TerraTec Logic Fun User Guide

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User Guide for Logic fun

Version 4.1

March 2000

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User Guide

Authors: Peter Gorges, Jan-Friedrich Conrad, Ronald

Bias, Thorsten Adam Translation: Bernie Hurst, Matt Bell, Ruthven Martinus Editing: Jeff Bohnhoff, Robert Hunt, Layout: Fabian Schmid, Ronald Bias, Thorsten Adam

Address: Emagic Inc.

13348 Grass Valley Ave.

Building C, Suite 100

Grass Valley, CA 95945

USA Tel: +530 477 1051 Fax: +530 477 1052 Net: http://www.emagic.de eMail: info@emagicusa.com

Chapter 1 Features

Chapter 2 Sound Cards and MIDI

Chapter 3 Getting Started

Chapter 4 MIDI Tutorial

Chapter 5 Using Logic fun

Chapter 6 Transport Functions

Chapter 7 Arrange Window

Chapter 8 Audio Basics

Chapter 9 Working with Audio in the Arrange Window

Chapter 10 Mixer and Effects

Chapter 11 The Event List

Chapter 12 The Matrix Editor

Chapter 13 The Score Editor

Chapter 14 The Sample Editor

Chapter 15 Video and MIDI Files

Chapter 16 Use of Key Commands and Mouse, Settings

Chapter 17 Menu Reference

Glossary

Index

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Chapter 1 Features

1.1 Multitrack Recorder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

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Flexible Input . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

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Automatic Notation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

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GM Supported . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

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Multimedia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

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Graphical Interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

1.7

About this Manual . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Sound Cards and MIDI

Input Source and Level . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

Logic Audio Device Setup

LADS—What It Is Overview How to Use LADS Virtual Device Setup Optimizing Driver Settings Removing Settings from LADS

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MIDI Installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

Interface Connection MIDI Cabling

MIDI Inputs/Outputs MIDI Local Off Keyboards and Expanders with “To

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Host” Interface . . . . . . 32

Getting Started

3.1 Windows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

Getting Started With Logic fun

Selecting the MIDI Out Port in the Program Testing the MIDI Connection Test the MIDI Out Logic fun and Multitasking Launching Logic fun Launch Logic fun Automatically

3.2

Macintosh . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

Launching Logic fun Choose MIDI Connection MIDI Time Piece

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Testing the MIDI Connection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

Test the MIDI-Out Autoload Song Start Logic fun automatically

3.3

MacOS/Win: Differences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

Keyboard and Mouse Key Commands Exchanging Songs Between Mac and PC Menu Bars

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Chapter 4

MIDI Tutorial

4.1 Adapting the Tutorial Song . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

Load the Tutorial Song General MIDI Tone Generator Non GM, Multi-Timbral Tone Generators Sounds and MIDI Channels Drum Kit

Starting the Song

4.2

Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48

4.3

Tracks and Sequences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

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Information Track and Instruments

4.4

Transport Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

Start Song Positions Display Current Song Position Zoom a Window Excerpt Cycle Mode Selection Quantize Loops The Toolbox Mouse Arrow Undo

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Copies of Sequences Scissors

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Transposition

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Your First Recording Let’s Record!

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Saving the Song

4.5

Event List . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61

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Matrix Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63

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Table of Contents

4.7 Score Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65

Display Parameter Box Style

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Text

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Chapter 5

Using Logic fun

5.1 Conventions of this Manual . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69

5.2

The Mouse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70

Basic functions Mouse Input

Checkboxes Pull-down Menus Mouse as Slider Using the Mouse for In/Decrementing Numerical Input Text Input

Tools and the Toolbox

Effective Range of the Tools Selecting Tools Info Line The Tools

5.3

Window Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76

Working with Windows

Opening and closing Windows Setting Window Size Selecting the Working Area X/Y Element Page Scrolling Zooming Zooming Selectively Adjusting the Size of the Window Elements Menus Key Commands Menu Options with “…” in their Title Dialog Boxes Window Types

Relationships Between Windows

Catch Link

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5.4 Selection Techniques . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82

Selecting Individual Objects Selecting Several Objects

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Edit Operations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83

Undo

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The Clipboard

Cut Copy Paste Clear

5.6

General Functions of the Editors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85

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Control Output via MIDI Automatic Scroll Functions Deleting Events

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Changing Display Levels in Score

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Key Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86

Special Keys

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Key Commands Window

Assigning a Function to a Key Deleting Assignments Checking the Function of a Key Filtering the Display Finding Key Commands

5.8

Song Administration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89

New Song

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Autoload Song

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Creating a new Song Opening Default Song

Loading a Song

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Checking/Repairing Songs Saving Songs Closing a Song Quitting the Program…

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Chapter 6

Transport Functions

6.1 Transport Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93

Display Options

Indicator Options Position Slider Smaller/Larger

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Table of Contents

Parameter Fields and Indicators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94

Position Indicators Position Markers (Locators) Skip Cycle Tempo Free Memory

End of Song Transport Functions Mode-Buttons

Cycle (Repeat Mode)

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Bar Ruler . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101

Setting the Song Beginning and End

6.3

Cycle Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104

Cycle Bars

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Chapter 7

Arrange Window

7.1 Structure of the Arrange Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107

Tools

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Tracks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108

Adjusting the Sound of a Track Selecting an Icon

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Arranging Sequences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113

What is a Sequence? Creating an Empty Sequence Shifting Sequences in Time Copying Sequences Moving/Copying onto another Track Changing the Length of a Sequence …Using a Finer Grid Dividing Sequences Merging Sequences Muting Sequences Soloing Sequences Naming a Sequence Inserting Events

7.4

Sequence Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118

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Delay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121

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Quantization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122

Setting the Quantization Value Quantization: Operation

The Different Types of Quantization

No Quantizing Standard Quantization

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Quantization to Odd Tuplets Swing Quantization Mixed Quantization

7.6

Reset Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125

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For Hanging notes—Panic Function Maximum Volume

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Chapter 8

8.1

8.2

8.3

Audio Basics

What You Need to Know . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127

Basic Principles and Terminology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127

Audio File Regions Anchor Audio Track Audio Object Sample Editor

Production . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130

Starting a Recording

Basic Operation

In General . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134

Tempo and Timeline Data Formats

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Setting a Path Selecting the Audio Track Arming Tracks Stereo Recording Levels

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Starting to Record

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Sample Editor Automation of Audio Summary

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Audio files and their Formats Sample Rate

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Stereo File Formats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135

Chapter 9

Working with Audio in the Arrange Window

9.1 Regions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137

Generating Regions

Dividing Regions Deleting Regions Deleting a Recording

Copying Regions

Creating A New Region Looping Regions

Moving Regions

Fine Movements Changing Borders Region Parameter Box

Name

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Loop

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Delay

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Region Anchor

9.2

Recording . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142

Setting Tracks to Record Audio Recording Modes

Standard Recording with Count-in

Manual Drop Recording

After Recording, Please Note… Bounce to Disk

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Chapter 10

Mixer and Effects

10.1 An Adaptive Track Mixer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145

Resetting Parameters

10.2

The MIDI Channel Strips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146

Switching Sound Programs Controller Choosing Other Controllers Controller Numbers of the Mixer Controls Extended GM, GS and XG Functions

10.3

The Audio Channel Strips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151

Display Features

User Guide

Version 4.1

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Table of Contents

The Level Meter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151

Volume Level Control Mute

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Solo for Audio Tracks Pan/Balance

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Equalizer (EQ) Bus Sends

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Arming Tracks

Stereo Objects

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153

Configuring a Stereo Object

10.4

Bouncing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154

Options in the Bounce Dialog Window

10.5

The Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155

AVerb

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Chorus

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10.6

Mixer Automation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156

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Chapter 11

11.1

11.2

11.3

11.4

The Event List

Opening the Event List . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159

Structure

Display

Operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161

Scrolling Selection Techniques Special Selection Functions

Event Editing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162

Adding Events Duplicating Events Moving Events Altering Values Altering the Values of Several Events Numerical Value Input

Event List Structure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164

Position Status Cha Num, Val Length/Info

Event Type Structure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166

Note Events

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Table of Contents

Program Change Events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167

Pitch Bend Events Control Change Events Aftertouch Events Poly Pressure Events

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Chapter 12

12.1

12.2

Chapter 13

13.1

13.2

The Matrix Editor

Opening the Matrix Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171

Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172

Position

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Velocity

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Editing Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173

Creating Notes

Duplicating Notes

Moving Notes

Setting a finer Grid

Copying Notes

Altering Lengths Altering the Lengths of Several Notes

Simultaneously . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174

Making Notes the Same Length

Altering the Velocity Deleting Selection Techniques Quick selection of Event Editor

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The Score Editor

Opening the Score Edit Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177

General Appearance of the Score Edit Window . . . . . . . . . . . . 178

Important Elements of the Score Edit Window

View Menu

Moving the Borders between the Different Areas

Parameter Boxes

The Main Working Area

Logic fun’s Notation Concept . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180

Staff Display in Relation to Position and

Length of Sequences in the Arrange Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181

Logic fun’s Basic Elements for Score Display

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The Display Parameter Box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181

Score Styles Input Methods in the Score Edit Window

13.3

MIDI Real Time Recording in the Score Window . . . . . . . . . . . . 182

13.4

Mouse Input . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183

Input

MIDI Channel and Velocity of Inserted Notes

Insert Quantization

13.5

The Partbox—Inserting Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185

Ties

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Triplets

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Automatic Rest Display Key Signatures and Key Signature Changes Time Signatures and Time Signature Changes

13.6

Move, Copy and Paste in the Score Edit Window . . . . . . . . . . . 188

Moving/Copying with the Mouse Move/Copy with Cut, Copy & Past

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via the Clipboard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189

13.7

Editing Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190

Changes in the Event Parameter Box

Notes

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Changing Several Selected Objects

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Simultaneously in

the Event Parameter Box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191

Deleting Objects in the Score Window

13.8

The Display Parameter Box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192

Different Settings within the Same Staff Default Settings for New Sequences

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Changing the Settings for

Several Sequences Simultaneously . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193

Rhythmic Interpretation of Sequences

The Parameters in the Display Parameter Box

13.9

Score Styles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196

Assigning Score Styles to Sequences

Distance between Staves

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Using the Multi-Stave Score Style “Piano”

13.10

Display Levels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198

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Changing between Single Sequence and

Full Score Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198

Muted Sequences or Tracks in the Score Display

13.11

Adapting MIDI Sequences for Score Printout . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199

13.12

Printout . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201

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Chapter 14 The Sample Editor

14.1 The Sample Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203

14.2

Layout of the Sample Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204

14.3

Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205

Overview

Relationship between the Windows

Waveform Display

14.4

Using the Sample Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208

Controlling Playback

Selection Commands

Working with Regions in the Sample Editor Edit Commands

14.5

Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213

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Overview Functions

Catch Mode Link Mode

Scaling the Display The Amplitude Axis and Time Axis

Playing from the Overview Display Playing the Entire Audio File Playing the Current Selection Playing After a Specified Point Cycle Playback

Selecting All Audio Files Manual Selection The Selection Parameter Field

Normalize Silence

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Video on Windows PC Video on a Macintosh

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Menu Reference

17.1 Apple Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227

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File Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227

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Edit Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227

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Settings Tempo Others Send to MIDI In the Score Window

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 Speciﬁcations of any software mentioned in this manual are subject to change

without notice.

