Roman Pirie wrote:

I'm trying to rename some files on my hard drive. I've tryed the >get info>ownership and permissions>read and write It still won't let me rename the files. I don't know much about this side of OSX. I do know that this is my computer and when I want to install software I have to type in thhe admin password. This is annoying. I guess that's the price you pay for more features. My G3/OS 9 let me rename anything. Help.

On Dec 30, 2005, at 6:58 PM, Roman Pirie wrote: > I'm trying to rename some files on my hard drive. I've tryed the >get > info>ownership and permissions>read and write > It still won't let me rename the files. I don't know much about this > side of OSX. I do know that this is my computer and when I want to > install software I have to type in thhe admin password. > This is annoying. I guess that's the price you pay for more features. > My G3/OS 9 let me rename anything. > Help. simply slow-double-click on the name of the file and it should change to edit mode. -otto ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------- Otto Gygax - Audio, Computer, Networking Engineering / Percussion otto@GxM.COM / Philomath, Oregon

Hello I use logic seven, on a G4 computer and I have a Sony CD burner. I have been having trouble writing my songs to CD. Can anyone provide me with information how I can convert the songs that was done as a midi file in logic. How can I make the song file an audio file to burn to CD. Or can I just burn the CD and the song goes from the MAC to the burner? I don't think this is the way but can some one give me some instructions on how to do this? Mike R

> HI, > I am planning on purchasing some large, 400 to 500 meg, drives to > backup > my system drives. Does anyone love what they are using or would > warn me off > certain drives? I use Seagate exclusively, and they have never let me down. Brian :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: Logic Audio Pro 7.1 PowerMac G4 933MHz OS X 10.4.2 1 GB RAM MOTU 828mkII - driver v1.2.5 - CueMix v1.5 - firmware 1.0.1 - bootloader 1.0.1

On Dec 31, 2005, at 1:48 PM, Brian Pylant wrote: >> HI, >> I am planning on purchasing some large, 400 to 500 meg, drives to >> backup >> my system drives. Does anyone love what they are using or would >> warn me off >> certain drives? > > I use Seagate exclusively, and they have never let me down. > > > > > > Brian > :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: > Logic Audio Pro 7.1 > PowerMac G4 933MHz > OS X 10.4.2 > 1 GB RAM > MOTU 828mkII > - driver v1.2.5 > - CueMix v1.5 > - firmware 1.0.1 > - bootloader 1.0.1 I've had excellent results with both La Cie and Maxtor triple- interface external drives. I don't know what manufacturer's drives are inside them. They do FW 400, FW 800 and USB 2. I have several in various sizes, 250G, 300G, 500G and none have ever failed. I did have one older La Cie 250G drive fail after four years - it was from around 1999 or 2000 when the face plate was blue. I have three more of those old ones still running now and they're working OK. - Dave

Hey Guys, Well I bought a maxtor diamond 300 gb drive to go inside my G5 that has a maxtor 250Gb . I want to use this drive for music only . Is there anyhting I should do? Can I Or is it a good idea to move all my music apps to this Hard drive I.e LP7, reason,live etc. thanks fpr any help

On 02.01.2006, at 03:08, garygenn wrote: > Hey Guys, Well I bought a maxtor diamond 300 gb drive to go inside > my G5 that has a > maxtor 250Gb . I want to use this drive for music only . Is there > anyhting I should do? Can I > Or is it a good idea to move all my music apps to this Hard drive > I.e LP7, reason,live etc. > thanks fpr any help Many applications rely on libraries and preferences on the system drive. So moving the apps to the second drive does not work properly unless you use that drive as your startup drive. But I won't do that because then you again record to that system drive, have your samples here and two systems to maintain. You can leave the apps on the current drive and have all audio files on the other one: all your songs, samples, IR's, other sound libraries. Be aware that you might need to reinstall some audio applications/ plugins if you don't find a way to tell them the new path to their audio files. Aliases work in many cases but not in all. At least do not expect to copy files and run as if nothing happened. May need a couple of hours. Or days, if you have a lot to reinstall and reconfigure. But it is worth the efforts. ___ Peter Ostry

