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Hi everyone! I'm having quite a strange problem with Logic Pro X: I am running my guitar through a delay pedal and recording the signal onto a Logic Audio Track. The metronome is set at 100bpm, so I have set my delay time to 600ms in order to get Quarter Note Delays (100x600ms=60kms=1min correct?) but when I press record and listen to the metronome and the delay, they don't sync up. I don't know what to do. Of course I can just use Logic Pro's internal delays which work fine but my delay pedal has some exotic pitch shifting delays that I intend to use. Any suggestions/ideas as to what the problem could be and how to fix it/find the correct value in ms to get quarter note delay at 100bpm? I also tried to use the Tap delay on my pedal to sync them up, and I get within a few ms of the actual value (I reckon) but a few measures in they go out of sync again. Any help would be so greatly appreciated.

Thanks a lot! This saves my life.

Hi everyone! I was wondering if there is a way to store not one plug-in, but a whole channel with multiple plug-ins. for use across many projects. I notice that when I'm recording, I tend to always do the same thing: Create a mono channel, then insert an expander to reduce the noise floor, then insert a compressor and a limiter, to boost the rest of the signal and keep it from peaking. The levels for these are also more or less always the same, since I use the same mic, cables, and the same room. So is it possible for me to set this channel up and all its inserts in order, set the parameters for each insert individually, then store the whole thing, so I can bring up the same channel, ready for recording, any time and in any project, instead of creating the same channel from scratch each time? Something similar to creating and saving 'Instrument Racks' in Ableton. Thanks in advance!

Well, It's nowhere near finished at the moment, but I just did a quick bounce just to see if you have any notes for me on how to improve it. Don't pay much attention to the sound, it's just a basic MIDI piano. Later on, I will send MIDI to my SV-1 and record the sound. Problem is, aif is not an allowed format here, so I can send it to you if you inbox me your email if that's ok

A million Thanks to Assessor and Reverend.

Can you walk me through how to set up something like that?

Yeah timing is something that I'm still trying to figure out. I can automate tempo but it won't do the trick.

Thank you all, fellow life-savers! Once the bulk of my velocities are automized I'm ok to do the detail work. Thanks a million. p.s. Anybody know how I can have my Clip draw velocity values from a different source? i.e an LFO, or from another sound source (similar to side-chaining kinda?)

Do you select each one yourself? or is there a way to, say, highlight all notes on beats 1 and 3 using some sort of a shortcut?

It's not something that can be played. Can you give examples of how you go about doing your humanizing? I'm not strictly asking for the impossible. I would prefer knowing how other people do it. As for Dynamics, again, I can go back and write dynamics but I was hoping to learn something new in Logic

Hi everyone! For anyone who has used a virtual drummer software (like EZDrummer), the benefits of the 'Humanize' function is well-known, so you can skip the rest of this paragraph. For those who may not have used such plug-ins or heard the term, it's basically a function that randomizes the velocity values of a MIDI clip (perhaps there's some sort of an algorithm involved, but I'm not sure.). This gives a bit of 'life' to the virtual performance, because when a human plays the drums, they almost never hit the drums with exactly the same velocity all the time, so if you feed MIDI Note data with exactly the same velocity value throughout the clip, the result produced by your drummer software would sound a bit robotic and unnatural. But it's not only MIDI drums that can benefit from this, but basically any MIDI instrument (especially if the clip is written, as opposed to performed using a MIDI keyboard, where velocity fluctuations occur naturally) can benefit from a little 'Humanizing'. So my question is, does Logic offer such a function so it can be applied to any MIDI clip? and if not, what are your approaches to this? Do you do this manually and note-by-note? Do you have some sort of a patch doing it for you? Can you use automation to do this? Can you (I'm sure you can but I dunno how) set up your MIDI clip so that it ignores its own velocity values, and follows some other parameter, such as a knob that you can turn, an expression pedal, or indeed just a simple randomizer from environment? I basically want to know what different approaches other people take to 'humanize' their tracks... A more specific, and technical, question I have, is regarding Humanizing a piano track. I have written a piano sonata using Sibelius and then exported it as a .mid file to Logic, and I'm using it to trigger a high-quality piano sample bank. All the notes have the same velocity (I could write dynamic/articulation for the notes on Sibelius, but I'm looking for a quicker route). Now I can just randomly assign different values to each note, but I want it to actually resemble a pianist's performance. For example, thumbs are always stronger than pinkies, or index and middle fingers are stronger than the ring finger. Normally, one of the two hands of the pianist is stronger than the other. All of that aside, performers usually put emphasis on strong beats and play harder, or emphasize certain 'color-giving' notes, or melodic peaks. For all of these reasons, a simple randomization of the velocity values wouldn't do. I can change velocity values note-by-note paying great attention to such details, but are there ways of automizing (and storing) these things, not only to speed up the process, but to keep for use later? Like, can we somehow program an analysis patch, that recognizes Triads or other chords, and assigns appropriate values according to the correct fingering, something like, assign velocity value of 23-47 to the most bass note, 34-60 to the middle note, and 55-90 to the highest? I'm not sure how clearly I expressed what I have in mind, but any help/recomendation/a real-life story of how you do stuff like this, would be appreciated.