1.1 Multitrack Recorder

One of the main components of Logic fun is the MIDI multitrack recorder. You record ecord multiple tracks, as though you were in a professional studio, and as you record the next one, listen to the tracks that you just recorded.

Logic fun offers you many ways to alter and reﬁne your recorded material at a later time. You can move the tracks around in the Arrange window, give the MIDI tracks a different sound, or divide them into blocks (sequences). You can cut, copy, move, transpose, or correct (quantize) rhythmically.

The three editor windows give you complete control of your recordings. Whether you are changing the length, or dynamic

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strength of a single note in the Event editor, or entering entire scores in the Score editor—it’s all easy and fast with Logic fun.

1.2 Flexible Input

There are several ways of entering notes into Logic fun. Everything is available, from real-time recording to manual note entry; the possibilities are endless.

You can use Logic fun simply to record real-time MIDI performances, or as a conventional notation system by inputting your scores on the screen with the mouse.

Logic fun offers you every possibility; you decide which ones to use. You may control the program either with the mouse or the computer keyboard; all functions can be carried out using the mouse, and the majority can be adapted to meet your needs via keyboard commands, which can be programmed as desired.

1.3 Automatic Notation

If you prefer working in musical notation to piano roll, or event list editing, you can edit your songs in the Score editor. There, you can view your sequences as conventional musical notation. You can insert, move, or transpose notes easily using the mouse. Logic fun offers a range of functions with which you can adapt

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the appearance of the score to your liking, from the notes themselves, to the size of your windows.

Of course you can also print out your songs.You can also create a PostScript ﬁle, and continue to edit the scores which were created in Logic fun, with word-processing or layout programs.

1.4 GM Supported

If you use a GM-compatible tone generator connected to your computer, you can control its functions remotely from the Mixer window. Selecting sounds, controlling the volume, or adding chorus or reverb etc. is as easy as can be. Logic fun also supports the GS- (Roland), or the XG standard (Yamaha). With these devices, more sound and effect parameters can be remote-controlled, for example, the ﬁlter frequency.

The Mixer thus becomes your virtual mixing console on screen, allowing you to automate your GM device from Logic fun.

1.5 Multimedia

Logic fun can load and play digital videos in FunI format (Windows) or QuickTime format (Macintosh). The picture runs synchronously with Logic fun’s song position. You can add

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1.6 Graphical Interface

Logic fun features a clearly structured graphical user interface. All operations can be done quickly and directly, using the mouse.

You can open the windows, and place them anywhere on the screen. You can adjust all elements in the windows as you like; the windows can be enlarged or reduced. To make the most of your screen, you can open as many windows simultaneously as you want. Next to the track list in the Arrange window, for example, you can simultaneously open an Event list and Score editor for the same material.

As Logic fun plays the song for you, the notes e.g. are displayed in the Score Window. Whatever you hear, you see at the same time. If there is a wrong note, just ﬁx it, while Logic fun continues to run. It does not get any easier than this.

Logic fun’s menus are well organized and make sure that you only see the functions that you may need. This way, the menu lists remain orderly, and you can ﬁnd whatever function you need faster.

1.7 About this Manual

The headings in this manual are arranged according to the

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Located in the appendix of this manual is an index, in which

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The Menu List, found in the appendix, offers an overview of

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Sound Card

Your sound card must support the 16bit/44.1kHz standard (“CD quality”). Recording at lower than 16bit resolution is not possible, due to Logic fun’s professional audio quality requirements. This also applies to the 44.1kHz sampling rate. Other sampling rates are not supported.

Full duplex or Overdub Mode

Ensure that your chosen sound card supports “full duplex” or “overdub” mode. “Full duplex” means that the soundcard is able to record, while playing back at the same time. This ability is really mandatory, even for the most basic of recording applications.

If you are still undecided on which soundcard to choose for your system, its full duplex ability should be one of the most important considerations.

If your current card does not support full duplex, you may be able to upgrade it using a more recent driver (depending on the hardware, of course). Be sure however, that it meets the 16bit/

44.1kHz requirements for both recording and playback. If your card supports full duplex, but only allows recording at

lower than 16bit resolution, your recordings will suffer from poor sound quality. In this case you should disable full duplex operation using the “Logic Audio Device Setup” program (see

page 26). This does mean that simultaneous playback is now

disabled during recording, but Logic fun will now record at the full 16bit resolution—you really owe it to your ears.

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Hard Disk

In order to successfully use Logic fun with audio hardware, you need a hard disk with an average access time no greater than 10ms , and a minimum data throughput of 3MB/s.

Modern hard disk drives generally meet these requirements and do not need any further attention in this regard.

Input Source and Level

Monitors & Sound Control Panel

To use the Logic fun AV functions, you need to select an audio input source from the control panel, and set the sample rate to

44.1kHz. If you are using the older control panel “Sound”, you also need to select “16 bit” and “Stereo”, and make sure that the sampling rate of 44.1kHz is selected. You cannot operate the system with 22.5kHz sampling rate or 8 bit depth.

Volume

The Volume sliders in the Monitors & Sound control panel are placed after Logic fun’s output (output object). This means that Logic fun’s output object can only control the full output dynamic range if the Volume slider in the control panel is set to

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maximum. Please check this setting if you feel Logic fun’s input or output is too low.

Volume Control

The Windows Accessory program “Volume Control” provides control of the following:

Playback Level

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Record (input) Level

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Input source selection

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It can be found via the Start menu: Start > Programs > Acces-

sories > Multimedia > Volume Control, or on Windows 98 via Start > Programs > Accessories > Entertainment > Volume Control.

As an example, this illustration shows the control panel using the SoundBlaster AWE-32 sound card, by CreativeLabs. You will ﬁnd similar utilities for hardware from other manufacturers.

The playback level of recordings is controlled via the “Wave” slider.

This control is placed after Logic fun’s output (output object). This means that Logic fun’s output object can only control the full output dynamic range if this slider is set to maximum.

You can also change to an independent mixer control that allows you to set the input level for each input source via

Options > Properties > Recording.

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Disable each input source that you don’t plan to record from (usually everything except the line-in).

The line-in will usually give the best results. Make sure you avoid the sound card’s microphone input, especially with cheaper cards. It is a better idea to use an external mic preampliﬁer, such as that on a mixing desk, and then record via the line input.

The Volume control can be accessed more easily if you check the option Show Volume Control on Taskbar in Control Panel >

MultiMedia > Audio—this will place a loudspeaker icon on the

taskbar, which will reveal a master volume control with a single click, while a double click will open the complete mixer.

Logic Audio Device Setup

The tool “Logic fun Audio Device Setup” (LADS), which can be activated from the Logic folder in the Windows Start menu, is of essential importance for the best possible setup of your audio hardware in Logic fun. Although Logic fun usually recognizes most of the currently available sound and audio recording cards, it is still better in most cases to optimize Logic fun to your individual audio setup, by using LADS. This is especially true, if several sound cards or a Multi-I/O card are installed in your computer.

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 Since LADS is automatically run during Logic fun’s installation, you only have to start

it separately if you encounter problems concerning the communication between Logic fun and your audio hardware, or after you have installed new hardware.

LADS—What It Is

LADS helps you to take care of the following tasks:

Determining whether the installed audio hardware has been

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recognized correctly by the system. Enabling audio hardware in Logic fun.

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performance capabilities of audio hardware and the computer.

Overview

LADS ﬁrst analyzes which audio drivers are installed in your system, and includes all these in a list which you can choose from. These audio drivers are called system drivers. You can now create Virtual Devices, using entries from that list.

Please note: Only those system drivers which you have assigned to Virtual Devices are available for use within Logic fun. The major advantage of this principle is that in the case of most multi-I/O audio cards, each stereo connection pair has its own driver instance. This means that there are separate sytem driver entries for each stereo input and output pair for these cards. With LADS, several of these system drivers can conveniently be “built” into one Virtual Device, which can now be integrated into Logic fun’s audio setup.

If there are two sound cards in your computer, but you would like to use the second card only for MIDIplayback, using its built-in MIDI synth,you can use LADS to make the audio driver of the ﬁrst card the only one available for audio purposes in Logic fun. This would prevent the unnecessary display of the audio drivers of the second card (its MIDI driver will still be available).

How to Use LADS

 Whenever you start LADS, it will check the computer for installed audio hardware.

Depending on the installed devices, this can take some time.

All the control elements of LADS can be found in a single

window. Basically, all you do there is to choose and conﬁgure

those system audio drivers which are to be used in Logic fun.

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LADS’ user interface is divided into two areas: The “System

devices” list contains all system drivers which are currently

enabled in Windows’ audio setup. In the area Parameters of the

system devices (directly below the “System Device” area) you

can see some of the properties of the driver, such as number of

channels, bit depth and sampling rate.

 You cannot add a driver containing zero channels to a Virtual Device.

On the left side there is the “Virtual Devices” list, which lists

those drivers that are available for use in Logic fun. A double-

click on a driver name or choosing “Add” after highlighting it

adds this driver to the currently displayed Virtual Device.

Clicking on “Remove” will remove any selected driver from

the Virtual Device again.

 Removing a driver (or any other action in LADS, for that matter) is only affects Logic

fun, not Windows itself—the system driver will not be deleted, and is still available for other purposes under Windows.

In the “Parameters” area (lower left), you can deﬁne various

characteristics of the Virtual Device. These are described

below, and also in the online help. It is also possible to save the

current LADS setup (“Export” button) and load it again later

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(“Import” button). A detailed description of all functions and

their use can be found in the online-help for LADS, which can

be activated by clicking on the “Help” button.

 If you happen to make a mistake while using LADS, or if you are not sure if you

chose the correct settings, you should click on the Cancel button to quit LADS. This way, all changes will be discarded. Clicking on the “OK” button will save the changes and quit LADS.

 Also ASIO devices appear in the driver list.

Virtual Device Setup

Setting up a Virtual Device is quite easy:

1. Create a Virtual Device by clicking on “New”.

2. Assign it a name by clicking on “Rename”, and entering the desired name.

3. One after another, double-click on all system driver names in the System devices list which you want to be part of that Virtual Device.

