I would like to use the arpeggio feature in Logic. I have 6.3.2 Platinum. What I wish to do is to have an arpeggiator available for any of my instruments, soft synths or regular outboard synths available in the arrange window. I created an environment with an arpeggio object cabled to a synth. When i go to the arrange window, i select the arpeggio as I've named it, and hit play or record, and there it is, i can hear it. 2 things trouble me, and leads me to believe I'm not understanding something basic here. 1. if i wish to try out different sounds for the particular multi instrument that I've cabled it to, there doesn't seem to be a simple way to do this. It seems that i have to use the flip window in the arrange, flip to the instrument i wish, change the patch, reselect the arpeggio in the arrange and listen. what i'd like to see is the arpeggio selected in the arrange window and the instrument in the lower left window (looks like a fader when its a soft synth) as i would with any other instrument I have set up , and just select a different sound, no flip menu etc. 2. the other issue that makes me feel i've got this wrong is that when i record my arpeggio, i hear the arpeggio play, i hear it play back properly when I'm finished recording, but the notes recorded in the events list only reflect the notes I physically played, not the notes the arpeggio generated. thoughts on a the proper way to do this? tinydesk

On a fine day, 04-12-2003, Bob Boilen wrote: >1. if i wish to try out different sounds for the particular multi >instrument that I've cabled it to, there doesn't seem to be a simple >way to do this. It seems that i have to use the flip window in the >arrange, flip to the instrument i wish, change the patch, reselect the >arpeggio in the arrange and listen. Open an environment window next to your arrange window. Make sure the chain icon isn't selected (i.e. grey and not purple or yellow). Switch to the Audio layer, so you see your mixer. In the environment's View menu, hide parameters and all other stuff you don't need. Resize the window so only one mixer strip shows. Scroll the virtual instrument you need into view. Done. If you hold Option while picking 'environment' from the Window menu, you'll get a floating window that always stays on top of other windows -- if that's what you like. Still beats the way Emagic implemented the auto-linked not-vertically-scrollable mixer strip on the left side of the Arrange window. >2. the other issue that makes me feel i've got this wrong is that when >i record my arpeggio, i hear the arpeggio play, i hear it play back >properly when I'm finished recording, but the notes recorded in the >events list only reflect the notes I physically played, not the notes >the arpeggio generated. What you see makes sense: you send a chord into the sequencer and record that. Then you send the recorded chord into the arp-object and so you _hear_ an arpeggio. If you want to record the actual arpeggio, cable the arp-object between the Physical Input's SUM outlet and the To Sequencer object (all on the Clicks & Ports layer of the environment). Now the incoming chord will be arpeggiated, and *that* will be sent to the sequencer and get recorded. With this scenario you don't need an arp-object per mixer strip anymore, and you don't need to assign an arrange track to an arp-object. In Arrange just activate the track with the instrument you want to arpeggiate, and play your chords. So I guess this makes your question-1 a moot point. If you already have chords recorded on a track assigned to an arp-object, and you now want to replace those chords by the arp'd output: cable the arp-object into the To Sequencer object (and thus not into some instrument directly). Select an empty Arrange track, assigned to 'No Output' (or the the instrument that originally played the arpeggio), and hit record. You won't hear anything, but the chords on the arp-object-track will play through the arp-object, reach the sequencer and get recorded on the new track. Afterwards you can delete the chord sequence, and replace it with the newly recorded arpeggio sequence. Don't forget to reassign the Arrange track to the instrument instead of the arp-object (otherwise your arpeggio will get arpeggiated :). >thoughts on a the proper way to do this? It's all in the FAQ... but hey, I'm feeling helpful today :-) -- Hendrik Jan Veenstra h @ k n o w a r e . n l Omega Art: http://www.omega-art.com/