Logic Pro 9 Instrument muting on new takes

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mik.kanrokitov

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Hi
I'm a new Logic user, ie 7 days - so sorry if this is a rookie question. I'm running 9.1.4 on a new Mac under Lion.
Have been multi-tracking both software and live instruments successfully, but suddenly it's like I've switched a setting somewhere and live instruments don't record properly.
I set up a new track, record a take, but the track in the Arrange Window is not audible. But it obviously exists because I can see it and hear it with the Prelisten button in the Sample Editor Window. Can't Solo it either. This is affecting two song files, so a global setting? Suspect it's something very embarrassingly obvious! 🙂 Tried to use the correct terms here to describe
 
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Sounds to me as tho the recording mode has changed to a mode where the last "take" is automatically muted. Are you recording in a loop mode, creating multiple takes??
 
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Thx - actually, no, just one single take ie a two-bar guitar drop-in on a track that already has other audio regions on it (which I can hear and seem to work fine). So I think it is the individual audio region not the track itself, and anything I appear to be creating going forward.
 
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Thx Doug, no, that also visibly greys the region out, which is not the case - the offending region is active on an active track. (ie Track not muted either). But I hadn't happened upon that key command yet, so thank you.

I have just successfully recorded a guitar line on another new completely new file, so it appears not to be hardware either, just related to the song file I've already created. So maybe not as global as I first thought.
 
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Your volume level on that track is very low (I'd suggest getting a hotter signal to record in general). My guess is the volume is so low that the the threshold setting on the noise gate is not being trigger to allow the audio to pass. Try bypassing the noise gate and see if that make a difference.
 
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From your screenshot, if I understand well, the problematic region(s) are on track 13?
Maybe you could try to bypass all the effects on that track, as pointed out by Doug Zangar, the signal looks rather weak at first glance and could be altered significantly by your plugins... Additionally you could also use some gain (in the region's Inspector) to pad the volume of the problematic regions...
Just a curiosity, what is the purpose of setting to MIDI channel 10 your track #13?
 
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Aha. Well, bingo anyhow, because after bypassing, I relaunched and everything is behaving normally whether noisegate is bypassed or not and the track is completely as expected. ?!? Maybe it just cleared something squiffy. Brilliant, thank you.

Thanks guys for your comments and interest, much appreciated.
 
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<Just a curiosity, what is the purpose of setting to MIDI channel 10 your track #13?>

Thx Atlas, Actually, no reason, tbh I just hadn't noticed that bit. As mentioned I've only been using Logic a few days and am working through manuals and building tracks as I go, as well as de-constructing other files I've been given. The interface is kind of big and easy to overlook the downright obvious...

If you hadn't mentioned it I probably would have noticed sometime around next July 🙂
 
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