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I just started using Logic Pro 8, and I really like the software so far. It is much more powerful than Garage Band, and I am happy I upgraded.

That said, I have been running into a problem. In Garage Band, I just need to highlight and double click a song to turn a selection into a sample. I cannot figure out how to do that easily with this program.

When I double click on the track, I highlight a chunk and click "selection->region." That is fine for one sample. However, it becomes sticky when I need to do this many times for one mash up.

Is there anyway to avoid this problem?

No luck?

Is it just not possible?

I'm not sure what you mean by "turn a selection into a sample"... Could you explain a bit more?

Do you mean cutting a song up in Logic to use a bit of it? Like looping a bar of a Beyonce track? Why don't you use the scissors and then click the loop tick box in the inspector for that selected audio region? Maybe I'm totally missing the point?

If you use the marquee tool, you can turn selections to regions, but do this in the timeline, not in the sample edit window. You can also set a hotkey to the "split region at playhead" command, and just tap the key as the music plays, and watch logic chop up your sample. Or, you can move the playhead along the timeline and split wherever you want manually.

Garageband automatically created what Logic sees as regions, and Logic, by default, creates an alias of the part you have, and will adjust all of them unless you specify it as a new region, so be careful for a while as you learn Logic and are dragging copies of regions around in the timeline, so you remember which key commands create a new region and which key commands create an alias. Holding down the right mouse button brings up all kinds of contextual commands, I would suggest looking at those to get a really good feel for what you can do where.

Also, Just Blaze has a good tutorial on YouTube about how he uses the hotkey method to chop up samples.

A bit late posting a reply but I think the feature you are on about is "create new sampler track from regions". This feature was introduced in logic 9 and isn't possible in logic 8.

To do it in logic 8, create an instrument track and insert an EXS24 sampler. open up the "edit" view and drag your audio regions into the window.

Excellent stuff guys! I agree with everybody. Seems like there 100 ways to do the same thing; it's just figuring out what works for each artist.

a.o.