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Oh yeah, I forgot to mention that I tried it with and without the Sequencer Input object cabled, and I remember thinking that targeting a track and hearing its sound was weird too when the cable wasn't there. I think that right there shows us how that version of Logic was built. Ah well. Thanks for the help anyway. I bought your book a few years back and it's great

I tried both the channel splitter in the environment, and the Demix option. The tracks were both R-enabled. Both VST instruments are set to different midi channels, and the midi I have running into Logic also has two different lines of notes on two different channels. One is quarter notes, another 8th notes (ch.2), but it's not until I actually target the track that its respective sound/channel plays. I checked on another forum and someone told me that Logic 6 and prior just doesn't allow this to work right, and it wasn't until Logic 7 that eMagic/Apple allowed this to work right. I'm thinking my problem is just old software.

I'm using Logic 5.5 on an old G4. I'm thinking this old version of Logic just can't handle sending to multiple instruments on input. I built an environment from scratch and the midi is coming from the 'sum' of the physical input object. No matter what - R-enabling multiple tracks and selecting the Demix option or not, it's only when I actually highlight/target the tracks in the arrange area do I hear anything. Their meters don't move unless it's actually highlighted. Funnily, midi is passing through the VST, because when I put a monitor on the output of it I see the data coming out, but it's only passing it on and not taking it itself.... unless I target the track in the arrange. Logic 5 must have just been built to function that way. Even if I had hardware midi interfaces going back and forth with the same setup, I'm thinking I'd run into the same thing. I wonder how people handled this back then.

I have no idea what could be preventing this from working.

I just checked in LPX on my Mac Pro, and there is indeed an IAC bus on the physical input object. Wanted to get this working on my older G4 laptop though so I could use it as an additional audio/vst host.

I did indeed R-enable the desired tracks. Only the one that's targeted has any midi going to it. I switch back and forth by clicking on the tracks in the arrange window and midi comes through, but only when those select ones are highlighted. Also, there is an IAC bus port on the physical input object? I only see Sum and the modem and printer ports.

Ok, with the first method it looks like I still have to have the track targeted to get it to send midi to whichever instrument. I ticked the auto demix option, set up each instrument on a different midi channel, hit the record arm button, but midi only sends when the tracks are targeted. The channelization is working fine though. Take in mind i'm using some old versions of Logic, so I can't even select more than one track in the arrange area. I can also try this in the environment, but as mentioned I can't get anything out of the IAC bus instruments that were create by default in the environment. Maybe they're there for being an input to the IAC bus only? Hmm...

When I cabled the IAC instrument objects to an audio instrument no notes were coming through. Then I cabled output of the IAC bus to an input monitor and no notes were coming through there either. The only way I got it to work was when I selected the IAC bus as an input instrument in the OMS mapping area.

I'm using some older versions of Logic (6 and below) but that shouldn't matter as everything I'm trying to do is done in the environment. The process should be the same no matter the version. Basically, i'm trying to compose midi in one program, but have Logic host all of my VST instruments, FX and everything. I'm having trouble getting this working correctly because I can only have one track targeted and accepting midi at a time. I had to go to the 'OMS input mapping' area and select the IAC Bus as an input for midi to get into Logic. It's coming through, but now I can only send midi to the virtual instrument track that's targeted in the Arrange area. Somehow I've got to split it and get it sent to all tracks/VSTs. How could I set up Logic's environment so that it could server as a sampler/VSTi/audio host and have it running in the background while composing in another application, using IAC? This is more complicated than I thought it would be.

I have a folder track as my top track and an audio track below it. After the update, when I drag a region on the audio track, it gets moved to the top track inside of the folder track. It won't stay on its own track

I find that I have to open the track stack (folder) and drop a track inside of there. I wish it were as easy as just dragging something onto the top of it and releasing my mouse button while it's closed. When I open it up and drag tracks in there, it's easy for the tracks inside of it to get disorganized due to the new track. Is there an easier way to do this?

Anyone?

I imported a video and zoomed in pretty far to get some meticulous editing done when certain frames start but I'm having some trouble. When I drag the playhead, I see the frame changing in the LCD but I don't see the movie go to the next frame until I drag it over a bit more. I was thinking that this would be synced dead-on but apparently not. I also changed the snap mode to frames, but when i drag a region over and land on a particular frame, it gives me the same thing. The region seems to start somewhere in the middle of a frame and not dead on the start. I've got the correct frame rate selected in the sync settings.

This is working in an older version of Logic, but not the latest. Bug?

In the arrange window I select Snap Edits To Zero Crossings but it's not working. Shouldn't I get a visual indication of this? When I trim a region to where there's a peak in the waveform it isn't snapping the trim point over to the zero crossing point.