Likewise, I tell it to only look for information coming in on Channel 1, assigned to MIDI cc 7, and only at a value of 0. In the status field, I tell the transformer to look only for control data by selecting the ' =' sign and then choosing ' Control'. The top row tells the transformer what to look for and the bottom row tells the transformer what to change that information to. For those uninitiated, the transformer basically takes incoming information and transforms it into a different type of information. Now that I have some info to work with, I can open up the transformer and start to input some data. It is a fader object ('F'), also operating on channel 1, assigned to the ID number 56 and toggles between a value of 0 and 1 (oddly, it sends a 0 when turned on and a 1 when turned off). The information in the monitor tells me the button is a control object (that sort of fader looking symbol) operating on channel 1, assigned to MIDI cc 7, and sends out a signal of 127 when turned on and a signal of 0 when turned off.īelow that is the information concerning the EFM1. Here I have toggled the button and the EFM1 instrument plug-in. While I was at it, I grabbed a transformer as well as a button (it doesn't matter which button you choose - they all do the same thing) from the 'Fader' submenu.įrom there, I had to connect the channel strip and the button to the monitor (click drag the cabling triangle from the right side of the objects to the monitor) and toggle the plug-ins on and off to get some MIDI information into the monitor. Next, I went into the Environment and created a new monitor from the 'New' pull down menu. At this point they are simply placeholders to gather programing information from in later steps.

It doesn't matter what the plug-ins are, or in what order they are placed on the channel. If you need more, go ahead and load them up. Logic allows quite a few more to be added, but 15 seems more than a reasonable limit for what I want to do. The first thing I did was load up a channel with 16 plug-ins, an instrument, and 15 effects.

I've written this tut using Logic 9 (the Environment is still a bit buggy in Logic X at the time of writing), but it can be built in X, and also probably in 7 & 8 for that matter if you are still using them.

The interface is pretty simple, but there is a little more going on under the hood that requires a basic understanding of Logic's Environment that I will get into below. It is a simple on/off switch that will bypass all of the plug-ins of the channel strips that it is connected to. Here is a helpful little switch I made in Logic's Environment that I thought I would share with you.

X transformer lightroom plugin