On Jan 1, 2006, at 9:08 PM, garygenn wrote: > Hey Guys, Well I bought a maxtor diamond 300 gb drive to go inside > my G5 that has a > maxtor 250Gb . I want to use this drive for music only . Is there > anyhting I should do? Can I > Or is it a good idea to move all my music apps to this Hard drive > I.e LP7, reason,live etc. > thanks fpr any help Leave the apps on the boot drive. Then put all of your audio files. and sample files on the 2nd drive. In our experience, this works well. Dave Shirk Pamlico Sounds Oriental, NC

--- In logic-ot@yahoogroups.com, "garygenn" <garygenn1@o...> wrote: > > Hey Guys, Well I bought a maxtor diamond 300 gb drive to go inside my G5 that has a > maxtor 250Gb . I want to use this drive for music only . Is there anyhting I should do? Can I > Or is it a good idea to move all my music apps to this Hard drive I.e LP7, reason,live etc. > thanks fpr any help > thanks for the help.

Hi I've been trying to get a garage band file to open in logic 7 but have had no luck. Also I cannot get logic to recognize the sounds that come with garage band. Nor can I get the DSP settings of GB to open in L7. Similarly I cannot open a L7 file in GB even though the help file of GB says to just drag a midi file icon into the GB time line. Has anyone had any luck accomplishing any of these tasks and willing to point me in the right direction? Regards Jim

Hi Has anyone been successful Importing a logic midi file into garage band or visa-versa? Thanks Jim

Hi, does anyone of you have a Focusrite Saffire and uses extensive monitoring? I don't like the monitoring via that control panel which does not work properly anyway. I need two independend monitor mixes from Logic panned and merged with 1-4 input signals and a full mix for the engineer. But I cannot get enough independend audio channels while recording, to monitor via a submixer. Only four. Are there some hints for flexible monitoring with a Saffire but without the control panel? ___ Peter Ostry

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--- In logic-ot@yahoogroups.com, Peter Ostry <po@o...> wrote: > > Hi, > > does anyone of you have a Focusrite Saffire and uses extensive > monitoring? > > I don't like the monitoring via that control panel which does not > work properly anyway. I need two independend monitor mixes from Logic > panned and merged with 1-4 input signals and a full mix for the > engineer. But I cannot get enough independend audio channels while > recording, to monitor via a submixer. Only four. > > Are there some hints for flexible monitoring with a Saffire but > without the control panel? Hi Peter I don't have a saffire, but do have a suggestion. Post this to the LUG? It is certainly more on topic than some of the "intel mac" discussions running right now ;-). kind regards Mark Cahill

On 12.01.2006, at 08:02, markdvc2002 wrote: > --- In logic-ot@yahoogroups.com, Peter Ostry <po@o...> wrote: >> does anyone of you have a Focusrite Saffire and uses extensive >> monitoring? >> >> I don't like the monitoring via that control panel which does not >> work properly anyway. I need two independend monitor mixes from > Logic >> panned and merged with 1-4 input signals and a full mix for the >> engineer. But I cannot get enough independend audio channels while >> recording, to monitor via a submixer. Only four. >> >> Are there some hints for flexible monitoring with a Saffire but >> without the control panel? > > Hi Peter > > I don't have a saffire, but do have a suggestion. Post this to the > LUG? It is certainly more on topic than some of the "intel mac" > discussions running right now ;-). I am interested in your suggestions, naturally. Just the Saffire game is over for me. I returned the first unit because of broken phantom power. The second unit worked a couple of hours until phantom power went down again. The dealer told me something about early series, repaired units and so on and the price was very low but I decided to stop that experiment, frighten the bank and go for a Fireface. I started with an Aggregate Device Saffire+Firewire 410 as the Saffire broke. That would make the system more flexible and give me 8 ins and 20 outs although I would keep the bigger latency of the 410. We can go to the LUG with that if you want, I just cannot test anything because the Saffire will leave the studio today. Would be more of a theoretically discussion. ___ Peter Ostry

