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404Logic Pro User Guide
Change articulations using the shortcut menu
1. In Logic Pro, select the notes in the Piano Roll Editor.
2. Control-click a selected note, then choose Articulation from the shortcut menu.
3. Choose an articulation from the submenu.
You can also change the color of notes by articulation. See Change colors in the Piano Roll
Editor in Logic Pro.
Lock position in the Piano Roll Editor in Logic Pro
There may be times you want to protect some events in MIDI regions from being moved;
for example, when they are synchronized to visual events in a movie. You may have already
created the music for the scene but then are asked to increase the tempo to match several
cuts of different camera angles in the corridor. Changing the tempo moves the events,
resulting in events being out of sync. Instead, you can lock the events to an absolute
(SMPTE) time position to protect their position and keep them in sync with the tempo.
To lock the time position of events, Advanced Editing Options must first be selected in
the Advanced preferences pane.
Lock the position of one or more selected events
• In Logic Pro, choose Functions > Lock SMPTE Position in the Piano Roll Editor menu bar
(or use the corresponding key command).
This command ensures that events that fall at a particular absolute time
position—1hour, 3minutes, 15seconds, 12frames, for example—remain at this exact
position regardless of tempo changes.
Unprotect protected events
• In Logic Pro, choose Functions > Unlock SMPTE Position in the Piano Roll Editor menu
bar (or use the corresponding key command).
Mute notes in the Piano Roll Editor in Logic Pro
You can mute individual notes in the Piano Roll Editor, letting you experiment with different
note choices in a melody, or different chord voicings, for example.
Mute or unmute notes
In Logic Pro, do one of the following:
• Click one or more notes with the Mute tool.
• Select the notes, then click one of the selected notes with the Mute tool.
Muted notes are shown without color.