Piano roll keeps jumping around when I punch in notes

Laptop user here. I do not have a MIDI keyboard, and use my computer keyboard to manually enter notes onto the piano roll when I'm programming an instrument. It happens about 50% of the time that when I hit "Command + click" to punch the note in, the playhead jumps about 10 measures to the left or right. This is extremely distracting and frankly drives me batshit. Is Logic aware of this bug and are any efforts underway to fix it? It's been this way as long as I've been a user, over 2 years.


Sometimes moving the playhead to the measure I'm working on will help, but it's not a consistent solution.

MacBook Air, macOS 15.4

Posted on May 30, 2025 8:05 AM

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May 31, 2025 2:02 PM in response to alexbevac

I assure you there is a reason. Can you click on the region that you are inputting Midi notes on? After that, deselect the yellow icon. That is called “link”. Let me know if this behavior occurs after deselecting this. This should prohibit the view from changing. Study its function and maybe it can help.

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May 30, 2025 12:22 PM in response to alexbevac

What exactly is jumping around vertically? If I am understanding you correctly, I presume you mean that another track is selected? This is by design.


If you have a track selected as opposed to a region (2 different things), you will get this erratic behavior. Please look into these settings. Should get you there. Glad this helped.




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May 31, 2025 1:49 PM in response to EddieGrey

Thank you for taking the time to reply; I have checked and those settings are selected. Trying to attach a screen recording. But if we look at one of those notes, for example, the playhead will instantaneously jump about 10 measures to the right, and it does this for every single note I try to input. There doesn't seem to be any rhyme or reason for when it happens. Sometimes it does, sometimes it doesn't.

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May 30, 2025 9:51 AM in response to EddieGrey

Not solved, but improved. Still janky and jumping around vertically in the piano roll, but at least playhead is staying in place. Thank you!


Long term I'll get set up with a midi piano ,but I like my workflow right now, where I have to punch in each note with intent. It's kind of like writing a letter by hand vs. typing an email.

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Piano roll keeps jumping around when I punch in notes

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