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Just a short note for people wondering where any new posts are - my Powerbook has suffered an unfortunate disk corruption and refuses to boot, so I've been trying to get it sorted out, without success so far.As soon as I can recover what I need, I can trash it and reinstall everything from scratch, and I will resume posts.Sorry for the inconvenience in the meantime...

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So hopefully by now, if you've been following along with our transform tutorial you should have a fairly good idea of how to select events. Onto transforming them!Ok, we already know that the top line selects the events we want to process, and the bottom line the tells Logic what we want to convert them into.Let's again start off with a simple example."We want to convert MIDI controller 7 events

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Quiz AnswersSo how did you do? Feeling confident? Let's have a look at the answers - score a point for each one you got:-(2) Select all notes on MIDI channel 5-8, except C#3 in a regionFairly straightforward, you should not have had any problems with this one.(3) Select all program changes of less than 32, but only when they are at the start of a bar (the downbeat) in all regions in your songThe

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Ok, you should have a grasp of the general concept of the Transform window by now from part 1 - if not, go read part 1 first, then come back here. We'll wait for you!Ok, a quick recap. We choose which events to SELECT using the top "Select by Conditions" line, and tell Logic what we want to do with those events using the bottom "Operations on selected Events" line. So let's look at the detail of

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One of Logic's great features is the Transformer.If you've ever wanted or needed to do things like:- Delete all controller 11 data in any region in my song- Thin out volume controller data- Reverse my keyboard melody- Play a region backwards- Select all C1 notes in a region with a velocity of less than 64- Convert controller 7 volume data into controller 11 expression data- Randomise the timing,

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If Logic is acting unpredictably, there are a few basic steps you can do to find out what's causing the problem.If you have some kind of problem, try and recreate it in a different song. if the problem goes away, then the source of the problem is in that first song only.If your problem happens in all your songs, then whatever caused it might be contained in your autoload song, and therefore be in

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Often you may wish to move environment objects to a different environment layer - you might be tidying up, or want to temporarily move an audio object onto it's own layer in order to have a bit more space to play with while connecting things to it.Select all the objects you want to move, hold the OPTION key, and while still holding the option key, change to the layer you want to objects moved

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Many Logic users are probably using the Matrix (or "piano-roll") editor as the main way to graphically edit MIDI data. The screenshot below shows some notes recorded into a MIDI region.In adition to inserting, deleting, moving and changing the length of notes, you can use the "Mute" tool to mute and unmute individual notes or selections of notes, and you can use the Velocity tool to change the

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Logic's inbuilt compressor plugin, though very useful, is often criticised for being a bit heavy handed. It can certainly be pretty severe!However, there is an extra hidden parameter that turns it into a whole different beast altogether! It's called the Output Clip parameter, and is "OFF" by default.However, switch it to "SOFT", and you get an extra level of soft limiting going on, which is

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There are a number of useful ways of controlling Logic while the program is starting up, especially useful during troubleshooting. You can make Logic start without the audio engine or without loading its default autoload song, stop it loading plugins which don't pass AU validation but that you have enabled, and enter various license keys to authorise or activate your copy of Logic. The full list

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You're probably aware that, with Universal Trackmode On (which it is by default, and is the recommended setting), you can toggle any mixer channel (audio track, audio instrument, bus, aux, input, output etc) between mono and stereo modes by clicking on the button underneath the meters:An extra feature here, is that if you click-hold on the button, and litle menu will appear, where you can select

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This is for all you edit freaks out there, and is a great way of cutting up audio regions. It's called Divide Multiple.In the screenshot, the top region is the original four bar region. Select the scissors tool, and hold the OPTION key while cutting. This will cut your region into equal slices. (You will see the yellow info box change from "Divide" to "Divide Multiple" when you hold the command

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If you ever need to change the automation of one parameter onto a different parameter, on the same track, Logic offers you a really simple way of doing it.With the automation lane showing the parameter you want copy from, hold COMMAND and click on the parameter flip menu, and choose a new parameter.COMMAND-click on an automation parameter, and hold the command key until you select the destination

