Link button on piano roll

Doesn't seem to work - unclick the link button and the window still follows the key focus window - (although it seems to work in some cases) another bug? Thanks Bark

Hi Bark
Do you mean to keep the piano roll window in one place while the arrange window is playing on? Then it's the catch button you want to turn off (the little man to the right of the link button). Turning link off will prevent the piano roll from changing when you select another region in the arrange window.
Hope that helps
Rgds
Ken

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Why was the link button removed from the piano roll?

Why was the LINK (chain) button removed from the piano roll? This makes Logic X useless to me as I can no longer compose or perform new lines based on previous midi performances. PLEASE BRING IT BACK!

I miss that button too and just filled out the LX Feedback form (Menubar -> Logix Pro X-> Feedback) with the following text. Maybe if you guys did the same, we had a chance revive this essetial feature!!!
thanks!
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Hi there,
it seems as if the Link Button (Yellow chain symbol) has been removed from the piano roll for no reason. In Score View it is still there.
I (and probably more users) absolutely NEED that Button to decouple the content of the piano roll from the selected track/region AND to use multiple piano roll windows with independent content.
- For transscripting (Mute/Solo Audio regions while editing a Midi-Region)
- For arranging. Edit 2 different midi regions both in separate Piano Roll windows
- For recording. "Reading" Drum-Patterns while recording the Bass e.g.
Please bring that button back or explain why it was removed
Best regards,

8.0.1 has broken Content Link in Piano Roll Editor

Logic 8.0.1 has managed to break Content Link in Piano Roll Editor... Select a MIDI region in Arrange, choose a Screenset for Piano Roll and, with Link active, you'll see the contents for the selected MIDI region. From that point on though, you'll only ever see the contents of that first selection, no matter what other MIDI region is selected. Logic can be forced to reveal the contents of another MIDI region by double-clicking or Option-double-clicking but it's hardly ideal; not when your workflow for the past ten years has been screenset based.
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Sorry Captain - you're quite right. When changing screensets, the link is lost.
In Logic 7 the default behaviour is what you want - screensets follow the selected region. This does appear to be broken in 8.0.1
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Piano roll doesn't show the correct track.

In the piano roll I have on (in yellow) the link button and also the catch playhead (in blue).
For some misterious reason, just in this file I am working at the moment, if I click any track it will display correctly the text information in the arrangment window: ie, instrument name BUT the notes that are shown in the piano are stuck to one instrument, regardless of what instrument I select.
Any ideas what could be wrong. It sounds as a bug but I may be wrong.

It was a bug. I ve closed the project, open it again and solved the problem. Just in case you have the same problem, thats the answer.

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is it possible to get Logic to open 2 or more piano rolls for different tracks at the same time? It would help with editing if so.
Cheers

Yes, it is possible. Command-6 opens a new piano roll window for whatever region is selected. You'll have to make sure the Link button (top left of the PR window) is unchecked (not yellow) though, or else the open PR window will automatically jump to show the contents of whatever region you select.
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Pancenter wrote:
christianobermaier wrote:
Uncheck the Link button of the Piano Roll.
Christian
The only version(s) that showed both previously recorded notes and new ones as they were played was the last few PC versions of Logic.
pancenter-
I wonder why they did away with that...it's very helpful to be able to see that....

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I edit multiple regions in one Piano Roll window at the same time. (It is very handy way of editing especially in huge orchestra projects.)
I can see midi contents of all selected regions in Piano Roll at the same time.
1) But how to choose certain one region of many selected to edit it?
2) And how to edit all at once?
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First of all, the Piano Roll has two mechansim, of what it is displaying.
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One Track: Selecting one Region in the Track Area displays all the Regions of tha tTrack in the Piano Roll. If you select multiple Regions in the Tracks Window, then the last selected Regions counts.
Whatever Regions are now displayed in the Piano Roll Editor can be edited. Select the MIDI Events and apply the command.
You can also apply edits directly to the selected Regions in the Tracks Window.
I explain all those little details in my graphically enhanced manuals ("Logic Pro X - How it Works")
One thing to be clear about:
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http://DingDingMusic.com/Manuals/
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When i try to open piano roll it is stuck on the same track regardless of whether another track is selected. I cannot elect a new synt track and pull up in piano roll

When i try to use piano roll it always goes back to a single track. Even if I select another track or adda new blank track it will not open.
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There's a little icon in the top left corner of the piano roll window that looks like a pair of chain links. If that is selected (goes yellow) then the piano roll editor is linked to the arrange page region selection(s). Sounds like what you want.
It's really useful sometimes to be able to unlink, so that you can keep one piano roll open (to watch the timing of the notes, for example) and not haver it change each time you do something in the arrange page.
Also, next to it is a little man running icon. If that is selected, the piano roll will chase the cursor. If not selected, it won't. Also useful sometimes.
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How to get rid of the new bottom layer with piano roll etc. in arrange??

Hey guys,
Just a quick question i suppose.
I work with 2 screens.
When I double click a midi event, i want the piano roll to open in a floating window, just like it used to be, and not in the new bottom layer (pop up) bar in the bottom of the arrange window. I want this because i like to edit on the second screen while still haveing an overview of my arrange on my 1st screen.
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thanks in advance!
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how annoying is it to go to a seperate screen set and then click a midi region just to edit it?
You haven't grasped the concept of screensets.
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When you are finished editing, just hit "1" to go back to your main arrange window.
Once you get used to this, you'll find it's a lot quicker and more efficient than all that rsi double clicking and window closing...

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Problems with Dedicated Piano Roll Screenset in 8.01 update

Anyone else having this issue?
If you have a dedicated piano roll screenset, does it show you the currently selected MIDI region from the arrange page?
Since updating to 8.01, this has stopped functioning for me. If I click the chain link icon off, and then back on, it snaps to show the selected MIDI region, whereas it used to follow automatically, like normal. So in other words, I used to select a MID region from the arrange page, hit my screenset number, and I would be looking at the MIDI data for that region. It no longer is doing that.
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If I open the Piano Roll Editor from the tab at the bottom of the Arrange page (or open it hitting the key command "P"), it shows whatever MIDI region is selected, as expected.
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