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Environment overview
The Environment refers to the virtual environment of Logic Pro inside your computer. It provides
a virtual view of your MIDI studio, giving you complete control over your MIDI setup, and
includes the following objects.
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Physical Input and Sequencer Input objects: Represent the physical MIDI inputs of your MIDI
interface and the Logic Pro input.
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Instrument objects: Virtual representations of each MIDI device (synthesizers and samplers, for
example) in your MIDI rig.
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Faders, knobs, switches, and other objects: Used to create new data, or to control and modify the
MIDI signal flow in real time.
It’s not essential to know about—or even open—the Environment in order to make music with
the Logic Pro instruments or your external MIDI sound generators and keyboards. When you
create new instrument or external MIDI tracks, Logic Pro automatically generates Mixer channel
strips, and also creates and configures any Environment objects that are needed for basic input
and output.
Note: This is also true of audio channel strips (and other channel strip types, such as aux and
output channel strips), but you will rarely need to access these objects in the Environment, as
you have full control over these channel strips in the Mixer.
The Environment is only available when Additional MIDI Options is selected in the Advanced
preferences pane.
Work in the Environment
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