a few questions about the instrument tracks

[Philipjent]

1st. when i record on the instuments tracks is there a way to see the wav and not the actual notes?

 

2nd. when looping on the instruments track , theres a way to edit those grey areas ( the loop). how do i delete a section of the loop ?

[Justin-Ch]

1: No, you won't see a waveform because you haven't recorded an audio file. You've recorded numbers which correspond to notes & other data such as velocity which is then playing the plug-in instrument for that track. If you want an audio file Bounce it down to one & put that in an Audio Track. But you will need to go back to the instrument track if you want to alter any notes or try them playing a different instrument.

 

2: You cannot edit a grey loop. Think of it as a message simply telling logic to keep replaying the last Region. If you want to edit the notes in a bar that currently has a loop going across it you need to have an actual Region there. Drag a copy of the last Region to that point by Option,clicking it. Then click on the Region to open & edit it.

 

If you then loop that new Region obviously you will now hear repeats of the edited pattern. If however you want the original Region to carry on looping after the newly edited one you'll have to drag another copy of it & put that next to the edited region & then loop that.

 

If your original looped pattern was just one bar long but you want it to change every fourth bar, rather than have lots of copies of the first bar region looped twice then lots of copies of the edited fourth bar, make a single region of the whole four bar pattern & loop that.

[Philipjent]

1: No, you won't see a waveform because you haven't recorded an audio file. You've recorded numbers which correspond to notes & other data such as velocity which is then playing the plug-in instrument for that track. If you want an audio file Bounce it down to one & put that in an Audio Track. But you will need to go back to the instrument track if you want to alter any notes or try them playing a different instrument.

 

2: You cannot edit a grey loop. Think of it as a message simply telling logic to keep replaying the last Region. If you want to edit the notes in a bar that currently has a loop going across it you need to have an actual Region there. Drag a copy of the last Region to that point by Option,clicking it. Then click on the Region to open & edit it.

 

If you then loop that new Region obviously you will now hear repeats of the edited pattern. If however you want the original Region to carry on looping after the newly edited one you'll have to drag another copy of it & put that next to the edited region & then loop that.

 

If your original looped pattern was just one bar long but you want it to change every fourth bar, rather than have lots of copies of the first bar region looped twice then lots of copies of the edited fourth bar, make a single region of the whole four bar pattern & loop that.

 

Thats wierd because I was watching this video of a guy doing a remix and he could edit his loops ( the grey area ) and his midi info was coming as a wav. Now Im no expert but it looks like you can do it. Check the link..>>> .http://seminars.apple.com/seminarsonline/logic7remix/apple/index1.html

[Eric Wikman]

Just use the Marquee tool to select the area within your track of looped grey areas. That will separate them into real regions and you can edit from there.. (mute etc).

there rest of the track will still behave like the grey looped areas till the end of your song.

That is the easiest way I've learned.

[Justin-Ch]

Just use the Marquee tool to select the area within your track of looped grey areas. That will separate them into real regions and you can edit from there.. (mute etc).

there rest of the track will still behave like the grey looped areas till the end of your song.

That is the easiest way I've learned.

 

Ah ha! That is a quicker way of doing it. However it seems that unless you are zoomed in close so the Marquee tool is neatly covering the looped area you end up with a few fragments of regions.