4. Quit LADS with OK and start Logic fun. The new Virtual Device can now be selected in the PC AV section of Logic fun’s dialog window Audio Hardware & Drivers.

Optimizing Driver Settings

The combination of operating system, sound card drivers and audio hardware often results in time delays, which can affect Logic fun’s response time in a negative way. This delay, also called latency, is system-inherent and cannot be fully avoided. However, the “Granulation” parameter in LADS enables Logic fun to take better advantage of a fast computer and of high-quality audio hardware.

 The optimization of this parameter is not absolutely necessary to provide full func-

tionality in Logic fun. Only experienced users should use this function, since wrong granulation settings can cause problems during audio playback.

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The default settings of this parameter aim at stable and trouble-free system performance. However, if you are using a fast computer and good audio hardware, you can diminish the latency of your system by experimenting with the Granulation parameter: A low granulation value will result in better sounding playback of volume changes. But if granulation is set too low, the computer and operating system might not be able to perform all tasks “in time”, resulting in short dropouts and unwanted noises. So for proper optimization, it is necessary to ﬁnd a good balance between low granulation and safe audio playback performance. Proceed as described below:

Set up LADS as described above. Take your time!

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Lower the granulation value in steps of approximately 50

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milliseconds. Quit LADS, start Logic fun and test the audio playback.

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If all audio is played backwithout problems, you can try to

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further diminish the granulation value. Don’t forget the previous value.

If dropouts or other problems occur during audio playback,

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choose a higher granulation value again.

 Up-to-date PCI sound cards, like the Sound Blaster Live! allow a granulation of

approximately 200 milliseconds. For professional PCI cards an even shorter value may work. Please note that the Granulation parameter is not available for DirectSound drivers.

Removing Settings from LADS

If you have changed settings in the Logic Audio Device Setup (LADS), you can remove your changes. By clicking on Remove all you can remove all settings made. You can restore the system to as it was right after Logic fun’s installation by clicking on Full Rescan.

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Interface Connection

Please consult your soundcard or MIDI interface manual for information on its correct connection. The most common ways to add MIDI functionality to computers are:

Multiport MIDI interfaces, including separate devices like

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the Emagic’s Unitor 8 / MkII or AMT 8. Sound card with MIDI interface (Windows).

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via a General MIDI module or keyboards’ integrated inter-

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face, usually labeled as “To Host”.

MIDI Cabling

MIDI Inputs/Outputs

If your computer has an internal or external MIDI port, or has a MIDI capable soundcard connected, hook the keyboard “MIDI Out” to the computer’s “MIDI In” (on the interface, soundcard etc.). If the keyboard can generate its own sounds, connect the computer’s “MIDI Out” to the keyboard’s “MIDI In”. If your computer (or the MIDI device) offers more than one MIDI output, connect any other tone generators to these. If the computer only has one MIDI output, you need to connect the second tone generator’s MIDI In to the keyboard’s MIDI Thru port. A third device can be connected to the second’s MIDI Thru, and so on. The MIDI Thru port always delivers a copy of the signals coming into the device’s MIDI In. It is preferable, however, to use a direct connection from a computer’s MIDI Out to a device, rather than chaining too many devices, one after another. This is because timing problems may occur in the chain, if many MIDI commands are sent in a short time, due to the slight delays introduced by each MIDI In to MIDI Thru transaction. If your computer also has

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several MIDI inputs, you can connect the MIDI outputs of other MIDI expanders there.

 When using Editor/Librarian programs like Emagic’s SoundDiver, it is important to

connect the MIDI Outs from other keyboardless expanders to the multiport interface’s MIDI inputs, so that their data can be sent to the computer. For use with Logic fun, however, it will be sufﬁcient to simply connect the keyboard MIDI Out to the computer’s MIDI In, and wire the computer’s MIDI Output to any tone generating devices.

MIDI Local Off

If your keyboard has an internal sound source, it is important that you stop the keyboard from generating sounds directly from its own keyboard. If you buy a new keyboard that is to be used without a sequencer, and connect it straight to an ampliﬁer, you would expect the device to make a sound when you press its keys—in other words the keyboard is connected to the sound generator. However, you do not want this when using the keyboard with a sequencer. In this scenario, the keyboard is used as the computer’s input device, while the computer will play the various connected tone generators, be they the keyboard’s own sound generator, or any other connected sound modules. If you wanted to control and record another sound module with your keyboard, its own sounds would get in the way—which is why the keyboard must be separated from its own internal sound generator. This function is known as “Local Off”, and can be set directly at your keyboard. The sequencer will speak to your keyboard’s tone generator just like any other connected, keyboardless sound module.

 If you cannot ﬁnd the “Local” function under your keyboard’s MIDI menu, consult

its manual as how best to proceed for sequencer use. Some keyboards allow you to select from among “Local”, “MIDI” or “Both” for each of their so-called “Parts”— in this case, the “MIDI” setting is equivalent to “Local Off”.

Keyboards and Expanders with “To Host” Interface

A “To Host” interface, which allows a direct connection to the computer, can be found on many of the more cost-effective MIDI sound modules, as well as on many entry-level

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keyboards. This in effect is a simple integrated MIDI interface, with one MIDI In, and one MIDI Out for the computer. An instrument with a “To Host” interface is controlled directly; the MIDI In and Out serve as MIDI connections for the computer, to allow further instruments, such as another keyboard to be connected. This proves very cost-effective for entry level setups, which may include only one keyboard and another sound module. The expense of a dedicated computer MIDI interface, or card is not initially required.

If you are working with such a module, ﬁrst install the driver software supplied by the manufacturer.

Connect the keyboard’s MIDI Out to the sound module’s MIDI In, and the module’s MIDI Out to the keyboard’s MIDI In (assuming it can generate sounds). Connect the “To Host” interface to the computer, usually to a serial port.

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3.1 Windows

Getting Started With Logic fun

Double-click the Logic fun icon, or select Logic fun from

Start>Programs>Emagic>Logic fun, in the Start Menu, to

launch the program. Your MIDI interfaces and your sound cards are recognized at startup, and all internal connections and settings are automatically established. If you have installed several MIDI cards in your computer, you can use any of them.

Each time Logic fun starts up, it searches for installed MIDI interfaces so that a new card is automatically available the next time Logic fun starts up.

After a short time, you will see an empty Arrange window, and the main menu bar.

Selecting the MIDI Out Port in the Program

You can select the MIDI port for each track separately. To do so, select the desired track, and go to the Instrument parameter box, located just below the Toolbox, on the left side of the Arrange window. Click-hold in the ﬁeld just below the “Channel” assignment ﬁeld. You will see a ﬂip menu listing all the MIDI out ports available on your system. Select the one you want, and release the mouse button.

Testing the MIDI Connection

You should then test to make sure that the connections between Logic fun and your MIDI system are working smoothly.

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First, test to see if your MIDI keyboard transmits.

Open the Transport Window by choosing “Open Transport

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Window” in the window menu or press “F11”.

You can see the MIDI monitor in the upper right-hand

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corner of the Transport window.

If there is no activity, the display will show “No In/ No Out”.

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Now play a couple of notes on your MIDI keyboard.

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In place of “No In”, the received events should now be

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displayed.

If this is not the case, test the following:

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Is the MIDI-Out connection of the keyboard connected

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correctly with the MIDI-In of your computer?

Is the cable working properly?

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Test the MIDI Out

Now test to see if Logic fun is sending MIDI events to your tone generators.

Call up File> Open, and select the Tutorial Song (TUTO-

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RIAL.LSO) from the ﬁle selection box.

Set the MIDI out port for each of the tracks, as described

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above.

Click on the PLAY button in the Transport Window or press

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0 on the numeric keypad of the computer.

The Tutorial Song will run, and the second line of the MIDI

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indicator should show the sent events.

If this is not the case, test

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whether you are using a good MIDI cable.

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whether you connected the MIDI-In of your tone generator

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File Extensions

Logic fun can load or save ﬁles in both its own native ﬁle format, or as Standard MIDI ﬁles, for use with other programs. You can recognize the type of ﬁle from the following extensions:

Type of File Extension Description Created from

Song ∗.LSO Song File Logic fun when the

menu ﬁeld “Save” is called up in the ﬁle menu

Standard MIDI File

Logic fun and Multitasking

Logic fun can be operated in conjunction with other MIDI programs. If you switch over to another program, Logic fun continues to run in the background. For this to work, your MIDI interface must use a multi client driver. If you have any questions about this, contact the manufacturer of your interface for information.

∗.MID Song ﬁle in the

standard MIDI ﬁle format

external sequencers can be imported into Logic fun or from Logic fun with Export

Launching Logic fun

The installation program automatically creates a program group “Logic fun” under Programs > Emagic, in the Start Menu. Here you will ﬁnd Logic fun itself, and the de-installation program. You may launch Logic fun by simply highlighting the program icon in this menu.

Launch Logic fun Automatically

If you add Logic fun to the program group “Startup” from the Start Menu, then Logic fun starts up automatically when Windows is launched. Create a shortcut to Logic fun in this

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folder. You may also drag the prgram to the Desktop instead, if you prefer to launch from there.

You have now correctly installed Logic funLogic fun, and have set it up to connect with your MIDI system. Everything is now ready for you to work through the tutorial. This series of exercises will help you to become acquainted with Logic fun.

3.2 Macintosh

Launching Logic fun

This is how you usually start up Logic fun:

1. Double-click the program’s icon, or

2. Click on the program’s icon and choose File> Open, or press

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As long as you are working through the manual, we recommend that you start Logic fun directly with the Tutorial Song.

3. Double-click the Tutorial Song icon.

Logic fun will launch with the Tutorial Song loaded.

Choose MIDI Connection

First, let Logic fun know which port of your Macintosh is connected to your MIDI interface.

In the Option Menu, call up Settings > MIDI Interface

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Communication…

The Global Preferences dialog box appears.

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Parameter for the MIDI interface ports

You can activate one of three ports here:

Choose the USB, the modem port or the printer port.

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When you have chosen one port, Logic funLogic fun automatically turns off the other ports.

Logic fun tests automatically to see whether a MIDI interface is connected to the speciﬁed port and is operable. If no MIDI interface is recognized, a dialog box appears.

Starting up without MIDI interface: If you want to test Logic fun “dry”—that is without MIDI interface and tone generator— simply disable all ports by choosing “off.”

MIDI Time Piece

Logic fun directly supports the “MIDI Time Piece” (MTP) interface from the manufacturer “Mark Of The Unicorn”, as well as MTP-compatible interfaces:

Enable the options “Check For MTP” and “Fast Speed” in

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Global Preferences.

Unlike LOGIC, Logic fun cannot separately address the different MIDI Outputs of MTP compatible interfaces.

