The word “fix” has many definitions. Logic uses the term as a verb; which, according to a few dictionaries I checked, means “set or place definitely” or “make fixed, stable, or stationary”.

 

Logic uses this term in the flip menu of available options in several of the Region Parameters and Transform & Transformer Window parameters. It is the sole lonely word hidden amongst lists of available degrees of percentage in the Region Parameters, and a worthy neighbor to the other Boolean operators in the Transform Window.

 

A recent poster on the Logic Users Group asked about key combinations in the Event List to set all note velocities to the same value. In other words: how to make notes fixed, stable, or stationary. The answer of course is the Option + Shift keys in combination with mouse sliding to set the value.

 

But MIDI note velocities and lengths can be “fixed” straight from the Arrange Window. In the Region Parameter Box “dynamics” field, setting to the “fixed” amount will set all velocities to a value of 64. It is then a simple matter of either adding or subtracting an offset from the “velocity” field to uniformly adjust to any value in the 0 – 127 range. And, it should be stated, that this can all be done in real time, non-destructively, as your arrangement is playing.

 

Similarly, setting to the “fix” amount in the “gate” field will set all note lengths to the format, or division, value you have set. If you normalize this (make permanent), you can follow it with some of the other gate time values to uniformly scale the note durations to either lengthen or shorten their values.

 

As always, there’s more than one way to skin a cat in Logic. This can also be done, as mentioned, in the Event List, or other MIDI editors for that matter. The non real time Transform Window, or the real time Transformer Object, offers even finer control in fixing values.  

 

There are several situations where this type of operation can be very useful and musical. And of course many more, where it is not particularly necessary or well suited for.

 

Interestingly, the act of “fixing” doesn’t seem to have any effect on MIDI events other than notes – at least not in the Arrange Window Region Parameters. The Transform and Transformer Windows are another matter altogether though. They are powerful tools in shaping MIDI CC events for all sorts of nefarious uses.

 

So, “fixing” in Logic lives it’s lonely life in the Arrange Window next to stark and nondescript numerical percentage offsets, while making a formidable and precise tool in the Transform and Transformer Windows. A place where the very definition of what is “broken” and what is “fixed” can be bent into surreal and twisted Twilight Zone non-realities where nothing is what it seems to be!