Midi ports gone in Environment

[torsig1967]

-->> My initial suspicions were wrong please go down to the fourth post starting with the word "UPDATE:".

 

Upon starting Logic using my own personal template all midi ports are gone in the Environment, only "sum" is present in the physical input object.

 

Starting Logic using an empty project or some other default template the ports are there.

 

Observations:

- Logic still recieves midi from external midi hardware. So the midi is coming through but only via the "sum".

- The appropriate ports are visibile in ports menues but greyed out. So Logic knows they exist but doesn't seem to reach them.

- Snoize Midi Monitor sees the ports corretly.

- If I restart midi from inside Logic (and refresh the Environment view) the ports show up.

 

So obviously something is wrong with my template and since it was a bit of work to set up I'd like to find the source of the problem without starting up from scratch.

 

Any ideas what could be the cause of ports disappearing like this?

It's like Logic fails to initialize midi properly using my template.

[David Nahmani]

First, make sure you save your original AND a copy (use "Save As..." and name it name-of-project_test or something like that so you can perform tests without altering the original file.

 

Now in the test project open the environment, click and ports layer, select the physical input object and delete it. Now choose New > Physical Input.

 

Better?

[torsig1967]

Now in the test project open the environment, click and ports layer, select the physical input object and delete it. Now choose New > Physical Input.

 

Better?

 

No, unfortunately not. The new physical input has only a "sum".

 

However, and now it's getting quite interesting, while doing this by accident I found that if I skip (press cancel) the screen "Startup/What do you want to do" and open my template (or a project based on the template) the more traditional way all ports are there!

 

So it seems my problem only occurs when using the "Startup/What do you want to do" screen.

 

Some problem in my template coincide with a possible bug in that particuilar startup sequence but not other startup sequences.

[torsig1967]

UPDATE:

 

Further investigation makes me quite sure there's nothing wrong with my template. The problem lies elsewhere. It would be interesting to know if anyone can repeat this error.

 

1. Start Logic, create new empty project. Confirm all ports are present in Physical Input inEnvironment>Click and ports.

2. Save this project under any name.

3. Quit Logic.

4. Start Logic and open the newly created project using the "Startup/What do you want to do" dialog by clicking OK with "Open most recent project" selected. Check which ports are present in in Physical Input in Environment>Click and ports.

5. Repeat 3 (you must quit Logic) + 4 but open the project the traditional way. Cancel the "Startup/What do you want to do" dialog and use the traditional "File>Open" instead. Check which ports are present.

 

In my case I get only the "sum" port using method 4. but all my ports using method 5.

 

If anyone can repeat this error it's nothing wrong with my setup but a real bug in Logic and the Startup dialog.

 

Otherwise I suspect my MC Mix software which creates four virtual midi ports.

[anjikyuzan]

Im having the same issue in Logic pro 10.0.7

 

And indeed opening from file open project will show the IAC bus in physical inputs but not by opening a template from the start up window.

[oortone]

That's quite amazing. Four years later and such a big bug still there. I don't have the latest version. I wonder what's causing it. If it's a general bug more people would report it I guess.

[Jfever]

I am experiencing this in logic 9