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Prof. Chris Piorkowski
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Prof. Chris Piorkowski

Professor Chris Piorkowski is an award-winning composer, with a Masters in Music Technology from the University of Newcastle in Australia, an MFA majoring in Music Composition for Film, TV and Multimedia from the Vermont College of Fine Arts, a Diploma in Media Composition from Music for The Media in London, and another Diploma in Sound Engineering from the Audio Institute of America in San Francisco. He has also studied Film Scoring and Orchestration at Berklee College of Music in Boston as well as Film Music Orchestration Steven Scott Smalley and Jazz Piano with Walter Norris. In his professional life, he has worked on countless projects at the legendary Sound City Studios in Los Angeles scoring over 50 projects for TBN, ShowTime, PBS, and Gene Roddenberry (the creator of Star Trek).
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Beat mapping an entire MIDI region

In this section, we will let Logic Pro automatically create a new tempo map by analyzing an entire MIDI region, and all the notes in it, in the Beat Mapping track.

So, in the Tempo track, from the drop-down menu, create a new default Tempo of 120 bpm.

Figure 8.23: Beat mapping of the MIDI region

Figure 8.23: Beat mapping of the MIDI region

Then, click on the MIDI region so that it appears in the Beat Mapping track:

Figure 8.24: Highlighted MIDI region in the Beat Mapping track

Figure 8.24: Highlighted MIDI region in the Beat Mapping track

From the Beat Mapping track header pop-up menu, select Beats from Region.

Figure 8.25: Beat Mapping track drop-down menu

Figure 8.25: Beat Mapping track drop-down menu

The Set Beats by Guide Region(s) window will open, like so:

Figure 8.26: Set Beats by Guide Region(s) window

Figure 8.26: Set Beats by Guide Region(s) window

Click on the Note Value drop-down window and select 1/4 Note.

Figure 8.27: Note Value drop-down menu

Figure 8.27: Note Value drop-down menu

Once you click OK, Logic Pro will automatically...

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Prof. Chris Piorkowski

Professor Chris Piorkowski is an award-winning composer, with a Masters in Music Technology from the University of Newcastle in Australia, an MFA majoring in Music Composition for Film, TV and Multimedia from the Vermont College of Fine Arts, a Diploma in Media Composition from Music for The Media in London, and another Diploma in Sound Engineering from the Audio Institute of America in San Francisco. He has also studied Film Scoring and Orchestration at Berklee College of Music in Boston as well as Film Music Orchestration Steven Scott Smalley and Jazz Piano with Walter Norris. In his professional life, he has worked on countless projects at the legendary Sound City Studios in Los Angeles scoring over 50 projects for TBN, ShowTime, PBS, and Gene Roddenberry (the creator of Star Trek).
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