Editing regular instruments in the Matrix editor is great. When you move them or edit their length, they play their note. But this is not the case with multi-channel instruments, and it's starting to annoy me. What a pain to move notes around and not hear what they'll sound like. Can anyone explain what's going on? Thanks, David

On 2/02/2007, at 2:51 PM, Noble Gowing wrote: > Editing regular instruments in the Matrix editor is great. When > you move them or edit their length, they play their note. But > this is not the case with multi-channel instruments, and it's > starting to annoy me. What a pain to move notes around and not > hear what they'll sound like. Can anyone explain what's going on? This sort of shit is why I hate Logic. You can't even load a drum kit, eq each drum differently and program it in a step pattern. That's why I bought an MPC.

"Noble Gowing" <dangcookie@comcast.net> wrote: > Editing regular instruments in the Matrix editor is great. > When you move them or edit their length, they play their > note. But this is not the case with multi-channel > instruments, and it's starting to annoy me. What a pain to > move notes around and not hear what they'll sound like. > Can anyone explain what's going on? I agree that it's a pain and don't know really what's going on, but there is a workaround, for what it's worth. If you have the multichannel intrument selected in the arrange, solo the region and play the song for a second, the notes will sound in the matrix editor. At least they do here. -Eric logic pro 7.2.2 0SX 10.4.8 G4 dual 1ghz fireface 800 dfbmusic.com

--- In logic-users@yahoogroups.com, Roman Pirie <romanp@...> wrote: > > This sort of shit is why I hate Logic. You can't even load a drum kit, > eq each drum differently and program it in a step pattern. > That's why I bought an MPC. > You're entirely mistaken. So happy birthday, that is. Convert your regular EXS 24 drum kit into a multi-channel EXS drum kit to separate out the kick, snare, toms and cymbals, etc., etc. into different audio channels. Then you set up a multi-channel audio instrument in the Audio Mixer and load that EXS instrument you just created. This multi-channel audio instrument will play back only the first stereo output pair of your (many) multi-channel pairs. Next, create Aux audio objects to handle all multi-channel output pairs beyond the first pair, and set each Aux object's input to be a successive pair of your multi-channel audio instrument you just set up. It works like a charm and I'm able to tweak my drum sounds every which way. Trust me, you'll never go back. This implementation in Logic is not intuitive, but once you do it, you get the hang of it, and you'll never settle for your stone age MPC again. The manual gives all the details. David ----------------------------------------------------------------- Group Buy until Feb 22nd for Virtual Instruments Magazine! See http://logic-users.org/groupbuy/vimag for full details.