…and then the bottom Operations panel where we tell it what we would like to do with them down below. The window is essentially split int to two parts: The upper Conditions panel we use to tell Transform what notes/events we are looking to target up top… While MIDI Transform can get quite deep, offering a multitude of very advanced and complex MIDI shaping possibilities, today we will be outlining some of the most helpful and commonly applicable options to speed up our day-to-day workflows. We can even can make incredibly granular editing moves, selecting just certain notes, of a certain velocity, at a particular pitch and transform them in what feels like an endless number of ways. With LPX’s MIDI Transformer we can automate all of these things and more into just a few mouse clicks. All of these things can be cumbersome tasks, even if we aren’t talking about a massive epic song worth of notes and events. We might want to create a velocity crescendo, double/half the speed of a performance or even humanize it (explained below). Or maybe we want to quickly tidy up the tails of notes so they are all of a certain length (for example an 1/8th note). It could be selective velocity moves that allow us to move entire groups of MIDI notes (or just a selected portion of a performance, for example) to a specific velocity value.

I think it’s safe to say we all run into situations where we would like to have some sort of automated or batch editing feature for our MIDI data/performances. But with LPX’s MIDI Transform features we can get many of these types of arduous tasks done in just a few clicks: Getting those extended performances just right or zeroing in on problem areas for complex passages can’t take hours (or days) to get right in some cases. In many cases, manually working Logic’s Piano Roll editor will get the job done, but there are certainly times when editing MIDI performances/events can be a very tedious process. In this week’s episode of The Logic Pros, we will be looking at ways to speed up our editing and song creation with LPX’s MIDI Transform feature.

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