Logic Pro Quick Tip - Auto Colorize Tracks, Regions & Markers!

[@cornerliston]

Here's a thing Apple should do: Since we most often use the same colour for certain instruments, groups, busses etc, imagine if all those colours could be pre-defined in the system so every time you rename a track the colour would automatically change to the pre-defined.

[@foundpat]

brilliant idea. You should send this request in to apple. Probably be quite easy for them to do!

[@cornerliston]

​@@foundpat We should all do! The more the likelier they listen? : ) Although, do they even have an email for suggestions? [Sorry, found it!]

[@dkkrecords]

Lpx colorizer while logic designers twiddle. The difference chalk and cheese

[@rayfingers]

Yeah, it's called a template.

[@cornerliston]

@@rayfingers Templates are nice to have and I have a basic setup-but it doesn't solve the overall problem. If you're used to importing templates probably you have a solid workflow. I don't like importing templates so I'd rather keen on having something as my suggestion. Every single click and action you can rationalise is welcome in my workflow.

[@CyrusShameliOfficial]

I absolutely love this feature it is amazing!

[@Zeinzu2]

I love these "ways to make logic fun to play with" videos. I honestly never knew how to do this.

[@TheBelse]

i can't make my mind up who is best ..so you share the best award with Edgar Rothermich ...thankyou again ...leading the way Joshua.

[@psunie]

You make things eeeeeeaaaasyyyyy. You should get an awards for teaching the way you do it. No one is better doing this

[@Bittamin]

My dude just saved us TIME

[@joesalyers]

I found this a while back while setting Logic up on a new machine and it has been really helpful and I'm glad someone made a video about it. Now if only we could arrange tracks in the mixer like you can in Mainstage. I guess that may come one day in a major update. But I've been wishing for this since Logic platinum. Yea kids, I'm that old!! LOL

[@EbonyTails]

god you made my day because i wasn't sure why i could assign track colors but every audio i move into it stayed blue. Yipee! Didn't know that was a display setting :-)

[@athishayjain.m.k9257]

u r simply great sir.... 6th year of my logic pro ... u r always with mr guiding virtually tqsm...god bless

[@bkmusicman]

Man you are truly a blessing OG.I appreciate all that you share with us.Thank u

[@ejekt1]

This is helpful for starting a project. What does one do for an already existing project where most of the colors are the default blue audio and green midi?

[@rome8180]

Are your tracks arranged by instrument? Like, do you have all the guitars in a row and all the drums in a row? Or are you using busses? If either of those are the case, it's pretty easy to go through and select all the guitars since they're all right next to each other. Then you just make them all the same color at the same time. It's not as quick as this option, but it's more useful, imo. Doesn't it make more sense to have all the guitars be one color rather than all of them different colors anyway?

[@raf5.13]

Exactly my point. I’d like to be able to command select several tracks and click “auto colorize”.

[@deantiquisetnovis]

How cool is that!!! Thanks a million for this!!

[@rome8180]

I find it much more useful to have all the guitars be one color, all the drum tracks one color, etc. I was hoping there'd be a quick way to do that. But since I use a template anyway, it's not really an issue. My template has maybe 4-5 empty guitar tracks, 4-5 vocal tracks, etc. Each instrument type has a designated color and icon. If I need another guitar track, I just press command-D and it duplicates the track with the color and icon, etc.

[@dkkrecords]

lpx colorizer will do that and more. there is a free lite version, with a full blown paid version and it's great.

[@CreativeIsolation]

Game changer! Had no idea this was a thing. As someone who is red-green colorblind, having to select colors on that color window is a nightmare. This is huge!!!

[@djscratchdog]

for some reason my Logic Pro stopped creating automatic color tracks even after falling these steps can anyone help..any ideas why?

[@johnhamers4571]

I've seen that it only works on audio tracks, not for software instruments ✌🏼. But like always a top host with clear explanation🙏🏼

[@brettantoni]

Unfortunately this is due to a recent software update and it's utterly annoying if you're used to using this workflow.

[@beatsgalura]

Thank you!! I was stuck on blue for all track lol...

[@niteboatermusic]

does Logic support random colorization for projects that have already been created? Say I click on 10 tracks that I havent bothered to color yet...will the color command work somehow?

