Plowman Posted October 12, 2017 Share Posted October 12, 2017 I yield to Eric the right to officially declare "BUG." Some bugs get fixed, then re-broken. I don't think this one's ever been fixed. Logic Piano Roll -- compromised like a grafting politician since Logic X -- wants to help multi-channeled regions with a switch in MIDI Draw to the channel of whatever note is selected. That's a fantastic idea. But it's never worked properly. Open the file -- simplistic to a fault -- and follow the movie. You may have different experiences based on the speed and location of your clicks. There's one note on channel 1 (red) and another on channel 7 (green). I draw CC1 on ch. 1, and then I choose channel 7. I click in MIDI Draw, attempting to create a control point on 7, and MIDI draw reverts to 1. The rest of the movie only hints at the confusion I face daily: I manage to enter one control point in channel 7, but the very next click not only reverts to channel 1, it enters the control point on channel 1. By the way, this is recorded at bar one, so the channel and CC indicators are still visible in the upper left corner of MIDI draw. Once bar one is out of view, those indicators no longer appear. So you have no idea WHAT channel you're seeing or drawing. Three and a half years of this. MIDI Draw Channel Issue in Piano Roll.zip Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eric Cardenas Posted October 12, 2017 Share Posted October 12, 2017 Yes, this is an ugly one. Clicking anywhere with the pointer when a selection has been done or lasso selecting trigger this bug. Workaround: Use the Pencil tool to create nodes and draw. You can still use the Pointer to change the position or value of a node. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Plowman Posted October 12, 2017 Author Share Posted October 12, 2017 Helpful, and in the short-term, sanity-preserving. Thanks as always. Drawing from the example: if there is a pre-existing control point in channel 7, and the pointer is clicked directly on the channel 7 line that follows, that sometimes works. Clicking off the line more dependably kicks back to channel 1. Of course, there are not always pre-existing CC values in channel 7, so it's not much of a work-around. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brian45 Posted January 14, 2018 Share Posted January 14, 2018 Plowman (and Eric), As Eric said, this is truly a MAJOR bug, but I've found a workaround to it. The rule is that the CC lane reverts back to the channel of the first note in the MIDI region with CC controller events. If you place a "dummy" note at the beginning of any unused MIDI channel (e.g. ch. 16) and don't have any CC events on that channel, the annoying reversion will stop. Now you can use the CC select tool right away on any MIDI channel whose note you have selected without the lane flipping channels. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Plowman Posted January 26, 2018 Author Share Posted January 26, 2018 "The rule is that the CC lane reverts back to the channel of the first note in the MIDI region with CC controller events." Well done. Thanks for your workaround, Brian. Eric, did 10.4 fix this issue? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brian45 Posted January 27, 2018 Share Posted January 27, 2018 You're welcome, Plowman...but you know what? It's no longer necessary. I installed version 10.4 tonight, and our annoying bug has been fixed. YAY!!!!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eric Cardenas Posted January 27, 2018 Share Posted January 27, 2018 In fact everything related to MIDI draw has been fixed, because MIDI draw is no more. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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