Logic Pro Help

Tue Dec 15, 2020 10:05 pm

Randomizer is not able to modulate plug-in parameters and track controls including Sends or Pan.

I'm using an external mono instrument in my example. I've been trying to get a random trigger to modulate track pan, or a plugs panorama. I've tried getting Randomizer to modulate one of Logics smart controls which it doesn't do. Modulator' S&H doesn't step via midi trigger.

So how can I create a Randomizer that will do what I want it to do, also I wonder about things like LFOs etc in Scripter. Is this a matter of learning Javascript entirely or do we have some more tools/tutorials available now that are again, user friendly toward more difficult code.

I'd happily pay for someone to create a randomizer with MIDI trigger input settings but WITH an output option that includes Plug-in parameters. But more than happy with some more information about where to start looking.

Sun Dec 20, 2020 1:51 pm

This post must be very difficult to reply to?

Can we use midi environment to capture the Randomize out and send it to trigger pan, sends etc?

Sun Dec 20, 2020 2:45 pm

Scripter can do what you want but yes you’ll have to learn JavaScript ;-)

one option would be to use randomizer to randomize midi cc values and then in scripter it’s possible to convert those to channel strip automation. You can do the randomizing part too but I’m trying to suggest minimal JavaScript. There are some factory examples for how to control plugin parameters with scripter, look at those and it ahoood be possible to control the Channel pan but if not then use the gain plugin to do it.

No midi plug-ins are able to send anything, including midi, to the environment.

Tue Dec 29, 2020 7:08 pm

django wrote:
This post must be very difficult to reply to?

Can we use midi environment to capture the Randomize out and send it to trigger pan, sends etc?

Yes.
All MIDI FX send any modification to midi down the MIDI FX chain. If the last item is an actual AU Instrument, the MIDI FX stops there, but if it's a External Instrument and you use IAC or a MIDI Device looped back, then you can redirect to Click&Ports and capture what was sent from a group of a MIDI FX chain, then using a transformer and some cabling, you can modify the Pan and Sends.

You do realize that you can also MIDI Record the Modulation as Fader events as well right?

: RecordedFader.png (68.96 KiB) Viewed 1124 times

By doing this, you can just now cable that track to tracks that you want to Pan/Send and save on CPU instead of having a Modulation active.

Wed Jan 06, 2021 9:53 pm

Ok thank you both, now I've got some great new insights

Further tests with Randomizer show it doesn't do anything to my external instrument when set to the CC for Arp Note Length. Stopping and starting playback gets Randomizer to react somewhat like it should. But it definitely doesn't send a new random value on each trigger. Modulators LFO works as it should on the same CC

I'm hoping randomizer actually does output random values via trigger properly now...

Thanks for the info Valli, that sounds simple enough to be able to do myself easily enough

Also, I don't want/mind any recorded automation from MIDI FX

Mon Jan 11, 2021 9:04 pm

Mon Jan 11, 2021 9:18 pm

Ok, I don't really have any idea how to do that Valli.

Are you able to help any further in regard to routing this? I understand the concept but I'm not able to reproduce it practically

Tue Jan 12, 2021 8:10 am

django wrote:
Ok, I don't really have any idea how to do that Valli.

Are you able to help any further in regard to routing this? I understand the concept but I'm not able to reproduce it practically

This is a starting point.

Tue Jan 12, 2021 8:42 pm

Fantastic, thank you Valli

So If I set a transformer to randomize, note off always brings the fader back to 0. Monitor doesn't show me Randomizers output, how do I capture Randomizers output.

Wed Jan 13, 2021 3:54 pm

Great reference here,

https://music.tutsplus.com/tutorials/us ... audio-1384

Wed Jan 13, 2021 5:06 pm

All sorted, thank you Valli

very kind of you all. Great youtube videos too Valli

Wed Jan 13, 2021 5:07 pm

django wrote:
Great reference here,

https://music.tutsplus.com/tutorials/us ... audio-1384

Yeah, I learn from that link when I started to look at The Environment.

Check out this thread too
viewtopic.php?f=9&t=146878

Here's a good book on The Enviroment too
http://www.lipscomb.umn.edu/docs/MusicT ... torial.pdf

Wed Jan 13, 2021 5:50 pm

Fantastic links thank you

Ok I'm getting it slowly,
It's been wild for my brain trying to process all this

I'm confused with the routing, I can't figure out how to route in another transformer arrangement to randomise another/different CC via trigger.
I thought I could just run a second cable from the monitor down to 2 transformers that will create the random like with CC10 but it hasn't worked any way I've tried so far.

I'm also curious on how to recieve randomizers output

Thu Jan 14, 2021 12:34 am

Ok so now I've got this setup and I see the changes being spat out from the channel in the mixer window. the final monitor outs got back to the mixer into the channel and I feel like I'm missing something obvious, but it might be food...

Thu Jan 14, 2021 1:39 am

Can you zip and post that project.
After I look at it, I'll ask some questions.

Thu Jan 14, 2021 5:09 am

This is where I got to

I created another empty project for it because the other one is full of stuff but it's working in the same order

EDIT*

Updated to the latest setup

Thu Jan 14, 2021 11:56 pm

Any help would be great I've been reading lots but nothing is obvious other than I can make midi loops really well so far...

Fri Jan 15, 2021 4:01 pm

Any answers to where I should start looking with this by anyone out there? Another week of not understanding this with logic is stressful. Making music? What’s that? This is the last tether before moving entirely over to bitwig. I need logic to be able to do these things. This must be very advanced because there aren’t many people willing to help

Fri Jan 15, 2021 4:03 pm

I’ll give you money Valli, or whoever can help me out here. I’m sick and tired of waking up to more problems, more issues and I can’t work them out, even with all of that great documentation

Fri Jan 15, 2021 4:06 pm

Why won’t any midi fx send to my external synth after setting the channels to an IAC bus. I can’t even get a track region CC adjustment to affect the external. After doing this midi arrangement, I’ve lost all ability to control the external synth.

Are we able to control a CC to an external synth? Why is it when I route and connect a series of transformers that are setup to mod CC I just get midi feedback loops?
Can we adjust more than one CC over one midi channel?
Because I’m using an external midi synth, do I have to send the output CC change from ports and clicks back to midi instrument layer and port into the back of the instrument for the signal flow to work correctly?

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