chrissmithmusic93

My mix template has 6 VCA faders (Drums>Bass>Gtrs>Keys>LeadVox>BV - in order 1-6) preset, so when I import my mixes, I just route everything through the appropriate VCA faders and start mixing. If I need to make new VCA's for strings, horns, synths etc, I'll add them afterwards as my work tends to be mostly organic stuff lately. Today, importing the stems for a new mix into my template, I assign my Drums to their Drum VCA, no problem. Next, I go to the bass tracks to assign them to the Bass VCA, I click 'Bass' in the VCA list... and it somehow selects Gtrs VCA?! I assign my Guitars to 'Gtrs' and it instead assigns them to BV. It won't let me change them afterwards either. I don't recall ever having this issue in the past. In the meantime I have deleted my VCA's and made new ones from 'create new VCA for selected track' in the menu, and it works fine. For this mix, no problem. For future mixes? I have a few projects coming in that I'll need my template to work for. Has anyone come across this? I find the routing in Logic Pro clunky at best, but i've not had it be this stubborn in the past.

IMO it blows it out of the water. The samples are better recorded, and the 'human' feel to the loops is amazing. Infinitely more control over the kit sounds than in logics drummer. This actually fixed my current problem, after some tweaking to make it fit, it worked. Had no idea you could do that with MIDI! I think I'll stick to audio where i can... dealing with midi has given me nausea! haha Thank you for fixing my immediate problem. I think I have to do a lot more digging into the metronome of logic to get to the bottom of this in the future!

Hey! First post, learnt a lot of useful tips from this website over the years, but never actually signed up or posted... sorry!! It's also a little long but i want to give as much information as I can, I hope someone can help. I've been a studio mixer on and off for the last 7-8 years, before that grew up in studios while my Dad was recording and producing, and my job is a freelance session guitarist. I've been using Logic myself since 2009 and am embarrassed to say, i have no idea how to fix this. I'm currently co-writing with a composer - he writes the songs and lyrics on piano, then I arrange the 'band' around them within logic and once we're happy with an arrangement, i bounce stems to separate audio and mix as if it was a recorded band. There are of course tradeoffs, but I'm not here to speak about that. I'm using EZdrummer for the drums - sounds amazing! The problem I'm having is with compound time signatures not being recognised in Logic properly. The track in question is a song in 6/8, at 85bpm. To get Logic to group the midi correctly it had to be recorded at 170bpm. Now I'm not so worried about the grouping within logic's midi as I'm not editing or quantising the piano, just removing wrong notes and cleaning up sustain pedal open/close if necessary. There are a tonne of great loops in EZdrummer that i can drag and drop, and then edit kick patterns snare patterns etc. However because Logic is set to 170bpm, the 80bpm 'ballad' 6/8 loops are all at double speed when played with the track. Within EZD i can 'unfollow host', which on the face of it seems great, but then you have the problem of not being able to play the two together synced, which has massively slowed down the workflow right now. Obviously if i change the logic tempo to 85, the midi piano is half the speed. I had a similar problem recently when recording with my partner - she's a singer - for fun at home during lockdown. We were recording a version of the song 'And I Will Follow - Jason Robert Brown'. The score from JRB's website, had (Dotted Minim = 72) as the tempo, and the song is in 6/4. The only way i could get Logic to give me a click track with accents that i could follow - ie [1] 2 3 [4] 5 6 - was to do it in 6/4 but at 190bpm (this wasn't mathematically worked out, just done with a tap tempo app to the original song) which is wrong, but since it's an acoustic duo track with guitar it didn't matter. But now it is starting to get in the way of professional work and I can't find a definitive answer when searching, though I've found a lot relating to 12/8. I'm almost entirely self-taught on the guitar, and theory is not my strong point at all so I have no idea about subdivisions, but i also know that Logic - and possibly other DAWs - struggle when something isn't in 4. Anyone have any ideas?