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Okay, I've been doing some light research here... Like des99 just suggested, it seems that it's the same thing with every surround sound audio clip. The reverse somehow messes it all up. I'm not sure if there is a way to search just for surround sound clips in the Loop Library, but so far I have found and tried these: Factory and Machines 06, Construction 5, City from Rooftop, Building entrance 01, Birds Flamingos, Basketball Single Player. Same thing with all of them. I don't know what exactly the reverse function is doing, but it's useless with those clips. I guess the good news is, it seems to be only the surround sound clips. Not sure, why the Church Bell clip even needed to be surround, but... there you have it. Having tried a few longer clips with normal stereo sound, they seem to work okay. I guess you can call this a bug of some sort? I don't know anything about surround sound — maybe it works differently, maybe it's not just reversable? Unlike des99, I seemed to be able to get them work after bouncing them to stereo. I first changed the track settings to stereo (both input and output, not sure if that matters), then bounced the region in place to a new track. Thanks anyway for confirming this! I was worried that there might be some kind of strange corruption going on with my hard drive or something.

Hi! Could somebody do this, so I know I'm not crazy: Open a new project. Search in the Loop Library "Bell Church 2", drag it to a new track. After that, in Region info on the left (under More), check the box "Reverse". In the Track View, you can see that the audio region gets reversed. Now: Play it through. Especially listen to end part of the audio region, where there is actually something to listen to. When I do this, I don't hear just one bell hit reversed — I hear several. What do you hear? I know this is a surround sound clip, and if I change the track settings to stereo and then bounce the clip to a new track, I can reverse the region. But if I have a lot of audio clips I want to try and fool around with, this process gets kind of tedious. Is this somehow the property of a surround sound clip, the "unreversability"? Thanks in advance!

Yeah, you're probably right... Do I have any hope that I won't have to "install" the sound libraries again? It has never been very clear to me how exactly these things work. I know there's the actual app or plugin, and then there's the library with all the samples. If indeed the plugin uses samples at all. Most of mine do. If I could just install the plugin apps, and then point to the external drive for all the samples, it would be a lot quicker. One could wish for it to be that straightforward. But it will probably vary from app to app? I've been trying to find an answer from Native Instruments site, but no luck yet. Does anyone know? Logic can be on three different computers, so that won't cause any significant problems — besides the fact that I need to download everything, since none of the sounds or samples are located on an external drive.

Hi! I'm going to work away from home for a month. I need my full arsenal of plugins, but can't possibly take my old iMac with me. (I need it to be as mobile as possible.) Because of this work situation, I ordered a new MacBook, thinking I will move permanently to a laptop-based system. The problem is, the new MacBook didn't come on time. I made the order in November, but you know how it is in the world these days. Somewhat luckily, I was able to get an older MacBook as a temporary laptop. But now I fear that it is going to be a nightmare project to move everything to this old MacBook — and then to the new MacBook, when it finally arrives. I think I have most of my sound libraries on an external hard drive. But Mac OS still installs all the apps and the plugins themselves to the main hard drive, right? I'm pretty sure they are all there. Plus, the Logic Pro itself is there. My question is: What would be the easiest way to move this whole thing intact to my temporary laptop? Should I try some kind of carbon copy? Or will that bring other kind of problems, with each plugin and license being different, and so on? I don't even know where to begin. If this was the new laptop that I ordered, I would probably try to start from as clean a slate as possible. I only have a couple of days left before I need to pack my things and go. (I know, I'm not very good at planning.) I currently have a 2019 Intel iMac. The old laptop that I got is the latest Intel MacBook Pro. I still have Big Sur on my iMac, but the MacBook is already on Monterey. For that reason alone, I'm scared that this will be just one big mess... I have roughly two gigabytes of different kind of plugins: NI Komplete Ultimate 13, OT Berlin Strings, XLN Audio Addictive Drums, Embertone Joshua Bell, Output, Spitfire, Ample Sound and many more. As I said, the samples are mainly on external drives, but I guess that's not even half of the problem. Any ideas will be appreciated!

