Euphorial Posted March 12, 2010 Share Posted March 12, 2010 After doing what I thought would be enough research to finally yield some sort of answer to my question, I still have nothing. I am trying to simply reverse an audio file that I have created. I first recorded a MIDI piano chord using East West Pianos Gold. After that I BOUNCED it as an AIFF. I then imported the audio file and went into my sample editor to the "function" drop down menu. I can't do anything (all gray). I have also tried this as a WAVE file, which didn't work. I also have tried EXPORTING the file as a WAVE and AIFF, which also didn't work. I have read other threads on here, and watched two tutorial step-by-step videos. Those didn't help at all. They would simply say "and there you go!" at the end, leaving them with a nice reversed audio file and me with nothing. I would appreciate any help, because as of now I can' do ANYTHING in the sample editor... kinda disappointing. I haven't had trouble like this for a long time. Thank you! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott Jackson Posted March 12, 2010 Share Posted March 12, 2010 http://www.logicprohelp.com/viewtopic.php?t=53307 http://www.logicprohelp.com/viewtopic.php?t=52894 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Euphorial Posted March 12, 2010 Author Share Posted March 12, 2010 Maybe a better question would be how do I turn an audio file into a mono track (the little circle), because I am able to reverse THOSE tracks. I just can't do anything to my converted MIDI track (whatever the hell that pentagon circle symbol means). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Nahmani Posted March 12, 2010 Share Posted March 12, 2010 Maybe a better question would be how do I turn an audio file into a mono track (the little circle), because I am able to reverse THOSE tracks. I just can't do anything to my converted MIDI track (whatever the hell that pentagon circle symbol means). Means surround. Make sure you export a mono or stereo file, not surround. The operation was right, the format was set wrong. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Euphorial Posted March 12, 2010 Author Share Posted March 12, 2010 I am going to try re-doing my process then, and try to bounce it as a mono. But how would I do this? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Nahmani Posted March 12, 2010 Share Posted March 12, 2010 (edited) What version of Logic? Please add your Logic version and system info to your signature: Read Me Before Posting - Forum Guidelines (#5) Make sure none of the channel strips in your Mixer have a surround output. Click All (top right) in the Mixer to see also the PreListen channel strip, maybe that's the one that's set to a Surround Ouput. Click-hold the Surround output and choose Stereo Out. Then Bounce. Edited March 12, 2010 by David Nahmani Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Euphorial Posted March 12, 2010 Author Share Posted March 12, 2010 Okay I think I got it to work. Unchecked surround in the bounce and it kinda did it. The piano sound kicked in way to late though... didn't really do a true reversal, just less than half a second of reversal near the attack instead of fading in. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Euphorial Posted March 12, 2010 Author Share Posted March 12, 2010 Okay it worked THANK YOU VERY MUCH. You guys respond really fast, that's quite a convenience! I will now enjoy my reversed sounds. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Nahmani Posted March 12, 2010 Share Posted March 12, 2010 Great. Enjoy! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
latisha11 Posted August 11, 2011 Share Posted August 11, 2011 When I try to convert regions to new audio files and change the file format from AIFF to WAV, I get the following message: Not converting selected apple loop files. Apple loops can only be converted to filetype AIFF. How do I remedy this? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
musictechnician Posted September 16, 2014 Share Posted September 16, 2014 Hi there, I have the same problem only worse! We are running Logic Pro in an education environment over a network. I am using mono audio which is from sampleswap.org, NOT an Apple Loop. (I made mono from stereo by splitting and renaming method). When I try to reverse the audio I am getting the same greyed out issue for all destructive processes. We are running Logic Pro 9 on a 21.5" Late 2012 iMac Many thanks in advance Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Nahmani Posted September 16, 2014 Share Posted September 16, 2014 Make sure you somehow convert the file into a standard PCM file, AIFF or WAV doesn't matter. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Babe Ruth 46 Posted February 14, 2015 Share Posted February 14, 2015 I'm having the same problem. Can't reverse audio in either Logic Pro X or 9. And my files are not in a Surround Sound format but just stereo. Further I've tried converting to AIFF and Wav to no avail. Something has changed because this never happened to me before..any ideas? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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