jrm14 Posted September 25, 2009 Share Posted September 25, 2009 When I create a new layer in the Environment and then create a new software instrument in that layer it doesn't come up in that layer, but in another one. I have to drag it manually back into the new layer. Any idea why, or is there a solution? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Nahmani Posted September 25, 2009 Share Posted September 25, 2009 Please add your Logic version and system info to your signature: Read Me Before Posting - Forum Guidelines (#5) Under Settings > Audio, do you have "Automatic Management of Channel Strip Objects" selected? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fuzzfilth Posted September 25, 2009 Share Posted September 25, 2009 New Objects are instantiated in Layer 3, I suppose because in an empty Project, Layer 1 defaults to Click&Ports, Layer 2 to MIDI Instruments and Layer 3 to Mixer. No way around that, to my knowledge. Christian Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Nahmani Posted September 25, 2009 Share Posted September 25, 2009 What you can do is create one object, then hold Option and move it to the desired layer. Now newly created objects of the same type (audio vs soft inst etc...) will go to that same desired layer. But of course it depends which version of Logic everybody is using.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jrm14 Posted September 25, 2009 Author Share Posted September 25, 2009 Please add your Logic version and system info to your signature: Read Me Before Posting - Forum Guidelines (#5) Under Settings > Audio, do you have "Automatic Management of Channel Strip Objects" selected? I did update my signature with the details but it hasn't showed up on my posts yet. No I haven't got that checked. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jrm14 Posted September 25, 2009 Author Share Posted September 25, 2009 What you can do is create one object, then hold Option and move it to the desired layer. Now newly created objects of the same type (audio vs soft inst etc...) will go to that same desired layer. But of course it depends which version of Logic everybody is using.... That is what I do....I just wondered if there was something wrong with my software, but it seems to be a designed characteristic. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Plowman Posted September 26, 2009 Share Posted September 26, 2009 Yes, it's designed that way. It's putting your new instrument adjacent to the previously numbered instrument. So if you're in Layer 12, and you create a Software Instrument 16, it appears in, oh, layer 9, because Software Instrument FIFTEEN is on Layer 9. So SI's 15 and 16 buddy up together on Layer 9, and you have cut and paste SI 16 back to your Layer 12, the same layer where you tried to create it in the first place. It's an unwelcome default. When I noted this at Sonik, I was told to appreciate its simplicity of use. Because creating a software instrument and seeing it appear in your current layer is so complicated.... Because of this default, I had to re-arrange my 240 instrument Environment so that the software instruments were numbered and contiguous. And now if I create a new instrument, at least I know 241 will appear in my very last layer, next to 240. It's been a while since I sussed that one through, but if I recall correctly, Automatic Management of Channels Strips did not apply. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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