Odd MIDI Recording Bug
I suspect this issue is unique to my setup, since I haven't seen any analogous reports, but here goes:
I recently purchased an Akai MPK249, which is a pretty nice keyboard controller. I've recorded numerous MIDI regions with it without difficulty. But lately, I've noticed this rather bizarre dysfunction where Logic simply will not record MIDI data that it's clearly receiving, since the software instrument being controlled is clearly producing audio.
As a guitarist/bassist, I don't often record MIDI note data, but in my experience, when you're recording MIDI note data, Logic doesn't start creating a region until it receives the first note-on information. But now, that's not what's happening. In fact, with the metronome set to do a one-bar pre-roll, Logic starts creating the region in the preroll.
But, even worse, it often (but not always) doesn't actually record the MIDI note data. Obviously it's receiving the data, because the software instrument on that track is producing output. (I don't think the problem is related to any particular software instrument since I've been able to reproduce it using Logic's native instruments, drum kits, and sample libraries contained in Native Instruments' Kontakt sample player.) And sometimes it will record the note data. It seems that it more reliably records the data if I start recording at the beginning of the project, but it frequently fails even under those conditions.
Also: I can hand-enter MIDI note data in the piano roll interface without issue.
So: Logic is clearly receiving MIDI data, because it's producing output. It's definitely in record mode—the control strip changes color to red, the record button is active, the track in question is record-enabled, and indeed a MIDI region is being created. Just no note data. Sometimes. I'd say roughly 40% of the time no note data is recorded. Sometimes I'll record MIDI data successfully three times in a row, and then without changing anything it will fail three or four times in a row. And then go back to working, without my changing anything other than the playhead position.
Frustrating if you have to have done a decent performance, just to discover it wasn't recorded.
Has anyone else experienced this issue? (I'm guessing not.) Anyone have any ideas as to what could be causing it?
iMac Pro, macOS 10.15
