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  • CamblerCambler
    edited May 24

    @HolyMoses said:

    @Cambler said:
    Hey A-Bus Team, does anyone know how to get an existing midi track containing chords to populate the chord track?

    TIA!

    Hi there!

    Found this on another site describing how to do it:

    “ This is how (for now):

    Create a new software instrument track, add any instrument plugin you like (ES2/Alchemy/Retro Synth)
    Add your chord MIDI region onto the track. In the Inspector, under 'Track:' set the 'Internal MIDI In:' to the instrument plugin you just loaded.
    Go to the Chord track, hit the Plus button to open up the Add Chord menu and at the bottom click On 'MIDI Input' so the button turns green.
    Make sure the playhead matches the start point of the first chord. Press Play. The Chord track detects the chord and adds it to the Chord track! To add the next chord, simply hit Tab and move the playhead to the next chord. Shift Tab moves backwards. Rinse and repeat 😀
    Bonus points if you use key commands:

    • Hit Option K (Key Commands window) and search for 'Create Chord'. There are a whole bunch of other key commands for the new Chord track as well.

    • To dismiss the Add Chord menu just hit the Escape button.

    • The ; 'Move Region/Event to Playhead Position (Pickup Clock)' key command works in the Chord track too. Instead of selecting and dragging the chord groups, simply position the playhead anywhere and hit that key command.”

    Good luck!

    Bless your socks @HolyMoses ! Thanks so much for this. Will try it tonight. Happy Friday Eve(ning)!

  • dokwok2dokwok2

    When Logic came out for iPad, I subscribed for a year. No question I'll sign up for another year. But some common operations still seem rather involved for such a sophisticated piece of software. The one I'm doing a lot recently is splitting a two-channel audio region into separate tracks.* This procedure works:

    But, seriously, Apple: isn't this something that hundreds if not thousands of your customers do every day?

    *Recently I've been making videos of myself playing guitar and singing into a mic. The raw audio, as captured in my camera app through a MOTU M2 interface, has two channels: vocal and guitar. First I send the video file to Twisted Wave, which generates an audio file that I can import in Logic (but not without launching the Files app and setting up a slide-over). I used Twisted Wave a lot when I was making podcasts for my classes during covid:

    https://i.pinimg.com/originals/02/67/83/026783739b42d1fdde1a90b987caf5f8.png

    It can sum stereo channels to mono, but not split them.

  • richardyotrichardyot

    @Cambler said:

    @HolyMoses said:

    @Cambler said:
    Hey A-Bus Team, does anyone know how to get an existing midi track containing chords to populate the chord track?

    TIA!

    Hi there!

    Found this on another site describing how to do it:

    “ This is how (for now):

    Create a new software instrument track, add any instrument plugin you like (ES2/Alchemy/Retro Synth)
    Add your chord MIDI region onto the track. In the Inspector, under 'Track:' set the 'Internal MIDI In:' to the instrument plugin you just loaded.
    Go to the Chord track, hit the Plus button to open up the Add Chord menu and at the bottom click On 'MIDI Input' so the button turns green.
    Make sure the playhead matches the start point of the first chord. Press Play. The Chord track detects the chord and adds it to the Chord track! To add the next chord, simply hit Tab and move the playhead to the next chord. Shift Tab moves backwards. Rinse and repeat 😀
    Bonus points if you use key commands:

    • Hit Option K (Key Commands window) and search for 'Create Chord'. There are a whole bunch of other key commands for the new Chord track as well.

    • To dismiss the Add Chord menu just hit the Escape button.

    • The ; 'Move Region/Event to Playhead Position (Pickup Clock)' key command works in the Chord track too. Instead of selecting and dragging the chord groups, simply position the playhead anywhere and hit that key command.”

    Good luck!

    Bless your socks @HolyMoses ! Thanks so much for this. Will try it tonight. Happy Friday Eve(ning)!

    Just one caveat: don't use the pop-up properties for the chords in the chord track, that doesn't work in my testing, but you can use the Inspector panel.

