I STILL HATE LOGIC
not so much a rant as last time. this time I back
it up a bit.
So, my buddy Carl from my band helped me past my
last dilemma.
It turns out that to
assign a new track to an unused channel, you need to click to the right of the
track name, WHERE THERE IS NOT BUTTON and then you get a popup menu that you can
use to assign the channel. No, don't bother trying to right click (or
control-click) like you would in ANY OTHER MAC
APPLICATION!
The other thing that makes
me crazy even though I have done it a few times now. To mix down your song, you
need to go to the mixer window (which is not the main window you work in and
isn't usually open), find the master bus and click a little button to start the
mix down. Now, you might think that you should go to the file menu or even the
audio menu in the environment. Yeah, good luck with that. There is indeed a
Mixdown menu item in the audio menu of the environment window. It just takes all
your selected tracks and combines them into one. HOW MESSED UP IS THAT?!? MIXING
DOWN IS THE RAISON D'ETRE OF AN AUDIO APPLICATION! THERE SHOULD BE A BUTTON AS
BIG AS YOUR FIST WITH HUGE LETTERS SAYING "MIX DOWN" ON IT! Ok, enough of that.
It does make me insane that even though I have done mixdowns several times in
logic, I still end up having to google how to create a mix every
time.
As someone who has spent years
exploring user interface design, Logic makes me sad. They break so many rules
and for no good reason.
Posted: Tue - August 16, 2005 at 11:02 PM