Protecting the position of events, Working with event definitions, Selecting and creating event definitions – Apple Logic Pro 8 User Manual
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Editing MIDI in the Hyper Editor
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Protecting the Position of Events
There are times 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 footstep samples. Thankfully, Logic Pro has a
feature that preserves the absolute time position of events.
To protect the position of one or more selected events:
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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:
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Choose Functions > Unlock SMPTE Position (or use the corresponding key command).
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
page 419). 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 “
To select multiple event definitions:
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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 “