Music Spirit

Thanks for your prompt replies - all sorted now thanks!

Am setting up Logic on another person's new mac Apple M1 on Sonoma 14.4.1 - and finding that pressing the numbers above the keyboard which usually change screensets do not work - give the ping sound of a wrong command Any help ? 🙂

Using the Logic Score Editor deserves a category on its own - users like myself do not create Scores for Soundtracks but Instrumental Parts for musicians to play live on gigs or in studios - from small band to big band to orchestral scores. Another category is Overdubs - again users like myself do not 'produce' music as in mix master and send a finished product but .. a key use of Logic is recording overdubs ( in my case chromatic harmonica) to backing tracks sending stems with no effects to clients for their projects, albums, commercial sessions etc recorded. Another use is Creating Educational Material - transcribing music so that the score plays in real time with the original track for a student to slow down and study. I have literally hundreds of projects available in all genres, classical,folk, mainly jazz & funk etc and am constantly making new ones for students. Sometimes turning these into Quicktime movies using Screenflow for those who do not have Logic on their computers. Another use is the Assembling and editing of multitracks recorded in a studio I have made 4 several albums in this way - recording a band in the studio, bring stems into Logic for each track. Doing extensive editing of the all the instrumental stems with no effects. Adding overdubs (keyboards, percussion, vocals, a few instrumental corrections) And then sending the entire project off to a mixing engineer. I have no use for or knowledge of plugins or eqs or anything like that except as they relate to get a rough sound to work with the raw individual stems.

Thanks so much for your patient help David! Such basic stuff one still needs to learn .. I hardly ever use the Pencil Tool and missed it in your original explanation above .. it's never too late 😉

Thanks David, it looks like a great solution .. but just tried it but it doesnt work on my system: PS How do you make the Screenflow video small enough file to be uploaded here?

Double clicking on a note head gives the option to convert to different symbols ( very useful for rhythm parts) - but am I correct in concluding that it is not possible to Select multiple noteheads and change them all at the same time? Seems only to change a single one at a time... Here is a video of the issue ( File to big to load here)

@Plowman thanks so much for finding this - 'view my activity' doesnt go that far back... 🙏

Fascinating thread - this is something I posted about some years back when I had an Arrangement in B but needed the Trumpet and Tenor Parts in Db. If I understand the work around, it involves changing the basic key to the desired Bb looking part and then changing the Concert parts to correct their display of the key of the tune by using the transpose feature in the Staff Styles to display the right key? I will try this out on the Arrangement I first posted about around November 2018 ( for a gig I had on 9 December 2018 ) NB tried to search for the thread to quote it here - question supplementary: how do you look up a list of all your own posts?

@JakobP - brilliant suggestion! This would explain why this is only happening more recently. And I was not familiar with the change of behaviour of the Arm Record. I was used to always being able to play any Software Instrument track by just selecting it. Will see if this makes any difference and report back ... that said I have had 10.7.9 for some time and this dropping out behaviour has only really started happening in the last month or two.. and before then never had the problem. ( I cant go beyond 10.7.9 for the moment as my system wont take a higher version of Logic). Also to recap - quitting and re-opening the project solves the problem ( ie just select any software instrument that isnt Record Armed) But if Record Arming brings the software instruments back to function that saves quitting and re-opening every time..

All those pages in my Setup are completely blank - never used a Control Surface.. but thanks for the suggestion My projects, ( mainly for composing/ arranging & adding harmonica overdubs) have very modest numbers of Software Instruments .. but thanks also for the suggestion! * * * The problem still occurs in the same way - and the only solution is to Save Quit and Restart. Given the 'legacy nature' of my system it is something I will have to live with. Thanks all for your contributions!!

@Atlas007@David Nahmani - thank you gentlemen .. found and ticked! Will see if it occurs again 🙏

I dont use any control surfaces... but where would you find that setting?

1/ Upon opening a project my master keyboard ( Korg SG1 connected via Midi Cable to Clarett 2Pre) - triggers any Software instrument normally. Worked with no problem for several years 2/ Now I get the following intermittent issue: the Software Instruments sound no longer when the keyboard is played though they do still: • Play back aleady recorded sounds/regions normally • Midi In/Out button recognises/ responds to keyboard and continues to record midi and play it back... but the sound cannot be heard as I play 3/ Save>Quit>Re-Open Project .. everything is back to normal - for a while... then suddenly same problem re-occurs Any thoughts?

Is it possible to insert a Photo (ie jpg or png) into the Score and size it as you can in a Word or Pages document? ( ie not a small image via a font but an actual photo)?

Have you Unlocked and Locked the Screenset once you set the various settings you want?