Moving regions to a track, Moving regions between projects, Resizing regions – Apple Logic Pro 9 User Manual
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The Delay parameter in the Inspector is mainly used for creative musical purposes, such
as rhythmically offsetting musical parts (regions). It can also be used to fix timing problems
that may occur for a variety of reasons. Some examples of these are:
• The attack phase of the sound is too slow. A good musician will automatically
compensate for this by playing the notes slightly early. With very slow sounds, you may
need a pre-delay of over 100 ms to even them out.
• The sound generator is reacting too slowly to the incoming note-on messages. Older
multi-timbral sound generators often take tens of milliseconds before outputting a
voice.
• The delay in output is not constant, as it is dependent on the order of notes arriving
at the external MIDI sound generator. You should therefore try pre-delaying rhythmically
important tracks by as little as one tick—it can work wonders on timing.
Moving Regions to a Track
The Region > Move Selected Regions to Selected Track command (also available as a key
command, default assignment: Shift-Command-T) moves all selected regions (from
different tracks) onto the selected track. The time positions of all regions are retained.
Moving Regions Between Projects
If you move a region from one project into the Arrange area of another, the region is
automatically copied, in much the same way that Mac OS X automatically copies files
when dragged and dropped between hard disks.
Resizing Regions
You can reduce or extend the length of any region by dragging the start or end point of
the region, thus determining what part of the source (audio file or MIDI events) is played
back in your project.
The data in regions is never deleted when they are reduced in length; playback simply
stops at the end of the region.
To resize a region
1
Select the Pointer or Pencil tool, then place the mouse pointer over the lower-left or
lower-right corner of the region.
The pointer changes to a Resize pointer.
2
Drag the corner to the left or right.
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Chapter 13
Creating Your Arrangement