Voice limiter objects, The voice limiter parameter box – Apple Logic Pro 9 User Manual

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Transposition pop-up menu: Defines the transposition of note events per repeat.

Velocity field: Defines the change in the velocity values of note events per repeat.

Voice Limiter Objects

A voice limiter object restricts the number of MIDI notes (1 to 32) that can be held
simultaneously.

It does this by note stealing—newly arriving notes cause (some of the) currently held
notes to be turned off, once the voice limit is reached.

To create a new voice limiter

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Choose New > Voice Limiter (or use the New Voice Limiter key command).

Normally, you assign a voice limiter to an arrange track, and cable its output to the
instrument object that you want to voice limit. Alternately, you can cable it between the
instrument object that you want to voice limit and an instrument object used to represent
a MIDI Out port.

The Voice Limiter Parameter Box

The voice limiter’s Parameter box offers the following:

Voices field: Defines the maximum number of voices that can be played simultaneously.

Priority pop-up menu: Defines which notes are stolen (turned off ) when the number of

held notes exceeds the limit (determined by the Voices parameter).

Last: The earliest notes (those played first) are turned off first.

Top: The lowest (pitched) notes are turned off first.

Bottom: The highest (pitched) notes are turned off first.

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Environment Objects Reference

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