Logic Pro 9 Chord track in global tracks may not be a good idea

daveyboy

daveyboy

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I just started using this to analyze a specific simple midi track where I plunk out simple chords for my lead sheets. The problem is that if you change any midi after this is done things can get very screwed up. Drums change, the lead sheet gets out of wack, etc. As much as I love the idea of this feature it seems to be causing more of a nightmare for me. Am I missing something? Even in Doug's tutorial on scoring in Logic he complains about this "feature." I feel it to be safer to input the chord names manually via the chord text function the same way one enters in lyrics. I don't think there are weird things that happen when doing it this way. Am I doing something wrong or missing something obvious?
 
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Yes I stopped using it a while back. Really is a shame the only way to get the chords in is to enter them manually. Especially when the midi window figures out the chords automatically.
 
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Hey daveyboy,

You know my take on it - don't like it. The video shows one of the problems quite clearly. It's too bad the good idea of Logic's chord track has yet to be refined to use as an every day reliable technique.
 
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So I tried to get rid of the chord track in the global tracks which really wasn't possible without screwing up everything midi, and I mean everything. So, I started a fresh project and imported everything minus the global chord track and was able to salvage everything and start over with my chord entering "the old fashioned way."
 
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Don't forget, you can also use the "No Transpose" check box in the Channel Strip Parameters in the Inspector to protect the regions from being affected.
 
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Eli said:
Don't forget, you can also use the "No Transpose" check box in the Channel Strip Parameters in the Inspector to protect the regions from being affected.
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I did forget! Thanks. I'll have to go back to the old project and see if that fixes my midi problems after deleting the chord track.
 
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