Free floating piano-roll always on top

[Ming]

I thought the purpose of the new rip-off piano-roll from the drawer was to make a piano-roll that could float on top always and possible to line up at the channel-strip with it's useful content and skip the track-header that steals territory, but this was not the case. When I use the parameters in the channel-strip with a floating piano-roll, it will disappear like the normal one from the menu. (Actually I haven't been able to figure out the purpose of that new window). To have the channel-strip with it's parameters lined up at the piano-roll would make sense to me though, very useful so I wish for that.

..Or is it possible to make the piano-roll always stay and float on top?
I managed to get the menu piano-roll to show the content of one track and the drawer piano-roll to show content of another simultaneously (2 piano-rolls) and edit and make us of 2 kinds of piano-rolls, but that was not so easy and hardly the intention of the programmer.

 

[Rounik]

Hey,

This used to be possible in Logic 7 and before!! Actually, it's possible to make any window in Logic 8 or 9 always "float" on top. I use a utility called afloat. Works great.

I wrote a blog tip on how to set this up here:
http://www.macprovideo.com/blog/logic-pro/power-tip-enable-window-floating-window-logic

Hope this helps
Rounik

 

[Ming]

That afloat works just great, as if built-in. On a 13" laptop with it's limited space? it's perfect without the track-header. Now I've got the full piano-roll perfectly aligned to the channel-strip with all parameters, FX's and instruments. I wanted that for a long time and now I've got it. Thanks Rounik and ..stay healthy🙂

 

[Rounik]

I hear you!! I love it so much too. I hope the Logic developers reinstate the ability to make any editing window a floating window in a future version of Logic... in the meantime this works great.. and not only for Logic !!

Best
Rounik