Harriet

Thank you David!

Is it possible to see longer instrument names in full (not truncated) in Score Editor, in Linear View? I know you can put the instrument name above the staff, but that only seems to work in Page View.

Each of the "level 3" stacks contains a few tracks, each of which uses Kontakt 7 (with a single-articulation patch from Albion Legacy) and no other plug-ins at all.

This isn't possible, is it? I got here by dragging the Short folder stack (which had previously been at level 1, with subfolders Ensemble etc at level 2) into the Sketch stack, which I had just created at level 1. I did this purely out of curiosity, expecting Logic to say I couldn't do it because the maximum track stack nesting level would be exceeded; but it worked. All the stacks open and close normally. The project seems happy enough, for the moment. I have tried doing the same thing with other stacks in the same project, and in a fresh project; but no dice. Can anyone explain? I know there used to be cunning ways to get round the old nesting level rules, but I had understood that they no longer work now that two levels are officially permitted.

Thanks: so there is some logic to it. But, if you care what Single view looks like, you have to plan the order in which you create your auxes - right?

David, thanks. I understand the difference between Single view and Tracks view. What I don’t understand is the order in which the channel strips appear, in Single view. It would represent the routing if, from left to right, they went SCS Violin 1 > Violin 1 > Strings > Hall > Mix. This order would be helpful. It would represent the actual order in the Tracks area if it went Strings > Violin 1 > SCS Violin 1 > Hall > Mix. This order would be less helpful, but would at least have some logic. What I am seeing is SCS violin 1 > Strings > Hall > Mix > Violin 1. As far as I can see, this order seems neither helpful nor logical.

I'm having trouble understanding what happens in the mixer when I use nested summing stacks. I had understood that, although you can't rearrange channel strips in the mixer directly, you can do it indirectly by creating tracks and rearranging those. But I can't get this to work. In this test project, "Strings" is the main track of a summing stack. Nested within that stack is another summing stack, of which "Violin 1" is the main track. If I select one of the tracks in that second stack ("SCS Violin 1"), and put the mixer in Single view, the mixer shows "Violin 1" after two auxes ("Hall" and "Mix") which in the tracks list appear at the bottom, instead of between "SCS Violin 1" and "Strings" as I would expect. Is this normal behaviour, and if so what is the reason for it?

Apart from closing the window, I'm not sure I can, and I did suggest that that might be why Cycle Through Windows doesn't work. But you can use the Tab key to switch focus to the List Editor pane of the Main Window. Why the difference? As for closing the window, I notice that Open Event List is not a toggle: it opens another window. So I'm still wondering whether a mouse click is necessary. It's not important, it's just another thing I don't understand!

Thanks, I should have thought of that. So I suppose one way to shift key focus to a floating window is to use its key command twice, thus closing and reopening it!

I'm puzzled to see that the key command for cycling through open windows (Cmd - ` ) doesn't work for floating windows. Is this because you mostly just look at a floating window (for example, to see in a floating Event List window the effect of changes you are making in another editor) rather than editing in the floating window itself? Suppose you want to close a floating window. Do you have to reach for the mouse and click on it first, or is there a way to do this with key commands?

David, thank you. That's another way of doing it that works (the first being key commands). This makes it all the more puzzling, to me at least, that you can't do it with the Articulation menu in the local Inspector. Do you agree with @Plowman that the distinction is likely to be deliberate, and not a bug?

But in that case wouldn't they have prevented you from doing it with key commands too? I wonder if it's just an oversight. I might submit a bug report, just in case.

What I should have said is: "It would be nice if, while viewing all the notes in the piano roll, I could select all those in a specific bar and assign the appropriate articulation ID to all of them at once with the Articulation menu in the local Inspector; but it seems that Logic won't let me do that if the tracks in question use different articulation sets." In these circumstances the Articulation menu doesn't work. But the key commands (which I wasn't aware of) do work. Logic can indeed assign an articulation ID to notes on multiple tracks at once, even if they use different articulation sets. That being so, I find it puzzling that it won't let you do the same thing in the more intuitive way, viz. clicking on the Articulation menu. But I know how to do it now, so thank you!

I'm wondering whether there is a quick way to assign the same articulation ID to notes which are at the same position but on multiple tracks, each of which uses a different articulation set. For example: I have several choir libraries, each of which uses keyswitches to switch between vowel sounds. Each is on a different track. The keyswitches are different for each one, so I have a different articulation set for each one; but articulation ID 1 is always "a", articulation ID 2 is always "e", and so on. At any given point I want everyone singing the same vowel - for example, "a" in bar 1, "e" in bar 2 and so on. So, in this example, I would assign articulation ID 1 to all the notes in bar 1 (irrespective of which track they are on), articulation ID 2 to all the notes in bar 2 and so on. It would be nice if, while viewing all the notes in the piano roll, I could select all those in a specific bar and assign the appropriate articulation ID to all of them at once; but it seems that Logic won't let me do that if the tracks in question use different articulation sets. Is there a simple way round this, or do I just have to do each track individually?

Thanks, David. I’ll report it, for what it’s worth.