Reversing Audio Files [SOLVED]

After doing what I thought would be enough research to finally yield some sort of answer to my question, I still have nothing.

 

I am trying to simply reverse an audio file that I have created.

 

I first recorded a MIDI piano chord using East West Pianos Gold. After that I BOUNCED it as an AIFF. I then imported the audio file and went into my sample editor to the "function" drop down menu. I can't do anything (all gray).

 

I have also tried this as a WAVE file, which didn't work. I also have tried EXPORTING the file as a WAVE and AIFF, which also didn't work. I have read other threads on here, and watched two tutorial step-by-step videos. Those didn't help at all. They would simply say "and there you go!" at the end, leaving them with a nice reversed audio file and me with nothing.

 

I would appreciate any help, because as of now I can' do ANYTHING in the sample editor... kinda disappointing. I haven't had trouble like this for a long time.

 

Thank you!

http://www.logicprohelp.com/viewtopic.php?t=53307

http://www.logicprohelp.com/viewtopic.php?t=52894

Maybe a better question would be how do I turn an audio file into a mono track (the little circle), because I am able to reverse THOSE tracks. I just can't do anything to my converted MIDI track (whatever the hell that pentagon circle symbol means).

Maybe a better question would be how do I turn an audio file into a mono track (the little circle), because I am able to reverse THOSE tracks. I just can't do anything to my converted MIDI track (whatever the hell that pentagon circle symbol means).

 

Means surround. Make sure you export a mono or stereo file, not surround. The operation was right, the format was set wrong.

I am going to try re-doing my process then, and try to bounce it as a mono. But how would I do this?

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Make sure none of the channel strips in your Mixer have a surround output. Click All (top right) in the Mixer to see also the PreListen channel strip, maybe that's the one that's set to a Surround Ouput.

 

Click-hold the Surround output and choose Stereo Out.

 

Then Bounce.

Edited March 12, 2010 by David Nahmani

Okay I think I got it to work. Unchecked surround in the bounce and it kinda did it. The piano sound kicked in way to late though... didn't really do a true reversal, just less than half a second of reversal near the attack instead of fading in.

Okay it worked THANK YOU VERY MUCH.

 

You guys respond really fast, that's quite a convenience! I will now enjoy my reversed sounds.

Great. Enjoy!

When I try to convert regions to new audio files and change the file format from AIFF to WAV, I get the following message: Not converting selected apple loop files. Apple loops can only be converted to filetype AIFF. How do I remedy this?

Hi there,

 

I have the same problem only worse!

 

We are running Logic Pro in an education environment over a network.

 

I am using mono audio which is from sampleswap.org, NOT an Apple Loop. (I made mono from stereo by splitting and renaming method).

 

When I try to reverse the audio I am getting the same greyed out issue for all destructive processes.

 

We are running Logic Pro 9 on a 21.5" Late 2012 iMac

 

Many thanks in advance

Make sure you somehow convert the file into a standard PCM file, AIFF or WAV doesn't matter.

I'm having the same problem. Can't reverse audio in either Logic Pro X or 9. And my files are not in a Surround Sound format but just stereo. Further I've tried converting to AIFF and Wav to no avail. Something has changed because this never happened to me before..any ideas?