Scotty Ferguson

I used to try, every couple of years, to fall in love with the Hyper Editor but we just didn't seem to hit it off. I now know we never will

I'm sorry I wasn't clear in my reply: I'm aware of the steps needed to show multiple automation lanes in the Arrange. What I was looking for is a way to automatically convert ALL MIDI CC to track automation, without having to "show" each CC separately first (which was the reason for my original post). I guess it's impossible then.

Well if it isn't the most mislabeled menu item in GUI history. There is a clear repetition in the menu between "visible" and "all", and since "visible" works, you would assume that "all" would, too. How exciting. It's probably my last attempt to try anything remotely resembling Cubase's multiple controller lanes. I was hoping to automatically show, in the arrange window, several recorded CCs one below the other, without having multiple tracks or having to select the CC numbers manually. In another life, I guess. Thanks for clearing that up, fader8. If you have a last-resort idea on how to solve the above, I'd be thrilled to try it.

I know what HyperDraw is for. Please read my question carefully.

Hi, I have a MIDI region on an instrument track which has some notes and CC02 data in it. If I select "Move All Region Data to Track Automation", nothing happens. If I view CC02 (Breath) HyperDraw data (still in the Arrange), it is superimposed on the region. If I then select "Move All VISIBLE Data to Track Automation", it works as expected. Am I not getting something here? I'd like to be able to create track automation data automatically for regions with multiple CC events in them (modulation, breath, expression etc). Thanks.

Thanks a lot, because I learned something new. However this is far from ideal, because when asking a MIDI-controlled effect to process the audio from a software instrument that you're playing, you have to record-enable two tracks instead of one, etc. I sure hope they think of something more straightforward for Logic Pro X.

Thanks ski, the method you describe is very clear and I could solve that in the Environment, of course. I was merely hoping that in the autumn months of 2011, assigning a hardware MIDI CC to a software knob would be a simpler affair

Hi, I've been using MIDI CC to control software instruments in Logic for quite a while, using the plugin vendor's implementation (mostly NI stuff, right-click, learn, done). Now I'm trying to control a plugin inserted as an effect (specifically Guitar Rig), but this doesn't seem to work so easily. Apparently Logic doesn't send the incoming MIDI data to the plugin when it's inserted as an effect. I've looked for a preference but couldn't find one. I've read parts of this thread (although not all of it), and tried to use the Command-L version. This doesn't work either. The "Controller Assignments" window appears, the proper control gets associated with the MIDI CC in the list, but when I deactivate Learn Mode, the control doesn't respond to MIDI CC. Also, I'm worried that this method is global (i.e. not project-based). Anything I'm doing wrong? Any other way of routing MIDI CC to a plugin? Thanks.

Hi, For reasons that escape me, the Piano Roll window display no longer changes when I change the division value (/4, /16, /64, etc), neither with the mouse nor with the keyboard command. If I click on Piano Roll in the Arrange, it works normally. But the separate Piano Roll window does not. Closing it and opening another one hasn't helped. Any ideas what could be causing this? Thanks

ski: My orchestral template is of the "load and forget" type, everything's instanced in Vienna Ensemble Pro and is controlled remotely in each Logic project. I have a fixed orchestral palette fully loaded at all times, and the Logic project itself only contains stuff that goes on top of that, such as Omnisphere or other electronic instruments. If I change something in the template, loading an earlier project can be a hassle (unless you save the VEP setup with each project you do, which kinda defeats its purpose). So I'm used to modifying the Kontakt setups themselves only when I really have to (when I buy new instruments, for instance).

The flexibility of Logic's Environment is always full of nice surprises. I've followed David's suggestion and created the necessary Transformer objects, and then I realized I didn't even need a pair of such objects per instrument, but that they could all help themselves to the same Transformer pair (if each Instrument's channel is set to 1, 5, 9 and 13). For a full strings Tutti sound, it was just a matter of cabling one "master" instrument to the lot above. All of this readily available as playable tracks in the arrange, without touching anything on my composing template's AU instruments settings, MIDI channels or anything, *and* keeping the separate divisi sections A, B & C accessible from the Multi-Instrument all of this is connected to. This is really nice Now if we could only have 64 MIDI channels in AU, those contrabasses could be tucked nicely under their mates instead of snobbing everyone and requiring a couple of Transformers just for themselves...

Yes, I know I can record-enable four tracks, but I was trying not to Cabling an instrument to four channel strips is, unfortunately, impossible with the current handling of multi-output AU instruments (as is the case with my Kontakt LASS setup).

Nice, should've thought of exponents myself, silly me...

I'm not sure whether you're referring to Logic or to Kontakt: in Logic the Multi is already set to "All" but will only receive once channel since a single Instrument object will only transmit on one channel at a time, unless I record enable several tracks which is not what I want. And I'd rather not touch my Kontakt template, which resides outside of Logic entirely... Anyway, thanks for the info on the Transformer object setup. Setting them up in parallel does seems slightly more elegant, although I couldn't tell you why

Hi, I'm playing LASS strings sections through a multi-instrument object, Channels 1-4 are 1st violins, 5-6 are 2nd violins etc (contrabasses are on a second multi-instrument). Every once in a while, I'd like to be able to play a group of four instruments simultaneously, say Channels 1-4, from a single instrument. So I've created an Instrument followed by 3 Transformer objects, cabled sequentially, each of them configured to "Copy matching events and apply operation", and adding 1, 2 & 3 to the Channel value. This works but seems rather convoluted and I was wondering if there was a more elegant way to achieve the same thing. Thanks.