    Short video showing the workflow:

  • Fruitbat1919Fruitbat1919

    Just a few simple questions for any of you Logic Pro’s. Please help if possible:

    1. Can anyone link me to a video for ducking my bass for my kick?
    2. Can you split the drum kit sounds up for separate processing?
    3. Does anyone know how to record automation on a Aux bus fader, for the life of me I can seem to figure it out lol

  • CamblerCambler

    @richardyot said:

    @Cambler said:

    @HolyMoses said:

    @Cambler said:
    Hey A-Bus Team, does anyone know how to get an existing midi track containing chords to populate the chord track?

    TIA!

    Hi there!

    Found this on another site describing how to do it:

    “ This is how (for now):

    Create a new software instrument track, add any instrument plugin you like (ES2/Alchemy/Retro Synth)
    Add your chord MIDI region onto the track. In the Inspector, under 'Track:' set the 'Internal MIDI In:' to the instrument plugin you just loaded.
    Go to the Chord track, hit the Plus button to open up the Add Chord menu and at the bottom click On 'MIDI Input' so the button turns green.
    Make sure the playhead matches the start point of the first chord. Press Play. The Chord track detects the chord and adds it to the Chord track! To add the next chord, simply hit Tab and move the playhead to the next chord. Shift Tab moves backwards. Rinse and repeat 😀
    Bonus points if you use key commands:

    • Hit Option K (Key Commands window) and search for 'Create Chord'. There are a whole bunch of other key commands for the new Chord track as well.

    • To dismiss the Add Chord menu just hit the Escape button.

    • The ; 'Move Region/Event to Playhead Position (Pickup Clock)' key command works in the Chord track too. Instead of selecting and dragging the chord groups, simply position the playhead anywhere and hit that key command.”

    Good luck!

    Bless your socks @HolyMoses ! Thanks so much for this. Will try it tonight. Happy Friday Eve(ning)!

    Just one caveat: don't use the pop-up properties for the chords in the chord track, that doesn't work in my testing, but you can use the Inspector panel.

    Short video showing the workflow:

    Beautifull! Thanks so much @richaryot.

  • CamblerCambler

    @Fruitbat1919 said:
    Just a few simple questions for any of you Logic Pro’s. Please help if possible:

    1. Can anyone link me to a video for ducking my bass for my kick?
    2. Can you split the drum kit sounds up for separate processing?
    3. Does anyone know how to record automation on a Aux bus fader, for the life of me I can seem to figure it out lol

    This video presents a cool technique to have separate drummers for different kit parts. Slightly different than what you're asking but very cool!

  • Fruitbat1919Fruitbat1919

    @Cambler said:

    @Fruitbat1919 said:
    Just a few simple questions for any of you Logic Pro’s. Please help if possible:

    1. Can anyone link me to a video for ducking my bass for my kick?
    2. Can you split the drum kit sounds up for separate processing?
    3. Does anyone know how to record automation on a Aux bus fader, for the life of me I can seem to figure it out lol

    This video presents a cool technique to have separate drummers for different kit parts. Slightly different than what you're asking but very cool!

    Thanks it all helps. Watching as many as I can. Find them much easier on the eyes than reading lots of text. I will get the manual printed eventually.

  • Fruitbat1919Fruitbat1919

    @Cambler

    Thanks for the link, the vid was very helpful :)

  • CamblerCambler

    @Fruitbat1919 said:
    @Cambler

    Thanks for the link, the vid was very helpful :)

    My pleasure. I still haven’t played with the multi session drummer setup myself but it looks like a lot of fun!

  • gusgranitegusgranite

    How do you rename a track marker?

  • HolyMosesHolyMoses

    @gusgranite said:
    How do you rename a track marker?

    This:

  • gusgranitegusgranite

    @HolyMoses said:

    @gusgranite said:
    How do you rename a track marker?

    This:

    Nice one. Thank you.

  • HolyMosesHolyMoses

    @gusgranite said:

    @HolyMoses said:

    @gusgranite said:
    How do you rename a track marker?

    This:

    Nice one. Thank you.

    Inspector, the place where magic happens in Logic Pro!!

