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  1. 1) quite possibly-I tend to save frequently while working-but I can't say for sure. 2) 10.5.1 thanks
  2. in my Logic Preferences/General window, there is an "auto backup" section and I have selected "last 10 alternative versions". But if I go to "File/Revert to" I only get a list of 5 versions. Why the discrepancy? thanks!
  3. I’ll try that and see if it works, thanks!
  4. yeah, that’s what I had done. I probably wasn’t clear but the audio region I wanted to back up WAS created by flatten/merging a comp. So Logic had named it during that process.
  5. that does nothing...the master fader is also not the issue (the same version of the same project plays perfectly at home, just not at the other studio). I'll be there tomorrow evening, and I'm going to try importing everything into a fresh project. I just had to do this over there with something else that started acting bizarre...hopefully that's just a coincidence.
  6. Ok, so let's pretend I have a song called Common World, and I have an audio region of something that was comped from multiple takes, that Logic decided to call "comp A.aif" but that I renamed in the Arrange window to be called "CW tremolo guitars comp" (I'm not talking about the track header name, I mean the name of the region itself) and I want to create a backup of that file; so, I double-click on it in Arrange, which opens up the lower part of the window (I forget what it's called, but it's a sub-window with an editor), and I can choose "Audio File/Create Backup" from the drop-down menu. But when it opens up, the file is not called "CW tremolo guitars.aif". it's called "comp A.aif" -which is meaningless in terms of possibly doing a search for that file. I don't want to create a backup with THE SAME meaningless name, except that it has a .dup extension-I'd never be able to find it. Is Logic actually set up in such a way that you can't rename your audio files "for real"? Like, you can rename them in the Arrange window but...the actual name doesn't really change? I need to a) initially be able to actually rename the file to something meaningful so it doesn't just show the new name in Arrange, but so if I'm looking in Finder I can find it, and b) be able to create a duplicate with the same actually meaningful name. I'm afraid if I just rename the files in Finder that Logic will get completely confused and I won't be able to get the song working again (I think I've seen that movie before)...so...even though I feel like this might be a tired topic, I'm posting anyway. Thanks for any input!
  7. did that..every other previous version of the song, and every other song plays normally. Only the most recent saved version of the song does this. My next step will be to “save project as” to a new folder and see if that does anything..I’m guessing the current one got corrupted somehow. I’m just not sure exactly when I’ll be over there again.
  8. I work at home and at another studio. A shared project we’ve been working on, that has played perfectly at either location suddenly exhibited the behavior stated in the title last night at the “away” studio. Other projects worked normally there. Both computers are running the same version of Logic, on the same OS (Mojave). Any ideas as to what could cause this to occur?
  9. well, I am beyond this by now, as I posted in my second post in this thread but...to try to shed light on this, I went back to the folder where I originally opened the GB project in Logic, and looked at the very first saved version of the project (right after I opened it in Logic). Logic's tempo is set to 120, and I don't know if that is because it is the default, or because the GB project was set to 120 (also the default), and if perhaps the tempo of 120 that was the default in GB was carried over from GB when I opened it in Logic for the first time...with me so far?.. LOL..however-as you noted-the tempo in the Logic project is set to "Keep", for whatever that's worth. None of the tracks are Flex-enabled. I changed the tempo in the Logic project to 100, and all the tracks played much slower (both audio and MIDI). I reverted back to the original saved file, locked the SMPTE position of all tracks, changed the tempo to 100 once again, and this time the audio tracks all played slow, although the MIDI tracks seemed to still be playing at the original tempo (although it was tough to tell as everything was out of sync at that point) As I said, I found a workaround so I could move forward. Importing stuff from GB always seemed to cause some kind of trouble even 10 or more years ago, but since the Smart Tempo nonsense began, things that should be simple rarely are even close to that...grrrrr.
  10. for what it's worth, I found a workaround-export all tracks as audio files and drag them into a fresh Logic project. I had already set the Logic project tempo to 100 before I dragged in the tracks, although not sure if that mattered. Then I just found the downbeat and dragged the tracks (en masse) to the bar line, which worked. It's close enough so I'm not gonna tempo map it. I just wanted to work on this track in Logic, cause I hate GB. What I *AM* worried about is, after I've recorded some guitar stuff, I plan to export the tracks as audio starting on bar 1, beat 1, and then import them back into the other guy's GB project. I'm keeping my fingers crossed as to whether GB tries to speed them up, as the tempo in GB is obviously set to the default tempo of 120. Any pitfalls to look out for?
  11. I'm working with someone who recorded some tracks (MIDI and audio) into GB, playing to a phone app metronome click that was set to 100 The GB tempo was set to 120 (the default) but the GB click was obviously off. if I open the track in Logic and set the tempo to 100, no matter what I've tried Logic changes the audio files (and possibly the MIDI, I didn't even get that far) so that they're playing way too slow. I don't want to change the tempo of the files, I just want to get the project placed on a Logic grid at the tempo it was actually played at. Also possibly tempo-map it once it's reasonably close, in case there are small fluctuations and I want to add any sequenced junk. I found a similar thread from a couple of years ago that suggested locking the SMPTE positions of the tracks before changing the tempo, but the same problem happened.
  12. I tried the first part of your suggestion (SMPTE lock the vocal regions). Moving them (either by exporting them, dragging them, or copy/pasting) seems to unlock them however; the manual confirmed that this is the case. So, as this didn’t work, I’m not sure how to move them from one project to the other without this happening. if you can point me to a link that would help me-a bear of very little brain-understand how SMPTE works in situations like this, I’d appreciate it. My only experience with it was years ago, when I’d stripe a tape track with SMPTE code so I could lock it to a sequencer. I haven’t had time to try the second, more complicated part of your answer yet. I took the quick and dirty way out, by cutting the vocal up and Flex-Timing it into place, which I’m this instance worked fine. Still would like to understand the subject better though-thanks for your time!
  13. ok..I bounced out a rough mp3 instrumental mix of a tempo-mapped project to a collaborator, starting on a bar line (not 1, but perhaps 3 or 4..defininitely on the line though). The original project had a considerably fluctuating tempo, but was accurately tempo-mapped. They dropped the mp3 into a fresh Logic project without setting a tempo (so it defaulted to 120) and recorded some vocal tracks. They sent me the fresh project with the vocals, I comped them-working off the fresh project they'd sent. When I dropped the vocal comp into my original project, I couldn't get it to lock up to the tempo map...it's floating all over the place. I tried dropping in the rough mp3 instrumental bounce I'd sent them and had the same problem..by halfway through the song it was wildly off. Seems to me it should be following the tempo map, no? I tried turning on FlexTime for the vocal I was dropping in, but it didn't seem to make a difference. I'm having trouble understanding what is going on, since the mp3 I bounced out in the first place *should* play in sync with the track it was bounced out from, no? So if a vocal was added on top of that, shouldn't I at least be able to manually drag it into place so it sounded "right"? But no...even if I line it up really close with the downbeat at the top of the piece, it drifts off prettty quickly. same goes for the instrumental bounce I made; it won't play in sync with the multitrack project that it f$@%ing CAME from..arrghh. Oh and by the way, there doesn't seem to be a pitch difference at all, just a tempo difference. So my suspicion is that this is because of the Flex-Timing that's going on in the original project, and the fact that they recorded the vocal onto a "slave reel" (as it were) that had none of the FlexTime information embedded in it (?) Opinions/suggestions appreciated, thanks!
  14. if you have to move a region that's out of place, what's the easiest way to see how many samples you needed to move it in order for it to be lined up properly? In other words, after you've moved it into place, how can you display the amount that it was moved (in samples)?
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