The “Fast Speed” mode can be switched off—for instance with longer SySex transmissions, if you have any problems with MIDI Communications.

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Testing the MIDI Connection

You should now make sure that the connection between Logic fun and your MIDI system is working properly.

1. Launch Logic fun.

First, test to see if your MIDI keyboard transmits.

2. Open the Transport Window by selecting Open Transport in the window menu, or press C7

You can see the MIDI indicator in the upper right-hand corner of the Transport Window.

If there is no activity, the display will show “No In/ No Out”.

3. Now play a couple of notes on your MIDI keyboard.

In place of “No In”, the received events should now be displayed.

If this is not the case, test the following:

4. Is the MIDI-Out connection of the keyboard connected correctly with the MIDI-In of your computer?

Is the cable working properly?

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Did you choose the correct port in Global Preferences?

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Test the MIDI-Out

Now test to see if Logic fun is sending MIDI events to your tone generators.

1. Choose File> Open, and select the tutorial song in the ﬁleselection box.

It is loaded and displayed on the screen.

2. Click on the PLAY button in the Transport Window, or press 0 on the computer’s numeric keypad.

The tutorial will run, and the second line of the MIDI indicator should show the sent events.

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If this is not the case, see if you have enabled the modem port or the printer port in Global Preferences. If you have not, enable the port to which your MIDI interface is connected.

Autoload Song

You can select a song with which Logic fun is automatically loaded. This song can contain your own preferred song settings and window layouts.

Proceed as follows:

1. Create a new song.

2. Adjust the song settings according to your preferences.

3. Save the song with the ﬁle name “Autoload” (quotes excluded).

To save the song, select “Save” in the ﬁle menu and enter “Autoload” in the dialog box.

You can also create an alias for any song, and start Logic fun directly by double-clicking the alias.

Start Logic fun automatically

You can have Logic fun open automatically every time your Macintosh starts up. If you want, you can also have a song start automatically.

Proceed as follows:

1. Create an alias of Logic fun, or the desired song.

2. Drag the alias with your mouse into the folder “Startup Items”, in the system folder.

Logic fun will be started up automatically the next time you turn your system on.

Logic fun is now properly installed and conﬁgured for your system.

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3.3 MacOS/Win: Differences

Logic fun for Macintosh and for Windows is basically the same. The controls for both versions are practically identical. However, because of some differences between the operating systems, there are some slight variations in Logic fun between the two platforms.

When you ﬁrst look at it, you will notice that we have used two symbols to identify the Macintosh and Windows versions:

This symbol identiﬁes a function that is only on Windows.

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Keyboard and Mouse

Unlike the Macintosh mouse, a Windows mouse has a right mouse button. Also, the position of some special keys is slightly different between the systems.

There is a table with explanations for the symbols used in this book for hot keys. This is located in the section, Hot Key Symbols.

Look at the table and note which keys and/or mouse functions for Windows are replaced and how.

Function Logic fun

Multiple selection S + click S + click Mouse copy func-

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Windows

‚ + mouse ç + mouse A + mouse

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S + mouse C + mouse O + mouse

Key Commands

The predeﬁned function codes for menu items are, as usual, displayed directly behind the menu item. In addition, you can deﬁne your own function codes for almost all of the Logic fun functions. These are also displayed in the menus.

Exchanging Songs Between Mac and PC

Unlike Windows, Macintosh does not use ﬁle extensions. You can, however, transfer songs back and forth between Macintosh and Windows versions without any problem. When you are transferring a song from a Macintosh to a Windows version, it is important that you add the ﬁle extensions, which are discussed above in the section named File Extensions. You can do this either on the Macintosh or on the PC, when you are ﬁnished.

Songs created with Logic fun for Windows can be opened in Logic fun for Macintosh under “Import.”

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The menu bars of Logic fun for Windows and Logic fun for Macintosh are similar. While the Macintosh version has local menus in the different windows, the main menu of the Windows version changes accordingly.

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This chapter introduces you to the features of Logic fun by using examples. It touches upon all of Logic fun’s important functions. You will learn, for instance, how to arrange a song, record a sequence, or prepare your arrangement for printing.

In order to follow the examples you should:

install Logic fun

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have a General MIDI tone generator or an equivalent multi-

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timbral device connected to your computer’s MIDI interface.

4.1 Adapting the Tutorial Song

As you work through this chapter and the next, use the provided tutorial song. This song is conﬁgured for general MIDI tone generators. Of course, you will not have any problems using the song with tone generators that do not follow the GM speciﬁcation. The only difference when using a non-GM device, is that you will have to set the sounds and the MIDI channels manually the ﬁrst time you run the song, and you may have to transpose some tracks. If this is necessary, be sure to save your changes, so that you don’t have to redo your edits.

Load the Tutorial Song

You can start the Tutorial Song by

double-clicking the “Tutorial” song icon in the Logic fun

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folder, or

starting Logic fun, call up File> Open, and choose the Tutorial

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You should now be looking at the following screen:

Arrangement window with tutorial song

General MIDI Tone Generator

The program change, volume, and pan settings for this song are optimized for GM tone generators, and are transmitted to your device via MIDI. This happens automatically, if you play the song from the beginning. These settings are found in a separate sequence at the beginning of the song. Since delays can occur with some synthesizers when they receive program change data, you should then mute this sequence.

To mute the program changes, select the mute tool from the toolbox, and use it to click on the sequence named “GM SetUp”. The sequence is now shown reversed, and a small circle is now in front of the name.

Non GM, Multi-Timbral Tone Generators

If you do not have a, you need to consider the following points: One prerequisite is, for example, that the sounds listed in the table are available. If necessary, ﬁnd similar sounds in your own device.In addition, the drum kit’s note assignemt needs to match that of the GM drum map(previously Roland drum map), otherwise, the percussion passages will be reproduced with the wrong drum sounds. Adjust the appropriate reception channels in your multi-timbral synthesizer, and assign the listed sounds speciﬁed in the table. If you need to rearrange

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your Drum kit, consider the percussion instruments listed in the table, as well.

Sounds and MIDI Channels

MIDI

Function Sound Possible Name Vol Pan

Ch.

1 chord combination

piano/E piano

2 bass normal E bass Pick Bass, Rock

3 accents muted E guitar Mute Guitar, Slap

4 melody long dying

away melodic

sound 5 carpet string section Slow Strings, Pad 90 0 6 accents wind section Brass Section 80 L 7 solo ﬂute-like solo

sound 10 drums GM-compati-

ble drum set

Electric Grand, LA Grand

Bass, E Bass

Guitar Synthbell 100 0

Stream, div. “Solo”

GM Kit 110 0

110 0

127 0

127 R

120 0

Drum Kit

Here is a list of percussion instruments used by the tutorial song, and their locations. (C3 = No. 60).

Note Instrument

C1 Kick D1 Snare (normal) E1 Snare (hi) F1 Tom lo F#1 HHT closed G1 Tom mid

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G#1 HHT closed

short A1 Tom hi A#1 HHT open C#2 Crash D#2 Ride E2 Ride Bell

Since transposition and relative volume are only automatically correct with GM sounds, you should let the song run through a couple of times, and see how it sounds with your instrument, after you have assigned compatible sounds. Go ahead and try opening Window > Mixer and use the faders to set the volume, if needed.

Starting the Song

You probably want to listen to the Tutorial Song ﬁrst. Just push

≠ on the numeric keyboard. To jump back to the beginning of

the song, push ‰, on the numeric keypad, twice.

4.2 Overview

After you open the tutorial song, you will see the following components on the screen. This example is on a Macintosh:

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Catch Button This is where you control

the Catch function of Logic fun. With Catch turned on, the screen follows the song position.

Main menu bar This is where you ﬁnd

global functions, e.g. for saving and loading songs or for opening various windows.

Bar ruler The bar ruler displays

MicroLogic’s time axis for you; here you can set markers with the mouse, or jump to any desired place in a song.

Arrange area, with sequences A track

may contain any number of sequences. Sequences contain the actual data, such as notes, controller data, etc. The data can be edited in a variety of ways.

Zoom buttons If you click on the

telescope buttons, you can alter the magniﬁcation factor of the window’s contents and thus adapt to your screen.

Transport window The transport

window performs the same functions as the transport ﬁeld, but can be located at any desired point of the screen and is variable in size. A “slider” permits rapid approach from far removed song positions.

Track column It is in the track column

that you determine the MIDI channel for each track. It is likewise here that you can swap tracks, insert them or delete them.

Toolbox You can select a particular tool

from this box in order to be able to edit sequences, notes or other data in a variety of ways.

Sequence parameter box The

sequence parameter box is where quantization, transposition and other aspects of the playback for a sequence can be non-destructively edited.

4.3 Tracks and Sequences

To start with, Logic fun offers the usual elements found in a Windows or Macintosh program—the main menu bar, and various windows that you can open and close, move and adjust to size. After you load a song, you should see the Arrange window, as seen above. This is where you record and arrange your songs. Like a multitrack tape machine, Logic fun also works on the

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basis of tracks. You can see and access the tracks in the Arrange window.

Narrow objects known as “sequences” are found on the tracks. A sequence represents an individual recording, or “take”. Each time you record, a sequence will be created in the track you recorded to. The sequence is like a container, so to speak, which contains the actual MIDI data. This data can be notes as well as control data, program changes, or even sysex for your MIDI tone generators.

Tracks with sequences

You can see that with Logic fun, there are many more possibilities than with a traditional tape machine.

Information Track and Instruments

Take a closer look at the “track plan”. On track 1, you can see the sequences “A intro”, “B groove”,

and subsequent entries. “No Output” is displayed in the track column of track 1. This is a “dummy track”, which does not contain any notes. The sequences on this track are only markers for the various song parts and, for the time being, are empty. As you continue to work through this section, you will learn about other advantages to using an information track in your own songs..

Instruments for the tutorial song are found on the remainder of the tracks: piano on track 2, bass on track 3, guitar on track 4, and so forth.

The MIDI channel for each track is visible in the track column. In addition, an icon is displayed there for each track. This shows which instrument is in use.

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4.4 Transport Functions

The second, smaller window, which Logic fun shows after loading the song, is the Floating Transport window. It is laid out like the control surface of a tape machine, and is used for operating the Play and Record functions. In addition, you can change the tempo settings and engage Cycle.

Let’s start the song. Instead of clicking the Play button, you can also press = on your numeric keypad.

You can hear that the song is not completely arranged, and still contains some inconsistencies. As you continue to work through this chapter, you will ﬁnish arranging the song, add a few details, and correct any mistakes.

In this section, you will learn to start and limit passages, and listen to places in the song—in short, to “navigate” in the song.

Try out the buttons in the upper row of the transport ﬁeld.

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You already are familiar with functions from tape machines or cassette recorders.

