EXS 24 Logic Sampler Users Group

Hi everyone.
Does anyone know what would cause my entire song to be transposed 1/2  
step down.  Last time I opened the song...it played fine.  I've  
upgraded to 7.1.1 since then...   Every exs instrument is playing  
down 1/2 step.  When I stop the song and play a note...it sounds at  
the proper pitch.  I'm stumped.

Logic 7.1.1 on a G5 dual 2.7mhz 6gig ram

Thanks,
julie
www.julielarson.net

>Does anyone know what would cause my entire song to be transposed 1/2 
>step down.  Last time I opened the song...it played fine.  I've 
>upgraded to 7.1.1 since then...   Every exs instrument is playing 
>down 1/2 step.  When I stop the song and play a note...it sounds at
>the proper pitch.  I'm stumped.

Hi Julie,

My guess is that you opened SoundDiver. This causes the same problem 
on my system every time. The only solution I've found is to do this:
Quit Logic
Open SoundDiver and do whatever you need to do.
Close SoundDiver
Log out of OSX and login again.
Restart Logic.

You songs will now play as normal.

It's a severe pain in the butt and will probably never be fixed as 
no-one cares about SoundDiver anymore. If anyone has found out what 
really happens in the engine, please let us know as perhaps a more 
elegant solution can be devised.

Hope this fixes it....

Regards - Colin

On Oct ,18, 2005, at 5:22 PM, Julie Larson wrote:

> Hi everyone.
> Does anyone know what would cause my entire song to be transposed 1/2
> step down.

Could be an inadvertent accident caused by playing with some of the 
global track chord and/or transpose features. Check your global tracks 
and make sure there is nothing there that is causing it. Because when 
you adjust chord/transpose parameters there to alter Apple Loops, the 
parameters end up effecting all your midi instruments.

If you are intentionally using the global tracks for this, you need to 
manually check the "no transpose" feature on each midi or soft synth 
track object that you don't want transposed.


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Eli Krantzberg
http://www.nightshiftorchestra.com
Almat Productions

On Oct 19, 2005, at 6:18 AM, Eli Krantzberg wrote:


> > Hi everyone.
> > Does anyone know what would cause my entire song to be transposed  
> 1/2 step down.
>
> Could be an inadvertent accident caused by playing with some of the
> global track chord and/or transpose features. Check your global tracks
> and make sure there is nothing there that is causing it.
>

Thanks Eli and Colin,

I checked the global tracks....nothing.  I can transpose the entire  
song back up 1/2 step there...  But I'd rather it just play at pitch.  
I don't think SoundDiver could have anything to do with it....I  
haven't knowingly opened SoundDiver in...well...I can't remember  
when.  I've got to perform this thing this weekend.  I'm trying not  
to panic.

Thanks again for your help
julie

www.julielarson.net

>I checked the global tracks....nothing.  I can transpose the entire 
>song back up 1/2 step there...  But I'd rather it just play at pitch. 
>I don't think SoundDiver could have anything to do with it....I 
>haven't knowingly opened SoundDiver in...well...I can't remember 
>when.  I've got to perform this thing this weekend.  I'm trying not
>to panic.

Have you tried logging out and back in anyway? It could be some 
system/AudioMidi quirk that gets reset when you you log out/in.
Is it only EXS instruments or all other stuff too?
The strange thing is that you get the correct pitch playing live - 
same thing that happened to me. Only replaying the song causes this 
half pitch lower thing.

One thing to perhaps try:
Preferences/MIDI/    click on the <Reset Messages> tab
Try checking <Pitch bend to center position> .....maybe this will help.

Don't panic....yet....   :-)

Regards - Colin

> > > Hi everyone.
> > > Does anyone know what would cause my entire song to be transposed
> > 1/2 step down.
> >
> > Could be an inadvertent accident caused by playing with some of the
> > global track chord and/or transpose features. Check your global  
> tracks
> > and make sure there is nothing there that is causing it.
> >
>
>

Ok....when in doubt restart.  I had re-launched Logic...so it didn't  
occur to me that there would be a problem...but...I restarted and the  
spooks are gone.

Thanks for the help.

julie

www.julielarson.net