Apple Logic Express 8 - Manual (Page 894)

894 Chapter 38 Working in the Environment
 Show Sends: Removed (always displayed in Arrange channel strips).
 Show I/O: Removed (always displayed in Arrange channel strips).
There are two main reasons why the Arrange and Environment representations of
audio channel strips differ: to save onscreen space, and to provide the tools you need
for music creation, rather than setup tasks.
This separation is made even clearer—for all audio, instrument, and external MIDI
channels—by the use of two terms throughout the manual:
 Track Parameter box (in the Arrange window, to illustrate that the channel is
controlling the corresponding track).
 Object Parameter box (in the Environment, where you are interacting with the
underlying object).
Opening and Closing the Object Parameter Box
By clicking the triangle at the top left, you can hide all parameters except the object
name and type. This reduces the box to its minimum vertical size.
You can also hide or show the Inspector by choosing View > Inspector (default key
command: I).
Common Parameters
The following parameters are shared by all object types:
Name
The name of the object is shown next to the triangle, and can be selected for editing
by clicking on it. You can also edit the name by clicking directly on the object with the
Text tool.
Object Type
The object type is shown in brackets, and cannot be edited.
Display Filter for the Track Assignment Menu
Turn on the checkbox beside Icon to make the object visible in the Arrange area’s Track
Assignment menu (see “
Assigning Tracks to Environment Objects ” on page 202). This is
obviously useful for instrument objects, but can also be handy for other objects such as
arpeggiators, touch tracks, and chord memorizers.
Once made visible, you can Control-click an Arrange track, and reassign the track to
one of these objects. The object, in turn, can be routed into an instrument channel, for
example.
The upshot of this, is that selecting an arpeggiator object (routed into a software
instrument channel) in the track list, results in a real time arpeggiation of the
instrument sound when you play chords on your keyboard while Logic Express is
running.