This is extremely useful information when performing precision sample-accurate file slicing and post slice editing while maintaining sample-accurate zero-crossing points.
In the Sample Editor, select the Hand Tool and click hold the selected area to display Continue reading »
Tags: Audio, Region, Sample Editor, Sampler
Dealing with unwanted Clicks, Pops & Noise artifacts in Logic is handled by the Silencer Tool in the Sample Editor’s Factory Menu.
Set the Strength slider to the far left, Off. This turns off Noise Reduction. Only the Spike Reduction function is active.
Set the threshold at which level Spike Reduction is applied by adjusting the Sensitivity slider. High is for small spikes, Auto is for automatic threshold control, Low will identify most Peaks as Spikes.
Adjust the Method slider to Continue reading »
Tags: Audio, Effects, Glitch, Noise Reduction, Region, Sample Editor, Silencer, Sound Design, Spike, Waveform
When selecting Audio Regions in the Audio Window or Audio Bin, it would be very useful to display the start point of a selected region in Sample values in the context of the overall audio file.
A typical example is rendering a multi-track mix to stereo or even editing a bounced file that may require further edit cuts.
Once you have cut an audio file or region a new region representing that cut is automatically created. Removing this cut from the Arrange area leaves a gap and you then fill this gap by shifting one of the regions to meet the other.
Selecting any of the shifted regions in the Arrange area will display its Start Point relative to the Timeline and subsequent length in the Help Tag. There is no reference to the cut region’s start point (anchor point) in relation to the overall audio file that it originates from.
The only way to access this absolute time specific information is by selecting the region in the Audio Window (not the Audio Bin) and viewing the info display of the selected region in the Sample Editor. Selecting the same region in the Arrange Area will show a region start point and region length relative to the time-line and not the mother audio file.
Why is this important? Here’s why…
If parametric adjustments are required at the multi track stage prior to rendering (bouncing) and after having made cuts to the bounced file, it is inevitable that a fresh bounce of the multi track stage will require cuts at the exact same points as the previously edited bounce.
Having immediate visual access to sample accurate start points, relative to the overall audio file time, of a region that has been shifted left or right to bridge a cut, will enable quick application of the scissor tool or split by playhead function on the latest bounce to replicate exactly the cut points of the previously edited bounce and therefore quickly dispose of unwanted regions.
This information would be a valuable inclusion as an optional display along side the Region Length field in the Audio Window and Audio Bin.
Only by selecting a region in the Audio Window can one access the true Region Start Point value relative to the mother audio file and even then, this information is only available via the Sample Editor info display.
To summarize, I have written to Apple’s Logic Team to please offer a Region Start Field as well as a Region Length Field in the Audio Window.
For sample Accurate editing in the Arrange Area, set Snap: to Samples. In the Sample Editor set View to Samples to reference the correct Region Start value in the info display.
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Tags: Arrange, Audio, Region, Sample Editor
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 Continue reading »
Tags: Cycle, Event List, MIDI, Note, Region
Select the desired region and choose either of the following commands:
To create one node at each end of the selection area.
Options > Track Automation > Create 2 nodes at region border.
To create two nodes at each end of the selection area.
Options > Track Automation > Create 4 nodes at region border.
I use these commands so frequently that I have set up Key Commands as follows…
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Tags: Automation, Nodes, Region, Selection
An invaluable feature is creating 4 nodes - 2 each side – while making a rubber-band selection to edit an area of automation data.
1) Hold Shift Control Option while dragging the pointer tool to make your selection.
2) You can now adjust the line between the newly created nodes up and down to create instant change at the nodes positions.
More often than not you will want to place these nodes either side of a region.
If so simply select the region and go to Options > Track Automation > Create 4 Nodes at Region Border.
Set up a Key Command like I have if you use this function often…
Holding down Option and Shift while rubber-banding a selection will create 2 nodes (one each side).
or… simply select a region and use the key command for 2 nodes at region border.
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Tags: Arrange, Automation, Hot-Keys, Nodes, Region, Selection
For most editing jobs you only need to follow this one handed tip…
1) Set up your right mouse to be your tool menu.
2) Right click and hit the 9 key (Arrange,) 3 key (Sample Editor), 0 zero Key (Piano Roll), 5 Key (Hyper Editor) to select the Zoom tool
3) Drag a frame around the section you want to zoom in on an repeat if you need to go in deeper.
4) Perform the edit…
5) With the zoom tool selected once more just click repeatedly anywhere with the left mouse button. Each click zooms you out one stage at a time, relative to how many stages you zoomed in previously.
6) Once back to the lowest level right click to revert to the Pointer tool or other tool of choice.
1) I have a Key Command – F1 (Recall Zoom 1) for as near to a complete overview of all my regions as is visually comfortable.
2) I then select the region that I want to snip/edit so I can mute offending cuts.
3) I apply the Ctrl Alt (Option) Z Key Command to Continue reading »
When you move a region in the Arrange area, Logic Pro displays the position of the anchor in the help tag, and snaps the region’s anchor to the selected Snap menu grid division.
It is an Orange indicator in the Sample Editor and Black in the Audio Bin Window (Command 9).
A newly created Audio FILE always has the Anchor and Region Start points Continue reading »
Tags: Anchor, Audio, Region, Sample Editor
Enables you to add Program Change, Volume and Pan settings from the Track Parameter Box to selected regions on External MIDI Tracks in the Arrange area.
Only checked (ticked) parameters are added and they are placed one quarter note before the the beginning of the selected region.
The Track Parameter Box
The Insert Instrument MIDI settings as Events Command
The Event List
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