Logic Pro guru please help!

[likecmposr]

Help! I'm new to Logic and I'm creating a score and desparately need to create a fermata in MIDI playback.

Is there some sort of clever hack you have come up with that in effect pauses
playback without sending any MIDI note-off signal? Or perhaps drops the tempo to
near-zero temporarily by some sort of keypress or controller,
and then snaps back to "play" or to a pre-recorded tempo when toggled? Has anyone
achieved anything like that yet?

[A.Leung]

PAUSE will do it. You can use a keycommand (for PAUSE) [or] use its MIDI counterpart...

[likecmposr]

PAUSE will do it. You can use a keycommand (for PAUSE) [or] use its MIDI counterpart...

thanx man.

[A.Leung]

sometimes the easiest things get missed...

[Kaatza_Music]

I have programmed a lot of fairly complex tempo changes, ritardandos, fermatas in Logic using the Tempo Operations function and the Tempo Event List. I will use the Tempo Operations module to create a ritardando and then give it an extra fermata by adding an event in the tempo list after the last note is played and giving it a very slow tempo. The music then picks up to the original tempo (or a new tempo) when it gets to the downbeat.

I haven't used the "pause" button. Can you actually program the "pause" button in MIDI? If it is paused, how does it know when to un-pause itself? This whole topic has given me pause to think :)