Cayce

Ok, so it wasn't me. After breaking off and taking time to post this, I went back into LP and the sustain was working. I honestly had previously tried for a good ten minutes to get it to work, changing no settings in the process, to no avail. Took a break, went back, and it's working as it should. So, the new question is, why would it do that? I shut down my entire system and restarted before getting into today's session, because I know MIDI to be resource dependent and wanted all CPU resources to be available... but it tricked me anyway. Any ideas on why?

Tried figuring this out for myself but can't find any relative posts. Simply enough, I have a track of MIDI piano notes that won't respond to the sustain automation. In the attached image, you'll see I've dropped the sustain down to zero, but the notes sustain anyway. I've just gotten back onto LPX after WAY too many years in Pro Tools, so I'm sure it's something (embarrassingly) elementary I'm overlooking... appreciate the patience and assist. Thanks.

Should it honestly require fifteen full minutes of hunting, then a trip to a forum, just to find out how to get rid of these tool-tip/help-tags? In Preferences > Display, "Show Help Tags" is unchecked. In Preferences > Control Surfaces > Help Tags, every option is unchecked. Would someone please tell me where Apple has so cleverly disguised or hidden the toggle for disabling these things? Thanks. Cayce

I adjusted the tempo of my project by activating the Flex option on all tracks. I submixed all those in a Track Stack so I could then work on a vocal track at the new tempo. The first thing I noticed is that though Flex is turned off on the new vocal track, it turns itself on and insists on evaluating the track each time I record. I figured it must be because all those original tracks in the Track Stack stiil had Flex turned on. So I turned them all off, but the tracks all went back to the previous tempo, so I had to turn them all back on. The question is: Once we've made a tempo adjustment using Flex, how do we apply that change permanently to the project so that we can turn off Flex on all tracks? Thanks. Cayce

I have Input Monitoring checked, everything seems to be in order, but can't hear a input on tracks that aren't selected. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks. Cayce

Is there just no end to what should be simple solutions but instead require putting the brakes on everything just to find something most programs are intelligent enough to include in the preferences? How in #% do we change the default projects folder location in this oh-so-sophisticated DAW program? I searched the web and the best I could find was where someone, equally frustrated, resorted to embedding a shortcut in the default folder location so that every time Logic insists on going to that folder, the option is there to go instead into a preferred location. Is that really the only or best solution? Thanks. Cayce

Hey, Forum; I've been eyeballin' the AVID Eleven Rack, trying to come to an understanding of what I might run into in using it with Logic, when it appears to be proprietary to Pro Tools. One thing I've heard is that we can't use the plugins with Logic, which makes sense, but aren't the plugins pretty much the whole point? Without them, isn't the Eleven just an conduit to run the guitar through? Would all the amp modelling and effects still function, and is the expansion pack considered a plugin collection? Wondering if anyone has any experience with the Eleven Rack & Logic. Thanks. Cayce

I feel like I'm being punked. I've been trying for HOURS to get Logix Pro X reinstalled on a new OS X install (10.8.6), and EVERY SINGLE MOVE I MAKE introduces a new problem I have to go out on the net to try and resolve. After finally getting Logic to recognize my 002 rack, it now gives me this when I try and run a project: Error while trying to synchronize Audio and MIDI. Sample Rate 22161 recognized. Check conflict between Logic Pro X and external device. What is it now? Everything — 002 Rack, Logic settings — is at 44.1. Any help is appreciated. Thanks. Cayce

I've had to reinstall my Mac OS and rebuild my entire system. Everything is connected exactly as before I had to do this, but I can't get Logic to see my DigiDesign 002 Rack Interface. OS is 10.8.5. Logic is Pro X. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks. Cayce

