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Strange Logic Pro MIDI problem
I'm wondering if anyone else has seen a problem similar to the one I'm experiencing with Logic Pro recording and exporting MIDI. Here's the scenario:
Create a single track and add FuncBud as a MIDIFx in Logic Pro
Record MIDI to a single track using FuncBud and routing the MIDI to record to track. In this case 7 bars.
Export the MIDI track from Logic Pro using the Export option, either entire project, or selected MIDI (and ensuring the selection is on the MIDI region and the full 7 bars).
Open the MIDI track in Logic Pro or another app such as Helium.
The first bar, which shows MIDI notes in Logic Pro and in other apps, fails to export. Instead the export begins with bar 2, and yet is still 7 bars in length. There are actual MIDI notes in the extra bar which do not appear in the original MIDI region which was recorded.
If Bars 2-7 are trimmed off, leaving just bar 1, which has visible, editable notes, and then exported, it works, but when the MIDI file is opened, there are no notes present.
I don't know if this problem is specific to FuncBud (edit: it is NOT) but when I manually create a MIDI region and use the piano roll editor in Logic Pro and add some notes manually, the export works fine. I've been able to reproduce this several times with the same setup.
I'd be very grateful if anyone who has FuncBud can test this out, or let me know if you've seen anything similar when exporting MIDI from Logic Pro. I have no reason to think that FuncBud is the issue at this point, but it would be nice to have some independent verification or nullification of a connection.
**Note: It appears that Logic Pro can only export an SMF0 / Format 0 MIDI file. If you attempt to export an entire project with multiple tracks, even with different MIDI out channels set, it just gloms all of the tracks into a single MIDI track. So every export that I'm doing is either as "Export Selection to MIDI FIle" by selecting only one MIDI region, or "All MIDI tracks as MIDI File" if there is only a single track in the project.
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@cem_olcay?
Confirmed this is not related to Funcbud. It’s a known issue that Logic Pro will cut off the first bar during export in certain conditions and you can fix it by editing the MIDI track by erasing the first note and drawing it back in manually. Thanks to Jade Starr for that excellent insight!
Update - I submitted a feedback report to Apple and they quickly replied and asked for a copy of the project and how to repro the problem so I sent it off. Unfortunately, I could only duplicate the export problem, not recreate the track that had the MIDI export problem from scratch, but it hopefully it will be helpful for them.