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Just getting used to using Logic after being a Cubase user for 15 years.
Here's the problem :
Editing a multitrack drum take (not in Logic Take mode, just individual tracks/files). consisting of bass drum, snare, overheads and hi hat. I go through the take to find a good 2 bar loop, moving the cycle marker along to audition 2 bars at a time. I find a loop that seems in time with the click and focus in on it. I notice from the waveform that the Bass drum on beat 1 of the loop does not fall exactly on beat 1, yet I do not hear the Bass drum clipping. The front of the waveform occurs slightly before beat one. So I check that I am not hearing the bass drum on beat 3 - at the end of the loop - no, that occurs outside the loop. So I cut the loop using the scissors and move the loop to new tracks. Now I hear that THE BASS DRUM IS CLIPPED. Just as I thought it would be from looking at the waveforms. Just to check I wasn't going mad, I checked the original take again. It seems that when in cycle mode, the playhead skips to JUST BEFORE the beginning of the cycle!!!
I then imported a stereo drum track into an empty song and discovered that it did it again ie a loop that sounded perfectly OK when heard in cycle as part of a whole take, sounded clipped when heard in isolation.
Obviously, if this is "normal" with Logic, it's a deal breaker of a fault for me, so I'm hoping someone can shed some light on this.
Here's the problem :
Editing a multitrack drum take (not in Logic Take mode, just individual tracks/files). consisting of bass drum, snare, overheads and hi hat. I go through the take to find a good 2 bar loop, moving the cycle marker along to audition 2 bars at a time. I find a loop that seems in time with the click and focus in on it. I notice from the waveform that the Bass drum on beat 1 of the loop does not fall exactly on beat 1, yet I do not hear the Bass drum clipping. The front of the waveform occurs slightly before beat one. So I check that I am not hearing the bass drum on beat 3 - at the end of the loop - no, that occurs outside the loop. So I cut the loop using the scissors and move the loop to new tracks. Now I hear that THE BASS DRUM IS CLIPPED. Just as I thought it would be from looking at the waveforms. Just to check I wasn't going mad, I checked the original take again. It seems that when in cycle mode, the playhead skips to JUST BEFORE the beginning of the cycle!!!
I then imported a stereo drum track into an empty song and discovered that it did it again ie a loop that sounded perfectly OK when heard in cycle as part of a whole take, sounded clipped when heard in isolation.
Obviously, if this is "normal" with Logic, it's a deal breaker of a fault for me, so I'm hoping someone can shed some light on this.