[@AlexeySolovievMusic]

Maaaan! This is super awesome. Didn’t know about this trick! Thank you so much Josh! 😀👍🔥🔥🔥

[@munkhochir4252]

I wanted to do this for some time, and thank you for explaining

[@ollieoldenburg]

Hi! Can we also change the color of the ruler itself? So, the horizontal bar where you set the playhead? I find it really unhandy that is has the same color as the grid. I don't want to work with lots of colors for everything, although I do sometimes change colors for one or plural regions f.e. if I need to review them later or to show which ones go together in different parts of a project. Now, if I could change the ruler to something rather unsimular as the standard cycle color (yellow, duh) to - say - mint green or a red like color for me that would be helpful. I don't think this function exists , yeah maybe by changing the internal Logic GUI, but I dont want to go there ... Any tips are helpful, keep it up, you already learnt me loads of stuff! Greetz from the Netherlands !

[@lopeztroncoso]

Really helpful tips as usual, thanks!

[@vewilli]

Thanks a lot. I did enjoy and with the help of this video of yours I‘ll try it out on my current project … 👍🏻👏🏻🙏🏻

[@risingphoenix1484]

That was really helpful!!!!!

[@asirus]

Is it possible to change the default colour?

[@dafingaz]

Is there a way to apply the rainbow colors for already created tracks? I have templates with tracks already in and would like to make the tracks various colors without having to go track by track.

[@SmilusMusic]

Very good question! Does anyone know if this is possible?

[@dafingaz]

@@SmilusMusic That would be great!

[@prod.byMali]

@@dafingaz somehow no one knows the answer, maybe it isnt possible without creating new tracks and pasting everything onto the new ones which is annoying

[@NME_REK]

Can you select multiple colors for same track -ex a 4 bar loop and make each bar a separate color or a 16 bar verse and make each 4 bars a different color? For say building a instrumental track and copy and pasting parts

[@redroomstudios7370]

question 1. how do you get the colours to change when duplicating a track? when I duplicate the track it keeps the same color as the track im duplicating? Question 2. How do I get this color effect with existing sessions?

[@liquidsolids9415]

This is awesome. Thanks!

[@josephyagappan1896]

Very useful tips!

[@sebrura]

Can you change the grey color of the track control area (M, S, R, I,Volume etc.) to the same as the tracks?

[@obstinator5645]

I appreciate it. Really helpful 👍

[@rohemianbhapsody]

Thank you so much for this!

[@HongStarr]

I wonder if there's a way to change the colors of different regions on the same track?

[@kadenisrice]

I wish that it changed the track color when u duplicate the track as well or at least had a setting for it

[@Teachpro2023]

Thank you so much for this 🎉

[@ajadrew]

Really helpful - cheers!

[@GMan269]

Thanks, For this. Can you tell me why your choose a track type window has colored graphics and looks different that’s mine? I run 10.7.4.

[@MusicTechHelpGuy]

Go to Logic Pro > Preferences > Display > General. In there you'll find an option called "show icons in new tracks dialog". Turn that on and you should be all good.

[@Fistful0fSteel]

Is there a way to auto color existing trakcs in projects?

[@Valsi876]

Nice tip!

[@soontaek]

Indecisiveness when trying to colorize regions is real time waster. This will solve it for me. Thanks a lot for sharing this.

[@BobbyLaneProductions]

one little caveat: if you want to have your takes in a cycle recording to be automatically colorized you'll need to go to Preferences > Display > Tracks tab > Region Color > Individual

[@sidneyjosephmusic]

amazing, thank you!

[@trocchiettoski]

what really hurt is that working with the grey of alchemy is killing my creativity, how can i change colors in alchemy, it looks as all the software take care of the mix and the tracks only

[@AndreasArianto]

woaa, thanks a lot!

[@itstommy135]

any idea how to do this in Ableton?

[@MrTupeloFlash]

Very helpful

[@popodopulus3826]

does this work on midi tracks? I set it up but all my midi tracks are still green

[@flyme-z7b]

I am on Logic Pro 10.8.1 which should be the latest update and I don't seem to have a Preferences or a Display choice to choose from in order to change colors in the way you are explaining. Don't ya hate it when that happens :) Any thoughts on this? My goal is to do the '24 colors' option that you are doing as I would like to have my midi notes in different colors for each track. This way when I do overlapping tracks on one piano roll they will be more easily identifiable.

[@MusicTechHelpGuy]

Logic Pro > Settings. They changed up the wording in one of the updates.

