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Is midi in Logic this slow?
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| Beatflux |
| I'm watching a DVD by Snoman, and he paints in this basic trance hihat pattern one hit at a time. It takes him about 10 seconds! It was boring watching him try to pin point every 16th note and place a hit in there. Is midi in Logic really this slow? |
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| Kenny Rogers |
| i would have looped a part, press record and use a midi keyboard instead and then sync to grid afterwards. havent tried it though, but gonna learn this next summer. |
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| Mad for Brad |
| use the hyperdraw tool. Much quicker for this sort of task. I do wish you could use line tools like in Cubase for the piano roll. Oh well. That and folders. The way logic handles folders seems weird to me. |
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| Subtle |
| im sure this can be done in a faster way, like making one bar and duplicating that. Maybe he was trying to show what he was doing. |
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| Mad for Brad |
| Well you can highlight and drag while holding option to copy it if you want to do it that way. |
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| Beatflux |
| quote: | Originally posted by Subtle
im sure this can be done in a faster way, like making one bar and duplicating that. Maybe he was trying to show what he was doing. |
I don't think so. Later on he actually copies and paste, which baffles me why he would try and double click in each note. I think he was trying to adjust the length on each one, but I couldn't hear any difference...
It's not like it really matters. I was curious because I have never used Logic before, and I assumed that it was more than capable of putting down such a simple pattern down extremely quickly. |
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| Subtle |
| Im sure logic has a button similar to Cubase (ctrl+D) where u can highlight something and just duplicate it forward as many times as u like. |
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| LoWahn |
| quote: | Originally posted by Subtle
Im sure logic has a button similar to Cubase (ctrl+D) where u can highlight something and just duplicate it forward as many times as u like. |
Exactly. In Ableton, you just highlight the selected section of the piano roll, and Cntrl-D as many times as you want it. Entire process takes... 5-15 seconds? And as the above poster mentioned, Logic surely has something similar. He may have been going slower so the person filming could pick up what he was doing. |
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| Mad for Brad |
| quote: | Originally posted by Subtle
Im sure logic has a button similar to Cubase (ctrl+D) where u can highlight something and just duplicate it forward as many times as u like. |
only in the arrange window for regions. Kinda a bummer I know.
I forgot to mention the copy midi function but it really is much slower than just click and drag
and works similar to the midi transformer function. Quite slow. Too bad you can't assign a key for a set of actions. That would rock. |
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| Lolo |
Set the value to 1/16 in the transport bar, then use pencil, create an empty region, then make sure you're at the start of the region, press p, activate the red in to enable step input, play your notes. Now to duplicate the region, press L to enable loop, set theloop length, then press ctrl L to turn looped regions into real regions. You're done.
And ableton and co can kiss my hairy butt. Hehe. Jk of course. |
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| DJ RANN |
| quote: | Originally posted by Lolo
Set the value to 1/16 in the transport bar, then use pencil, create an empty region, then make sure you're at the start of the region, press p, activate the red in to enable step input, play your notes. Now to duplicate the region, press L to enable loop, set theloop length, then press ctrl L to turn looped regions into real regions. You're done.
And ableton and co can kiss my hairy butt. Hehe. Jk of course. |
Exactly (my butt too).
Or you can just paint 4 of them then hit command + r to repeat the section (in arrange as many times as you want).
Or draw one, the hold down alt, and drag a copy to the next 16th marker, then select the two by drawing a select box around them and ALT drag again until you have 4, select the 4 and again ALT drag those so you have then select those 8 and ALT drag again so you have 16 then Select those and LAT drag again until you have 32 and the Select those 32 and ALT drag them until you have 64.....well you get the idea. Takes me a few short seconds to fill an entire track this way. |
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| Mad for Brad |
| it still does suck that you can't loop in the piano roll. Seems like something that would be so easy to implement. Ah me, you can do it. They don't mention this anywhere. Thanks a bunch! Still would be nice if it wasn't menu based and you could just do it automatically but still nice! |
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