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Toggle Keyboard/Group/Zone View ⌥V
Switch views in the Sampler mapping pane. The mapping pane appears in all but the “Synth” view of the Sampler.
Sampler Mapping and Zone pane overview — Apple Support
You can use the Mapping and Zone panes to create and edit sampler instruments. The two panes are designed for different tasks, but work together to provide full control of individual samples, or zones, and their use within one or more collections of zones, known as groups.
Move Selection with First Transient to Nearest Beat
Align selections to the beat.
Use beat mapping on audio regions in Logic Pro — Apple Support
In Logic Pro, Control-click the beat mapping header, then choose Move Selection with First Transient to Nearest Beat from the shortcut menu (or use the corresponding key command).
The first transient marker in the region selection is moved to the nearest whole beat position, with all selected regions moving with it.
Logic Pro beat mapping overview — Apple Support
When Advanced Editing Options is selected in the Advanced preferences pane, you can access the Beat Mapping track. Beat mapping lets you map notes that don’t follow a strict tempo with beats in the ruler. When you play the project, the project tempo adjusts so that the beat-mapped notes are aligned with beats in the ruler.
Select And Operate using Transform User Preset 27
Select the MIDI events and transform them using preset 27. Lots of un-named programs.
Use MIDI transform sets in Logic Pro — Apple Support
Depending on your needs, it may be worthwhile to create your own transform sets. These can be configured and saved as part of a project. (Doing this in your template projects makes your transform sets available in all projects.) Your transform sets are shown at the bottom of the Presets pop-up menu.
Open MIDI Project Settings…
Open the MIDI Project Settings window. You can set the project-specific MIDI values here. The settings here are not ‘General MIDI — GM’ settings.
Some very interesting things which might be of value, like the MIDI Thru settings. Investigate.
General MIDI settings in Logic Pro — Apple Support
Instrument Without MIDI Thru Function pop-up menu: The instrument selected here does not pass events through the computer when the instrument is assigned to the selected track. Normally, you would set the No Output instrument here (chosen by default).
Select Next Pattern Page ⌥`
Moves the next pattern page into the editing window. If a pattern has multiple pages the “next pattern” will cycle.
Sequencers are wonderful experimental playgrounds. I can get lost in them for hours on end.
Pattern creation examples — Apple Support
Edit modes such as Velocity, Note, Octave, and Tie can be useful for creating interesting instrument and melodic patterns.