  • klownshedklownshed

    @Fruitbat1919 said:
    Just a few simple questions for any of you Logic Pro’s. Please help if possible:

    1. Can anyone link me to a video for ducking my bass for my kick?
    2. Can you split the drum kit sounds up for separate processing?
    3. Does anyone know how to record automation on a Aux bus fader, for the life of me I can seem to figure it out lol

    1. Not a video. Use the compressor and side chain feature. Put the compressor on the bass and the kick as the side chain. Experiment with the threshold and ratio to get the desired ducking, then adjust the release to make it pump the way you want.
    2. Depends on what you mean by drum kit sounds. If you're talking about the drum kit designer that's only available as a multi out plugin on the Mac I think. But it's easy to use multiple tracks of the same instrument with different channel strips. You can split a drummer region by note pitch to easily extract each note and drag it to a different instance. Logic handles multiple instances of the same instrument pretty efficiently. You can use drum machine designer to choose your own sound for each pad (which is basically making a separate track for each hit with a summing track, limiting the MIDI note range for each track so each track just responds to a specific midi note (or range), and you can programme the lot with one region in top summing track. Or use separate drummers for each hit if you're using drummer to create the MIDI.
    3. Yes, in the mixer tap an aux track and tap "create track". You can then use that track to automate everything.
  • Fruitbat1919Fruitbat1919

    @klownshed said:

    1. Not a video. Use the compressor and side chain feature. Put the compressor on the bass and the kick as the side chain. Experiment with the threshold and ratio to get the desired ducking, then adjust the release to make it pump the way you want.

    Thanks. I thought it must be there, but I spent an age staring at the compressor only to miss the part I needed to touch. Your conformation made me look harder…with glasses! lol.

    1. Depends on what you mean by drum kit sounds. If you're talking about the drum kit designer that's only available as a multi out plugin on the Mac I think. But it's easy to use multiple tracks of the same instrument with different channel strips. You can split a drummer region by note pitch to easily extract each note and drag it to a different instance. Logic handles multiple instances of the same instrument pretty efficiently. You can use drum machine designer to choose your own sound for each pad (which is basically making a separate track for each hit with a summing track, limiting the MIDI note range for each track so each track just responds to a specific midi note (or range), and you can programme the lot with one region in top summing track. Or use separate drummers for each hit if you're using drummer to create the MIDI.

    Thanks. I actually worked this one out eventually with the help of a video another person posted, but your description confirmed that I have figured the workaround.

    1. Yes, in the mixer tap an aux track and tap "create track". You can then use that track to automate everything.

    Thanks again. I just never thought of making the Aux a track so it sees the automation. You’ve saved me years of searching, this one really got my head scratching!

    Thank you so much for your help!

  • HolyMosesHolyMoses

    @Fruitbat1919 said:

    @klownshed said:

    1. Not a video. Use the compressor and side chain feature. Put the compressor on the bass and the kick as the side chain. Experiment with the threshold and ratio to get the desired ducking, then adjust the release to make it pump the way you want.

    Thanks. I thought it must be there, but I spent an age staring at the compressor only to miss the part I needed to touch. Your conformation made me look harder…with glasses! lol.

    1. Depends on what you mean by drum kit sounds. If you're talking about the drum kit designer that's only available as a multi out plugin on the Mac I think. But it's easy to use multiple tracks of the same instrument with different channel strips. You can split a drummer region by note pitch to easily extract each note and drag it to a different instance. Logic handles multiple instances of the same instrument pretty efficiently. You can use drum machine designer to choose your own sound for each pad (which is basically making a separate track for each hit with a summing track, limiting the MIDI note range for each track so each track just responds to a specific midi note (or range), and you can programme the lot with one region in top summing track. Or use separate drummers for each hit if you're using drummer to create the MIDI.

    Thanks. I actually worked this one out eventually with the help of a video another person posted, but your description confirmed that I have figured the workaround.

    1. Yes, in the mixer tap an aux track and tap "create track". You can then use that track to automate everything.

    Thanks again. I just never thought of making the Aux a track so it sees the automation. You’ve saved me years of searching, this one really got my head scratching!

    Thank you so much for your help!

    Mr/Ms @klownshed is such a good resource for knowledge here on Audiobus forum!

    Specifically Logic Pro is his master area…

  • klownshedklownshed
    edited June 3

    @Fruitbat1919 said:

    Thank you so much for your help!

