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  1. Hello, I find Logic's built-in MIDI monitoring/ MIDI echo/MIDI Thru to be very annoying because I don't like to turn "Local control" off on my synths. So what ends up happening is every note literally echoes. (I play a note, it plays and I can hear it on its audio channel, MIDI data is sent to Logic which then sends that same note right back to synth -- so everything is played twice) In other hosts, monitoring and arming for record are separate (even on MIDI tracks) or there are settings to disable MIDI echo system-wide or by track. But not in Logic. Me not turning local control off on my synths is not just because I'm stubborn. Some synths have a hard time sending out CC data while simultaneously receiving that exact same data back, especially when it's high resolution filter knob data, etc. It can cause some very whacky behaviour in some synths. Other synths do not retain the local off setting so I always have to run around the room and change everything back. Anyway, here's what I did to get around this: In the Environment (MIDI Instr. Layer), I added and connected in this order: 1. Multi Instrument ==> 2. Fader ==> 3. Instrument The Multi Instrument has it's ports set to off and is basically just representing my MIDI interface. (but turning the ports off stops it from sending any MIDI data to the sequencer, instead it is routed to the next thing in the list) The fader is just a text fader and serves no other purpose than its Filter setting, which I set to "Thru" (Thru is pretty much what causes the MIDI echo, I don't want Logic to send MIDI data back out unless it's playing it from a recorded sequence) Then everything is fed into an instrument which is set to "All Ports" and "All Channels"; so now I'm sending the filtered MIDI data to Logic This works great. If anyone is having the same issue, give this a try. There is a way to turn off MIDI Thru in the project settings. But it only seems to be for one channel. When I try setting it for the entire interface it has no effect (with my device, anyway) Also, this method doesn't seem to work with the External Instrument plugin. I'm just guessing it's because the External Instrument plugin essentially has "its own environment". You set the MIDI interface, channels, etc in the plugin itself so it seems like it bypasses the environment settings. But if anyone can explain how to get something similar to work with the External Instrument plugin, that would be awesome! **Disclaimer: Still very new to this. Just figuring it all out. If this is common knowledge or there's a better way, feel free to let me know!
  2. I also submitted a report via the feedback option in Logic earlier this morning but wasn't really sure if it was just me or not. I appreciate you taking a moment to confirm.
  3. In Logic Pro X, when you drag a region from an instrument track into the Apple Loops browser, a pop-up window opens with options for selecting the genre and choosing some other tagging information. I've noticed that when I select "Electronic" as the genre it shows up as "Country" in the Apple Loops browser. In fact choosing other genres before saving a new loop has the same result: none of the loops have the genre I selected after saving. I even tried to fix it with the Apple Loops Utility, but they still show up wrong in Logic Pro X. So is it just me, or is this a bug?
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