imported project from logic pro 9. the audio tracks from project show waveform. i recorded new audio tracks in X but the track shows blue with line. see image below. how can i get it to show the waveform like the other tracks? must be something easy...
thanks
dan
Logic Studio, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
The refresh overviews is in the audio file menu of the file editor (not track editor).
I think your problem is one of the first not fixed by resetting the Record Delay to zero, you sure the record level is hot enough, what if you enlarge the tracks a bit.
That's the "Recording Delay"... right? In Logic's Preference/Audio/ the same place you set the Buffer I/O settings and Input/Output device.
There's been reports of several values off the scale in Imported Logic 9 projects, the location is in the Inspector.
Select the Audio track with the flat waveform and look at the Inspector values for that track, anything look out of place?
thanks but where is Audio File Menu of the file editor? I don't think Apple did a extensive job with the help file, I can't find any information in there.
Nothing happens if I enlarge the tracks. I used the same microphone and input and settings as the ones from Logic 9 that look fine..
thanks,
dan
I don't know... I'm on Logic 9 it's in a different place in X, I copied that answer from someone else using the program.
I imagine it means the Audio File Editor, double click on the Audio File and it will open the Audio Editor, it's probably in one of the menus related to that.
To clarify:
Logic Pro X
I have also experienced this issue as a result of having recording delay set other than zero, and rectified it by returning to 0.
Otherwise,
[Command 8] or
Window > Open Project Audio, select audio files that appear flatline, click 'Audio File' menu at top left, click 'Refresh Overview(s)'.
No way I know of to auto-enable this.
milezhc wrote:
Is there a way auto enable refresh overviews?
It is always enabled, except when the recording delay setting is not zero. I heard of this only once or twice, in all other cases it is people messing around with the setting and forgetting about it, or people recording at such low levels that the waveform becomes so small that it is no longer visible without zooming in. The latter has nothing to do with the overviews.
Hi,
Did you load/import a Logic-9 project into Logic-x? No one knows why but Logic-x will some times corrupt some of the song parameters. Recording Delay is one of them as is one or two parameters in the Inspector, (Delay, Transposition).
I think a few have reported Recording Delay changes on new Logic-x projects but that hasn't been confirmed.
It's also real easy to do with a magic mouse, if you are on the pref page and the cursor is over that slider and you move your finger. Even if you are just moving the mouse from the top of the window to the bottom, as you go over where the slider is (say, to change the buffer). I know I've adjusted it way out many times without meaning to, only discovered it had changed when I went to make the next recording.
This still doesn't make any sense though. Every computer has a delay when we record therefore that option is there to compensate for it. So apparently when you compensate for it you no longer can see the waveform so this is a loose loose situation!
PcoRhodes wrote:
This still doesn't make any sense though. Every computer has a delay when we record therefore that option is there to compensate for it. So apparently when you compensate for it you no longer can see the waveform so this is a loose loose situation!
It's there to compensate for poorly written audio drivers that do not report position correctly..... and yes, it should show the waveform no matter where the recording delay is set. The fact that it hasn't been fixed for years and years leads me to think it's a part of Logic that has never been rewritten or something that can't be overcome because of Logic's original design. Yes, it's a bug of a type.
...and that's why this bug is a blessing in disguise: when no overview is drawn at least you know right away that the offset is not at 0.
Instead of fixing the "no overview bug" they should lock that slider with a modifier key.
Eriksimon wrote:
...and that's why this bug is a blessing in disguise: when no overview is drawn at least you know right away that the offset is not at 0.
Instead of fixing the "no overview bug" they should lock that slider with a modifier key.
Absolutely!
🙂
Dan, do the tracks play?
If so, you may have the "Recording Delay" in Logic's Preferences/Audio set to something other than Zero!
Should always be at zero.
thanks for the response - they definitely play, they were recorded properly. and yes the delay value is 0. any other ideas? thanks, dan
logic pro x: audio track not showing waveform