    @HolyMoses said:

    Mr/Ms @klownshed is such a good resource for knowledge here on Audiobus forum!

    Specifically Logic Pro is his master area…

    Thank you both. You're very welcome.

    And it's Mr Klownshed. Although I think I should think about changing my username to Meester Smeeeth as that's become the name I use to 'release' (lol) music with.

    (Releasing music is such a weird concept these days. No need to pester A&R people and record labels with your C90s in padded envelopes anymore. You just click a button and you're a rock and roll star. Just without the audience. Or anybody to stop you releasing complete tosh Lol)

  • Fruitbat1919Fruitbat1919

    @klownshed said:

    (Releasing music is such a weird concept these days. No need to pester A&R people and record labels with your C90s in padded envelopes anymore. You just click a button and you're a rock and roll star. Just without the audience. Or anybody to stop you releasing complete tosh Lol)

    I used to have a great collection of band tapes (probably called demo tapes until recorded in a costly studio by someone who knows what they are doing lol). Some of them were tosh too lol. I always said as a kid, one day I will release my own tosh….and now I can lol.

  • HolyMosesHolyMoses

    @klownshed said:

    @Fruitbat1919 said:

    Thank you so much for your help!

    @HolyMoses said:

    Mr/Ms @klownshed is such a good resource for knowledge here on Audiobus forum!

    Specifically Logic Pro is his master area…

    Thank you both. You're very welcome.

    And it's Mr Klownshed. Although I think I should think about changing my username to Meester Smeeeth as that's become the name I use to 'release' (lol) music with.

    (Releasing music is such a weird concept these days. No need to pester A&R people and record labels with your C90s in padded envelopes anymore. You just click a button and you're a rock and roll star. Just without the audience. Or anybody to stop you releasing complete tosh Lol)

    The last is interesting - yesterdays artists (as you assumed) had a hard work to convinced assholes to manager, director, riskcapitals guys etc etc, just to have some opportunity to get recorded in a studio, and, hopefully be released on 78’s 45’s or 33.3’s RPM vinyl or “stonecakes)…
    And, if you were a pretty women you probably had to fuck a lot of blokes from the music business just to survive…

    So, thing have really changed dramatically the last 10-15 year…

  • klownshedklownshed

    @Fruitbat1919 said:

    @klownshed said:

    (Releasing music is such a weird concept these days. No need to pester A&R people and record labels with your C90s in padded envelopes anymore. You just click a button and you're a rock and roll star. Just without the audience. Or anybody to stop you releasing complete tosh Lol)

    I used to have a great collection of band tapes (probably called demo tapes until recorded in a costly studio by someone who knows what they are doing lol). Some of them were tosh too lol. I always said as a kid, one day I will release my own tosh….and now I can lol.

    @HolyMoses said:

    @klownshed said:

    @Fruitbat1919 said:

    Thank you so much for your help!

    @HolyMoses said:

    Mr/Ms @klownshed is such a good resource for knowledge here on Audiobus forum!

    Specifically Logic Pro is his master area…

    Thank you both. You're very welcome.

    And it's Mr Klownshed. Although I think I should think about changing my username to Meester Smeeeth as that's become the name I use to 'release' (lol) music with.

    (Releasing music is such a weird concept these days. No need to pester A&R people and record labels with your C90s in padded envelopes anymore. You just click a button and you're a rock and roll star. Just without the audience. Or anybody to stop you releasing complete tosh Lol)

    The last is interesting - yesterdays artists (as you assumed) had a hard work to convinced assholes to manager, director, riskcapitals guys etc etc, just to have some opportunity to get recorded in a studio, and, hopefully be released on 78’s 45’s or 33.3’s RPM vinyl or “stonecakes)…
    And, if you were a pretty women you probably had to fuck a lot of blokes from the music business just to survive…

    So, thing have really changed dramatically the last 10-15 year…

    The same record execs that acted as gatekeepers would be the ones that meant those that did get a deal had at least some chance of being heard. These days you're competing with the other 100,000+ people that upload their tosh every day.

    That's an awful lot of tosh to go through to find the odd gem.

    I found uploading an album to be quite the cathartic experience. But I have no idea or inclination to promote it! Releasing a record isn't the same. It's pretty meaningless these days if you think about it.

