Shake Shakir wrote: >> Don't know if I am asking the correct way or place, but I need to find out >> about connecting my oxygen 8 to use soft synths. >> >> ibook >> logic 7 Ned wrote: > Logic 7? Wow, so _you're_ the guy with the time machine, huh? ;-) Shake Shakir wrote: > I appreciate the response. But I have to say right away that I am > very new to this idea of soft synths and laptops. I do know that the time > machine is in this version of logic. I've seen it, but I don't know how to use > it. I > am still trying to learn how use it. Trying to read up on everything, but I > end up more confused. Sorry about whining. > I hope I can use it to keep frrom becoming a musical dinosaur, > Thanks Ned. I'll to reach you directly through your listing I'm actually on Logic 25.2.1. I traveled to Mars last week cause it was so close and their dealer there had a wormhole in the back of the store. I just jumped in, grabbed a Logic upgrade box, pre-paid with my visa card which won't be charged for another 15 years, and ran back to my spaceship to head home and check it out. It uses this new copy protection scheme called "X22key" which can hold 80Gb's of info on a USB4 20,000mps connected key, which when connected to a 75Ghz quad processor G17 Apple laptop (6") can be used to record audio directly to. It holds all the samples too for the EXSmk17. Pretty exiting stuff. You can also get the smart chip injection directly into your palm so when you go to someone else's machine you just put your hand on their palm reader (stock on all Apple's starting in 2021) and it authorizes all your instruments, song files, samples etc. that are stored on the 120GB microchip in your palm (actual palm, not palm pilot). There's also some great new instruments including the EHS (Emagic Horn Section) the EBS (Emagic Background Singers) ELS (Emagic Lead Singer) ESW (Emagic song writer) EOC (Emagic Orchestral Composer) and the EAL (Emagic Advanced Lyricist). They still hadn't figured out how to do a guitar instrument right but the guy at the counter said they were working on it. but seriously: The time machine function is easy. You can access it from the functions menu inside a sample edit window. Just move the numbers up and down to the right of where it says "free" and push process. That's if you just want to change the pitch. If you want to slow it down or speed it up you can use the length. Or you can simply move the little joy stick in the window to the left to make a passage slower or faster and do pitch all at the same time. you have to push the process button always if want to hear the results in arrange. teddybut