63strat Posted October 23, 2009 Share Posted October 23, 2009 Is there a way to transpose MIDI diatonically, to harmonize a line? I can't find it in the manual Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ski Posted October 23, 2009 Share Posted October 23, 2009 There is no way to do this in Logic. I think your best bet is to highlight the notes, hold option, and drag them up or down, and then manually correct those notes which end up being at the wrong pitch. Let's say you want to harmonize something up a major third. Hold OPT and drag the notes up 4 semitones. If you were in the key of C, those copied notes would be in the key of E (four sharps), so you'll have to bring the F#, G#, C# and D# down one semitone. Voila, you have thirds in C. This process would hold true for any major key, so it stand to reason that using a Transform might be able to simplify the process. But trust me... it'll take you longer to program the Transform to do this than it would to OPT-drag the notes and then make the corrections afterwards manually. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
63strat Posted October 23, 2009 Author Share Posted October 23, 2009 Thanks, I just did it the way you suggested. Man, that is something I would have thought would be there for sure. Coming from DP , that feature has been there since the mid '90s! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Nahmani Posted October 23, 2009 Share Posted October 23, 2009 (edited) You can click the desired note on the keyboard on the left of the Piano Roll, that'll select all the notes on that pitch. Or press the key command for Edit > Select Similar Events (mine is Shift-S). Then Option-arrows to move up or down. Edited October 23, 2009 by David Nahmani Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
63strat Posted October 23, 2009 Author Share Posted October 23, 2009 Thanks David, that's very useful. Curious as to why press Edit > Select Similar Events though. (I'm not sure what that command means.) If I select the note in the Piano Roll, I can then Option-arrow up or down. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Nahmani Posted October 23, 2009 Share Posted October 23, 2009 Thanks David, that's very useful. Curious as to why press Edit > Select Similar Events though. (I'm not sure what that command means.) If I select the note in the Piano Roll, I can then Option-arrow up or down. If your part is in a one octave range that's fine. If you have more than one octave, then click one of the notes you want to transpose and press Shift-S, that'll select all the notes of the same pitch in all the octaves. PS got mixed up with my "and" and "then" or something, I reworded my previous post. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
63strat Posted October 23, 2009 Author Share Posted October 23, 2009 Ah thanks, I figured you had a reason... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amiracam Posted January 22, 2015 Share Posted January 22, 2015 hi all, was about to ask the same question , so I googled and found this thread. Has this changed in LPX? It would be a very composer friendly feature to have. thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FlowerPower Posted March 1 Share Posted March 1 On 1/22/2015 at 7:58 PM, amiracam said: hi all, was about to ask the same question , so I googled and found this thread. Has this changed in LPX? It would be a very composer friendly feature to have. thanks No, but there's a discussion about it here – where a somehow useful workaround is mentioned: https://vi-control.net/community/threads/can-you-move-notes-diatonically-in-the-logic-score-editor.149556/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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