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Hei, I'm away from my manual and I'm wondering how to have 4 matrix windows 
open simultaniously for editing midi - really appreciate quick 
response...thanx,mn

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>Hei, I'm away from my manual and I'm wondering how to have 4 matrix windows
>open simultaniously for editing midi - really appreciate quick
>response...thanx,mn

If you find you can only open one at a time (of most windows in 
Logic), check the Link icon.
That's the little chain button top left-ish.

If it's grey, you can open as many as you like from the windows menu.
If the link button is activated, the window always displays the same 
contents as the top window.
If you double-click it and it turns yellow, you're in Contents Catch 
mode - the window always shows the contents of the object selected in 
the top window.

Each mode is useful in certain instances.

eg
You have an arrange window open and below it, a matrix or score 
window. The link button in the matrix/score window is yellow. Now, 
whatever sequence you select in the arrange window, the contents will 
be shown in the matrix or score window below. So....it follows 
whatever you select.

example 2:
You have an arrange window and a matrix window open. Do as above and 
select a sequence (eg piano) in the arrange - the piano shows in the 
matrix. Switch OFF the link now. That keeps the piano matrix there.

Open a new matrix window (from the windows menu). Engage 
Contents/yellow link and select your bass sequence in the arrange. 
Matrix 2 now shows the bass part. Dis-engage link mode again.

Keep repeating....

Obviously, if you forget to switch the link off, all your windows 
will simply follow the sequence you select.

TIP:
Once you have set this up to your liking, copy the window arrangement 
to another screenset for safekeeping. You can also copy this 
screenset from song to song if required.

Hope this makes sense
Colin

>  From: "Micke Nilsson" <mickenilsson@...>
> Subject: OT:Open several matrix windows in Logic 5.5
> 
> Hei, I'm away from my manual and I'm wondering how to have 4 matrix windows
> open simultaniously for editing midi - really appreciate quick
> response...thanx,mn

Disable the chain-symbol and close the actual matrix window, now you are
able to open different Matrix-windows on one screen...

n

Nikolaus Sieveking
nap - nichtlineareaudioproduktionen
<niko@...>

From: "Micke Nilsson" <mickenilsson@...>

>Hei, I'm away from my manual and I'm wondering how to have 4 matrix windows
>open simultaniously for editing midi - really appreciate quick
>response...thanx,mn

Just keep opening new windows! Hold down Option (Mac) to open a 
windows as a float.
-- 

Nick Batzdorf
818/905-9101, cell 590-9101, fax 905-5434

i've always wondered what the "chain symbol" does... can someone explain it
more to me?  

thanks,
tv
On 5/17/03 9:52 AM, "exs-users@yahoogroups.com" <exs-users@yahoogroups.com>
wrote:

> 
> Message: 3
>  Date: Fri, 16 May 2003 13:26:45 +0200
>  From: nichtlineareaudioproduktionen <niko_s@...>
> Subject: Re: OT:Open several matrix windows in Logic 5.5
> 
>>  From: "Micke Nilsson" <mickenilsson@...>
>> Subject: OT:Open several matrix windows in Logic 5.5
>> 
>> Hei, I'm away from my manual and I'm wondering how to have 4 matrix windows
>> open simultaniously for editing midi - really appreciate quick
>> response...thanx,mn
> 
> Disable the chain-symbol and close the actual matrix window, now you are
> able to open different Matrix-windows on one screen...
> 
> n
> 
> Nikolaus Sieveking
> nap - nichtlineareaudioproduktionen
> <niko@...>

On Sunday, May 18, 2003, at 02:12  AM, tony vincent wrote:

> i've always wondered what the "chain symbol" does... can someone 
> explain it
> more to me?

The chain is called link. Here is the description from the logic docs:

Link mode insures that any audio sequences selected in the Arrange 
window are displayed in the Sample Edit window. Link mode is turned off 
and on by clicking the switch marked with the "linked chain" symbol, or 
with the key command.

If you often work in Link mode, give this a try: open a Sample Edit 
window and switch on Link mode. Now close the window. Logic now leaves 
Link mode permanently on.

Double-click on the audio region you wish to view. You can see 
immediately that the display in both windows is linked.

Now what does that mean?

Try this.

Open the arrange window.
Double click on the link function, it will turn yellow.
Create a midi sequence that is 4 bars long.
Chop the sequence into 1 bar lengths, or 4, 1 bar sequences.
Open the matrix editor while keeping the arrange window open and tile 
them.
Double click on the link function in the matrix editor, it will turn 
yellow.
Make sure you have midi data from the matrix being displayed. Bar 1 
will work perfect.
When you hit play, the data in the matrix editor should follow the 
arrange window's song position line, from bar 1, to bar 2, etc.

So, the link button causes the data in any editor to follow along with 
the song position line.

I hope that made sence..

George


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>i've always wondered what the "chain symbol" does... can someone explain it
>more to me?

A few of replied to this.
Just wondering....do you have a manual perhaps?
A legal version of Logic?

This is REALLY basic (RTFM) stuff.

Regards - Colin