Apple Logic Pro /LogicExpress Discussion

I'm doing a some arrangements for a band that has 5 horns and rhy section: alto,  bari,  tenor sax, trumpet and t-bone.  So what I've been doing is playing the parts into the sequencer with voices in mind, copy the sequence, erase the corresponding voices so that I get 5 tracks with all seperate voices so I can play them back, listen and check my work as I go.  Then I add dots and dashes, crescendos, etc, transpose and print.  Tedious as hell.  I'm looking for short cuts --- I'll try your suggestions.


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  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: GAmoore@... 
  To: Logic_Cafe@yahoogroups.com 
  Sent: Thursday, September 14, 2006 5:03 AM
  Subject: Re: [Logic_Cafe] Scoring for parts



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  > Thanks. Do you know how you set things up so you can seperated the voices 
  > from a piano score? ie, you play into the sequencer and then, somehow, you 
  > assign voices which then are split into different Midi channels.
  > 
  > 
  > 
  There is some command for that...maybe split/demix by pitch or something like 
  that. I am not confident you'll get the result you want, unless its a 
  gregorian chant with four voices throughout the piece. a real piece of music with 
  various lines will have times when one instrument is playing or four. What I 
  would do, is play it on the keyboard, open the midi in the matrix or score window 
  and select all but the top voice, and mute the notes. Then copy the whole 
  sequence, and unmute the bottom but mute the top, and so forth. Then copy the 
  whole thing again. eventually you will have one track for each part, then you can 
  fine tune which instrument is playing which note.

  you might want fix any mistakes in the midi first before starting this 
  process. also color each sequence a different color, then open the matrix window and 
  choose the option show object colors, and double click on the background of 
  the matrix window to show all sequences at once.

  another trick is to transpose each sequence (select all in the matrix and 
  drag up a notch). Say first one is normal, second one is up one note ,third is up 
  two half steps, and so forth. then when you open them in the matrix you can 
  see if any notes are covered twice or not covered at all. then re-transpose 
  back to correct pitch.

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