Start Song Positions

There are several ways to jump to speciﬁc song positions. In the upper ﬁeld of the Arrange window, you can see the bar

ruler.

Click at various places in the lower ﬁeld of this ruler; you

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immediately jump to that position. At the same time, a gray line appears. This is the song position line (SPL)—in the most generalsense, it is comparable with the position of the tape on a traditional recording device.

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Engage Play. Now click on the bar ruler, and hold the left

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mouse button. You can move to any position, and listen by moving the song position line.

If you know to which location you would like to go, you can enter this position directly with the “locators”. To the right and next to the transport buttons, Logic fun shows the current song position, in both absolute time and as musical measures.

Click on the song position indicator, and hold the mouse

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button. Place the song position at “17 1 1 1” and start playback. Logic fun now plays starting at measure 17.

Display Current Song Position

If you manually enter song positions, the window view that you see will not necessarily correspond to what you hear. You can, however, guarantee that these two things will always match.

Click on the catch button on the upper left in the transport

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ﬁeld, and the window excerpt follows the song position line again.

The window viewwill update, as soon as the song position line leaves the visible ﬁeld, only if the catch function has been enabled:

Zoom a Window Excerpt

You can view the entire song in the window by using the two telescope buttons on the upper right edge of the window:

Click on the left half of the horizontal zoom button until you can see all of the sequences in the window.

Cycle Mode

In cycle mode, you can cause a section of the song to repeat for as long as Play is engaged, in order to edit a sequence, for instance, or record new tracks in a speciﬁc section of the song. Two “locators” can be used for this. These are position markers

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that mark the left and right boundary of a loop. They are found directly to the right of the bottom row of transport control buttons.

First, turn on the cycle mode. To do this, click on the cycle button in the Transport window. It is now displayed blue.

Pay attention to the cycle bars in the measure ruler:

You can move this by grabbing it in the middle. The right and left boarders can be changed bygrabbing one of the bottom corners of the bar, and moving it. When Cycle is engaged, pressing Stop twice will take the SPL to the beginning of the cycle zone, rather than the beginning of the song..

Selection

Let’s become more familiar with the selection options. In order to edit objects in Logic fun—be it sequences or notes—we have to ﬁrst select them. All functions and operations are carried out only on those items that are highlighted or “selected”.

Click on a sequence. The sequence will highlight, indicating

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it is selected. Let’s go one step further by selecting several sequences.

Hold S down, and click on Anwältin: second sequence.

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This is additionally selected.

While pressing the S button, click on the gray area, keep

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the mouse button pressed and drag a “lasso” over some other sequences.

The selection is now reversed—all sequences except for those

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Try out the selection functions with other sequences. You are now familiar with the most essential Logic funn techniques. In

4.4 Selecting Objects, you can learn more about the selection functions.

Quantize

Quantizing is the rhythmic correction of notes, by means of a grid. Logic fun thereby moves all of the notes exactly to their correct grid positions. We will test this by using the “Groove Real-time” sequence as an example. The timing in this sequence is slightly off, so you will use quantization to correct it.

You can hear this most clearly by enabling the Metronome.

To do this, click on the metronome button in the Transport

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window. It is on the lower right. This is how to enable the metronome.

Logic fun now sends a metronome note on channel 10 to your GM tone generator. Solo the drum sequence, as described above. You can now hear that the groove is not completely clean.

In the Sequence parameter box, click-hold in the line Qua.

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From the resulting ﬂip menu, select the setting 16D Swing, and release the mouse button. The quantizesetting is now displayed in the Sequence parameter box. If you play the sequence now, it sounds rhythmically perfect.

Go ahead and try out other quantize values, for example 16,

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24, or 7-tuplet, in order to hear the effects of quantizing

Look at the quantize settings of the various song parts. You will notice that the swing factors—characterized by the alphabetic character—are chosen differently. The groove factor can therefore be varied so that choruses sound like they have more swing in them than verses do, for example.

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Loops

Loops are automatic repetitions of a sequence. The loop function enables you to repeat a passage as many times as you wish, without having to copy it.

Let’s add a cabasa to the tutorial song. This cabasa is only in the chorus and in section C, but is no longer in the grove section. A sequence by the name of cabasa is already on track 10; however, it is still muted.

Click on the sequence with the mute tool. The sequence is

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unmuted, and selected.

Now turn the loop in the Sequence Parameter box to ON. You should now see the following screen:

This sequence will now be repeated until the end of the song. Of course, we want to stop it before then.

This is how it works: a loop is repeated until it comes across another sequence on this track. To “turn off” the cabasa at the desired place, place an empty sequence at the beginning of section C.

Select the pencil tool, click in the cabasa track at position 25 1 1 1. Logic fun inserts a new, empty sequence. The screen should now look like this:

The cabasa will stop playing at measure 25. Finally, we will copy the new cabasa part to the groove section. While pressing the S key, click on the cabasa sequence, and

the “stop” sequence. They have now both been selected. In the Windows version, press the ç key. In the Mac version

press the O key. Click on the cabasa sequence, and drag the

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entire section to measure 33, while keeping the modiﬁer key pressed. The entire passage, including the stop sequence, will be copied, and you’re done.

The Toolbox

In the toolbox, you may select the desired editing tool, by clicking on it with the mouse. In the Windows version, you may select a second tool with the right mouse button.

Mouse Arrow

Using the mouse arrow—the standard tool—you can move sequences onto other tracks, or to other positions in the Arrange window.

Let’s insert a B part in front of the groove section of the Tutorial song. Half way through the section, we will transpose the B section by a semitone. To do this, the groove part must ﬁrst be moved back eight measures:

Press the mouse button and rubber band select all of the

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groove section sequences. Grab them, and drag them eight measures to the right. The position display in front of the information line serves as a reference point. The information line should read “41 1 1 1” when you release the mouse button.

The arrange area should look something like this:

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Undo

Did you make a mistake, like not selecting all of the sequences, or did you move them to the wrong place?

If so, this is a good time to become acquainted with one of the most important functions in Logic fun: “undo”. With the “undo” function, you can always undo the last editing step.

Select Edit> Undo. The sequences will be reset to their orig-

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inal positions. You can now put them where you want.

Copies of Sequences

We will now copy the section “B theme” to the empty area created when we moved the “groove” section..

Rubber band select the sequences of the “B groove” section. Press ç (Windows) or O (MacOS) and click-hold on one of the selected sequences. Move the mouse to the right. A copy of all of the selected sequences is now dragged with the mouse pointer. Set these to measure “33 1 1 1”, where they will ﬁll the space left by moving the “groove” section. The newly created sequences will have the names of the originals, with the text “*copied” appended to the end of the name. You decide whether or not this extension should appear in the sequence’s name by going to the

… Place an X in fthe checkbox to the left of the line “Add ’Last

Edit Function’ to Sequence Name”, if you want a description

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of edit operations to edited sequences. If not, remove the X from the box.

Scissors

Now, let’s cut the sequence we just copied in half, using the scissors tool. By doing this, we will then be able to transpose the second half of the section, while leaving the ﬁrst half in the original key.

Rubber band select the sequences that were just copied.

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Select the Scissors tool by clicking the scissors symbol in the

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toolbox. The mouse pointer is now displayed as ascissors within the Arrange area.

Click on one of the selected sequences, and hold the mouse button down. If you hold the mouse button down, and move the mouse left or right, you can adjust the exact edit position by means of the information line. Choose the position “37 1 1 1”, which is measure number 37. When you release the mouse button, the sequences are cut. Now, you can transpose the second half of the section.

Rubber band select measures 33 to 49, to select the corresponding passages.

Transposition

Look at the parameter Transpose in the Sequence Parameter box. Itcontains an aserisk (*). This means that the selected sequences already show different transposition values. Don’t worry, the sequence parameters always work relatively; therefore, the transposition differences are maintained.

Grab the asterisk in the transpose line, and move the mouse

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upward until the value “+ 2” is displayed.

Release the mouse button. The passage has now been trans-

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Place the song position line to measure 37 and listen to the result.

It does not sound particularly good, we still need to do some ﬁne-tuning.

The percussion sounds somewhat strange at ﬁrst. This is because you unknowingly transposed the percussion sequences, causing the drum note placement to shift. You will have to undo the transposition for the percussion tracks. To do so, selected the drum sequnces, and drag the “+2” transpose setting down, until the line is empty. This indicates no transposition.

Also, the bass in the copied B-section is only a loop that was not transposed, because it is merely a pointer on the real sequence, which was not affected by the edit. Therefore, we will have to copy the the original bass sequence to that location and transpose it.

Your First Recording

The ﬁnal exercise in the Arrange window is to make your ﬁrst recording. To make it fun, you can play a solo over the Csection. There is already a ﬂute solo there, this, however can certainly be replaced by a better solo. Since you may not play the solo perfectly on the ﬁrst try, we’ll set Logic fun so that you can record several “takes” from which you may select your favorite.

Step One: Delete the old solo.

Select the eraser from the toolbox and click on the sequence

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“Flute”. It will be deleted.

Now you can preset the cycle and record parameters. You willprobably want a bit of lead in, before the solo starts, to get ready to play. You therefore need to extend the cycle to be longer than the actual recording, that is from 23 1 1 1 to 33 1 1 1. This gives you two extra measures before section C, which starts at measure 25.

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If you would like to hear the metronome via MIDI:

Open the Options > Settings > Recording Settings window.

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Enable MIDI click. The metronome is sent on channel 10—the drum channel.

Conﬁrm by clicking OK.

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Let’s Record!

Click in the track list on track 8—the one with the small ﬂute

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icon. This selects it as the recording track. You can now play the ﬂute sound from your MIDI keyboard.

You can select other tracks to try them out—Logic fun auto-

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matically addresses the right instrument (MIDITHRU). Finally, switch back to track 8.

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the numeric keypad, or by clicking on Play. If the solo in E major is difﬁcult for you, transpose the “MIDITHRU” simply by transposing -4 to C major. “MIDITHRU” always appears in place of a sequence name in the Sequence parameter box, when you click on an empty space in the Arrange window. Any settings you make to the Sequence parameter box now will be applied to any subsequently recorded sequences.

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recording by clicking * on the numeric keypad, or by pressing Record.

The count-in of one measure, starts, then the cycle zone will play repeatedly and Logic fun will record. You can play your solo now.

Let Logic fun continue running. After reaching the right

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cycle point (measure 33), the SPL will jump back to the left cycle point (measure 23). At measure 25, the recording continues and you can record some more notes if you like. Press the Stop button when you’re done.

Saving the Song

Here’s how to save the tutorial song, with your new solo:

Choose File> Save As…, and enter a new name for the song

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to be saved as, for instance, “Tutsolo”. When using Windows, Logic fun automatically assigns the extension “. LSO”.

Load the initial tutorial song for further excercises.

