There ought to be a way to open an .lso file without ANY of its instruments/samples loading, so I can copy midi objects from it and paste them into another song. I have two files, each takes a minute or two to load up (multiple instances of Kontakt/EXS/Ra/Spectrasonics etc.). If I want to go to another song and grab, say, a melody line 'object' on a sax track, I have to close this song, open the other, copy, close, open, paste. That's five minutes of beachball watching. Heaven forbid I try to open them both at the same time!?! There ought to be an option where I can, say, Command-Click another song and have its arrange window open up without any of the back-end stuff, just for grabbing from. Jeeez. I've been a die-hard Logic fan pretty much since notator days, but sometimes I wonder...

--- In logic-users@yahoogroups.com, "Trevor Gilchrist" <trevor@...> wrote: > There ought to be a way to open an .lso file without ANY of its > instruments/samples loading, so I can copy midi objects from it > and paste them into another song. Not sure of a key command, but if you can open any song with minimal (or none) instruments/samples and disable core audio, all ensuing songs will load without samples. Be sure to enable core audio when it's all done. Doug

--- Trevor Gilchrist <trevor@fiveshortstories.com> wrote: > There ought to be a way to open an .lso file without > ANY of its > instruments/samples loading, so I can copy midi > objects from it > and paste them into another song. You've got my vote! I've often wished for this also. JP

>--- Trevor Gilchrist <<mailto:trevor%40fiveshortstories.com>trevor@fiveshortstories.com& gt; >wrote: > > > There ought to be a way to open an .lso file without ANY of its > > instruments/samples loading, so I can copy midi objects from it > > and paste them into another song. You can drag an .lso file from the desktop into a blank song and it will bring in the MIDI regions and nothing else. So as long as the original regions are properly identified, this should get you what you're looking for.

--- In logic-users@yahoogroups.com, "dougzpro" <dzpro@...> wrote: > > Not sure of a key command, but if you can open any song with minimal > (or none) instruments/samples and disable core audio, all ensuing > songs will load without samples. Be sure to enable core audio when > it's all done. > > Doug > Hey, that works for me. Thanks so much Doug. Big help :-)

--- In logic-users@yahoogroups.com, Sean McCoy <osr@...> wrote: > You can drag an .lso file from the desktop into a blank song and it > will bring in the MIDI regions and nothing else. So as long as the > original regions are properly identified, this should get you what > you're looking for. > Thanks Sean, when you say 'drag from the desktop into a blank song', do you mean into its open arrange window, or what? I've tried it every which way and I just get a single, empty object on the arrange. What am I doing wrong? Many thanks.