![]() ![]() Moving back into Logic, I increased the Arrange window's vertical zoom to maximum and the horizontal zoom to minimum. I switched As Icons on in the Finder's View menu, selected the small Icon Size in the View Options, and then chose By Name from the Arrange submenu. I then opened up a folder in the Mac's Finder containing the WAV files, and sized that to cover the top half of the other side of the screen. The best way I found of doing this was to set up an Arrange window with a single audio track in it, taking up the top half of the left-hand side of the computer monitor. So I decided to use Logic to create larger files out of groups of loops, allowing me to burn the 250 main loops in the library to a single CD. It would be easy to just drag 99 loops to a CD-burning program and burn one per track, but with typical loops this wastes most of the space on the disk. With audio sample CDs you can listen through to prospective samples while, say, doing the dishes, which means that you don't have to waste studio time on this often rather uninspiring task. The only downside, as far as I am concerned, is that it's only available in WAV format - although the WAVs are great for working in Logic, it makes the CD a little tiresome to audition. I was recently recommended a great sample CD of funky drum loops, George Pendergast Alt.rockdrums. The special Key Command Crop Objects Outside Marquee Selection acts on any region that falls partly within the Marquee area, and removes any part of it that lies outside. Solo, whether by tool or Key Command, doesn't automatically solo the regions within the Marquee area you need to split and select them first, which you can do by clicking with the Pointer tool, as already mentioned. Examples include Set Locators (both rounded and normal versions), Mute Objects (which simultaneously splits them at the Marquee boundaries), Cut, and Copy. Many of Logic 's Key Commands also honour the Marquee area. (To split the regions within the Marquee area without moving them, be sure to click on the top region otherwise the whole selection will be moved to the click location.) Conveniently, drag-copying does not result in the original regions being split. Similarly, you can use the Text tool to simultaneously rename the new split regions, and you can use the Pointer tool to move or copy them by dragging. The tools typically have their regular effect as well for example, clicking within the Marquee area with the Mute tool will both split and mute the portions of all regions within the Marquee area. Once a Marquee area has been created, clicking within it with many (though not all) of the other tools causes all the regions within the Marquee area to be split at the Marquee-area boundaries. ![]() In particular, you can use the Control key to achieve finer resolution, but both normal and fine-mode resolution depends on the current zoom setting. Marquee selection exhibits the same 'snap' behaviour that you get when moving and sizing regions. Notice that the first tool in the Toolbox is the Pointer, which means that you can quickly switch between the Pointer and Marquee tools using the Set Next Tool and Set Previous Tool Key Commands, while still having available an alternate tool (the Mute tool for example) accessible by holding the Apple key. The Marquee tool is available only in the Arrange window (which is the only place it really makes sense), and it is the last tool in its Toolbox, indicated by a plus sign - this is also the cursor symbol when the Marquee tool is active. You can, of course, select multiple regions with Logic 's Pointer tool, but to select parts of multiple regions that fall within a specific time range, you need the Marquee tool. It does the same thing in Logic, but in this case one dimension spans time, while the other dimension spans multiple tracks. If you've spent any time using graphics software, the Marquee tool will be no stranger it is used to select a two-dimensional region within a graphics window. ![]() The Marquee tool in Logic can take a little getting used to, but once mastered it can be used to simplify many common operations, as well as to accomplish tasks that can't easily be done in other ways. Once you find out all the things you can do with the Marquee tool, you'll wonder how you ever lived without it, so we offer some advice on how to put it to work in your projects. Sonically, all these tracks are identical. ![]() The third track shows the same edit when the original four-bar region was copied rather than looped. The track below it shows what happens when the Marquee slices the second iteration of the loop after the first and third bars - the three new slices become real copies, and another real copy follows them, looped as before. The top track here shows a four-bar sequence for which looping has been turned on. ![]()
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