Creating Pick Up Measures

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Creating Pick Up Measures

Hi Everyone

For those of you trying to create 'PICK-UP MEASURES', this ones for you!

After searching the forum and the internet, with no joy, I eventually worked out a work around, not necessarily the right way, but a solution, achieving the same effect.

It's actually really simple all you have to do is drag your starting locater to the position where you would like your measure to start and BOB"s you uncle. It will probably do the same if you were to shift your region to to the specifications of your pick-up measure. If there is another way please share but as for now, this is a small contribution to overcome some of the frustration that comes with the score editor in Logic. I've attached an image to show the end result. So good-luck.

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Take care,
Tumahawk

Message was edited by: Tumahawk

Mac Book Pro, Mac OS X (10.5.6), Logic 8

Posted on Mar 22, 2009 9:13 AM

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iSchwartz

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Mar 22, 2009 10:29 AM in response to Tumahawk

Yeah, but don't go dragging the song start into the zero-bar or negative-bar-number area. Even though Logic lets you do this (i.e., move your song start from 1 1_11 to, say, 0 1_11 or even -2 1_11), doing so will corrupt your song. And if you have automation in that song? Forget it. You'll be fubarred in no time.

The safest way to add pickup measures (assuming your songs starts a 1 1_11) is to insert a bar or two at the top (read up on the "insert blank time" function). Afterwards, open the tempo list and restore the tempo event at bar 1 which will get moved in the process. This is VERY important! To do this, hit stop 2x to bring you to the top of the song. Open the tempo list and click the "create" button. Voila.

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Answer 2

Mar 22, 2009 4:02 PM in response to Tumahawk

It sounds to me like you are wanting a pick up measure counting into bar 1 of your Song. Like iSchwartz says --do not adjust your TV Set-- ie do not drag the start point as you describe.

Instead go to Settings>Score Settings>Numbers & Names

Then the middle setting on that window to do with Bar Numbers - adjust *Bar Offset* so that the pick up measure is - 1 for a 1 bar pick up etc

Your Score will then reflect the pick up measure and start at Bar 1

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Tumahawk Author

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Mar 22, 2009 5:12 PM in response to musicspirit

Hi Musicspirit

Looks like you know what I'm on about, I tried your method but it's cutting out the entire measure. I think you're on to something though. What I'm actually trying to score is an upbeat leading into the first measure.
The score is in 3/4 time and I'm trying to create a crotchet beat on beat 3 leading into the first measure and visually have no rests showing in the preceding beats of the pickup measure (Anacrusis). That's why I dragged the start locater to beat 3 of that particular measure, aesthetically it looks right and technically it is where the score starts, but, I do agree it is a bit risky. However I am doing this before any automation is created.
I messed around with the idea that iSchwartz suggested, inserting blank time functions. So instead of moving the start locator I chopped the first 2 beats of the region with the scissor tool and it worked. It also worked by resizing the the beginning of the region so that it started @ beat 3 and kept the start locator @ bar 1, both ways worked and it meant keeping start locator @ 1 which is better than the method I suggested.
So thanks to both of you for your input, hope this string of ideas comes in handy for other Logic user's.

Take care,
Tumahawk

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iSchwartz

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Mar 22, 2009 5:35 PM in response to Tumahawk

Oh, for score editing purposes, yes, just trim the region to lop off two beats (in this case, 3/4).

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Answer 5

Mar 22, 2009 5:52 PM in response to iSchwartz

..just to acknowledge your point iS point about inserting "blank time" - this is something I did not know about and is extremely useful in terms of tempo operations, stopping and starting

graçias 🙂

m s

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iSchwartz

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Mar 22, 2009 6:45 PM in response to musicspirit

De nada, m.s.!

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