Apple Logic Pro X - Manual (Page 891)

Chapter 25 Preferences, project settings, and key commands 891
MIDI settings
General MIDI settings
The General pane of the MIDI project settings contains the following settings:
When Show Advanced Tools is selected in Advanced preferences, the following are available:
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Send After Loading Project: “Scrubbing with audio in Tracks area” checkbox: Select if you want to
simultaneously scrub MIDI and audio regions in the Main window.
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Instrument Without MIDI Thru Function pop-up menu: The instrument selected here will not pass
events through the computer when the instrument is assigned to the selected track. Normally,
you would set the No Output instrument here (chosen by default).
If your master keyboard doesn’t have a Local Off setting, you can use this feature to avoid
unwanted note doubling when recording:
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With multi-timbral sound sources, assign the instrument (usually channel 1) that plays the
part that is heard when playing with the computer turned off.
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With mono timbral sound sources, assign the instrument that represents the sound-
generating part of your master keyboard.
In either case, you should turn down the volume control of your master keyboard whenever
you’re recording tracks for any other instrument.
It’s possible to disable MIDI Thru for any MIDI track in the Main window, by simply disabling
the Record Enable button beside the track name.
When Additional MIDI Options is selected in Advanced preferences, the following are
available:
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Send After Loading Project: “Used instrument MIDI settings” checkbox: Sends the active instrument
MIDI settings automatically after loading a project.
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Send After Loading Project: “All fader values” checkbox: Sends all Environment fader values
automatically, once a project is loaded.
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“SysEx with MIDI Thru function” checkbox: Incoming SysEx messages are passed through the
computer to the MIDI outputs, along with other MIDI data. This is particularly important when
using hardware programmers, as you can immediately monitor parameter changes to the
synthesizer you’re editing.
If you want to record SysEx dumps, do not select this checkbox. It rarely makes sense to divert
dumps through the computer unless you want to record a dump and simultaneously transmit
it to a second device of the same type.