Peter, what's your overall impression of the Saffire? I've been looking at it as a kind of Mbox for Logic... and picking one up (not until the dust from NAMM settles, of course). It seems perfect: a good Logic citizen, 4 in, 10 out, 24bit/192kHz processing which nothing else at this price point seems to have. It's surround capable, and the big gripes about the software interface look cleared up with v 2.0 of the saffire control.

one other question OT... so i'm at the stage where i'm going through the apple certified books, teaching myself logic (and audio engineering in general), with an mbox, powerbook, and a small midi keyboard. it's a happy little home i have so far. at work (mac IT) in our storage room is a mackie d8b that hasn't been touched or used in well over a year. a) what exactly is that beast? b) is it of any use? what does it do? c) can it be hooked in with logic somehow? d) might it cost money to get it up to date and running? (e.g. software updates, etc.) any thoughts would be appreciated. i don't think my boss exactly knows what it is or what its value might be. -n.

On 13.01.2006, at 05:57, Nicolas diPierro wrote: > Peter, what's your overall impression of the Saffire? I've been > looking at it as a kind of Mbox for Logic... and picking one up (not > until the dust from NAMM settles, of course). Good device if you are happy as it is. You cannot have mono outputs for monitoring, they are always paired and you can just balance them. You need the control panel always open and visible, at least to change between recording and playback. There could be an issue with a "too hot" Firewire bus of the iMac G5, suspected the dealer after he got several units returned (two of them were mine). But that was just a guess while they investigated the problem. I can't say what the real cause is but the phantom power went down below 5 V which filled the headphones with perfect silence. > It seems perfect: a good Logic citizen, 4 in, 10 out, 24bit/192kHz > processing which nothing else at this price point seems to have. > It's surround capable, The sound quality is very good and the effects either. Foldback reverb is a relief if you record vocals. You are right, in terms of sound quality there is nothing comparable in that class. It costs 475 Euro here, some special price. I didn't even find another device in that price class, not to mention the quality. I returned mine and got a Fireface because of the stereo-only monitoring of the Saffire, the phantom power failure and the software. Of course I payed the triple price for the Fireface and a comparison won't be fair. > and the big gripes about the software interface > look cleared up with v 2.0 of the saffire control. There were big gripes? My God. One of the "small" gripes in the Mac version 2.0 was still a showstopper for me. Conclusion: If you want one, get one and test it. If you are happy then it was a very good deal. If not but you want that sound quality, be prepared to spend much more money. ___ Peter Ostry

It's a powerful, full-featured, automated digital mixing console. I've been using it as the center of my studio for about five years, and though I do have a few issues, overall it's a killer board. If you're currently using an M-Box and one keyboard, setting up and making use of the D8B might be overkill, as it's designed to handled up to 56 inputs (analog and digital), has eight busses, twelve aux sends, two monitor sends and more. It would only really be useful to you if you needed lots of inputs for keyboards or external outboard effects, or are doing live multi-channel recording, taking advantage of its twelve mic preamps and flexible headphone mix capabilities. The board does have possibilities as a Logic controller, but its size makes it a little impractical for that use in most setups. I do my audio work on a PC, using Logic only for composing, so I've never explored this option. I believe D8B software version 5 turned it into a virtual HUI, but I'm not positive about that. You might want to plug it in and see what software version it shows when it boots, and check out the back panel to see what kind of interface cards it might have. Then you'd have a better idea of whether or not it might be worth trying to integrate into your studio. It does require a large, external, rackmounted CPU/power supply unit, so look for that. And, to work with it easily, it really needs a keyboard, mouse, and VGA monitor. Sean McCoy Oregon Sound Recording

