nicnut

OK, I added my signature. I thought about mentioning all of those items originally, but I noticed this in Logic 9 and Logic X, so I figured it was some new annoying addition to Logic in the last few updates and not having to do with my system, which hasn't changed. If anyone knows what I'm talking about and how to turn it off please let me know, I would really appreciate it. peace, Nick

Hi, When I'm inputing notes in the piano roll editor (is this called the matrix editor?), if there aren't more notes the length of my midi track the track automatically shrinks down to the measure of the last note. In other words, if I have a melody that is 4 bars, but my editor was originally 16 bars it will automatically shrink to 4 bars. Does that make sense? Is there anyway to disable this? I waste so much time elongating my midi tracks. Any help would be greatly appreciated. nicnut.

Yes, This is a huge problem. I'm in the middle of a huge sound design gig. I usually never update in the middle of a project, but I needed to for this one. And now I can't scroll through a movie frame by frame. This is major and I hope it gets resolved. I have no idea how else to do sound design, I've been using logic for the past 10 years.

Hi, I saw this post and thought I would chime in. I'm a big advocate of the Schillinger System, I use his methods for almost all the composition I do. It's a little complicated to break down in a post like this, but I'll mention some basic principals. He breaks music into several categories: rhythm, melody, harmony, counterpoint, orchestraion, etc. He starts with rhythm and the concepts used in rhythm are later expanded upon in all the other categories, thats why it's important to grasp the concepts in the first chapters. His ideas are basically ways to take a really simple musical fragment, like 2 or 3 notes and to get endless variations and material out of it by making permutations, geometrically expanding the rhythms and the notes, inverting the intervals (or rhythms), reversing the phrase, etc. It's a pretty awesome concept. It is all very useful, but I found his chapter on counterpoint particularly useful. I took a counter point class in college and really didn't learn anything about writing counterpoint. Shillinger gives you a couple simple tendencies to follow and that's it. I was able to write good counterpoint right away after observing his methods. Anyway, I hope this helps someone. peace, Nicnut