Apple Logic Pro 8 - Manual (Page 915)

Chapter 39 Working in the Environment 915
 Bus: Lets you choose the ReWire Bus from all available ReWire busses. If a ReWire
application provides bus names, they will be shown. If using Reason, the names of
the instruments available in the Reason Rack will be shown from Bus 6 upwards, in
place of numbers.
 Channel: Sets the MIDI channel of the ReWire object.
Alias
You can create an alias of any Environment object, and it will behave exactly like the
original. In the case of faders, the alias has its own value—which can be different to the
value of the original object. This is particularly useful if using text faders, as they
consume a lot of memory—if you need several text faders of the same name, make
several aliases of one original object.
To create an alias of any object:
m Select the object, then choose New > Alias.
Aliases can be reassigned with meta events. A special fader, known as the alias assigner
(which works something like the cable switcher), is used to accomplish this.
To create an alias assigner:
m Choose New > Fader > Specials > Alias Assigner.
This will create a meta fader, with a -1- definition set to 46.
To use the alias assigner, cable its top output to the alias, and cable subsequent
outputs to the various originals that you want to assign to the alias. If you set the alias
assigner’s maximum range to match the number of originals and its minimum range to
1, you can then connect the next cable to a new alias, and subsequent cables to
originals for the alias. In this way, the alias assigner can be used to assign multiple
aliases simultaneously.