  • Fruitbat1919Fruitbat1919

    @klownshed said:

    @Fruitbat1919 said:

    @klownshed said:

    (Releasing music is such a weird concept these days. No need to pester A&R people and record labels with your C90s in padded envelopes anymore. You just click a button and you're a rock and roll star. Just without the audience. Or anybody to stop you releasing complete tosh Lol)

    I used to have a great collection of band tapes (probably called demo tapes until recorded in a costly studio by someone who knows what they are doing lol). Some of them were tosh too lol. I always said as a kid, one day I will release my own tosh….and now I can lol.

    @HolyMoses said:

    @klownshed said:

    @Fruitbat1919 said:

    Thank you so much for your help!

    @HolyMoses said:

    Mr/Ms @klownshed is such a good resource for knowledge here on Audiobus forum!

    Specifically Logic Pro is his master area…

    Thank you both. You're very welcome.

    And it's Mr Klownshed. Although I think I should think about changing my username to Meester Smeeeth as that's become the name I use to 'release' (lol) music with.

    (Releasing music is such a weird concept these days. No need to pester A&R people and record labels with your C90s in padded envelopes anymore. You just click a button and you're a rock and roll star. Just without the audience. Or anybody to stop you releasing complete tosh Lol)

    The last is interesting - yesterdays artists (as you assumed) had a hard work to convinced assholes to manager, director, riskcapitals guys etc etc, just to have some opportunity to get recorded in a studio, and, hopefully be released on 78’s 45’s or 33.3’s RPM vinyl or “stonecakes)…
    And, if you were a pretty women you probably had to fuck a lot of blokes from the music business just to survive…

    So, thing have really changed dramatically the last 10-15 year…

    The same record execs that acted as gatekeepers would be the ones that meant those that did get a deal had at least some chance of being heard. These days you're competing with the other 100,000+ people that upload their tosh every day.

    That's an awful lot of tosh to go through to find the odd gem.

    I found uploading an album to be quite the cathartic experience. But I have no idea or inclination to promote it! Releasing a record isn't the same. It's pretty meaningless these days if you think about it.

    The funny thing about listening to music when you get to a certain age, is that I no longer need to find new music. I do listen to some modern music on occasion and happily find some decent stuff online by accident for the most part, however, I probably have enough music to keep myself happy till the day I die, which is now closer than the day I was born lol.

    As for the modern day musical scene, while very different, it’s still being run by the money people for the sake of greed - not a lot has changed there really and probably never will.

  • NoiseHorseNoiseHorse

    OK, here’s my problem and I’m sorry if someone’s already covered it. Every time I try to use automation, it’s snaps either all the way up or down. I can’t draw or curve. How do I reset it ?

  • SamuSamu

    @NoiseHorse said:
    OK, here’s my problem and I’m sorry if someone’s already covered it. Every time I try to use automation, it’s snaps either all the way up or down. I can’t draw or curve. How do I reset it ?

    What parameter are you trying to automation, some parameters have only two states.
    (A simple screenshot goes a long way).

  • NoiseHorseNoiseHorse

    Volume automation please.

  • NoiseHorseNoiseHorse

    @NoiseHorse said:
    Volume automation please.

    Sorry I’m on my phone and miles away from my iPad right now.

  • klownshedklownshed

    @NoiseHorse said:
    Volume automation please.

    My guess is you’ve got the automation lane with channel mute selected instead of volume.

    If you have the stepped automation button selected then you can draw in squared off automation rather than curves or diagonal lines but that would still let you choose intermediate values.

  • NoiseHorseNoiseHorse

    How do you turn on/off stepped automaton?

  • HolyMosesHolyMoses

    @NoiseHorse said:
    How do you turn on/off stepped automaton?

    That button:

  • NoiseHorseNoiseHorse

    @HolyMoses I thought so, I turned it off and it’s still going all on or all off, same behavior either way.

  • HolyMosesHolyMoses

    @NoiseHorse said:
    @HolyMoses I thought so, I turned it off and it’s still going all on or all off, same behavior either way.

    Do you use Pencil tool?

    If I use Brush tool to do manual automation, the mentioned button toggles between curved and step input…

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