Step style modulation in logic?

Question

hey all, here's the situation:
having recently been fiddling with the ableton live demo, i've realized one thing i've been missing in logic; step input automation/modulation, or quantized automation basically.
see in ableton, the track automation is input in bars according to the chosen note length of the grid, so in order to draw freely, you must turn the grid off.
In logic, the automation is always linear, with points.
I'm looking for a way to get that quantized step-like automation like in ableton, or like in kontakt's step modulation effect. the closest thing i have found is to use the modulation channel in the hyper editor, and to assign some parameter to the mod wheel. This only provides one parameter to automate this way though.
Is there a way to have more modulation channels in the hyper editor? It seems perfectly suited to it.
This would truly make my day.
thanks ya'll,
Rob

Answer 1

Robert Roff, "step style modulation in logic?" #8, 12:56am Sep 26, 2005 CDT
i've not yet found where i can control-click a parameter to find the control number,
I said control+double-click.
Do it on the parameter name in the tracklist when track automation is enabled.
and putting the event editor on channel 2 didn't seem to have an effect on my inability to automate thus far in the hyper editor.
The event definition you need to create is a 'fader' event, not a 'control' event.
Try this:
Load ES1 in an AudioInstrument Object.
Enable Track Automation.
Select cutoff as the automation parameter.
Control+double-click on the paramater name in the tracklist (you should see a numerical entry box pop up with the number 10 in it.)
Create a MIDI region in the track. Insert some notes to play.
Open Hyper Edit and do: 'create hyper set'
This new set will be called 'MIDI Control' but you can change it's name.
There will already be a 'Volume' event definition in the new set. You can either modify that, or create a new event definition.
Let's just modify the volume event def.
Double-click the word 'volume' and rename it 'cutoff'
Set the 'status' parameter to 'fader'
Set the -1- parameter to 10 (which we discovered earlier)
Set the 'cha' parameter to 2 and check the 'cha' checkbox.
Draw some automation.
Hit play.
You should now hear the cutoff being automated.