Yes, these are Soundtrack Pro sounds. And I also have the same high pitch whine in them. But if you go to the actual folder where they are in the Finder, they play ok. No high pitch. Macintosh HD/Library/Audio/Apple Loops/Apple/Apple Loops for Soundtrack Pro/Detroit Chop Shop Alright... I don't remember installing Soundtrack Pro... curious. They probably came with Final Cut. Didn't it use to be a part of that? And as I mentioned in my OP update, the noise is not present when I place the Loop (audio file) onto the Timeline. It's only present in the Loops Browser. But what would make the noise in the first place? Why can't the Browser just play them as they are? All in all, I feel that the Loop Library is just a big mess. I'm pretty sure I have duplicates of most of the Loops in my Library, and I guess there is no easy way to get tehm away from there. Or maybe there is, but the damned things are often named differently. Has anybody else noticed this?

Well, I don't really know what to say...

Hi! Could somebody check Loops with the names "Water Lake 4" and "Water Lake with Boats 1" ? There might be many others, but at least in these two I have a strange, high pitch noise in them — I'm pretty sure it shouldn't be there. If it's just my Library, what should I do? Is the Library corrupted? Can I reinstall my Loops safely? Or will that somehow damage every project I've ever made? Do I need to relocate every single Loop I have ever used afterwards? Update: Apparently, the problem is in the Loops Browser... If I place the Loop into the Timeline, the noise disappears. Very strange. I think that the settings in the Browser are correct: "Play in Original Key" is checked, all the others unchecked.

Alright, thanks for your answer. I guess I didn't really have any hopes for a well-hidden option that would help me... I actually just got an idea for a KIND OF workaround: I could start every marker area with a signature so odd that I would never use it, and then immediately after that put in the correct signature. Then, if I made any changes prior to that marker, I could "straighten up" the measures simply by adjusting that odd signature. But I'm not sure if that's going to make things that much easier. When I'm working on a soundtrack that uses 10-20 different instruments and sounds, and has 20-50 cues with several repeating themes, I find it much easier to have them all in the same project. I can copy&paste parts of a cue to another place, compare the cues and so on. Maybe I should try to come up with another kind of a method. But since I don't really want to change to another DAW or anything, I can't really see what else I could try. This one project file is handy in many ways: for example, if I decide to use another piano sound or change its presence in any way, I only need to change it once. Or if I want to introduce a new instrument to the soundtrack, it's immediately ready to be used in other cues as well. I wonder, if the developers could be able to create some kind of a "Section Function" or something... Well, I'm off to write a feature request...

Hi! I write a lot of soundtrack style musical vignettes for theatre plays. I often like to set up an orchestra and then create all the vignettes in the same project file. I create markers and name them, and I consider them as individual pieces of music inside the same project. Since I don't always come up with the ideas chronologically, I just create markers for each instance that I'm planning a vignette for, and leave enough space between them. I would like to be able to create signature and tempo changes to the start of each vignette (marker). But because Logic handles new signatures and tempos only as "changes", I can't add the same signature or tempo twice in a row. Say I first get an idea for the fifth vignette. It's a regular four-by-four. Well, if the whole project is in four-by-four, I can't add a new signature for the fifth vignette. So far so good, I guess. But after I have written that piece, I get an idea for the second vignette — and that's in three-by-four. Now I create a signature change for that marker / vignette. But it, of course, messes up the fifth vignette — I have to go there and create a new signature change to four-by-four. I also have to check that the fifth piece starts at the beginning of the measure, because Logic has probably moved it. Then I get an idea for the third vignette. That is also in three-by-four. I create a new signature change, and so the signature for the fifth vignette disappears — AND that probably messes up the beginning of the measure again. Then I get an idea for the fourth vignette. It happens to be in four-by-four. Again the same thing. And so on and so on. If only I could make a kind of permanent rule that "this marker starts here, at this point we have the first full measure and it has this signature", regardless of the signatures of the previous pieces, it would make my method a whole lot easier. The same thing with tempo and key changes. I guess this has something to do with how Logic sees the progression of everything, and it has to count the measures somehow... But even then, isn't this is a doable thing? The developers just haven't done it that way? In the automation of a track, I can easily set new points to the volume curve. I can make a hundred of them and they can all be the same. That way, if something is added in-between and I want the volume to be lower for that, it won't mess up the volume values for the rest of the track. I would just like to have the same thing for tempos, keys and signatures. But I'm guessing it's not possible? Or does somebody know a way? Or a decent workaround? Thanks in advance for any ideas!

