Q
Hand Tool in the Track Mixer and Arrange Channel Strip
Q Q Q
11
Finally, choose the descriptors that will help you categorize and search for
your loop, such as
GGeennrree
,
IInnssttrruummeenntt DDeessccrriippttoorrss
, and
MMoooodd
. You don’t have
to select these, but if you don’t, you’ll be stuck with Logic’s defaults—and you
may just find your guitar lick identified as a bass groove!
While the new Add to Apple Loops Library command is the most convenient
way to create Apple Loops within Logic—and it is the only way you can cre-
ate MIDI Apple Loops from Audio Instrument regions—it is not necessarily
appropriate for all situations. When you create an Apple Loop this way,
Logic automatically uses the beat divisions as the transient markers for the
Apple Loop. This means that when the Apple Loop stretches and compresses
to match the song tempo, it will do so using the beat divisions as its relevant
points.
This works well for straightforward performances in which the musically rele-
vant transients fall on the beat divisions. For performances in which the musi-
cally relevant points do not fall on the beat divisions, you may get better
results if you set your own transients for the Apple Loop. As of this writing,
the only way to set transients yourself is to open the region in the Apple
Loops Utility, which is explained starting on page 280 of Logic Pro 7 Power!
Note that this only works for Audio Apple Loops; for MIDI Apple Loops, you
will have to edit the MIDI data in a MIDI editor so that the data falls on the
beat divisions to ensure the region will loop properly.
Hand Tool in the Track Mixer
and Arrange Channel Strip
This is one of those additions that —after you’ve tried it once—will instantly
become part of your workflow! Chapter 8 of Logic Pro 7 Power! explains
how you can move effects between Inserts and channel strips in the Audio
Configuration window using the Hand Tool. That tool has now been added
to the Track Mixer!
To rearrange effects in the Track Mixer, select the Hand Tool in the Toolbox
of the Track Mixer, or press the COMMAND key to select the second tool
(which, since the Track Mixer only has two tools, is the Hand Tool by
default), click-hold on an instantiated insert effect and you can now drag
insert effects from one Insert slot to an Insert slot on the same or another
channel strip, as shown in Figure 11. To place the effect in the new slot, sim-
ply release the mouse button.
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