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Palimpsest9

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  1. Ah, great, thanks! For me, #2 and #3 entails more moving around. (#2: I have to move each pattern to the beginning half ("Move to Playhead"). #3: I have to individually delete the silences between each concatenated pattern region.) Hence I'm exploring the possibility to import/copy them at a different tempo.
  2. Hi David, With the this workflow, there are several issues 1. Step 2 snaps the Locator to bar, even with snap turned off, so it doesn't work with patterns which end before the bar, and doesn't work for very short pattern regions. 2. Step 3 halves the cycle area to the latter half, not the first half, of the Locator area. 3. Still no way to halve a sequence of multiple patterns, as one big unit? I propose we try to import the patterns at a different tempo, instead.
  3. Hi, I wanted to copy some step pattern regions (drums) from one project to another, but they're too slow for this project. I'm perplexed, how come stretch mode is not available for pattern regions, although the same outcome can be obtained with "Time Stretch Region Length to Locators". It would be awfully convenient if I could just, for instance, stretch them to double speed, instead of messing with the locators. But the thing that really bothers me is, I have a sequence of multiple (concatenated) pattern regions in a row, and how to stretch all of them as one unit. For currently, if I stretch them to make them faster, I'm left with silences between each these regions and I have to delete the silences individually. (All of my patterns are at step rate /64 so I can't speed them up using the step editor. I'm using Logic 10.4.1 where the option of converting them back and forth to MIDI is not yet available.)
  4. Doesn't work the other way, when the step rate is maxed. (You can't go faster than /64). Let's say I have a sequence of four patterns, each with a rate of /64, and want this sequence to play twice as fast. One way to do it "Time Stretch Region Length to Locators". The problem with this is that you have to drag the second, then third and then the fourth pattern each where the previous pattern ends and repeat time stretch. (In MIDI regions you can at least join four regions and time stretch them as one.) (I've read in newer Logic versions you might do this with "halve length" , but an important project of mine is very delicate and buggy and I'm not sure a newer version won't mess it up further. Using Logic 10.4.1.)
  5. Exciter proved to be the easiest to use, although for some reason I had to apply it twice to get a satisfying result (see image of bounced audio below).
  6. Noise Gate had a remarkable effect (see image of bounced audio below). I haven't yet gotten Enveloper to do anything. It's pretty hard to tell what I'm doing, since neither plugin seems to have a monitor or graph feature and I haven't done a tutorial. Yes, I'm rather familiar with Create MIDI Track from Flex Pitch Data, though, these being two second fills, it doesn't take many minutes to transcribe them manually.
  7. Ah, I see. I had it backwards. Gain makes the peaks louder. So what do I then? I would also need to make the remaining parts less loud, before the peaks are clipped.
  8. I have a short audio recording of a drum fill which I like, and I would like to transcribe it into MIDI notes I figured I should use Compressor, so the peaks would become visible in audio waveform, so I could maybe transcribe then each note individually into a midi region, using attack=0.0ms in Compressor (0.5ms is too much, but Logic's Compressor doesn't have anything between 0.0 and 0.5). With some tweaking, the Compressor graph reflects reflects my intention, however the waveform in the bounced output looks as indistinguishable as the original. The orinal audio is very fast drumming and the quality of the source is low.(8-bit video game music.), (Since it's for compositional purposes, not audio quality, I don't mind clipping.)
  9. I don't really know that much about videogames, but I've been enjoying some electronics tracks from recent Final Fantasy games. Perhaps such things can be done by Drummer, but to help getting more creative, I'm looking to see what alternatives there are to Drummer.
  10. After playing around with Drummer's for electronic music for a good while, I haven't quite managed to get the kind of beats I'm looking for. They all sound like electronic music from the radio. I will be taking suggestions for other VSTs or stand-alone software, which can help me in the creative process. The samples or their quality doesn't matter, only the creative support I need and the AI.
  11. I've never tried exporting musicXML, but importing musicXML to Logic sometimes represents things differently from the original content, leaving out some high notes (even though they are well within the tessiatura), notes which would be imported perfectly as MIDI, and refusing to playback articulations, even though they clearly get imported. (Maybe recent versions have fixed some of these issues.) My version is 10.5.1, versions some time before that didn't really appear to support functional musicXML so hopefully your version is more recent. The jumbled lines in your PDF looks like a glitch, such that there's some part in the music which is messing everything up. You might try cutting parts of the music, cutting half of the parts away, or cutting some of the parts away to see if the glitch is caused by some specific part. Wish I had a better tip. For the vibraphone notes showing up wrong, are you sure (1) the vibraphone is not marked as a transposing instrument (if there is such a feature in Logic), and (2) how about when you use a 8va clef, which is sometimes necessary for the music to be readable?
  12. So what's the "saved project" which appears above Backup 1? Autosaved?
  13. Thanks for the link! It's been a year or two since I've looked into Smart Tempo; I used it for recored drum beats but haven't used it for a longer piece of music. I guess I'll be delving deeper into it now.
  14. "Messing around" - meaning (sligtly) dragging them in or out (ie. contracting/extending), and nothing else. But I doubt this is the cause, since the notes within the overlapped borders seem to have disappeared on a daily basis, and I don't believe I've had need to change (by dragging) the borders that often. The data on this virtual instrument track was originally subdivided into ~10 concatenated regions, with some small overlaps in most of them. Over a few weeks, I've had to fetch the notes from backup files for successively each of these overlapped regions, as the notes within the region overlaps have one-by-one disappeared while saving and loading. (This has happened to other tracks, as well, but we won't bother with that since they contain a minuscule part of the actual composition.)
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