Midi recording in Logic - continuous midi stream from loop

[arlesterc]

I have Login X.

 

Here is what I want to do.

 

 

I create a loop in Logic - kick, kick, kick, kick. I start it looping. I take my hands off the keyboard and let it loop 16 times. I stop the loop. I want to be able to go to some place in Logic and see the 64 kicks I heard as the loop was going through as a continuous stream of midi notes, 64 in total. So in some view/some track I can see 64 midi notes. The track doesn't have to be a kick track where the midi notes appear. I just want the midi notes - midi note 1, midi note 2, midi note 3, midi note 4, midi note 1, midi note 2, midi note 3, midi note 4, etc - 64 midi notes.

 

I am using kick, kick, kick, kick just for example case - I will be doing something more complex than that. And I will be changing the midi notes on the fly as well. I am just trying to explain at the simplest level the overall goal I am trying to achieve.

Please note that I am quite aware of other ways of doing this, however I want to do it exactly the way I described whether it makes sense to somebody else or not, whether there are 'better ways' to accomplish what I want. It is a workflow thing for me - this is the way I want to work, the way I would be most comfortable working.

 

Thanks in advance for your understanding and any time spent responding.

[David Nahmani]

I create a loop in Logic - kick, kick, kick, kick. I start it looping. I take my hands off the keyboard and let it loop 16 times. I stop the loop.

Is this hypothetical or are you actually doing this? If you're doing it, how? Because if you create a 1 bar loop and let it loop 16 times, you've still created a loop that's only 1 bar long. And if you create a 16 bar loop then you'll need to actually play the 64 kicks one by one. Unless, of course, you grab the mouse and loop the 1 bar you've recorded.

[arlesterc]

Thanks for the quick reply. This is what I want to do. Please note as well my comment that the workflow is important to me.

In summary:

 

I create a one bar 4-note loop

 

I press play

 

It looks 16 times

 

I press stop

 

Somewhere I see in sequential all 64 notes I heard while the loop was playing.

 

Perhaps another way of explaining this will help. Let's say I have a hardware synth connected to Logic and on the synth I create a 4-note one-bar loop. I press play and then take my hands off the keyboard wait for 16 repeats of the loop and then press stop. Now Logic will have 64 midi notes. I want to be able to do the same thing all internally within Logic. Doable? And if so how?

[ev9sej4m]

In my opinion it's not possible to do what you describe, if I am understanding you correctly.

 

However, try this:

 

Record a 1 bar midi region, select it,

 

Then, in the arrange window, edit (black button, not the edit menu at the top of the screen) --->repeat multiple...

 

You would enter 15 to repeat the bar another 15 times.

 

After doing this you would have 16 bars. You could then make a second pass where you record your automation etc.

[RedBaron]

MIDI looper plugin that can record long loops?

[volovicg]

or.....

Record your one bar

Loop your 1 bar region 16 times (open piano roll and event list to see this)

join all the regions ( if desired)

You now have access to each individual note either in the piano roll, event list or score editor as though you played all 16 notes in individually.

Is this what you are asking??

[arlesterc]

Thanks for the quick response and illustration. However that is not quite what I want to do. I want to modify the notes in the loop dynamically while they are playing. So again I play 4 notes, start them looping, start another track where I play a lead while the first track is looping, stop the lead after 16 bars, go back to the loop and modify it so now for the next 16 bars it's looping different notes. I then start playing another lead and after 16 bars, stop it, etc. At the end when I press the final stop I have available to me 48 bars of midi notes in 3 tracks - not via cut and paste/repeat copy, etc. the only things my hands touch are the record, keyboard, loop button and end button, that's the workflow I feel most comfortable with.

 

 

bar 1 - 16 bar 17-32 bar 33-48

 

track 1 abcd* 16 abcd * 16 efgh *16

 

track 2 lead 1

 

track 3 lead 2

 

Hope that makes it clearer.