[@flyme-z7b]

@@MusicTechHelpGuy I see what mean but they no longer have a choice called Display that I can find in Settings or elsewhere. I did find a way simply change the colors on the regions but still no way to do the '24-colors' thing that you did. By the way, thanks for all of your help and tips over the years. You've bailed me out a hundred times. Keep up the great work!

[@basarrr]

Does this apple to mixer also?

[@TheMixClub]

Good Stuff.. I did something last week on a project. I have no idea how it did it. When i select a track it will be big in the track lane and the rest small. Is there a way to do this again. I like it... lol thanks again.

[@MusicTechHelpGuy]

Sounds like Track auto zoom. Press Control Option Command T to open the toolbar. Then on the left side you should see an option for "Track Zoom". Turn that on. Now whichever track you have selected will be automatically zoomed. Might have to do a quick tips video for this too! Thanks.

[@MusicTechHelpGuy]

There's also a quick shortcut to directly turn on/off the feature. Control Z.

[@TheMixClub]

@@MusicTechHelpGuy Lol you saved me... was driving me crazy. Thanks again Stay Safe

[@victorhugod387]

But when the project is not new??

[@stewartkeyes2511]

Thank you so much!!

[@sonidojamon]

I wish Studio One and Logic Pro had a baby. I'm torn between the two 😂😂😂😂

[@leestanford2452]

Even with all these settings set as shown, my tracks still do not auto color. The tracks are actually absent of color but my regions are auto colored. I know I must be missing something!

[@MusicTechHelpGuy]

You probably need to turn on your track color bars, like I did at 0:31.

[@leestanford2452]

@@MusicTechHelpGuy Yes! I knew it was something obvious. Thanks :)

[@rtm9220]

In my Logic 2.8.1 it is settings - view - tracks

[@DexterityWay]

legend, thanks!

[@artbasss]

Bruh. Great tip

[@rondo666]

I tried the tip but mine didn't change the colour of the track headers, only the audio tracks themselves. I've checked and double checked? Anyone have any suggestions?

[@MusicTechHelpGuy]

Did you show the track color bars like I did at the beginning of the video? If you don't do that, you won't see any colors on the track headers at all.

[@rondo666]

@@MusicTechHelpGuy Damn I missed that part :) That worked. Thanks man!

[@joeyf808]

Question, is there a way to hide region names?

[@MusicTechHelpGuy]

You can't hide the region names per se. But you can select all of your regions, then click on the regions with the text tool. Then just hit the space bar to add a space as the name of the region. Then hit enter and this will effectively hide the region names.

[@joeyf808]

@@MusicTechHelpGuy Thank you sir.

[@puppysuprise]

I cannot for the life of me get this to work. track colors bars are on, auto-assign 24 colors. creating a new track type th'ey each have a different color but within the different types the colors are all the same. ie all guitar tracks same shade of purple all drum tracks same shade of yellow. whats going on? why cant i get this to work?

[@MusicTechHelpGuy]

The only thing I can think of that would create what you're describing is if the tracks are in a group, and "color" is a group assignment. But then if you create a new track, it shouldn't be in the group? So I'm not exactly sure. Try opening a brand new blank project and start creating tracks and see what happens.

[@aerialgrey2566]

Thank you!

[@CAJUNVOODOO666]

I did everything ya said.. created 24 tracks and no colors showed up...Hummm? Help please..

[@MusicTechHelpGuy]

You probably haven't shown your track color bars. Select a track, press Option T and then make sure "color bars" are shown.

[@s81n]

I don't get why this works for everyone but me. I have the latest version of Logic and all the settings are correct, but I only get green as the color.

[@popodopulus3826]

me too. The thing is that was working for me until one day suddenly it wasn't. I spoke with apple and they told me is something about a malfunction

[@eduardoalarcon6843]

Gracias!

[@peterwaringofficial]

Yess! 👍

[@888Eldon]

thank you

[@BraveHindustani9074]

Great,Thanks God

[@deemus133]

Thanks

[@Bittamin]

Oh yesssss

[@jamesbastani4295]

I see this video with made only a year ago and already everything has changed. 1 Logic Pro 2 Settings 3 General 4 View 5 Appearance

[@banyarling]

Anyone else use Colorizer?

[@dkkrecords]

Lpx colorizer goes a long way further to bringing logic into the third decade..

[@prozay6856]

🫢 I’m left speechless… and here I was wasting valuable time CLICK CLICK CLICK … Thank you for this jewel

[@genereznick]

thank you

[@eduardoalarcon6843]

Gracias!

[@EvansAudio]

Thanks