For example, If I wanted to select every second hihat hit and modify the velocities together (which I do all the time). I’m not very good with the logical editor. This has got to be pretty easy to program, I just haven’t taken the time to sit down and really learn it.
If anyone could suggest a preset or what parameters to enter, I’d appreciate it!
Not at my DAW right now to give exact details. But one of the included (MIDI) Logical Editor Presets is an example for modifying every other note. I seem to recall it is obvious which one it is by the name.
I tried modifying “Delete each 5th note” but the problem is that it’s not limiting the action to the notes I have selected, rather when I execute the script, it selects every 2nd note from the entire sequence (i.e. all the drums, not just hats). Obviously I need to enter a parameter that will limit to my selection, but I’m at a loss for how to do that.
Ahh, you want to add an additional AND criteria to the top section of the LE that only Selects Selected Notes (if that makes sense). Can you post an image of the LE so we can see what you are doing.
OK, that is pretty much what I would have done. And you’re right it doesn’t give the expected result. But it seems to be related to the Function at the bottom being set to Select. If for example I change the Function to Transform and add in the bottom section for it to change the MIDI Channel number to 3 it works as expected - none of the non-Selected notes change Channels and for the Selected notes every other one is changed to 3.
So you have the general concept correct but in this specific case (selecting from only the already selected) it doesn’t work. Not sure if this is the expected behavior or not - but it seems wrong to me. I’ll play around with it some more. As a workaround you could remove the ‘already selected’ criteria so it will work on all the notes. Then cut up your MIDI Parts so a Part only has Notes you want to process or only notes you don’t want to Process. But that is pretty ugly & not always possible.
If you are doing this to accent specific notes there is an alternate approach where instead of basing it on every other note you base it on the position within the bar. Take a look at the attached LE Preset which increases the velocity +15 for Notes on beats 1 and 3. FYI this works fine on Selected Notes only. I have another one that increases beats 2 and 4 by +8. Stick those in a Macro & add as a Key Command and you get one-key accenting where any notes not on a beat (or within the range you set) will be at the original Velocity and the beats accented accordingly.
I’m interested in seeing how this pans out, as I would use something like this a lot.
Instead of having “select” down the bottom, is there a way to “deselect” the unwanted notes from the selected sequence? So doing what you aim, but the reverse?
Forgive me if I’m preaching to the choir. I’m also not in front of logical editor right now.
I had a similar issue a while back: needing to edit just one instrument in a drum part. I’m afraid, not wanting to break my concentration by working out a logical edit, I took the easy way out; shrunk the part to it’s minimum to easily select just those notes, copied, deleted and pasted them to a new part.
I fully intend becoming more experienced with the LE, so thanks Rodger for your ideas.
