Q: You gotta be kidding. Nobody knows Apple Loop key change
This is all over the web and I have just surfed 2 hours vithout finding an answer. In the loop browser "Play in D" sounds good and also "Play in C" sounds good. How come there is no WAY to get those sounds in those keys on a track. Without helpful software making them all all back to one key? Yeah there are some pich stuff in upper left corner, sounds like Mickey Mouse. This is the FUNDAMENTAL thing using loops. To get natural real sound and then get the chords as the song goes -not what is Logic Pro default key.
Now I can only use bad sounding MIDI loops, guz I can move them around in Piano roll.
All these questions of this same problem and I am still without means to do that. Somebody wrote "learn to use chord tracks -read the manual!" There is nothing about "Chord Tracks" in the manual.
Please, let's solve this once and for all.
Thank you.
McCole
Logic Pro, Mac OS X (10.5.8)
Posted on Jul 26, 2011 10:05 AM
Perhaps you're not understanding some basic concepts in Logic's Loop Browser...
The middle column titled "Key" indicates the original key the loop was recorded in. Some are in C, some in D some in A etc etc. The further you go from the original key, the more the loop will have to be "altered".
You can always select "Original Key" bottom right - that'll let you hear the loop as it was made. Then try the loop in different keys to see if will tolerate the transposition you require.
There *is* a section about the Chord Track (page 1050 in the Logic Pro 9 User Manual). Chords you enter there will transpose the loops accordingly. It's one of the options in Global Tracks.
I'd say this is solved - it never was a problem. :-)
PS: Definition of the Chord Track on page 1309:
Chord track One of the global tracks. Contains chord symbols that can be derived from
MIDI regions or created with the mouse. These chord symbols may also be inserted into
the score. The root note of the chords determines the transposition (pitch shifting) of all
Apple Loops, and can also affect the playback of MIDI regions.
Posted on Jul 26, 2011 4:08 PM