Apple Logic Pro /LogicExpress Discussion

--- In Logic_Cafe@yahoogroups.com, GAmoore@a... wrote:
> > Problem solved (in the Apple support database):
> > 
> > There is a 2 MB limit to freeze audio files.  
> > 
> 
> Thanks for reporting the solution back to the group. I think this is 2 GB 
> though isn't it? With stereo 16 bit audio taking 10mb/minute.

Yes, I believe you are right. Sorry about that.

> > 
> > Btw, I encounter these absurd song lengths often when some of my .mids are 
> > imported to
> > Logic.  I don't know if the original sequences were saved with those track 
> > lengths or not
> > (they were made in Opcode's Vision).  I can't imagine why they would be. 
> > 
> 
> Try opening them in the even editor. Probably there is some control event at 
> the 2,000th measure. Maybe that was the end for the song in Studio Vision, and 
> they had the style to put a control message there.
> 

You mean 'event editor'?

> 
> > Another related
> > problem I've found in importing MIDI's is that some of the note-off values 
> > don't always
> > import correctly, resulting in rediculous notes that are sustained for many, 
> > many bars
> > (sometimes in the hundreds or more - going off right side of the matrix 
> > editor). These
> > note durations all have to be manually corrected by dragging the end point, 
> > or retyping
> > values in the event list (the latter method is fastest & simplest when the 
> > notes are really
> > long or if one can't 'see' the end of the note).
> > 
> 
> You need to introduce yourself to one my most commonly used keycommands in 
> the matrix editor - the one that shortens the lengths so there is no overlap. I 
> forgot the exact name because i have been using my own keycommand for many 
> years. I'll look it up and report back. it usually works well in all cases - just 
> select all and correct note overlaps by shortening the lengths by the 
> keycommand or the menu item. At most you'll have the very last note to fix manually.
> 

But what does that global operation do to notes whose duration is intended to go beyond 
the onset of other notes?

> 
> > And also , btw, I'm still seeking for the 'simple' method of preventing 
> > plug-in reload when
> > switching between multiple open songs.  Someone on this group had mentioned 
> > that they
> > had heard of a way, but couldn't remember it.
> > 
> > 
> 
> I'd like to know that too. It can take a minute or more when switching songs. 
> And despite that, it seems that RAM is filled up quite easily when both songs 
> are open.
> >

Sometimes much more than a minute (it seems) in the case of EWQLSO plugs (well, it 
seems like much more than a minute -  a 'minute or more' can seem like an hour when 
you're trying to work).

MS