Apple Logic Pro /LogicExpress Discussion

You know ...

     .... I (RELUCTANTLY) sold my old sequencer, an ASR-10.   I still have the disks in the closet in case I need something.   

        Every once in a blue moon I wish I had access to an ASR 10 to transfer something into Logic, but by and large it has been healthy for me to move on.   You know?   If it's a good song, I shouldn't mind spending time with it and jamming out another recording (I primarily record my own stuff).

        If you MUST transfer some projects.  I think I'd recommend transferring the data as audio files.    Maybe this has been mentioned.  MIDI lends itself to giving off an air of un-authenticity as it is, and pulling in a MIDI file and applying that to a new instrument ... that's another opportunity to lose the vibe you were originally going for.    You record the MIDI as a performance, in real time, based on the patch and keyboard sensitivity of your controller.  

       All I'm saying is:  1.   You can probably survive without as many old projects as you think.   and 2. consider saving the projects as consolidated audio files (so all tracks start at measure one, beat one.  Even if that means 63 bars of rests, then a triangle hit, then 30 bars of rests/silence, etc.).  

     Pete

--- In Logic_Cafe@yahoogroups.com, Steve Currington <steve@...> wrote:
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> On 27/05/2010, at 10:27 AM, Andy Brook wrote:
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> > >
> > > The nightmare is going to be taking my old MIDI and ADAT files into 
> > > Logic. I'd like to do away with my D8B, but am still a bit scared. 
> > > I'm borrowing one of those floppy to USB converter things to get my 
> > > MIDI files out of my 486.....LOL! If anybody has any suggestions, I 
> > > would appreciate them.
> > >
> > Bring up a midi track that you know well in piano roll. Make it quite 
> > big vertically, and then zoom horizontally until it moves at a speed 
> > that works for the music, and then just watch. As the music goes up, 
> > so do the midi notes, and vice versa. Length of note corresponds with 
> > length of midi bar. It really is that simple. Honestly!
> > 
> > Andy Brook
> > __.
> >  
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> And the colour of the midi note indicates velocity  (volume if you wish to think like that).
> And the piano key looking thing on the left side is the note on a piano keyboard.
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> And Andy is right it is not really thatl hard.
> 
> Steve
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