On 28. Feb 2005, at 22:26, Bill Felton wrote: > Is there a way to do this while recording? Particularly, is there a > way to have multiple midi (hw) and plugin synths running while > recording any/all of them? It is possible but the setup depends on the features you need. I'll try to divide them into three groups: 1 - Switching and layering but no recording: Cable the physical input directly to the audio instruments, not to the sequencer input. You can filter, switch, transform, all you want. First setup is easy. Complexity is direct-proportional to your phantasy, usefulness is negative proportional. 2 - Layering and recording softsynths: Use the technique with the I/O plugin, you find a description at www.omega-art.com 3 - Switching, filtering, layering and recording: That combines the two above. Setup is not easy, there are several ways to do it and it highly depends on your goal. It is wise to have a concept. An "universal" setup can go beyond certain limits of Logic. Actually Logic is not built for that, it's more of a violation. If you have a big setup running it is supposed to be reliable (if it was done in a clean way) but be prepared to change things after an update. > We use Logic as both the midi command center and midi&audio recording > master for our performances. This has basically meant not using > plug-ins on the primary (logic host) computer, but instead running them > on a secondary pc/mac and treating them as if they were hw synths. > This isn't very satisfactory... Sorry, I do not fully understand that. Do you mean you have one machine for the stage sound and one to record the dry signals? Peter Ostry