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Sometimes it's useful to be able to see what MIDI data is coming in to Logic, if you're troubleshooting, or transforming MIDI messages to do useful things, and experienced users will place MIDI Monitor, MIDI keyboard and other environment objects in the path between the Physical Input and the Sequencer Thru objects to see incoming MIDI data, as well as watching the MIDI monitor in the transport

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If you haven't explicitly set a Pan Law in Logic, then I *strongly* urge you to try this one out.A pan law is the algorithm a DAW uses to pan an audio signal between the left and right outputs.By default, Logic uses a 0dB pan law. If you've been using Logic prior to 7.1, you will have been using a 0dB pan law in all your mixes, as it's the only pan law Logic had.With a 0dB pan law, Logic does not

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Something that often comes up with new Logic users is how to best use multitimbral software synths in Logic. Often they can get one MIDI channel working, but then struggle to access parts on other channels.Watch the tutorial movie illustrating this tip: 5.6 megs, Quicktime 7 requiredClick to view movie, right click to downloadNormally, we'd put our virtual instrument (in this case, we're using

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If you want a comfortable way to edit automation data in the arrange page as regular regions, so you can edit/cut/copy between tracks and so on, the Track Automation Folder is really useful - but accessing it is like going on a treasure hunt - there is no key or menu command to open it in L7 - but if you follow today's tip, the hidden treasure shall ye find!Firstly, you need to open the "

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A common question is how to get more audio tracks, so I'm going to walkthrough how this works in Logic.Firstly, Logic has a hard track limit, set in Logic Pro -> Preferences -> Audio -> Drivers. Whatever value you have set here is the highest *potential* amount of audio tracks you can address at once.Higher settings use more memory, so it makes sense to set this to a value which gives you plenty

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If you want to assign a key command to a menu function, there's a quicker way than opening up the key commands window and searching for the command you want to assign.Simply hold the CONTROL key while selecting that item in the menu. The key command window will open with that command already highlighted.CONTROL + click on any menu item = Open the key commands window and highlight that item ready

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Sometimes it's easy to get confused about multitimbral virtual instruments versus multi-output instruments, and an instrument can be one or other, or both.Multitimbral means that the instrument can respond to more than one MIDI channel, playing different sounds on each. One instance of a multitimbral synthesiser plugin could supply your bass, lead, pad, strings and brass sounds in your

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We all know about having audio tracks, audio instrument tracks or MIDI tracks in the arrange - after all, it's how we create our music!But it's often useful to have other types of track in the arrange, even if you are not directly recording on those tracks.Let's take a simple one to start with - we want to perform an automated fade out during the end of our song.Doing this manually would mean

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Here's a nice little key command for you. Let's say you record a little 2-bar region in the arrange. The "Set rounded Locators & Cycle Play" command (I have this assigned to my TAB key) will set the locators to the size of your selected region, enable cycle mode, and start playback.The "Set rounded Locators & Cycle Play" command in action:4.4 megs, Quicktime 7 requiredClick to view movie, right

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Logic can record on multiple tracks simultaneously, irrespective of the type of track (audio, MIDI, or audio instrument).To arm multiple tracks, simply SHIFT-click on their record buttons.When you start Logic recording, it will record on all tracks at once, allowing you to capture multi-microphone sessions, multiple outputs of an external hardware device, or a MIDI and audio performance

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Off and running with the first tip, and this one is about the various ways of using your Toolbox in Logic.Now normally, Logic displays its toolbox in the parameters area of the arrange window, but having to continually move your mouse over to the toolbox and then back over to your regions gets old really fast. There has to be something better - and there is!Pressing the "ESC" key brings up a

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So I've been toying with the idea of creating some kind of Logic tips resource for a while, whether it would be a stand alone website, blog, or podcast. Back in the early nineties, around the Logic 1.5 to 2.5 era, myself and Fokke de Boer created the first website dedicated to Logic (and the first of any sequencer software) with tutorials (now long gone) on the environment and score functionality

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