Apple Logic Express 8 - Manual (Page 448)

448 Chapter 17 Editing MIDI in the Hyper Editor
Working With Event Definitions
The event definition determines the event type shown on each Hyper Editor lane.
Events are shown as vertical beams on each lane, aligned with a particular time
position in the Bar ruler.
There are many ways of altering the way the beams are displayed, making it easier to
create or adjust particular event types (see “
Changing the Grid and Beam Display ” on
page 439). You can also alter the grid resolution for each event definition lane in a
hyper set, which is very useful when creating drum patterns. The height and horizontal
size of the lanes is adjusted with the zoom bars.
Selecting and Creating Event Definitions
You can select an event definition by clicking the name column with the Pointer or
Pencil tool.
This allows you to create new definitions, and to view and change the event definition
parameters in the Inspector (see “
Changing Event Definitions ” on page 451).
To select multiple event definitions:
m Shift-click on each event definition with the Pointer or Pencil tool.
You can make concurrent changes to the parameters of several selected event
definitions (see “
Adjusting Multiple Event Definitions Simultaneously ” on page 453).
To create a new event definition:
1 Select an event definition lane by clicking on one of the names shown.
The selected lane is highlighted.
2 Choose Hyper > Create Event Definition (or use the corresponding key command,
default: Option-Command-N).
This creates a new event definition lane. The original, and all subsequent, event
definition lanes are moved downwards. The new event definition parameters are
identical to the originally selected event definition.
3 Adjust the event definition parameters in the Inspector (more on this shortly).
You can use the Auto Define feature to automatically create event definitions for
specific event types in your project.