Apple Logic Pro /LogicExpress Discussion

Begin forwarded message:

> From: Tim Hallman <thallman@...>
> Date: May 21, 2008 3:06:20 PM EDT
> To: glists@...
> Subject: Re: Logic split
>
>
> Hi
> I think you're the person who answered my question on Logic Split  
> yesterday.   Thanks!!!!

You're welcome, but it's better if you address all questions to the  
listserv instead of individuals.  That way any answers you get are in  
the public domain and available to "lurkers" and future members who  
might search the message list for answers before posting to the  
group.  I hope you don't mind that I forwarded this question to the  
group.

> Your help sounds 'logical'  and all but I am very inexperienced  
> with the Environment page (despite working intensively in Logic for  
> 8 years.)

Most people are.  The Emagic software designers should win an award  
for making the most useful part of Logic WAY more intimidating than  
it needed to be.

> You say ' create 2 objects'
> Creating an object is not an option.   The closest is audio object  
> and I have my doubts if that would be the one to choose. How shall  
> I proceed?

Everything in that menu is an object.    The whole premise of the  
environment, and hence the signal routing throughout Logic, is that  
MIDI data
"enters the environment" through the selected track in the arrange  
window, then passes through as many environment objects as you create  
and cable to it, on to the sound source, which is usually either a  
virtual instrument (a type of audio object) or out through your midi  
interface to an outboard synth.

In your particular case, you want to create a new Instrument, which  
is the first object listed in the "New" menu.  That is what you will  
have selected in the arrange window, and is the conduit to get MIDI  
data from your controller into the environment.  You can then create  
any number of faders, keyboards, monitors, etc. (all from the New  
menu) to modify and observe the MIDI data before it reaches the sound  
generation object, which in your case, is the Virtual Instrument you  
have already created.  You just need to grab the cable protruding  
from each object and drag it to the next one in your series.



HOWEVER, now that I look at your menu, it seems that you don't have  
the option of creating a Transformer.  You must be using Logic  
Express.  So the way I told you in the previous message won't work.   
There's probably a number of different workarounds, but the first  
thing that comes to my mind is to use a Mapped Instrument object  
instead of a regular object.  This is a more cumbersome solution and  
not necessarily what the mapped instrument was made for, but I think  
it will work.

1.  Create a new Mapped Instrument object
2.  Double click on instrument and change all notes above or below  
the split point to cable 2
3.  Close window and drag cables to the desired virtual instruments

The way you originally asked the question seemed to focus on  
replicating the MIDI data and sending to both instruments, and  
changing the instruments to respond to the different notes.  I'm sure  
that can be done as well, but is beyond my area of expertise.

Good luck.

Gregory




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