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Thanks David, amazing, just what I was searching for. Such a lot to learn in logic but slowly getting there. Thanks again. Regards, BRIAN.

As we all know it is as easy as pie to grab a short few bars of a recording and drag it out so it repeats endlessly. Great! However the dragged out area is always slightly greyed out and if I try to click on a note then it just trims back to where I clicked with the cursor. It is as if the copied section is not really a part of the track, just temporary and although it plays O.K. then that's fine as long as it's not touched. I have searched everywhere to try and find a way to make the dragged out/ repeated section permanent. As in proper editable notes like the original recorded notes. However I can find nothing. I can't even think of a snappy search phrase to sum the problem up so I always end up being given advice on overlapping sections or left and right dragging or nudging or snapping and so on but nothing that will tell me how to convert a dragged out section to a real life editable section. Yes I could bounce it down but what I want is to keep the midi notes for editing purposes. Can anyone help. Many Thanks - BRIAN.

Thanks Guys, Tempo has always been my Achilles heel when using logic. Never really understood it and the simplest of operations have always been a pain. However these little tips are helping me understand it more and making it less daunting. Thanks a lot, I will keep at it and hopefully it will all be a piece of cake one day. Regards BRIAN.

Yes David, I no longer get the alert because deleting all tempos except 1111 makes the tempo line constant. The downside of this action is that the various edited clips tend to contract and create gaps. But yes in answer to stage one, the alert does not pop up.

Hi David, thanks for your suggestion but it doesn't work. As mentioned I had already bounced three of the four tracks so as they are now audio I turned on flex time for those ones. The 4th track is an apple lops drum track. I deleted all the tempos except 1111 as you advised and immediately the drums went out of sync even before altering the tempo. I tried it again with the drums also in flex time and got the same results. The tracks are :- 1. Piano intro, 2. short reverse piano 3. Main guitar rhythm track 4. Drums The guitar track has been cut up in places and when I use the method you suggest each clip expands into the other one and creates a real mess so that's never going to work. I could join all the clips on the guitar track ( even though I haven't finished editing this yet) but the same problem still exists with the piano and drum tracks. Everything seems to stay in place but just gets longer as I turn up the BPM so all the clips run into each other ( or overlap if on different tracks ) I could I suppose re-line everything up again afterwards which is doable with only four simple tracks but some of my other music is complicated orchestral pieces and it would be impossible to line up everything in that scenario if the method you suggest produces the same results as I have just experienced. Any other thoughts ? Many Thanks

Tried for hours to increase the speed of my project but failed. ( not for the first time with Logic ) Why is it always so difficult. Watched tons of videos which shows the speed of the tempo simply being changed after double clicking but it doesn't work for me. It always says multiple tempo events detected and that is as far as I get. Yes I am often guilty of playing and then trying to sort out the bpm later so this time I recorded everything to a click track to make life easier but still have the same problem. What I have is :- a track using Session Guitarist Picked Acoustic,( which I bounced in place so it has become an audio file ) I also have a piano ( again bounced in place ) plus I have a drum loop from apple loops. Oh and I have a short reverse guitar of a bout three seconds, again bounced in place. So only four tracks all playing together quite happily to a strict beat which I just want to increase slightly in speed yet I seem unable to simply change the bpm counter as it either keeps saying it has detected multiple tempos or it reverts back to the original after a few seconds I have been you tubing for hours and have tried everything but still can't get a resolution to this problem. I have tried using the tempo track for further editing as prompted but then the drums go out of sync and other methods such as using flex time put the piano and reverse guitar ( and maybe drums too ) out of sync whilst things like varispeed sounds awful at a 10% speed increase. I am at a loss as to why something so simple should be so difficult. After trying all day to change the BPM unsuccessfully I am tired and exhausted so any help appreciated. Thanks - BRIAN.

Jut tried the suggestion from Des99 in which he says "You can pencil in a little region on an adjacent track to mark a position" Not sure that's going to help. What I wanted was to mark the track so the marker was on the track I was moving, not on another track. So far it seems I can only add a fixed marker to the top bar ( whatever that's called ) Ideally I want to mark the note on one track, mark the note on another track and then be able to line them up. It seems like a simple concept which would make editing a lot easier in a lot of cases. If it can be done in Final cut Pro why can't it be done in Logic. Regards BRIAN.