4.5 Event List

In the event list, you can see all MIDI events of a sequence displayed as an alphanumeric list.

Open the Event List for the sequence, “ﬂute”, by double-

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The status column displays what type of event it is. Besides the notes, the sequence contains other types of events. You can view only certain types of events by using the ﬁlter buttons for various types of events.

Click on each of the buttons, except for the one showing a slider at the bottom of its range, so that they are displayed in dark gray.

All that is left in the event list is the control change events.

When ﬁnished, enable the view for all of the types of events

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again. As you click on each button, the events of that type will re-appear in the list.

We will now insert two program changes in the solo, in order to change from a ﬂute sound for the solo in the ﬁrst half,to a synthesizer sound for the second half..

The solo begins at measure 25. First, we place the program change for the ﬂute at measure 25.

Set the song position line to 25 1 1 1 in the Arrange window

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or the transport window. In this way, you determine the position for the event to be inserted.

Select the Pencil tool, and use it to click on the program

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change symbol. (In the Windows version, you may simply click with the right mouse button on the Program change button in the Event List).

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A program change is inserted at position 25.

The program number is in the VAL column. Set this to 73 on a GM tone generator. If you are not using a GM tone generator, ﬁnd a program change that can choose a ﬂute sound.

Now, we will inset a second program change:

Put the song position line to position 29 1 1 1, and click on

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the 88 symbol again.

Choose value 87 with GM tone generators, or a program change that selects a synthesizer solo sound.

Switch to the arrow tool again. Filter the view for all event

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types, except for the program change events.

Your event list should look like the following:

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If you play the solo now, the second half will have a different sound. The next time it plays through, the program change at the beginning of the solo, switches again to the ﬂute sound.

4.6 Matrix Editor

The Matrix editor can be compared to an Arrange window for notes. Unlike the Arrange w indow, notes in the form of bars are shown, instead of sequences.

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This picture shows the Matrix window for the sequence “Strings C”.

Open the Matrix editor by holding the ç button

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(Windows) or the O button (Macintosh), and doubleclicking the sequence “Strings C”.

You can see a keyboard along the left edge of the Matrix window. By using this keyboard, you can see the pitch of the notes in the display. A chord is represented by a group of overlapping bars. You can easily recognize that the note lengths of the second chord are unequal. Also, there is a wrong note in the 4th chord.

Look at this sequence in the Event List as well, by choosing

Windows > Open Event List. These inconsistencies are not so

easily recognizable. Close the event list window again.

Selectnotes from the ﬁrst chord by rubber band selecting it.

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Now, grab the lower right corner one of the selected notes,

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and drag it to measure 26, so that the end of the bar connects with the beginning of the next chord.

Any edit to the length of one note, will affect all other selected notes equally in the Matrix editor.

Repeat the process, to lengthen each chord so that it comes

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up to the beginning of the next. This will create a legato effect on playback. Choose a larger zoom level to better be able to edit the events.

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The wrong note should now be deleted.

Select the eraser from the toolbox, and use it to click the

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short note at position 28 1 1 1. The note will disappear.

You are now done editing the strings sequence. Practically every sequence in the tutorial song contains slight incongruities, which you can easily repair in the Matrix editor. Select one or two more sequences and edit them as you did with the String part.

You will probably notice a big difference when optimizing the lengths of bass sequences.

4.7 Score Editor

Note events can be represented as notation, and can be edited in the Score editor. You can simply use the Score editor, as well as the other editors, to correct MIDI events.

Open the Score editor for the sequence “Bass theme”, by

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The representation of notes is indeed “mathematically correct “, however, it’s currently barely readable—transposition, key, and a lot more must be edited. Let’s go ahead and shape this sequence so that it is ready to print.

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Display Parameter Box

Click the check box in the left parameter area next to the term “Bass theme”. This opens the Display Parameter Box.

Style

The Display Parameter Box contains two functions that you can use effectively to correct the representation of notes. One of these is the style. There are 3 preset styles for the most commonly used transposition of display.

From the Flip menu “Style” select the style “Bass”. The score looks better immediately:

Text

For printing purposes, you may want to name the note system. Of course Logic funLogic fun allows you to input text in the Score editor.

Select the text tool from the toolbox and click onto the ﬁeld

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above the clef. A text input box opens. Type “Bass” here, and press R. The text will appear above the notation system; you can move the text in small increments with the mouse.

Yoiu can change the appearance of the text by using Options>

Score Font.

Print

If you have connected and installed a printer onto your computer, then you can immediately print the displayed page.

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In the File menu, choose the menu option Print, and conﬁrm by clicking OK.

In a few minutes, you should be holding a printout of the page in your hands.

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This chapter summarizes Logic fun’s general operating functions. But ﬁrst, a quick word about this manual.

5.1 Conventions of this Manual

Menu Functions

Menu functions are written in this font: Function. For functions which can be reached via hierarchical menus, the

different menu levels are described as follows: Menu > Menu

entry > Function.

Key Commands

When a function can be operated by a key command of the same name, you will see this symbol at the side of the text. If names differ, or if a function is only available as a key command, its name will be printed like this: Key Command.

Options and Parameters

The options you can set from the Preferences, and the parameters in dialog boxes are printed like this: Parameters.

Different parameter values are printed like this: Parameter value.

Detailed Explanations

 Sometimes, detailed explanations will be given for things which you don’t necessarily

need to know about to understand how to use Logic fun. These are printed in this smaller font.

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5.2 The Mouse

Basic functions

Unless stated otherwise, the left mouse button is the one you should use whenever “the mouse button” is mentioned.

Clicking

Place the mouse pointer on the object (button, input ﬁeld, etc.) and press the mouse button once.

Double-clicking

The same as clicking on an object, but you press the mouse button twice, in quick succession. You can set the appropriate time-span for this in the System Controls.

Grabbing or Click-holding

The same as clicking on an object, but you keep the mouse button held down.

Moving or Dragging

Grab the object and move the mouse (click-holding) to the desired position.

Mouse Input

Checkboxes

Checkboxes are square boxes which become “checked” when you click them to activate an option (or function). Click them again to remove the “check” and deactivate the option.

Pull-down Menus

Pull-down menus open when you grab certain input ﬁelds or buttons. You make a selection within the menu by highlighting

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the desired item and releasing the button. If you want to choose an item which is outside the visible section:

move the mouse over the top or bottom edge of the menu;

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the further you move it, the faster you will scroll through the menu.

on MacOS: hold down the S key as you do this. You can

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then let go of the mouse button and use the scroll bar on the right of the pull-down menu to scroll through it. When the highlight reaches the entry you want, release the S key

on Windows: click using the right mouse button. You can

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then let go of both mouse buttons.

Mouse as Slider

You can set practically all the numerical parameters, (even note values or names) by grabbing the parameter value and moving the mouse up or down. If the parameter is made up of several separate numbers (e.g. song position), you can adjust each individually.

Using the Mouse for In/Decrementing

All the parameter values which can be set using the mouse as a slider (and even some of the ﬂip menu parameters) may also be increased or decreased in single units by

on MacOS: clicking on the top or bottom half of the value

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while holding down the ç key.

on Windows: clicking with the left or right mouse buttons

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while holding down the A key.

Numerical Input

Double-clicking on a numerical parameter value opens an input ﬁeld. The previous value will be highlighted, to allow it to be overwritten by a new entry. You can also use the mouse to make a partial selection in an input ﬁeld so that only the high-

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lighted part is overwritten. As long as the input ﬁeld is open, all the keys may be used for inputting data only, and may not be used for key commands.

… by arithmetic

At any time, you can enter numbers by typing in an arithmetical operation, e.g. “+2” or “-5”, which then simply changes the current value by that amount.

… as ASCII-symbols

You can also input numbers as ASCII symbols: just put a ` or " in front of it, and the ASCII code will be input as a number. For example:

"! gives 33 "a gives 97

This function is particularly useful for entering text in SysEx strings.

Text Input

You input text names in the same way as numbers, but you only have to click the name ﬁelds once to allow input.

Numbered Names

As you might expect, you can give any number of selected objects the same name. If the name ends in a number, the number will automatically be incremented by 1 for each object. This allows you to name all the sequences on one track quickly.

Disabling automatic numbering

To turn off the automatic numbering, place a space after the number at the end of the name. All the selected objects will then end in the same number.

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Tools and the Toolbox

Logic fun allows recorded data to be handled graphically. This means that you don’t have to carry out operations by inputting commands via number tables, but rather by manipulating graphic “objects”.

When editing objects graphically, you always have two tools available at the mouse pointer position: one is already active, the other is activated by the right mouse button (Windows) or by holding down the C key (MacOS).

You change the currently active tool by clicking on the toolbox. The mouse pointer then adopts the shape of the tool you click on, so that you can tell what its function is by looking at the mouse cursor: the Eraser is used for deleting, the Scissors for cutting and the Glue tool for merging objects. To assign a tool to the right mouse button (C key on MacOS), click on the desired tool in the Toolbox, with the right mouse button (C key depressed on MacOS).

Effective Range of the Tools

Tools are effective only in the working area of the window

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they were selected from (you can deﬁne individual tools for each opened window).

A tool basically affects the objects you click on. If the clicked

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object is already selected, the tool operates on all other selected objects as well.

Selecting Tools

You select the tool you want to use by clicking on it in the toolbox, either with the left or the right mouse button.

Info Line

When operating many of the tools, an info line appears in the window for as long as the mouse button is held down. This info

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line provides useful feedback about the type of operation you are performing.

During operations involving arrange objects, the line will look something like this:

From left to right, the Infoline displays: operation, mouse (or arrange object) position, arrange object name, track number, and length of the arrange object.

During operations involving events, the line looks something like this:

From left to right, the Infoline displays: operation, mouse (or event) position, event type, event MIDI channel, ﬁrst data byte (i.e. the pitch for notes), second data byte (i.e. velocity for notes), and for notes: length of the note.

The Tools

Pointer

The Pointer is the default tool. The mouse cursor also takes on this shape outside the working area when you are selecting from a menu or inputting a value. Within the working area the Pointer is used for selecting (by clicking on objects), moving (by grabbing and dragging), copying (by holding down the O (Mac), or ç (Windows) key and dragging) and editing lengths (by grabbing the bottom right corner and dragging). Grabbing and dragging anywhere in the background allows you to “rubber band” multiple objects.

Pencil

The Pencil is used to add new objects. You can also select, drag, and alter the length of objects.

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Eraser

The Eraser deletes clicked objects. When you click on a selected object all of the currently selected objects are deleted (as if you had used the B key).

Text Tool

The Text tool is used to name arrange objects or add text to a musical score.

Scissors

The Scissors are used to split arrange objects, e.g. before copying or moving individual sections.

