Can I Do This In Logic 8? (Youtube Video)

[adavis]

Is it possible to use logic's arppiegiator to program drum parts like a mpc? I saw a video on youtube where a guy was using a korg padkontrol with note repeat and Ableton Live. He was able to switch back in forth from 16 to 32nd notes in realtime and was also able to add swing while being synced to the seq. Here is the video so you can see what I mean. The whole vid is pretty cool but the part I'm talking about starts at about 2:30.

 

adavis

 

[adavis]

Anyone?

[Subtonic]

I don't think it's possible to switch the settings on Logic's arpeggiator like this video shows.

[adavis]

I don't think it's possible to switch the settings on Logic's arpeggiator like this video shows.

 

Thanks Sub for your response. I didn't think so but was hoping some environment trick would do it. I didn't see any swing quantize settings in the arp playback parameters either. Strange since they show up in the hyper editor quantize menu.

 

adavis

[ba_hill]

Hi,

 

I don't know about controlling swing in the arpeggiator but according to the Logic manual (page 897) you can control the arp's speed (same as rate in the YouTube video) via MIDI. I'll try to do a demo and upload it later today if I can make it work.

 

Brian

 

 

I don't think it's possible to switch the settings on Logic's arpeggiator like this video shows.

 

Thanks Sub for your response. I didn't think so but was hoping some environment trick would do it. I didn't see any swing quantize settings in the arp playback parameters either. Strange since they show up in the hyper editor quantize menu.

 

adavis

[ba_hill]

Hi,

 

Here's a project to demo using MIDI to control the arpeggiator's speed. It has 2 tracks, one with UltraBeat and the other with the arpeggiator. Please make sure the arp track- not the UltraBeat track - is selected and record enabled. Set whatever you're using to control the speed to send MIDI controller 16 on MIDI channel 1. When you hold down a note or notes while the transport is running you will be able to control the arpeggio from 1/32 to 1/16 notes pretty much like it's done in the YouTube video.

 

Take a look at the Arp Control layer in the Environment. I used 2 transformers - one (renamed Arp Control Input) to scale the 0-127 range of the controller down to 0-3 and another to add an offset of 11 to that value. That sends the arpeggiator values from 11-14 which set its resolution (speed) to 1/32 to 1/16. If you want to change that range change the offset in the second transformer and/or the divisor in the first one.

 

I hope this helps.

 

Brian

Arp Control Test.zip

[adavis]

Hi,

 

Here's a project to demo using MIDI to control the arpeggiator's speed. It has 2 tracks, one with UltraBeat and the other with the arpeggiator. Please make sure the arp track- not the UltraBeat track - is selected and record enabled. Set whatever you're using to control the speed to send MIDI controller 16 on MIDI channel 1. When you hold down a note or notes while the transport is running you will be able to control the arpeggio from 1/32 to 1/16 notes pretty much like it's done in the YouTube video.

 

Take a look at the Arp Control layer in the Environment. I used 2 transformers - one (renamed Arp Control Input) to scale the 0-127 range of the controller down to 0-3 and another to add an offset of 11 to that value. That sends the arpeggiator values from 11-14 which set its resolution (speed) to 1/32 to 1/16. If you want to change that range change the offset in the second transformer and/or the divisor in the first one.

 

I hope this helps.

 

Brian

 

 

Brian,

 

Thanks so much for this. I'll be sure to check it out when I get back to my setup.

 

adavis