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  1. Just a wild thought but do you know that an external arpeggiator won't work via Logic unless the project is playing?
  2. I didn't mention it in my question but it had been bugging me for years beforehand when I had been using Logic 9 and a Zoom R24 but with 24 virtual inputs and 8 physical inputs all connected to various bits of kit, although it wasn't such a problem as it has been recently because with the R24, I was almost always going to want to change the input after the track was created anyway. However, do you know why some guitar patches (I can't speak of other instrument patches) disarm the record button when selected and others don't. When trying them out as I'm playing, in most cases, it is no problem to just reach over to the keyboard and hit the down key to move to the next patch but some go quiet as the 'Record Enable' button has been disabled. Have some patches somehow been created with 'Record Enabled' and some without? e.g. If I am working my way through Electric Guitar and Bass > Crunch Guitar and start at, say, 'Old School Punk' and hit the down key, the 'Record Enable' button remains enabled until I get to 'Rock the Mics' when it becomes disabled. Likewise, if I start from a patch somewhere below and work my way up. It's not a huge problem but as I mentioned earlier, when I had been trying to troubleshoot problems with the signal path at some point way back, this was a frustrating inconsistency which also happened in Garageband iOS.
  3. That is great, I can't thank you enough!
  4. I use a Focusrite iTrack Solo (designed for iOS but also has a standard USB connection). When routed into Logic, the XLR input comes up as Input 1 and the ¼" jack comes up as Input 2. As yet, I have not even connected anything via XLR which makes it additionally frustrating that every time I create a guitar track, I have to manually select Input 2 for the track. I have searched the Audio Preferences and the device configuration but I don't see a way to set the default input. In Mainstage, it is exactly the same - so I'm glad I only use it for practicing and not gigging because every time a new Guitar Rig is selected, the input has to be manually selected - which I imagine would be a major annoyance if it had to be done whilst performing. On a similar note, when I change Guitar presets in Logic when Record is armed, some disable record whilst some don't. This took me a while to figure out as there have been a number of problems which left me unable to hear what I have been playing (which I have found solutions to one way or another) and having got to hear myself only to then hear silence when I change presets was mystifying - why some but not others. The same thing happens with the iOS version of GarageBand - pretty annoying when you are flipping through presets trying to find the right tone.
  5. Yes, well I wish you could sit down here and see that I have started again from scratch and that by opening a specific one of Logic's built-in templates (not one of my documents), I was trying to establish a common point from which to work; i.e. if you opened that template from New From Template... > Project Templates > Songwriter, it should look exactly the same as if I opened it - same tracks, same instruments etc. Working from anything other than a Logic template or blank document will inherently have different settings.
  6. Well, just to complicate matters, I tried opening a new Logic document from the Songwriter Template and this time the controls are different but there still doesn't seem to be any consistency but there is something pretty weird going on. Every time I open a new document from that template, there seems to be a different arrangement but also the knobs on screen don't move straight away and I think that the arrangement is being affected by the order that the physical knobs are tweaked.
  7. I said I hadn't seen that video but I had watched by the time I posted. I haven't manually assigned anything - like I said, I have gone back to square one. I used the blank Songwriter default Logic template so that you or anybody else could do likewise and see exactly what I see. I have enclosed a full screenshot so that you can see that I am simply using a blank, unedited template - that's exactly as it looks when the Songwriter template is opened. http://bad.ge/images/lph/logic-songwriter-template-01.png
  8. No, I don't want to control multiple tracks simultaneously, just if I make one configuration for Smart Controls and then whatever Logic positions in the Smart controls and is active on that track it will respond to my control surface. When I have tried, it seems that the controls are (for the most part) per plug-in not per track. I just thought that it would make sense to have each Smart Control appearance match layout of the knobs on the MPK225. I only mentioned the other banks in order to give a full picture of what I am seeing and why I am not really following what I have read and seen. I hadn't seen that video but I have seen similar ones and had basically followed what they said. When I first plugged it in, I selected Auto Assign. As far as I can tell, the fact that in Preferences > Control Surfaces > MiDI Controllers, the MPK225 is ticked shows that I did that correctly and my memory is not failing. Anyway, I went back to square one and tried things again as per the book. Just so that I'm not using any settings that I may have inadvertently changed, I'll use the unedited Logic Songwriter template as an example and I am only using Control Bank A, I realised from trying them out that Banks B and C (K9 to K24) do nothing in Smart Controls. When I click on Track 1, SoCal (the drummer), MPK225/Smart controls act as follows: K1 - nothing K2 - Snare K3 - Toms K4 - nothing K5 - Tone K6 - Hi-Hat K7 - Cymbals K8 - Track Level So, two knobs don't do anything. When I go to Track 2 K1 - nothing K2 - Low K3 - Mid K4 - High K5 - nothing K6 - nothing K7 - Mid Freq K8 - Track Level Thee knobs don't do anything. Track 3 K1 - nothing K2 - nothing K3 - Mid K4 - High K5 - (Echo) Amount K6 - Ambience K7 - nothing K8 - nothing Four knobs don't do anything. Track 4 K1 - nothing K2 - Low K3 - High K4 - nothing K5 - Shape K6 - Contour K7 - nothing K8 - nothing Four knobs don't do anything. Track 5 K1 - Low K2 - High K3 - Compression K4 - nothing K5 - nothing K6 - Reverb K7 - nothing K8 - nothing Four knobs don't do anything. I realise that some of the default Smart Control layouts only have six knobs but I would have thought that at least where there were available knobs, they would be mapped.
