Missing Insert Slots On Track From Apts Logic Book, Logic Pro 7.2.3, missing insert slots in tutorial song Options

[alexbutterfield]

This week I got Logic Pro 7.2 after working with Logic Express 7.1 for a year. I updated Pro to 7.2.3 after installing.

I wanted to start going through Martin Sitter's Apple Pro Training guide to Logic Pro & Logic Express to reacquaint myself (it's been a number of months since I used Logic Express). So I re-loaded the tutorial songs from the accompanying disc onto my external hard drive like I had previously with Logic Express. (I wanted to load them fresh rather than use files I might have altered when learning Logic Express.)

But when I went to do the using the inserts/plugins exercise from the first chapter I found that the tutorial song wasn't showing the inserts (or bus slots, for that matter) for two tracks, including the one Sitter suggests inserting a chorus on (a Rhodes). Other tracks do show those slots. For the life of me, I can't figure out how to get these slots to show up. The problem is the same whether I'm in the arrange or mix window.

My set-up: iMac G5, 1.8 gHz, OS 10.4.8, Mbox 2

Anybody encounter this before? Any suggestions on restoring lost insert/bus/EQ slots?

Thanks. Any help would be appreciated.

[elutfall]

I think that the problem might be that you are working with a General MIDI track.

If you pull up the global mixer you'll see three types of tracks in Logic. GM (General MIDI), Audio, and Instruments.

While Audio and Instrument tracks can have inserts, GM tracks don't. You simply pick a preset instrument and go. However, (and this might be what you're looking for) they do have knobs to adjust reverb and chorus.

So if you just see three knobs (Rev, Chor, Freq) where you expect to see EQ, Inserts and Sends you are dealing with a GM track.