. Editors (Matrix, Event, etc.)

  1. Can you edit velocity only of notes via a MIDI keyboard?
  2. How do I set e.g. note-velocity for lots of notes to the same value?
  3. How do I 'nudge' a group of controller values by a small amount in the Hypereditor?
  4. How can I view multiple but not all sequences in the Matrix Editor?
  5. I'm viewing multiple sequences in Matrix: how do I return to a single sequence?
  6. How do I decrement/increment values when some selected values are at Min./Max.?
  7. How do I use the keyboard instead of the mouse to change values?
  8. The Sample Edit window scrolls too fast/slow
  9. How can I have the Sample Editor use a track other than no.1 for playback?

.1 Can you edit velocity only of notes via a MIDI keyboard?

In the Event/Matrix/Score editor double click (not single click; this is important) the MIDI-In status button. Now when you select a specific note, you can affect the velocity and pitch by triggering your controller. So this does what you want basically, but it alters both pitch and velocity together.

So as long as you hit the correct note on your keyboard controller, you can edit the velocity via the sensitivity with which you strike your MIDI keyboard as you originally wanted to do.

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.2 How do I set e.g. note-velocity for lots of notes to the same value?

Question: I am in the Event List and I have 100 notes that I want all to have 127 as their velocity but all the notes have various velocities. Is there a command that allows me to change them all in one hit to 127?

Answer: there are various ways to achieve this:

  1. Give the correct value to the first event and use a key command for the feature: "copy value to following events"
    Or
  2. Select all the 100 notes you want to change, and while you point your mouse to change the velocity values, hold down the Option and Shift keys [Ctrl-Shift] while you change. All your velocities will assume the same value.
    Or
  3. Select all the notes, double-click on the velocity of one of the selected notes, enter the new value numerically via the keyboard, hold the Option-Shift keys [Ctrl-Shift] and press Enter or Return [Enter].

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.3 How do I 'nudge' a group of controller values by a small amount in the Hypereditor?

Question: Does anyone know how to nudge a selected group of controller values in the HyperEditor? I'd like to be able to select an area of (say) breath controller data and tweak it up or down by just one or two steps. Doing this graphically with the mouse is too course even at high magnification, and the data tends to jump unpredictably when the mouse is first clicked.

Answer: The easiest way to do this is to have an Event Editor also open that is linked to the Hyper Editor. When you select data in the Hyper Editor, that same data is selected in the Event Editor. Nudging in the Event Editor is of course quite simple: either use the mouse-as-slider, or click on the data field and use the plus/minus keys (or whatever you've key commanded this function to be).

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.4 How can I view multiple but not all sequences in the Matrix Editor?

In the Arrange window, select the sequences you want to view. Open the Matrix Editor. In the Matrix Editor's View menu, make sure "Show selected sequences only" is checked. Now double-click on an empty part of the background, or click the small square in the top-left corner of the window to "pop up" into Multi Sequence Editing mode. Only the selected sequences will be shown. Unchecking "Show selected sequences only" will display all sequences. Double-click a note to "pop into" that specific sequence again.

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.5 I'm viewing multiple sequences in Matrix: how do I return to a single sequence?

Double-click on a note.

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.6 How do I decrement/increment values when some selected values are at Min./Max.?

Question: When you have a bunch of notes selected in the Event list, and you try to reduce their velocity, sometimes nothing happens because some note's velocity is set at 0 (or 127). Does anyone know a way around this?

Answer: Hold down the Option [Ctrl] key when you drag the mouse (or when you hit return after numerical input). This will allow you to continue to decrement/increment the selected values even when some values are at the min./max. (see p. 10-7 of the LAM 4.0 Manual). The method also works in the Hyper Editor.

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.7 How do I use the keyboard instead of the mouse to change values?

See the same question in the Arrange window chapter of this FAQ.

 

.8 The Sample Edit window scrolls too fast/slow

You can control the scroll speed by the distance between the window frame and your mouse. Closer = slower.

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.9 How can I have the Sample Editor use a track other than no.1 for playback?

When double-clicking an audio region and thus opening the Sample Editor, it tends to use Track Object 1 for playback. This can be very annoying, as you might have a massive reverb and huge distortion inserted on this track - not nice if you try to edit a sensitive choral passage :). There are 2 solutions for this problem, one better than the other.

  1. At the left hand side of the Sample Editor window is a white box, reading "Cha 1". You can click-scroll there to pick another channel (Track Object) for playback. As long as Logic is running, the newly picked channel will remain the active one. However, as soon as you shut down Logic, the next time Logic will revert to "Cha 1" again. In other words, there's no way to change this default behaviour permanently.
     
  2. A better solution is to not use Track Object 1 at all. In the Audio Mixer, make sure the "Audio 1 " channel strip has no effects inserted, no Sends active, and has volume set to 0 dB (90). Drag this channel strip out of the way, somewhere off-screen. Just forget it exists and never use it. Now the Sample Editor can safely use this object for playback.

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