Simple MIDI piano project... pedal going crazy!

[Sequentialist]

Hey guys

My partner is a piano teach and has been recording some piano accompaniments in Logic over the past few months. 

I've set her up with a simpler setup than my studio... just Logic (latest version) running on her 2018 MacBook Pro. Her projects are very straight-forward, often just one track in the project - using the Native Instruments Grandeur piano. Sometimes she'll record additional tracks with other MIDI (for example, a guitar).

In several of her recent projects, she's gotten part way through recording the piano MIDI part, perhaps edited some of the MIDI (although not always), and then started recording additional piano on the same track. She is always very careful to ensure that there isn't a "pedal-on" event before the point where she's dropping in the new MIDI.

The issue that keeps occurring is basically a failure of the pedal-on/pedal-off messages to happen at the right place. So a whole phrase with quick on/off of the pedal might only record a long pedal. Or sections which were supposed to have pedal have nothing at all. The result is that the new section sounds like a mess, pedal-wise. With no way to rectify the problem, we have to simply start a new project. Sometimes, the piano parts are complex, and as a new Logic user, my partner's finding it discouraging!

We've checked her hardware (including a pedal swap-out), and it doesn't seem to be hardware-related. Some whole projects are fine, without this occurring. 

I know my way around Logic well, having used it for several years, and I'm completely stumped by this issue. 

I'd love ANY suggestions as to where we can start. 

Thanks heaps guys,

Mike

[JakobP]

Try turning off Midi Chase for sustain in project settings ? It's known to be buggy...

[Sequentialist]

21 minutes ago, JakobP said:

Try turning off Midi Chase for sustain in project settings ? It's known to be buggy...

Thanks heaps - I've just done that. (Seems sustain chase is a subset of note chase, now... but I've unticked the box). 

I'll see if that makes a difference. Thanks for the suggestion!

Mike

[JakobP]

1 hour ago, Sequentialist said:

Thanks heaps - I've just done that. (Seems sustain chase is a subset of note chase, now... but I've unticked the box). 

 

Since sustain = midi cc64, this is the box to uncheck: 

[Sequentialist]

Done!

Let's see if that helps. 

Thanks so much!

Mike