Copying and moving events, Protecting the position of events – Apple Logic Express 8 User Manual
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Chapter 18
Editing MIDI Events in the Event List
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To add one or more events from the Clipboard:
1
Following a copy operation from another editor, choose Edit > Paste (default key
command: Command-V).
2
A position input box will appear, allowing you to type in a destination position for the
first event. If you press Return, the original position of the first event is retained and
used. The relative positions of other copied events are maintained.
Important:
The position input box is unique to the Event List. Pasted events are not
automatically added at the playhead position, as is the case in the graphical editors.
Copying and Moving Events
You can perform advanced copy and move operations within the Event List. These
allow you to directly swap events, or to merge a group of notes from one section of a
region to the same, or another, region, as examples. For more information, see
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Advanced Note Copy and Move Options
Protecting the Position of Events
There are situations where you will want to protect certain events from being moved.
As an example, several note events may be used to trigger footstep samples that match
an actor walking down a corridor, in a video soundtrack.
You have already created the music for this scene, but have been asked to increase the
tempo to match several cuts of different camera angles in the corridor. Obviously, a
change in the project tempo will move the events, resulting in out of sync footsteps.
Thankfully, Logic Express has a feature that preserves the absolute time position of
events.
To protect the position of one or more selected events:
m
Choose Functions > Lock SMPTE Position (or use the corresponding key command).
This ensures that events that fall at a particular absolute time position: 1 hour, 3
minutes, 15 seconds, 12 frames, for example, will remain at this position when tempo
changes are made.
To unprotect the position of one or more events:
m
Choose Functions > Unlock SMPTE Position (or use the corresponding key command).