EXS 24 Logic Sampler Users Group

On a fine day, 01-12-2004, Julie Larson wrote:

>[...] So...Ok...I spent the day copying sequences to a new song. 
>They all copied.  Things were looking up. [...] Fix it....it happens 
>again.  I opened one sequence and it had bunches of random midi 
>messages in it....program changes, sys-ex, meta events.

It might be that one of the sequences is corrupted, dragging down the 
entire song with it.  In order to eliminate this possibility, or 
pinpoint the offending sequence, you would have to do something like:
- Copy all sequences from a track into a new song, save the new song
- Repeat for all tracks (i.e. creating a one-track song for every 
original track)
- Now test all saved one-track songs to see if any displays the 
offending behaviour.  If so, you've found the problem-track.  If this 
track contains multiple sequences, repeat the above procedure, now 
saving a new song for each _sequence_ instead of the entire track. 
Test all single-sequence songs to see which sequence is the offending 
one.

If this exposes a problem-sequence, then remove this sequence from 
your original song, save with a new name, and see if the problem has 
gone away.  If there's still a problem, it might be the offending 
sequence has somehow already affected the song-structure: remove the 
offending sequence, copy all other stuff to a fresh song, save, and 
test again.

If multiple single-track songs exhibit the same problem: repeat 
single-sequence procedure.  If multiple sequences are the culprit... 
curse loudly, mailbomb Apple, and recreate all those sequences.

Yes, this is a tedious job, but, in a sense, standard troubleshooting 
practice. 	In short it amount to narrowing down the problem step 
by step until you find the (hopefully) single object that's messing 
things up.  With many objects, this might take a while, but it 
probably beats starting the song all over again from scratch.

Oh, in the 1st step above: you might want to start by building a new 
song template that already has all the EXS's and effects in place. 
Then simply copy/paste one old-song track into this new song, etc. 
That way you also test the context of the tracks and not just the 
sequences/regions themselves.

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