Does anyone use in-ear monitoring instead of headphones for mic recording? I think of getting good in-ear phones (cabled) and get rid of the big thing on the head and the leakage to the mic (even with closed headphones). Are in-ears are comfortable enough, do they deliver a usable sound quality to get into the right mood even for fragile songs? Do they provide less leakage? What do singers say to that kind of monitoring - do they feel more free or more "plugged"? ___ Peter Ostry

> Does anyone use in-ear monitoring instead of headphones for mic > recording? I think of getting good in-ear phones (cabled) and get rid > of the big thing on the head and the leakage to the mic (even with > closed headphones). > > Are in-ears are comfortable enough, do they deliver a usable sound > quality to get into the right mood even for fragile songs? Do they > provide less leakage? What do singers say to that kind of monitoring > - do they feel more free or more "plugged"? > hi Peter, you may find that some musicians are too sensitive to the in-ear monitors due to their generic shape. This same issue may cause some leakage to get back into the mics, that is, you may get a big enough gap due to a lose fit. The advantage is that you don't need to send too high of a signal into them and that'll avoid a high level leakage. Lastly, some singers prefer to have one ear on the monitor and one off so that they can hear themselves. I guess you can always tape over the hanging monitor and carry on. -otto ======================================Audio, Recording, Network Engineering / Percussion GxM Consulting Philomath, Oregon, US

>> Are in-ears are comfortable enough, do they deliver a usable sound >> quality to get into the right mood even for fragile songs? Do they >> provide less leakage? What do singers say to that kind of monitoring >> - do they feel more free or more "plugged"? > > On 17.01.2006, at 18:39, Otto Gygax wrote: > you may find that some musicians are too sensitive to the in-ear > monitors > due to their generic shape. This same issue may cause some leakage > to get > back into the mics, that is, you may get a big enough gap due to a > lose > fit. I guess each person should have their own set of in-ears? > The advantage is that you don't need to send too high of a signal into > them and that'll avoid a high level leakage. But that and the small size means usually less low end. Do the in- ears provide enough bass for a smooth tone, to feel comfortable? > Lastly, some singers prefer to have one ear on the monitor and one > off so > that they can hear themselves. I guess you can always tape over the > hanging monitor and carry on. Usually I switch one channel of the monitor mix off and I guess in- ears are just small phones and I could do the same, not? ___ Peter Ostry

>>> Are in-ears are comfortable enough, do they deliver a usable sound >>> quality to get into the right mood even for fragile songs? Do they >>> provide less leakage? What do singers say to that kind of monitoring >>> - do they feel more free or more "plugged"? >> >> On 17.01.2006, at 18:39, Otto Gygax wrote: >> you may find that some musicians are too sensitive to the in-ear >> monitors >> due to their generic shape. This same issue may cause some leakage >> to get >> back into the mics, that is, you may get a big enough gap due to a >> lose >> fit. > > I guess each person should have their own set of in-ears? that would be ideal > > >> The advantage is that you don't need to send too high of a signal into >> them and that'll avoid a high level leakage. > > But that and the small size means usually less low end. Do the in- > ears provide enough bass for a smooth tone, to feel comfortable? if you don't EQ your signal, you'll be hard to please everyone. > > >> Lastly, some singers prefer to have one ear on the monitor and one >> off so >> that they can hear themselves. I guess you can always tape over the >> hanging monitor and carry on. > > Usually I switch one channel of the monitor mix off and I guess in- > ears are just small phones and I could do the same, not? If you have individual routes to each set of monitors, you certainly can do this. My setup is low cost and most people share signals in a variety of combinations. So, closing off a channel may affect some who need it. -otto ======================================Audio, Recording, Network Engineering / Percussion GxM Consulting Philomath, Oregon, US

I did not find an explanation in the manual or on the RME website: The Fireface/Totalmix manual says the setting "Hi Gain" for the outputs gives me +15 dB Headroom. There is another statement that "Lo Gain" on inputs gives me also +15 dB Headroom. Could someone enlighten me what that means? Does it make sense to enable both or when should I enable the input "Lo Gain"? I can't see a difference on the level meters. ___ Peter Ostry