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925Logic Pro User Guide
Exchange Environments
Overview of Exchanging Environments in Logic Pro
One of the main advantages of the Environment is that it lets you customize Logic Pro
to fully control your MIDI studio. This can, however, present a problem when you share
projects with other musicians, or use different studio setups. It also presents a problem
when you return to older projects after you’ve changed your studio. Logic Pro offers
several functions to make these transitions as easy as possible.
Whenever you want to exchange Environments between projects, there is a source project
containing the desired Environment, and a destination project with an Environment that you
want to change. The destination Environment must be in memory, and must be the active
project (one of its windows must be active). The source project can also be in memory, or it
can be a file on your hard disk (or any other media). Keep the following in mind:
If there are two projects in memory, Logic Pro assumes the active project is the
destination, and the other project is the source.
If there are more than two projects in memory, Logic Pro assumes the active project is
the destination, and the most recently active of the other projects is the source.
If there is only one project in memory, Logic Pro opens an Open dialog, allowing you to
select the source project.
Import Environments into Logic Pro
You import an Environment into Logic Pro using an Environment patch. A single-
purpose Environment patch might be an editor for a specific piece of MIDI equipment,
an Environment for a single MIDI processing task (such as a MIDI LFO), or a complex
arpeggiator/delay line configuration.
Import an Environment patch contained in a single layer
In Logic Pro, choose Options > Import Environment > Layer, then choose a layer in the
dialog that appears.
This layer—including all objects in the layer—is inserted in the destination project, at the
same layer position (the same place in the Layer pop-up menu) that it occupied in the
source project. Any existing layers are shifted as needed.
You can also move Environment objects (including cabling) between projects by dragging,
or by copying and pasting. To make this even simpler, you can combine the objects into a
macro.