Trautman

Ninja444 did you make any progress with this? Im trying to flex bass to a drum performance with different tempos and struggling to make it work in any kind of musical way. Smart Tempo has ruined my life.

not working?! left click just toggles between stereo or mono, doesn't give you the option to toggle between left or right channels no matter how long I hold...

ok so if I had a stereo file and I wanted to use just one side of it, I used to ctrl-click on the stereo input and it would give me the option to hear left, right, stereo or surround. Id choose left or right, saving me from having to bounce out split files etc.. has this feature been removed? its suddenly not working after updating! thanks

thanks David. At least I'm not going mad! any thoughts as to a workaround? thanks

No sorry I just haven’t changed that, I’m on the latest version but hadn’t posted on here for years

On reading the link it seems that groove tracks are for getting other tracks to follow the groove of a designated track? im needing to slightly tighten up 12 tracks of phase-locked drum mics!

Ok thanks I’ll give it a go

Hi no, I’ve never used groove tracks- been doing it this way for years and never encountered this issue before. I’ve always felt it was the most musical way to approach it. Is groove tracks a good option for multi mic source material?

Hi I'm quantising some multi-tracked drums, and I want to mostly preserve the drummers feel, and just tighten up the odd bit here and there. How I would normally do this is: .group the drums (quantise lock etc) .choose which mic to use as my master- in this case I have a ball and biscuit mono kit mic which has loads of kick and snare and super sharp transients, so I'm slaving everything else to that. .hard quantise to find the right swing amount (in this case 16 swing E) .adjust the q range to tell logic to leave transients that are close enough alone ( in this case 1/192) .back off the Q strength until it feels tight enough but still natural Its all working fine until the last step- once i back the strength off its going nuts and applying MORE swing... not sure what I'm doing wrong, as this method has always worked for me before?

Hi I’m having some issues with smart tempo. I’ve previously used flex time a lot, I have a workflow that is fairly long-winded, but I feel allows me to flex time in a fairly musical way- I only use slicing, as I find I can hear artifacts in other algorithms, and I go through my audio myself at length to make sure my transient markers are exactly where I want them. Then I quantize the audio, using a mixture of swing/q-swing, q-range, and q-strength to get what sounds natural/musical/grooving to my ears. Then I check for clicks and pops, adjusting transient markers where necessary to fix any problems. This method has worked reliably for me for years now and it’s a massive part of how I work... Until today- I just started work on the first project since updating to 10.4.8 where the drums were all tempo mapped. The drums were tempo mapped ages ago, before the logic update. I recorded my bass, and logic seems to want to squish it to the tempo map of the drums, completely destroying the groove and filling it with dreadful artifacts. I have tried removing the tempo info from the bass recording, and the squishing goes away, only to return as soon as I try and apply my own flex time with my own carefully considered transient markers. It won’t allow me to *just* quantize with my own transient markers... it seems to *have* to also apply this smart tempo stuff. Am I missing something? Is there not a way to *only* quantize using my own transient markers, and not have logic do anything automated? This is such a big part of my workflow that if not I fear I’ll have to move onto pro tools for my comping/editing... which I could do without having to learn as I’ve been a happy logic user for 15 years. Help!

Hi Atlas007 Quite hard to test this- if I import an old logic 9 project it's loading the exs24 instrument and samples from that project folder. They would have initially loaded up from the external drive in logic 9, but subsequently loaded up from the project folder after being saved into the project folder (you know the option it gives you upon saving) Can't open up L9 any more as it was on an old machine that died! I'm guessing that doesn't help you, sorry... Thanks

Bump! Anyone!? This is my first post, so please let me know if I can provide any more info or this is not in the right place or what have you.

Hi Ive just moved onto logic x and a new Mac Pro, and I'm having trouble getting my exs24 sampler instruments to load up correctly. All my sampler instruments etc are running off an external drive and I've managed to get the ones that come with logic to do this with no problem. I also have about 80gb of my own sampler instruments on the same drive, in another folder. Each instrument is in a sub-folder with the relevant samples. I created a symbolic link and exs24 reads this folder fine and can load instruments fine. What is baffling me is that I am getting seemingly random 'can't find sample' messages for about half of my instruments. It's a pretty big library so it's fairly well organised, and there is absolutely no difference in the file structure for the instruments that load with no problem and those where the wavs appear to be lost (they definitely aren't, they are organised in exactly the same way as the others and play back fine in anything else). the inconsistency is what's stumped me- if they were all not loading I would know it was something not in the right place... I've tried re-indexing the drive with spotlight and this has made no difference. Everything was loading up absolutely fine in logic 9 just a few weeks ago... Any ideas?? Thanks