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Chapter 39 Working in the Environment 877
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Click the icon in the Object Parameter box to choose an icon to represent the object in
the Environment and Arrange window track list.
Exchanging Environments
One of the main advantages of the Environment is the ability to customize Logic Pro to
fully control your MIDI studio. This can, however, present a problem when sharing
projects with other musicians, or using different studio setups.
It also presents a problem when you return to older projects after you’ve changed your
studio. Logic Pro offers several functions to make these transitions as easy as possible.
Whenever you want to exchange Environments between projects, there is a source
project containing the desired Environment, and a destination project with an
Environment that you want to change.
The destination Environment must be in memory, and must be the active project (one
of its windows must be active). The source project can also be in memory, or it can be a
file on your hard drive (or any other media).
 If there are two projects in memory, Logic Pro will assume the active project is the
destination, and the other project is the source.
 If there are more than two projects in memory, Logic Pro will assume the active
project is the destination, and the most recently active of the other projects is the
source.
 If there is only one project in memory, Logic Pro will launch an Open dialog, allowing
you to select the source project when importing an Environment.
Importing, Replacing, and Swapping Environments
This section covers the different types of Environment import procedures that can be
performed in Logic Pro.
Importing Single Purpose Environments
A single purpose Environment patch might be an editor for a specific piece of MIDI
equipment, an Environment for a single MIDI processing task (such as a MIDI LFO), or a
complex arpeggiator/delay line configuration.
To import an Environment patch contained on a single layer:
1 Choose Options > Import Environment > Layer.
2 Choose the desired layer in the dialog that appears.
This layer—inclusive of all objects on the layer—will be inserted in the destination
project, at the same layer position (the same place in the Layer pop-up menu) that it
occupied in the source project. Any existing layers will be shifted as needed.