Apple Logic Pro 8 User Manual
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Chapter 36
Synchronizing Logic Pro
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 The Record button in the Transport bar sends the record strobe command to the
tape machine. This also puts Logic Pro into MIDI record mode, and sends an MMC
Play command to the tape machine. Logic Pro doesn’t start until it receives time code
back from the MMC device.
 If you use the Autopunch function, the tape machine goes into record mode at the
punch in locator, and stops recording at the punch out locator positions.
 If you click on any track—not just a tape track—while holding down Control-Shift,
you can individually toggle the record ready status for each track of the tape
machine (selected tracks are switched on, and non-selected tracks are switched off ).
Control-clicking on a track switches all other tracks out of record ready mode. If the
current record track was assigned a tape deck icon (see above), you must not use the
Control modifier.
 The Record Toggle key command is used to toggle record status, if a tape track is the
currently selected record track.
 Following an MMC-controlled recording, Logic Pro automatically creates an empty
MIDI region on the tape track. This is to let you know that a recording has taken
place on the tape machine. This applies to all MMC recordings, including those
controlled by the Autopunch function. If you activate several tape tracks (by Shift-
clicking), the corresponding number of regions are created. If a MIDI region with an
identical start point already exists on a tape track, no new MIDI region is created on
that track. This avoids overlapping regions.
 A double stop command sets the project back to the beginning.
The MMC Record Buttons also offer you a simple way to arm tracks on your tape
machine with Logic Pro (see “
You should finish all MMC-controlled recordings with Stop or Space. Some tape
machines react differently to a series of MMC Record commands. Sometimes, this can
result in Logic Pro showing a track as recording, when the tape is actually playing back
(or even worse, the opposite situation). As such, you should always finish a recording
with Stop or Space, just to be on the safe side.