Changing Octave (Logic MIDI recording)

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Changing Octave (Logic MIDI recording)

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Hi!

I recently bought a Nord Electro 4D and it's great.
I do have one problem.
When I use my Nord as a Midi controller in Logic (through midi cable to my interface) the octaves don't shift
when I press the Octave +/- buttons.
Does anyone know how to do this?

Thanks!
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Re: Changing Octave (Logic MIDI recording)

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Transpose in Logic?
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Hi!
How do you mean? I don't think that Logic can affect the incoming information.
I could of course use a pitch shifter as a plug-in but it sounds kind of funny.
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Re: Changing Octave (Logic MIDI recording)

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There are many midi-transpose plugins that will affect only the midi. Or you could program whatever patch on your target device/ plugin to shift the octave.

I don't own Logic but I would think there must be something built-in that would transpose incoming midi.

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Yes, a midi-transpose plugin (or something equivalent) would do the trick.

The stage series (at least the NS3) has a setting called "MIDI Transpose at". This controls whether the transpose button affects MIDI that is being sent (only) or MIDI that is being received (only).

I don't think the Electro series (at least not my E3) has an equivalent menu setup; the default on your seems to be transpose at input only.

So the alternative is to use a MIDi transpose plugin, change the settings of your instrument or possibly (in some cases) moving all notes one octave up or down after you have recorded them, manually, in Logic.
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Brilliant. I did not know of the transpose function in Logic!
Thank you so much!
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You're welcome :-)
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Re: Changing Octave (Logic MIDI recording)

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Hey there, I just read about your Problem and I also struggle with something very similar...
for me the option of just transposing everything after I recorded doesn't work unfortunately because I want to record some midi drums.
I also use the Nord Electro 4d.

Problem:
The Drumsounds start a fews keys below the lowest Key of my Nord-Keyboard. So unfortunately I just can just reach half of all the available sounds :(
pressing the octave shift on the Nord doesn't work and I never used any Plugins so far, so I don't really know how it works to use a transpose plugin, an if it will help for this particular problem.


Hopefully someone out there can help me :)

Thanks to y'all!
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