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  1. Maybe your DELETE key on your keyboard is sticky? You select a note with the pointer and that's why it gets deleted? Try to open the notes app and write something. Is the text getting deleted randomly?
  2. If you have another plugin before the adaptive limiter and the sound comes OUT of that plugin too hot(distorted) then all that scale knob did, is turning down/up the distorted/too hot signal. Not useful. One has to make sure to get a healthy signal going in and out of each and every plugin in a chain of effects on any channel strip.
  3. Short answer: no (i think) Start over. Save project as folder and include all assets in folder when saving. Make a copy of your project/folder. (To not accidentally mess with your project) Open the new duplicated project. Disable all plugins on stereo out. Do a better mixing job of your project. Get busy with your high pass filters on individual channels. Take care of all loud audio/spikes in your mix. If you have a decent mix, the mastering process should not alter it too much. Just make it louder, compress it a bit, even out the mix and tonal adjustments. Maybe all you need is to play with compressor on the stereo out. It helps if you bounce the mix to a stereo file (without any mastering) and import it into a new empty Logic project. This way you can see the waveform. If it has too many large spikes in the waveform, that is why the compressor/limiter is struggling in your master chain.
  4. I think there is a setting to enable somewhere and it lets you move anything in only one direction at a time, so if you start moving a note upwards, you won't be able to move it left or right accidentally.
  5. It means that your mix is not ready for mastering. Look at your multimeter and do your best to take care of the low end of your mix and treat the peaks in your mix too as a stated earlier. You have to get it to a ballpark of a good mix. Then export or bounce the mix, open a new project and import the mix. Only open the mastering assistant. (I think this is the intended way and the most efficient way to use the mastering assistant )Do a few tweaks and it should give you good results. That's what it was made for. If you're constantly going back re-tweaking everything and re-analyzing everything I'm sure there will be Bugs turning up their heads sooner or later.
  6. Select Input 2 on the channel strip. Also in Logic's preferences: The Scarlett is selected as input and output device?
  7. It is a wonderful tool, but i often get the best results if i have a decent mix. 1take care of the low end, get busy with the high pass filter on the tracks take care of your drum peaks. Apply compression, limiting, clipping on bass drum and snare. Then again on the drum bus. Saturation too. Then let the mastering assistant do the rest, play with the final eq a bit in the mastering assistant. Always A/B with a good commercial mix. Just use quicktime or Apple music to make things simple. -14 LUFS is good enough. (That is where the assistant sets the mix. ) If you want much louder, your results may vary. When analyzing the assistant says 'building a mastering chain' Pretty sure there is compression and multiband compression going on in there. You get pumpung if you have too much peaking in your mix.
  8. I always go for the simplest solution: if your singing is not far off, then set the pitch correction in flex pitch to 100%. This will snap the notes to the nearest value. You can then grab a few notes push them up or down in the scale use your ears. Should be simple. If too robotic, play with the parameters and percentage of correction. Even if you go the other way with automation: just don't bother with that. Duplicate track and use pitch correction on that track too separately. If you have an older Mac and you have CPU concerns: just bounce in place after you are happy. Put all the bounced regions on one track and delete everything else. Always go for simple. 🙂
  9. Could be! I will check my settings tonight. Yes I am actually swiping left or right. Doesn't matter what position the two fingers are in as long as both are touching the trackpad just moving them left and right while holding down option
  10. I am on M1 Air latest MacOS and latest Logic. I'll make a small video/GIF tonight and check my settings for you
  11. I actually went back and reread your original post and you are saying I quote 'tighten the logic window vertically' Are we actually talking about zooming within the arrange window?
  12. Good question, I'm doing this for 10 years so I took it for granted. I don't think you need any settings because this is my third Mac and 13 years and it's always been working like this. Maybe make sure the pointer is in the arrange area? Highlight the arrange area? Maybe your piano roll is highlighted. But actually works the same way there. I'm not at home currently but I'll test this for you later on in the evening. so you are positive that if you hold down option in the arrange area the pointer is around the regions and with two fingers you scroll up and down you should zoom vertically. And if you hold down option and two fingers scroll left and right you zoom horizontally. going to Mac OS setting and look at the trackpad settings maybe the trick is to enable things there. Once it works I think you would be amazed this is fantastic.
  13. 'Option' and 2 finger scroll. Works horizontally and vertically. Extra tip: enable click zones then click on the lower half a track to leave a marquee line and then that spot stays centered while zooming horizontally or vertically. (also tap to click' helps here) Extra tip 2: enable 3 finger drag. Your wrist will thank you.
  14. The take away from this thread is this: you perform various takes of a part on different tracks under each other. Then you can use different parts of those takes to compile the best performance out of those tracks. Then the whole purpose is to flatten and merge so you end up with only one track which contains the best parts. You can either change the gain on different parts as described before, then flatten and merge or after the flatten and merge you can select parts with the marquee tool and change the gain on parts after. There are many ways, but ultimately the end result would be one track. That is the whole purpose of comping.
  15. Yes, but there is absolutely nothing wrong with that if all we are talking about is mixing. Midi is just triggering the samples so basically audio. As far as I can tell there's no advantage turning the audio samples that are triggered by midi into audio tracks. I usually keep it as is all the way through the mixing process. But if you insist there is an easy method to convert that track stack into audio tracks. A quick search on this forum would reveal the method.
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