Hi! Is there a way to save screensets with windows positioned on multiple displays? I have three monitors. I use them very efficiently, when I work with Adobe Premiere, for example. Premiere remembers automatically all the window positions wherever I drag them. I would also like to spread my Logic Pro (Arrange, Mixer, Piano Roll, Events, Loops, Plugins...) to multiple monitors. Make different screensets and different templates. But apparently I just don't understand how it's done. No matter how I try - unlocking, moving the windows, locking again - when I press the screenset number, all the windows come back to the main display. Loading a template, same thing. So... No multiple monitor screensets, then? It would seem like an obvious feature to have in 2019? What am I missing here?

No, it's in the same place it has always been - as far as I know.

Hi! I would appreciate some kind of easy, step-by-step instructions to find out, if my Logic Pro X is somehow messed up. I'm running the latest version of Logic on a late 2013 Mac Pro. I haven't still updated to Mojave, because Native Instruments haven't cleared up Kontakt 5 compatibility. (Last time, I updated without that clearance, and I ended up with a crippled machine. I won't have that again, if there is a way to avoid it.) This is what I'm experiencing: Very often, when I select a sound from Logic's own library (no matter what kind), Logic tells me there's something it needs to download. That download takes usually about a minute, sometimes three or four. I have a fast connection, so I'm pretty sure it's downloading something big. It never used to do this - and I have used most of the sounds before. Now, many of them seems to need something. Maybe an update, I'm not sure. Is there a way to just download everything at once, no matter how many hours it takes? I hate when these downloads interrupt my workflow. I thought the sound library manager is for updating everything. I open it, and there are things marked "outdated". Most of the stuff is "installed". But I just don't understand, how this manager is supposed to work. If I select any of the items marked "outdated" and then click "Install", it may download something small, and then, nothing. Nothing changes. Those items are still marked the same. Even after I reboot Logic. Every time I open Logic, there's a notification: "New sounds available, click to learn more." If I click that and then click "Download", it always downloads the same 33,6MB file. What's that all about? Logic won't say. Nothing changes. It happens all over again, if I reboot. So, would it be wise to reinstall the whole sound library? Would that fix this issue - if it IS an issue? Is it possible that this reinstall operation will mess up my projects? Is it possible that afterwards, Logic won't find the sounds or something? Or could it be that this whole thing is happening, because I haven't updated to Mojave? Would it be wise to wait until after that? Please, any ideas or thoughts are welcome!

Thanks, El Bura! I noticed the Depth knob when I adjusted the amount for the LFO - but then, when I assigned the envelope to modulate the Rate, I forgot to adjust THAT Depth knob! Naturally, the envelope had no effect because the Depth was zero. Silly me. It always amazes me, how simple a solution can be!

Hi! I'm not sure where to look for an answer... I'm not very experienced with crafting my own sounds, but I want to learn. So here goes: In Alchemy, is it possible to assign for example an envelope to modulate some aspect of a modulation? My process: - I assigned an LFO to modulate the filter cutoff. No biggie, the most basic thing. Works just fine. - I was playing around with the Rate of that LFO. You know, sounds cool when you let the note play and you change the LFO rate from high to low. You get this well known effect, used already way back by Jarre (say, in Oxygene Pt. 2). - Then I thought, well of course I can control this manually and record the knob movement with Latch or whatever - but shouldn't I also be able to assign another modulator to that LFO Rate knob? - Fooling around, I eventually realized that with control+click (or right click) a menu pops up, and on the top of this menu it says "Add modulation". To me, it seems that I can assign, say, a new AHDSR envelope to control the LFO Rate. So I do just that. - But nothing happens. No matter how I change that AHDSR envelope, the sound stays exactly the same. So is it possible or not? What am I missing here? Did I mess up the assigning? Does "Add modulation" mean something totally different? Thanks in advance for any suggestions!

Haven't anyone else had this problem? Now nearly every time when I'm recording MIDI, the Piano Roll view flickers. I don't know why, and it's a hell of a nuisance. Also, I just bought Waves Tune - and its view flickers all the time. What is going on?