Hey, again... Low Latency seems to be determined to slow me down these days. Thanks for the help on the previous L/L issue, but I have yet another. I have my vocal track in in segments, separate tracks, that all feed through Bus 11. Not as an S/R, but straight through. When not in Low Latency, the original track feeds through the Bus as it should. Toggle L/L on, and the Bus track falls out of the loop, but the original track audio still makes it through the output, though the output assignment is specifically set only to bus 11. On the bus 11 control, nothing has any effect. I tried to attach a video to show the two control strips and my preference panel with the L/L being toggled on and off, but it won't accept a mov format, so I linked it here: http://www.caycecookbook.com/_CAYCE_DROP/Low_Latency_Bus_Interupt.mov. Watch the meter in the bus 11 strip drop out each time L/L toggles on. There's no audio, BTW... Thanks again for the assist. Cayce

Another Question for Your Most Excellent Wisdom, Experience, Insight, et al; I have a fairly evolved project, lots of guitar, vocal, percussion—the usual suspects—with a good amount plugins in play. I point this last bit out knowing how plugins can be toggled by the Low Latency control, and that's what this is about. When I first open & play this project it sounds real thin, subdued and dimensionless. When I activate Low-Latency, It bursts forth in all its fullness, separation, volume and all else, as it was mixed to be. Is it normal for the absence of Low Latency mode to have such an effect of reducing a project to a flavorless state, so much that engaging it causes such a dramatic difference? My understanding of Low Latency is that it corrects latency for recording, and that's it, but this effect is a huge shift in the audio dynamics of the piece, and it's global, not particular to tracks by plugin status. Seems odd. This isn't so much a complaint as my wondering if it's indicative of me going about something the wrong way, missing something that's gonna to come back and bite me later. Thanks! Cayce

You know how a lower buffer sample rate helps eliminate that little bit of drag, most noticeable during vocal recording? Is buffer performance effected by the speed of the drive? My 27" iMac has been draggin' ass lately and I've been thinkin' about installing a 512 SSD, rumored to be one stop short of lightning fast. Would there be e difference in how much lower I could get away with having my buffer rate? Thanks!

This problem has been interrupting my workflow from day one with Logic, and I have to research an answer. When I'm in the Piano Roll window, editing a drum sequence, I would like to be able to select a midi note and NOT have the edit tool competing with my pointer tool. Is there a setting somewhere that will allow me to disable the edit tool (you know, the tool that allows for lengthening or shortening a midi note... looks like a bracket with left & right arrows), so that I don't ever, ever have to see that thing again until I want it? It's aggravating the pure crap out of me. Otherwise, loving this amazing program. Thanks. Cayce

yep, this is probably going to be one of those questions... I have a logic project with a short lead track of a piece I'm writing, and this particular project is just in search of some nice lead textures, so it's the same 2- or 3-minute lead segment about 30 times, each with a tweak on amp, externals, etc... experimenting... As I was mixing around in Logic I discovered a Space Designer Gtr EFX reverb profiler and found a setting I'm REALLY happy with. I want it live, to take with me. Are there reverb peripherals anyone is familiar with that would have similar parameters? My favorite piece for years has been a lexicon MPX-1, but it's a cumbersome interface, especially after seeing this. (I'm laughin at myself already for this next one)... Are there app-based stomp boxes out there yet...? if not, I think I know what I'm doin' tomorrow... What would you do here? Thx... Cayce

It's not about not being unfamiliar with Logic, DAWs, or impatience with the curve. I'm not that much of a newcomer to Logic. It's about a fade implementation procedure that worked fine one day and doesn't the next. And it's not about the OS or Logic version. Logic's not likely to run in an OS it can't create a fade in. It's some ridiculous little setting or obscure thing somewhere (like the color of my shirt, maybe) that's interfering with the selection and application of the fade, but only on specific tracks. I have other identically structured tracks—audio type, stereo, inputs the same, source the same—that will take fades fine. Just four new tracks that won't, even though they're identical setups. For the record, I'm running Logic 9.1.8, OS 10.6.8, 8GB DDR3.