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Sometimes certain events are not activated or heard when starting playback after the start point in your project. This can be frustrating at the editing stage when you want to preview changes.

Logic has a function to analyze your project and locate events before the playback point so that they are active when you press play mid-way through a project.

From the Toolbar, choose: Settings > MIDI and click on the Chase Tab

In the list, check any event types that you want to hear when you press play. Most of them are self explanatory.

The most common ones that you may want to enable and maybe need a little more explanation are Notes and Chase on Cycle Jump.

Notes: Plays any notes due to start playing at the playback start point.

• Sustained: Will play any notes that are still playing at the playback start point, due to a sustained pedal event.
• In ‘No Transpose’ Instrument Channel Strips: Instrument Channel Strips such as those containing drums can be assigned a No Transpose status in the Inspector. This is a playback parameter which would be ignored if the region was started mid-way through.* You will want to turn this off if you are triggering drum loops from an external sampler mid-way through a region, otherwise the loop will be triggered at the wrong point and out of sync until the next trigger note.(The No Transpose parameter prevents transposition by the Region Playback Parameter which is usually not desirable for drums)

Chase on Cycle Jump: Scans for and sends all event types if the cycle start and end points fall across regions

• Notes: Limits jump scan to Note events only.
   
• Send full MIDI Reset before Chasing: All MIDI devices are reset to their defaults before chasing.

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Tags: Cycle, Event List, MIDI, Note, Region