Can't hear one audio track in LogicPro
August 3, 2011 6:13 PM Subscribe
Another LogicPro question: What did I accidentally do to one of my guitar tracks that caused it to stop playing back properly?
I’m using LogicPro 8 on a MacBook Pro. I’ve recorded a song with lots of audio and MIDI instruments. Everything seems fine except that one of the guitar tracks (which was working before) has suddenly stopped playing back.
I can still see the audio regions, and I can hear them (though without any effects, like distortion) by going to the Sample Editor. So I know the audio files themselves are still there; they just aren't playing back correctly.
This happened right after I clicked on the “GtrAmpPro” effect for that track. All I did was try to adjust the reverb within GtrAmpPro, and I saw it was “disabled.” I didn’t expect this to have any effect.
The regions also look different now. The top of them is light grey instead of blue, and they have an “O” icon before the file name instead of after it. For instance, the audio files in the guitar region are like this:
Any ideas? I've never seen this happen in LogicPro before, and I wouldn't even know where to look in the manual to find out what happened to the track.
I’m using LogicPro 8 on a MacBook Pro. I’ve recorded a song with lots of audio and MIDI instruments. Everything seems fine except that one of the guitar tracks (which was working before) has suddenly stopped playing back.
I can still see the audio regions, and I can hear them (though without any effects, like distortion) by going to the Sample Editor. So I know the audio files themselves are still there; they just aren't playing back correctly.
This happened right after I clicked on the “GtrAmpPro” effect for that track. All I did was try to adjust the reverb within GtrAmpPro, and I saw it was “disabled.” I didn’t expect this to have any effect.
The regions also look different now. The top of them is light grey instead of blue, and they have an “O” icon before the file name instead of after it. For instance, the audio files in the guitar region are like this:
O Audio 5The other tracks are all like this:
Audio 6 ONone of the tracks in the song are muted or soloed, and the guitar track doesn’t have the volume turned down. I tried soloing the guitar thinking maybe I just wasn't hearing it buried under the mix, but that just confirmed that the guitar is silent on playback. Closing and reopening the application doesn’t solve the problem.
Any ideas? I've never seen this happen in LogicPro before, and I wouldn't even know where to look in the manual to find out what happened to the track.
Response by poster: Yes, that's it exactly! Thank you so much. Problem solved.
Wow, I knew there were lots of keyboard commands that duplicate the on-screen buttons, but I'm surprised that LogicPro doesn't always make the "M" (mute icon) blue when a track is muted!
posted by John Cohen at 7:27 PM on August 3, 2011
Wow, I knew there were lots of keyboard commands that duplicate the on-screen buttons, but I'm surprised that LogicPro doesn't always make the "M" (mute icon) blue when a track is muted!
posted by John Cohen at 7:27 PM on August 3, 2011
The difference is that if you've got several regions on one track, you can mute individual regions, and not everything on the track. The track mute doesn't care about regions. They're slightly different functions. I learned about it the same way as you - random typing, then "wha?" Glad that's all it was.
posted by Devils Rancher at 7:34 PM on August 3, 2011
posted by Devils Rancher at 7:34 PM on August 3, 2011
Response by poster: Oh, I see. I must have had all the regions in that track selected, so pressing "m" on the keyboard had the same effect as clicking the "M" icon.
posted by John Cohen at 8:33 PM on August 3, 2011
posted by John Cohen at 8:33 PM on August 3, 2011
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posted by Devils Rancher at 7:19 PM on August 3, 2011