Event type

• Event MIDI channel

• First data byte (note pitch, for example)

• Second data byte (note velocity, for example)

• Event length (note length, for example)