Auto pause song

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Level 1

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Auto pause song

Hi
I need to run a song that automatically stops completely at various points and can be resumed with the play button. In other words I want it to play a section and not play the next section until I tell it to, the pause time is random and I wouldn't have enough time to load a new song.

cheers

MacBook pro, Mac OS X (10.6.2), Logic 9.1.0

Posted on Mar 11, 2010 8:37 AM

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Answer 1

spheric

Level 3

699 points

Mar 11, 2010 8:52 AM in response to Alansan

Create a MIDI master track and insert a stop event.

I can't remember how exactly, but it was easy to find in the manual (HINT).

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Answer 2

vtTotal

Level 1

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Mar 11, 2010 10:55 AM in response to spheric

Hi,

You may want to check out page 47 in the user manual for Logic Pro 8(applies the same for 9).

http://manuals.info.apple.com/en/logicpro_8_gettingstarted.pdf

It talks about handling midi events.

Hope this information helps,

Vicente Tulliano.

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Answer 3

Alansan Author

Level 1

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Mar 11, 2010 12:00 PM in response to Alansan

Thanks guys for your swift response, not sure what a midi master track is but here is I I've done it:

In a new track (software or external midi) open lists and create a meta event at the point you want your track to stop. Change its value (Val) to 52 (stop playback) and your track will stop there. Unfortunately it stops a fraction before the event so you can't restart it as it immediately stops again. I got around this by inserting gaps and creating markers, then using ctrl . keystoke (go to next marker) and pressing play from there.

Its a bit of an ugly fix so if anyone can come up with a more elegant solution I would be eternally grateful.

can't see anything in the manuals that helps with this...but it is a big manual 😉

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Answer 4

Mar 11, 2010 12:34 PM in response to Alansan

Meta 52 followed by a +go to next marker+ is exactly the way to do it.

Christian

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Answer 5

chorleyman

Level 4

1,420 points

Mar 11, 2010 2:12 PM in response to christianobermaier

Yeah, that occurred to me, thinking about the stop meta event - you can't just 'press play' to restart playback unfortunately - I think the solution you've got is about as elegant as it gets.

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