> I have heard the sound all the time in some Trance forms, i'm told > the effect is actually a resonating chord chopped up to the on/off > groove send to a noise gate. > > How can you do this in Logic? I tried this with the automation, but > its a bit fiddly and didnt sound right. Better would be for someway > to punch out the groove in a midi track and send it to a plugin. > > Anybody know any otherway that noise gates can be manipulated to a > groove. I know that cubase has a special midi plugin for doing just > this. I'm not totally sure that I understand what you're asking for, but I think that my MIDI Gater plugin might do what you're looking for: http://www.smartelectronix.com/~destroyfx/extras/ You need Logic 5 in order for it to work, though, since 5 is the first version that has allowed the routing of MIDI notes to VST effect plugins. Marc Poirier