Thanks, The suggestion by des99 seems like the sort of thing I am looking for, didn't realise that this could be done so I will investigate. To put it simply I often used the marker system in Final cut whereby I would mark a spot on a video a track, ( lets say in order to cue a pice of music or voiceover ) and then mark the sound track with another marker. Then slide the two together to line up the markers. Job done. Simples. It would be great to have that in Logic so I shall investigate as advise by Des 99. Even so, it would be great if in a future upgrade there was a button to mark the actual track to make lining up with marks on other tracks a simpler affair which would speed up editing in certain cases. Many Thanks BRIAN.

Is there a way to add a marker to an actual track in Logic like one can in Final cut editing software. I often find I am searching for a section on my music which when I find it I would like to mark. Usually because much further along on another track there is a part I am searching for which I would like to line up with the first track. Having found the two separate pieces it would be easy to slide them together to line them up if each piece was marked but the current regime makes it difficult. Yes I can add a marker for the first piece but if the second piece is miles away how can I keep track of a note whilst I slide it all the way along to marry up with the first one. Would be easy if track markers were able to be added to the track. Surprised it can't be done as in Final cut. Regards BRIAN.

Hi David, Re- the snapping. I was messing about with the tempo (which never does what I want it to do) and was experimenting with Keep, Adapt, Auto etc and found in the drop down menu under Arrangement, Marker, Signature, Tempo, there is another drop down menu under Tempo which has Tempo sets, Snap, Apply smoothing etc. There are a whole load of numbers under Snap and an off button as well. I turned this off and voila the problem was solved. Had I not had this problem I would never have thought of looking under tempo for the solution to a region extension problem but all is good now. Well almost, I still have issues adjusting a free flowing tempo to globally slow it down or speed it up a little. It's the one thing that always drives me crazy with logic. Many Thanks - BRIAN.

Hi David, The snap settings was the first thing I looked into but to double check I have tried all of the options and even with snap turned off the problem still persists. I don't know what else to look at which might be causing this problem.

Hi, I am trying to extend the length of a region by dragging it out a little so I can add another midi note or two. Every time I do so it snaps back to where the last note ended. On another track in the same project there is some space on the end of the region between the last note and the end of the region, Not only does the same thing happen here but worse, if I drag out the region on this track, not only does it snap back to the last note but all the notes move along to the right as well to meet the snap back thus putting everything out of sync and what little space there was between the last note and the end of the region is no more. I have tried everything I can possibly think of but still can't solve the problem and can find no reference of it anywhere to aid me. On other projects this does not happen and I can drag to extend the length as normal but this particular project is driving me mad as I cannot work on editing the many layers of instruments as I normally would. Any ideas anyone ? Many thanks - BRIAN.

Thanks fuzzfilth, I will certainly tackle the advice you gave but I had to make a simpler workaround for this project due to time constraints, however I have now hit upon another metronome snag with my new project which is as follows:- I open my project which has three drummer tracks plus a guitar and a vocal track so far. Everything works at this point including the metronome. However when I add a new track ( to record a guitar on ) the metronome stops working. No count in, no clicks, nothing ! If I then delete the new track there is still no metronome sound, it's gone for good, so I have to close logic and reopen to get the metronome back and round in circles I go. I have read every article and tried every online suggestion for about two days now but nothing seems to work. I have exhausted myself and every possibility. - It has never happened on any previous recording I have made and the only difference with this project is that it's my first use of logic's built in drummers. Could this be the cause of my problem.? I am using the latest version of logic on the latest iMac running Mojave

Hi Juxtaboy. I have the latest up to date version of logic and SPACE only stops the playhead, it does not start it again as you say. Pressing it again makes it jump back to the previous position which is really annoying if I just want to pause and then continue from the same place. I have tried everything to get the spacebar to function as a start stop button but with no luck. I don't want it jumping back all the time but can't seem to get around it.

Hi, I have tried many times to solve this problem and given up many times too. Today I spent another four hours trying to get to the bottom of it with no success so I am turning to you guys for help. To cut a long story short I simply want to be able to adjust the metronome manually to marry up with something I have already recorded. So I can add a click track after the event. However when I adjust the speed of the metronome the speed of the recorded track also adjusts. So slowing the metronome slows the track and so on. The advice I keep reading to resolve this is to select the track and lock the SMPTE position and then adjust the metronome speed accordingly. I have tried this many times but it simply does not work. Am I missing something or doing it wrong. Why is adjusting the speed of the metronome independent of anything else so damn difficult. Any help would be appreciated. (Using all the latest versions of computer and logic.) p.s. before anyone says I should have recorded the click track first - yes I know that but often times it's not how I compose. I tend to work on the spur of the moment. Many Thanks. BRIAN.