  9. I have an Akai MPK225 which has eight knobs with three banks arranged like so : : : : I'd like to have whatever Smart Controls I'm using to be arranged in either the Electric Piano 8, General Audio 8 etc. and Bank C, knobs 17-24 assigned to the corresponding knob. I managed to do it for one set of Smart Controls but when I changed to another instrument, the mappings didn't carry over. When I looked at the mappings in Controller Assignments, there didn't seem to be any logical correlation and some of Akai MPK225 default mappings had got lost so I reverted back to the preferences file which Akai seem to have provided (com.apple.logic.pro.cs). I used a Midi Utility (MIDI Monitor) to see what the Akai MPK225 was sending and there didn't seem to be any consistency to the messages it was displaying: Bank A, Knobs 1-8 say Controller 22-29 Bank B, Knobs 9/10 say Effect Control 1/2 (coarse), Knob 11/12 said Controller 14/15, Knobs 13-16 said General Purpose 1-4 (coarse) Bank C, Knobs 17-24 say Controller 22-29 When I tried other presets on the Akai MPK225, they had a completely different set of names - so that has confused me. I'm guessing that Logic is not actually mapping the knobs on the Smart Controls but in fact the knobs on the instrument or plug-in it is linking to - which to me seems only half 'smart' given that most people will have a MIDI control surface of one type or another. Is there a way to get around this to get Logic to do what I want it to do?
  10. I'm not sure if this explains my earlier confusion but I was getting on quite well with an open project but I was just messing around to familiarise myself with MIDI and the MPK225 so I deleted it. When I created a new project, I was back to square one. I'm not totally surprised by this as I suspected that project settings were just that, settings for that project, but I have a distant memory of certain last century Mac software saving such settings as defaults if either no document was open at the time or if the open document was empty. Anyway, this does seem to be a bit bizarre that such potentially complicated settings (up to 16 Destinations) are not stored globally and that the 'Save as Default' button is greyed out. I did a search for this and found a post with no replies*** on Apple Discussions which had 13 other people with the same question. ***Depends which browser I am using - Brave: no replies, Opera: one reply
  11. Thanks. I think the problem was that I had expected it to work out of the box using the Logic preset but there were quite a few things which didn't seem right and I didn't know if they were related. I was trying to solve one thing, getting nowhere and, out of frustration, moving onto another problem etc. Somewhere along the line, something got fixed but not whilst I was paying attention to it.
  12. Thanks. Yes, I'm glad that it is sorted but it doesn't help me know what I'm doing! It's a troubleshooting nightmare when things seem to fix themselves. I was also trying to figure out the difference between the Logic preset which the MPK225 came with and the one which was created following an Akai guide as they seem so different - so that hasn't helped narrow things down.
  13. I'd like to say that it was but I had tried that before and it didn't help - so it could well have been a combination of that and something else and not really knowing what I was doing when I started, I can't really remember.
  14. Thanks for the reply. I was actually up most of the night trying to figure this out and got it working, I'm not really sure how but it was something in Logic's MIDI synchronisation settings. I mentioned elsewhere that the Akai guide to setting up MPK2s with Logic has a different version and the window they show doesn't look anything like the one in the current version so to a MIDI novice like me, isn't straightforward to translate.
  15. Did anybody figure this out. I'm having similar problems with my MPK225 - Logic isn't responding to pads when Note Repeat is selected or keys when Arpeggiator is selected. I could swear that when I first plugged it in, both worked, but hardly anything else did then after following a seemingly official Akai guide to setting MPK2s for Logic, some things work but not Note Repeat or Arpeggiator.
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