Hello Jordi Thanks for the detailed reply. You are right I checked my manual and now I have the SV-1 Set up to receive data from channel 1. I downloaded the USB-MIDI driver and it seemed to be working fine. One problem persists however: I can send data from SV-1 to Logic no problem, so I can use it as a normal MIDI Keyboard, but I haven't succeeded at reversing the process. I'll tell you what I'm doing so perhaps you'd notice a mistake I'm making: I have a MIDI channel with no sound on it. the MIDI clip I want my keyboard to play is on the channel, and the clip is being looped, MIDI in is set to none, and MIDI out is set to channel 1. On the SV-1 I've also set it up to receive through channel 1. The Audio Out from the SV-1 is going to an Amp, which I'm miking through a different computer. Is there something I'm doing wrong?

Hello Everyone! I'm sure that this topic has been discussed in detail many times, but I was hoping you guys would help me for a more specific problem I'm facing. A few years ago, me and my band wanted to record a piano track, but none of us could play it. Also, at the time, and the particular studio we were recording at, there were no really good MIDI sounds, but there was a really good piano sound on one of the stage keyboards there. So I remember that the producer fed a MIDI notation of the Piano part from Guitar Pro, through the MIDI In of the Keyboard, and recorded the Audio out from the keys. I now have basically the same problem, and I want to do the same thing, use a MIDI clip on my computer to trigger the keys of my Korg SV-1 and record the audio out. My Korg has MIDI ins and outs but my sound card doesn't. I always use USB if I need to use the Korg as a MIDI controller to trigger MIDI instruments in Logic, but I couldn't reverse that process. I choose the track with the MIDI clip on it to transmit to all MIDI chanels, since on My Korg, there's no display or any way of selecting a midi channel. Still, it should be on one of the 16 channels by default, yet no sound comes out... Does a USB cable only serve as a one-way MIDI transmitter? (i.e. from keys to mac only?) Do I have to buy a MIDI interface and get a MIDI out from my mac to the keys? In general, I know that USB is faster, but can it fully replace a full-on MIDI In, Out, and thru set-up? Thanks for reading P.S. if what I'm planning sounds dumb or over-complicated and there's an easier way of maybe somehow "printing" the sounds from my Korg Keyboard and just use it as a MIDI instrument, I'm wide open to any advice or suggestion. Thanks again

Thanks a million! I'm not that good with more-than-ordinary issues with computers, But I'll get someone to look into it. Thanks again, hopefully once I fix it, I'll post here what was wrong. It's certainly been the diagnostic challenge of a life-time for me.

Well, it is not exactly a fix, but why not just continue on the new project? move your tracks to the new projects, if it worked, who cares why it didn't before? and if it doesn't work at least it will give a clue why it doesn't (i.e. some seperate button has gone off somewhere etc. Also, if you are looking for a fader for an A - B switch like DJs use, there are presets in the environment section of this forum that do exactly that. You download them and voila!