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  1. In short I want the ability to: 1. Rename Plug-Ins in the channel strip 2. Recolor them 3. Save these settings as part of the plug-in's preset data Here's why: When I use one Channel EQ for Mid-Only EQ and set a second instance for Side-Only EQ being able to change the default plug-in name from "Channel EQ" to something more direct like "Mid-EQ and "Side-EQ" would be helpful so I can tell at a glance what's doing what. Same story for Compressors: where one is being used for general compression and another for side-chain compression. I could rename one to "SC Comp" so it's obvious without having to open it. Currently I have to open at least one to check (both if I guess wrong). Of course being able to recolor them is yet another helpful visual thing, and saving my settings just helps to not have to do this every time I use one.
  2. Sorry to resurrect this thread, but I am running Logic Pro X 10.3.2, on Sierra 10.12.6 and have found this problem still is alive and well. I tend to produce mostly on the go, and am switching a lot back and forth between the main window and a full the Editor. I just rebooted and it went away, but this is a really silly issue to have to deal with.
  3. I mix a monthly podcast / radioshow, previously in GarageBand, now in logic pro X since I do some music production in Logic now as well. GB would let me setup chapters at certain points I designated within the session that would allow me to embed things like album art, Artist, Track Title etc. as the show was played, usually through iTunes or the Podcast app on an iPhone as long as I bounced it out as an m4a file. In short, is anything like this possible in Logic Pro X? I'm not even sure where to look or what search for to be honest. Thanks in Advance!
  4. Thanks for such a wonderful reply. I enjoyed (and chuckled a bit while) reading it. This has been my approach so far. In taking small courses I knew early I didn't care too much about those pseudo-latin words you speak of, and some of the other more complex ideas either. Just making things sound good. Sometimes I need a little assistance which is what my questions 1 and 3 are aiming towards.
  5. I'm currently not great at music theory. By ear I can tell when something sounds harmonically compatible with something else, but when I'm in some random key, and add a note, I couldn't begin to tell you whether it's part of that key and what else could go with it without pulling out some cheat sheets. When writing chords in Logic I place the various notes where I think they should be, listen to it, but eventually click the Q button just to make sure it's actually in the key I'm after. Ultimately it boils down to a lot of trial and error, tinkering and hearing some really awful notes until I find what I'm after. So with that, I have few key-related questions in Pro X: Is there some way in the piano roll to hide notes that are out of key, or make it when I move a note from up or down the scales it will stick to notes only in key? Maybe some kind of "auto-quantize-to-key" or "key-snap" feature? What is the point of setting the key in the LCD display in Pro X? Is it just a reminder or does it actually have some effect on the session? Any helpful features to establish in-key chords, progressions etc? If these don't exist, they'd be very helpful features for music theory novices like myself. I have other programs that can help me do this, but it sure would be nice to do it directly in Logic. Thanks in advance!
  6. Thank you kindly David. Somehow I knew it was likely to be pretty simple...
  7. I've seen people do this in other DAW's, but I'm not sure how to do it in Logic Pro X: Say I've got a couple chords written in midi track #1, I want to create midi on a separate track, #2 using #1's notes as a visual reference guide without being able to alter them or select them, just see them. Any ideas? Thanks in advance! David
  8. So what I've found is that I have are few (almost random) transient spikes. I can see on the waveform where they occur (usually in two spots), but I'm not exactly sure what causes them because admittedly I can't hear them standing out. When I use logic's multimeter to check the frequency spectrum across the main out, nothing really stands out as "too high" to me, or a sudden jump, however I can see the little peak number sit there at -6.9, -7 or so, and then jump to -3.2 suddenly This to me says its either just a cumulative effect of all tracks mixing together poorly at this one point, or some frequency that is causing a peak that I'm not hearing, too high, too low perhaps. Any tips on identifying the source of and taming the peaks of these little pesky rogue peaks?
  9. @triplets - I'm not really sure how to answer that. (sorry). Since I'm not outsourcing mastering, I'm essentially just trying to emulate loudness with comparable songs. All I can say is it seems my track is seems low. My limited understanding of this all (trying to learn) tells me that my RMS levelsis too low by the time the peaks are just shy of clipping. Is there a value I should be shooting for? @stardustmedia I have checked, there are no plug-ins that have a -3db and my final limiter's output ceiling is set to -0.2. I will have to check the reference song in logic. Rookie question: The typical channel meters next to the track faders are measuring in dBFS correct, or is there some adjustment I need to make to read that? Additional thoughts: I think I need to compress the overall master signal to get the difference between transient peaks and RMS signals reduced. Not so much to smash the dynamic range completely, but more to control problem areas. Is this the right idea? Also, yesterday I tried putting an Adaptive Limiter on near the end of the master chain with a marginal gain increase, and then put a Limiter (does this count as a "brick wall" type limiter?) on immediately after it, and it seemed to help boost the signal. It seemed to do the trick. Is there a problem with this "Dual limiter" approach? I greatly appreciate the schooling
  10. I've created a tune that I'm actually pretty proud of (my first I'd actually proudly play for someone other than myself). I want to mix it into one my DJ sets for my mixcloud radio show. The trouble is when I compare the levels to commercially released tunes in the same genre, mine is almost exactly 3dB lower than. I'm not looking to be the LOUDEST out there, but I don't want to have to raise the volume of my track (or lower the rest) by 3dB to make the transition not incredibly obvious volume-wise. Here's my current finalization workflow: I've mixed the tracks to what I believe is good level balance, cutting unused frequencies where they exist, tamed as many level spikes as I can find. When playing the tune start to finish, the level meters on my master output peak around -7dB and RMS is around -19dB. I then bounce the project to a Wav file with nothing on the master bus, and normalization set to OFF. I then open a new "mastering" session in logic pro x, add my newly bounced waveform I add some final EQ tweaks, compression, limiter (also tried the adaptive Limiter) etc. on the master out, using pretty tame settings, nothing crazy in terms of gains or ratios etc. My limiter is set to -0.2 dB output, gain set to keep the actual limiting amount to peak at around a 1.5dB reduction max I play the tune in Logic, I see a pretty solid max output of -0.2 dB I bounce the master output into what we can call my MASTERED copy for the sake of this question. I've bounced both with and without normalization on, normalization seems to help bring things up a bit I play the tun in my beat matching software, it show up on the meters there about 2-3dB lower than all the other tunes I use.... For the life of me, I cannot figure out why it still is so low in comparison. I've attempted to reduce any flared up peaks via EQ, volume automation, etc, I've monitored and remixed the entire track at least 4 times. I'm willing to admit that I need lots of practice in mixing, but can anyone see something simple I'm forgetting like some checkbox hidden somewhere that affects the master output by 3dB etc.? For the record, all my mastering plug-ins are logic's built-in plug-ins. Thanks in advance
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