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Template

Besides the Regular Song and the Project Song, there is a third kind of song, the Template Song. The idea of a template song is the same as a

stationary file in word processors. You create one or more song files that act like starting points for a specific task.

• You can create a song that has a couple of instruments loaded, the one you mostly use when you start composing.

• You can create a song that has some plug-ins pre-loaded for mastering

• You can create a song that has 24 tracks prepared with specific input and send routing for audio recording purposes

When you start to do one of those tasks, you would just load one of those songs and everything is ready to go.

It is interesting that the Logic application has an “Stationary Song icon” available but it doesn’t use it.

Template Locations:

Logic provides a special location for those pre-configured songs, called Templates. Although you can store a pre-configured song anywhere you want,

but

only

if you store that song in that “Song Templates” folder then it has the special Template functionality

There are actually two locations:

•

/Library/Application Support/Logic/Song Templates/

This is the root location for the factory template that Logic creates during the installation

•

“username”/Library/Application Support/Logic/Song Templates/

this has a similar path, but it is located in the user directory

Template Functionality:

A song opened from one of the two “Song Templates” folder has a special feature: It is “read-only”

This means that after you opened that song and made some changes, hitting the save command will not overwrite the template song. Instead, it will

open the file selector box where you have to enter a new location and/or new name. This ensures that your template song always stays as it is.

This functionality works only if you use the “

File > New

” command and select the “

Use song

template

” feature to open the Template Song. If you use the “

File > Open

” command to open a

Template Song inside the Song Templates folder or open it by dclick on it in the Finder, then it

will not behave like a “read-only” Template Song, but like a Regular Song or even like a Project

Song, if you have moved a Project Song file into the Song Template folder.

Save Template:

There are two ways to create a template song:

• You can move any song into the “Song Templates” folder. Beware, that you can move files only into the “Song Templates” folder of your user

directory. You don’t have access privileges to move files into the “Song Templates” folder of the root directory unless you have root access.

• You can use the “

Save as Template

” command from the File menu. The command opens a file

selector box where the Song Templates directory is already selected. So you only have to

enter a name for the Template Song. Logic prompts you with an error message if you change

the directory of the file selector box and try to save the song outside the Song Templates

directory.

You also can freely organize your templates inside the Song Templates folder in the Finder

by creating sub-folders if you want.

The “Save as Template” is actually a “Save a Copy as Template” command, which means that

you continue to “stay” in your song and backup path regardless of the save as command and the name you chose for the Template

NOTE: This is the only trick to “convert” a Project Song back to a Regular Song: Move the Project Song file into the Song Templates folder, open it from

with the “

File > New

” command, make a edit and save it. Voila, now it’s a Regular Song again. Check the “

File > Project”

menu and you will see only

the consolidate command active.

Autoload:

There is a special template named “Autoload”. See the section “Launch Logic” for details.

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