Glue Tool

The Glue tool is the opposite of the scissors: all selected objects are merged into a single object, which is given the name and track position of the ﬁrst of the objects on the time axis.

Solo Tool

Grabbing with the Solo tool allows you to listen to only selected objects during playback. Moving the mouse vertically also triggers any events the cursor touches, even when the sequencer is stopped.

Mute Tool

Clicking on an object with the Mute tool stops it from playing and places a dot in front of its name, to indicate that it is muted. You can unmute it by clicking it again with the tool. If multiple objects are selected, the setting of the object you’ve clicked on applies to all selected objects.

Zoom Tool

The Zoom tool allows you to zoom in on a section by “rubberbanding” it, right up to the maximum possible window size. To revert to normal size, single-click on the background with the

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tool. You can also access this function via other tools by holding down the ç (Mac) or A (Windows) key.

Velocity Tool

In the Matrix editor, you can use the V tool to change the velocity of notes.

5.3 Window Functions

The basic functions of the Logic fun windows are the same as those in other Macintosh, and Windows application programs. However, the display options in Logic fun’s windows are far more extensive.

In Logic fun, you can open different combinations of windows (even several of the same type) and adjust each one individually. All open windows in a song are constantly updated. This means that the windows update to follow the song position. Also, any alterations that you make in one window immediately update the display of all the other windows you are working with.

Working with Windows

Opening and closing Windows

All Logic fun windows can be opened via the Windows main menu. After each menu item you are given the relevant key command, which allows you to open the window without using the mouse. You can open as many of the same type of window as you like.

Every time you use the Windows menu have a quick look at the key commands—that way you will soon memorize them. You may also deﬁne your own personal key commands.

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Window Functions

You close windows by clicking on the close symbol in the top left (Mac, key command: Cw) or right (Windows, key command: A£) of the windows.

If you hold down the O key as you click, all the windows of the active song will be closed.

Setting Window Size

You adjust window size by pulling the lower right-hand corner of the window, as with any window in the Finder.

As is usual for Windows, you can change window size by positioning the mouse over a Window edge, or corner and pulling.

Maximizing window size

The windows maximize button, in the upper right corner of the window, toggles the window between its maximum size, and the size it was before you clicked on the button (Windows >

Zoom Window).

Selecting the Working Area

Scroll Bars

The scroll bars are situated along the right and bottom edges of a window, if you can only see one section of the working area in either the vertical or horizontal dimension.

You can move the visible section by clicking the arrows or grabbing and dragging the scroll slider. There are two things to keep in mind:

The size of the scroll slider in relation to the size of the entire

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X/Y Element

The X/Y element is situated at the bottom left corner of the window. By grabbing and dragging it you can move the horizontal and vertical window section, as if you were dragging both scroll bars simultaneously.

Page Scrolling

Use the key commands Page Up, -Down, -Left and -Right to scroll one page up, down, left or right, as if you had clicked in the grey region above / below the vertical scroll bar, or to the left / right of the horizontal scroll bar.

The key commands Page Top, -Bottom, -Left most and -Right most take the visible section of the working area to the top, bottom, left or right, just as if you had grabbed one of the scroll sliders, and moved it to one of its extreme positions.

Zooming

The telescope-shaped zoom symbols in a window are used to zoom in and out of the working area display. Clicking the smaller side of the telescope symbol reduces the size of the objects in the display, allowing you to see more objects in the same space (zoom out). Clicking the larger side enlarges the objects in the display (zoom in). In some windows, only one telescope is available, and this then handles both horizontal and vertical zooming simultaneously.

While “zooming”, the top left selected object is kept in the visible region, whenever possible.

Zooming Selectively

Zooming In On One Section of the Screen

To enlarge a section of the screen to the size of the whole window, use the Zoom tool to “rubber band” the section you want. You can do this more than once.

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Reverting to the Previous Zoom Setting

Click on the background with the Zoom tool. This will return the zoom to the previous setting. If you have used the Zoom tool multiple times, then each click on the background will take the zoom back one step, until you reach the original zoom setting for the window.

You can call up the Zoom tool functions with any other tool (other than the pencil) by holding down the ç (Mac) or A (Windows) key. The pointer will display the previous tool, until you press the mouse button. As long as the button is pressed, it will display the Zoom tool.

Adjusting the Size of the Window Elements

If you move the mouse over the top left corner of the Arrange area, the mouse pointer turns into a crosshair. By dragging it, you can now adjust the size of the bar ruler, Arrange area, and Track list. You can also adjust the window elements in the Score and Matrix Editors using the same method.

Menus

On Windows, Logic fun offers many different menu options, depending on which window is currently active. Logic fun follows the standard Windows convention of offering a Main program window that contains any other local windows. All menu items are displayed along the top of the Main window, and the available menu items will change, depending on which local window is currently active.

On Macintosh, most of the functions are not found in the main menus, but appear as local menus. These are always in the menu bars of the Logic fun windows where they are required.

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Key Commands

Some menu functions can be accessed via keystrokes or combinations of keystrokes. The keys (or combinations thereof) are shown on-screen next to the menu entries.

Please note that you may assign practically any function to any key you like using the Key Commands window.

Menu Options with “…” in their Title

Three periods, like this: …, next to the menu function title indicate that the entry does not activate a function immediately, but instead opens a dialog box.

Dialog Boxes

In Dialog boxes, you can hit the highlighted button by pressing the R key, or by clicking with the mouse.

As is typical in Windows, you can toggle from button to button with the JK cursor keys.

Window Types

You can open as many windows as you want, including several of the same type. Even though the contents of all the windows are constantly updated, only one of the windows ever has the status of being the “top”, or “active” window. This is the window which is in the foreground when several normal windows are overlapping.

The active window can be recognized by its fully-shaded title bar. The main distinguishing characteristic of this window is that key commands only affect this window, and not any of the others.

The only “ﬂoating” window offered by Logic fun is the Transport window. This window will never be obscured by another window, even if you click on a window behind the ﬂoating Transport.

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Relationships Between Windows

The two buttons at the top left of a window (shown here), determine its relationship to the song position (Catch), or to other windows (Link).

Catch

The Catch function means that the visible section of a window follows the song position as the song plays.

If the button with the walking man on it is lit (i.e. if it is blue), the window’s display follows the song position as the song plays. If the button is not lit, the display does not update, even when the song position line moves past the right edge of the visible portion of the window.

Automatic Catch Disabling

If you move the visible section manually, Catch is automatically switched off, so that the new section you have chosen doesn’t then disappear, as the display is updated to the song position line.

Autocatch

The function Enable Catch when Sequencer starts (Options >

Settings > Global Preferences…) always enables Catch mode

whenever you press play or pause.

Link

Clicking on the link button activates Link mode. This means that the window always shows the contents of the object selected. Selecting a different sequence in the Arrange window will cause the display of the linked editor to switch to that sequence.

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5.4 Selection Techniques

Whenever you want to carry out a function on one or more objects, you have to select the object(s) ﬁrst. This applies to arrange objects and individual events alike. Selected objects are either highlighted, or will ﬂash (in the Score editor).

The selection status of an object applies to all windows. An object selected in one window will also be selected in all other windows that display that object. Changing the top window doesn’t affect the selection (as long as you don’t click on the background, which deselects everything. Be sure to click on the window’s title bar).

Selecting Individual Objects

Individual objects may be selected by clicking on them, and deselected by clicking in the background, or by selecting another object.

Selecting Alphabetically

The T key selects the next alphabetical object. In the Arrange window pressing any letter key selects the ﬁrst object whose name begins with this letter, providing there is no Key command assigned to this key.

Selecting Several Objects

To select several non-contiguous objects, hold down S as you click them. As you click on subsequent objects, the previous selections are retained. This also works with horizontal or rubber band selection.

Horizontal Selection

To select all objects in a track, click on the track name in the Track list. In the same way, you can select all notes of a certain pitch in the Matrix editor by clicking the relevant key on the screen keyboard.

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In Cycle mode, the above selects only the events within the Cycle zone.

“Rubber-Banding”

To select adjacent objects, click on the background and drag a “rubber band” over them.

All objects touched, or enclosed by the rubber band will be selected.

Toggling the Selection Status

When you make any selection (including by rubber band or horizontal selection), holding down the S key at the same time will reverse the selection status of the objects (Toggle Selec- tion).

Selecting All Objects

To select all objects, select Edit > Select All.

Deselecting All Objects

You can deselect all objects by clicking on the background or using the key command Deselect All.

5.5 Edit Operations

The edit menus for Logic fun’s various windows all take the same form. The ﬁrst item is Undo. Below Undo are the typical clipboard functions(Cut, Copy, Paste) and at the bottom the selection command Select All.

Undo

Undo allows you to reverse the previous edit. In Options >

Settings > Global Preferences, you can disable the warning

message that normally appears when you activate Undo, by checking the Disable safety alert for Undo box.

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The key command for Undo is Cz (Mac) or çz (Windows).

The Clipboard

The clipboard is an invisible area of memory into which you cut or copy selected objects, so that you can paste them to a different position.

The clipboard is independent of any particular song, which means you can use it to exchange objects between songs.

Cut

All selected objects are removed from their current position and placed in the clipboard. The previous contents of the clipboard are overwritten in the process (Cx (Mac) √x (Windows)).

Copy

A copy of all selected objects is placed on the clipboard. The selected objects are also left in place. Here too, the previous contents of the clipboard are overwritten (Cc (Mac) √c (Windows)).

Paste

All objects from the clipboard are copied to the top window. The clipboard is not erased in the process (Cv (Mac) √v (Windows)).

The contents of the clipboard are added at the current song position (if they are events or arrange objects). The song position is incremented by the length of the pasted objects.

In the Arrange window, the contents of the clipboard are pasted to the selected track. If events are pasted in the Arrange window, either a new sequence is created for them, or the events are added to a selected sequence.

Any objects that existed previously are unchanged.

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Clear

With Edit > Clear any selected objects are erased. Clear has no effect on the clipboard and is the same as pressing the B key.

5.6 General Functions of the Editors

Control Output via MIDI

Switching on the MIDI Out button causes MIDI events to be output when they are added, selected, or edited. This allows you to audibly monitor every edit, whether you are scrolling through the Event List (automatic selection) or transposing a note.

Automatic Scroll Functions

… scrolling to the Song position

The button with the walking man on it activates the Catch function, which means that the window view will always show the current song position.

… scrolling to the selected event

The key command Scroll to Selection allows you to automatically move the window, so that the ﬁrst of the currently-selected events is visible.

Deleting Events

The basic techniques are the same as for deleting sequences:

the B (delete) or ∂ key deletes all selected events,

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Changing Display Levels in Score

In the Score Editor, double-clicking on the background takes you to a higher display level. Unlike the other editors, in the Score Editor individual events can also be edited in higher display levels. Double-clicking on a staff (at an empty point) takes you back to a lower display level.

