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The Project Logical Editor
Combining multiple condition lines
As described above, you can add condition lines by click-
ing the Add Line button to the right of the list. The result of
combining condition lines depends on the boolean And/
Or operators and the brackets.
The bool column
By clicking in the “bool” column to the right in the list, you
can select a boolean operator: “And” or “Or”. A boolean
operator combines two condition lines and determines the
result in the following way:
Ö If two condition lines are combined with a boolean And,
both conditions must be fulfilled for an element to be found.
The Project Logical Editor will only find MIDI Tracks.
Ö If two condition lines are combined with a boolean Or,
one of the conditions (or both) must be fulfilled for an ele-
ment to be found.
The Project Logical Editor will find all parts or events that match exactly
the cycle.
Using brackets
The bracket (parenthesis) columns let you enclose two or
more condition lines, dividing the conditional expression
into smaller units. This is only relevant when you have
three or more condition lines and want to use the boolean
Or operator. This is how it works:
Ö Without brackets, the conditional expressions are
evaluated according to their order in the list.
Here, the Project Logical Editor will find all audio parts and events
whose name contains perc as well as other parts and events (e.g. MIDI
parts) whose name contains drums.
Maybe you wanted to find all Audio parts and events that
either had the name perc or the name drums (but no other
parts or events named drums)? Then you need to add
some brackets:
Here, all audio parts or events will be found whose name contains perc
or drums. The rule behind this is:
Ö Expressions within brackets are evaluated first.
If there are several layers of brackets, these are evaluated “from the inside
out”, starting with the innermost brackets.
You add brackets by clicking in the bracket columns and
selecting an option. Up to triple brackets can be selected.
Editing filter conditions as text
You can also edit filter conditions as text. This works just
like in the Logical Editor for MIDI, see “Editing filter condi-
tions as text” on page 374.
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When you add a new condition line, the boolean set-
ting defaults to And. Therefore, if all you want to do is
set up two or more conditions that all must be met
for an element to be found, you don’t have to think
about the boolean column – just add the required
lines and make the usual filter settings.