Don’t worry if all this sounds a bit confusing. In fact, the whole process of changing levels is much easier to grasp if you simply try it yourself. Read ﬁrst, then experiment with the various editors in one of the Tutorial songs.

5.7 Key Commands

You can activate all Logic fun’s functions via key commands. The Key Commands window is where you assign key commands to the keys.

Whenever this manual mentions a key command, this refers to a command which can be called up by a keystroke. This allows you to completely customize Logic fun to suit your own working style.

If any function described in this manual is also available via a key command with the same name you will see this symbol.

Your personal key assignments are stored (together with the settings of the Preferences pages) in a ﬁle called

“Logic Preferences” in your Macintosh’s System folder (in

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the Preferences folder, to be precise).

“Logic.PRF” in your PC’s Windows folder

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You should:

make a backup of this ﬁle at another location on your hard

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disk;

make a ﬂoppy disk backup of it in case you need to use a

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Key Commands

When you install updates to your version of Logic fun, your personal key commands will remain unaltered.

Special Keys

Some keys have special functions:

The modiﬁer keys S, ç, and A (Windows), or ç, O,

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and C (Mac) can only be used in conjunction with other keys.

The backspace key (D) has the ﬁxed function “delete

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selected objects”. It can only be assigned a function in conjunction with the modiﬁer keys.

The + and _ keys increase or decrease any selected para-

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meter value in single units. However, they can be assigned different functions which overwrite this function.

Key Commands Window

The Key Commands window can be opened by selecting

Options > Settings > Key Commands.

All the available key commands are listed on the right side. They are grouped according to the following categories:

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(Arrange various sequence Editors) Functions for the Arrange window

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Functions for the Score Editor (Score window)

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Functions for the Event List Editor (Event window)

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A symbol in front of the description of the function indicates that the function is only available as a key command. To the left you can see the currently assigned key.

Assigning a Function to a Key

Click the Learn Key button.

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Select the desired function with the mouse.

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Press the desired key, if necessary together with the desired

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modiﬁer key(s) (S, ç, and A, or ç, O, and C). If you want to make another assignment, repeat steps 2 and

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3. Deactivate Learn Key!

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Deleting Assignments

Click on Learn Key.

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Use the mouse to select the function whose keyyou want to

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delete. Press D.

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To erase more assignments, repeat the second and third

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steps. Deactivate the Learn Key button.

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Checking the Function of a Key

Deactivate Learn Key, and press the key whose function you want to check. The function will be automatically selected, and displayed in the middle of the window.

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Filtering the Display

You can use the Hide Used and Hide Unused buttons to hide all the used, or unused key commands.

All the other Key Commands window functions remain available for you to use.

Finding Key Commands

Due to the large number of possible key commands, it can sometimes be difﬁcult to ﬁnd a particular one. For this reason, Logic fun offers a Find function, which lets you search for a key command by typing in its name (or a part thereof).

Simply click in the white space to the right of the Find: button and enter the string of characters you’re searching for. The window will display only those key commands containing that character string (plus the selected command, even if it doesn’t contain that string) if you then click ﬁnd or return R.

The Key Commands window remains active, even in Find mode; you don’t have to leave this mode to continue making assignments.

The Find function is not case-sensitive, it makes no distiction between upper, and lower case characters.

The Hide Unused and Hide Used buttons work in combination with Find. This means you must switch off both in order to see all the commands that ﬁt the search criteria, regardless of the commands’ current assignment.

The Find: button switches Find mode off and on. The button is automatically activated if a string of characters is entered.

5.8 Song Administration

All events, other objects and settings (apart from the Preferences and key commands) are components of a song. Songs are handled in the File menu.

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New Song

When you ﬁrst launch Logic fun, it opens a preset standard song. After just a short time, you will have learned how to make your own adjustments to the song settings, and will no doubt want to keep these settings for use in future songs. The best way to do this is to set up your own “default song”, and save it in the same folder as the Logic fun program, calling it “Autoload”.

Autoload Song

If there is a song in the Logic fun folder called “Autoload”, Logic fun will automatically load it when it is booted up. When you’re ready to start work on a new song, simply save the Autoload somewhere else under a new name using File > Save as… and begin. This ﬁle can then form the basis for your new song.

Creating a new Song

If you select File > New, Logic fun checks to see if an “Autoload” song is available and opens it automatically if it is. If not, a new default song is created. If an “Autoload” song is available, you will be asked if another copy of the Autoload song should be made (to avoid accidentally erasing it) or if a completely new default song should be created.

Opening Default Song

If you hold down the O (Mac) or ç key (Windows) while selecting File > New, a new default song called “Untitled” will be opened.

Loading a Song

You use File > Open to bring up a typical ﬁle selection box.

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Checking/Repairing Songs

If you double-click on the display on the Transport which shows the remaining number of free events, the memory will be reconﬁgured. At the same time, the current song will be checked for any signs of damage, structural problems and unused blocks.

If any unused blocks are found—which normally shouldn’t happen—you will be able to remove these, and repair the song.

Saving Songs

When you select File > Save the current song will be saved with its current name intact.

If you don’t wish to overwrite the last version of this song saved under this name (which is what will happen if you just use File

> Save, try using File > Save As…. Here, you can enter a new

name for the song (and select a new directory or even create a new folder). The next time you save using straight Save, the new name and ﬁle path will be used.

Closing a Song

File > Close closes the currently active song. If you have made

any changes since the last time you saved, Logic fun will ask you if the song should be re-saved before closing, to preserve the changes you have made.

Quitting the Program…

Choose File > Quit to leave the program. If you have not yet saved your last changes, you will be asked if you want to do so before quitting (press R to save).

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6.1 Transport Window

The Transport window is a small, ﬂoating window in Logic fun, which contains the controls for operating the playback, cycle, and other transport functions. The Transport window is called a “ﬂoating window”, because it cannot be obscured by other windows, it is always on top.

Display Options

You can open the transport window, if it has been closed, by selecting Windows > Open Transport or çC7.

Indicator Options

If you click-hold on the small downward pointing arrow on the lower right-hand side of the Transport window, a ﬂip menu will appear, allowing you to change its layout.

Legend

Here, you can switch on a description of the buttons and display ﬁelds. We recommend that you take advantage of this,

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especially in the beginning. This way, you will be able to learn the ropes more quickly, and avoid errors.

Position Slider

You use this option to activate the “position-slider” on the bottom edge of the transport window.

The position slider represents the entire length of the song. With this you can jump to any position in the song almost immediately, albeit not very accurately. Click on the slider and hold down the mouse button. When you move the mouse horizontally, the slider will move accordingly. The gray bar tells you where you are in the song, relative to the entire song length. The position indicators and the song position line (see below) are also inﬂuenced by this.

Smaller/Larger

The Transport window can be displayed in different sizes, which you select using smaller/larger. When you start Logic fun, the Transport ﬁeld will be opened at its smallest display size. The parameter Size also allows a direct selection.

Parameter Fields and Indicators

Position Indicators

The position indicators in the Transport window show you the current song position in two different formats.

The lower portion displays Measure Position, in measures, beats, diplay format units and clock ticks. How it is divided depends

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on the time signature, and the Display Format value, which you can also set in the Transport window (see below). Normally, the four ﬁelds would be (from left to right): measure, quarter notes, sixteenth notes, ticks.

A tick is the smallest possible subdivision of a measure in which a sequencer can divide the time axis. In Logic fun a tick is 1⁄ of a note.

Clicking the small gray square button to the right of the indicators sets these to zero.

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Position Markers (Locators)

Logic fun allows you to deﬁne two locator points. This is analogous to the locator points that can be found on some tape recorders. They make it possible to automatically go to, or play certain passages. The locator points, below the position display, are the cycle locators. With these, you can deﬁne a part of the song to be continuously repeated by Logic fun in cycle mode.

Skip Cycle

When you are playing the song you can skip a passage, which is useful for trying out the musical effect of various transitions. Drag out the skip cycle region from right to left in the bar ruler.

If there is already a (normal) cycle region just move the left locator after the right locator. The skip region is shown as a very thin strip at the top edge of the bar ruler.

When the SPL reaches the right locator it skips to the left locator (i.e. the “right” and “left” locators swap positions).

Tip

Skip cycle is a quick way of leaving out a passage in an Arrangement, without having to physically delete it from all the tracks, make a backup, etc. You can also use it when editing, to leave out those parts of the song which you don’t want to be affected by the edit.

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Tempo

The song tempo is shown in beats per minute (bpm). You can set the tempo in increments of 1/10000th of a beat, anywhere from 0.5 to 9999 bpm. The song tempo is then set for the entire song.

You can make changes to the tempo during the song (ritardando, accelerando), using the tempo list.

Tempo List

In the tempo list, you can insert and edit changes in tempo.

You can enter a tempo event at anyposition. The tempo list controls the song tempo, and the current tempo is always displayed in the transport window.

Here’s how to open the tempo list:

Select Options> Tempo > Tempo List from the menu.

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Here’s how you insert a new tempo event:

1. Set the song position (SPL or transport window) at which

you want to insert the event.

2. Click on the Create button in the tempo list window, or

click on an existing tempo event with the pencil.

Tempo events in the tempo list can be edited or deleted, just as they would in the event list (see chapter 6.)

Free Memory

This indicator informs you of remaining available memory, measured in events. If Logic fun warns that there is too little

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Table of Contents

Features

1.1 Multitrack Recorder

1.2 Flexible Input

1.3 Automatic Notation

1.4 GM Supported

1.5 Multimedia

1.6 Graphical Interface

1.7 About this Manual

Sound Cards and MIDI

Logic Audio Device Setup

2.1 MIDI Installation

Interface Connection

MIDI Cabling

Getting Started

3.1 Windows

Getting Started With Logic fun

3.2 Macintosh

3.3 MacOS/Win: Differences

MIDI Tutorial

4.1 Adapting the Tutorial Song

Starting the Song

4.2 Overview

4.3 Tracks and Sequences

Information Track and Instruments

4.4 Transport Functions

4.5 Event List

4.6 Matrix Editor

4.7 Score Editor

Print

Using Logic fun

5.1 Conventions of this Manual

5.2 The Mouse

Basic functions

Mouse Input

Tools and the Toolbox

5.3 Window Functions

Working with Windows

Relationships Between Windows

5.4 Selection Techniques

5.5 Edit Operations

The Clipboard

5.6 General Functions of the Editors

5.7 Key Commands

Key Commands Window

5.8 Song Administration

New Song

Loading a Song

Checking/Repairing Songs

Saving Songs

Closing a Song

Quitting the Program…

Transport Functions

6.1 Transport Window

Display Options

Parameter Fields and Indicators