<quotes fixed by admin> > Hi, > > We have received the OK from Serato to keep taking signups for two > extra weeks, until June 14th. I know a lot of you were waiting until > the last minute to decide, so now you have a couple more weeks to > check out the demos and make an informed decision. > > Cheers > Jeremy Now that's great for those who didn't sign up yet, but what about those who have? Do we have to wait 2 more weeks? I know pitch 'n time from use in PT and Fairlight so I'm impatiently waiting to use it with Logic. Best Ab ----------------------------------------------------------------- LUG Group Buy for Serato's Pitch n' Time LE until June 14th! See http://logic-users.org/groupbuy/serato for full details

If you're talking about distortion for guitar, I just recently bought Guitar Rig 2 by Native Instruments. I'm very happy with the sounds I've gotten with a little tweaking. ----------------------------------------------------------------- LUG Group Buy for Serato's Pitch n' Time LE until June 14th! See http://logic-users.org/groupbuy/serato for full details

ececcon1 wrote: > There must be a better easier more convenient way, but I can't find it > either in the manual or on Google. > Can anyone help? > I dont see how there could be an easier way. MIDI is not audio, its data. The only way youre going to record the AUDIO from your MIDI instruments is to well, record them onto AUDIO tracks. -- Chris http://www.descentrecords.com ----------------------------------------------------------------- LUG Group Buy for Serato's Pitch n' Time LE until June 14th! See http://logic-users.org/groupbuy/serato for full details

dimaskus wrote: > Hello all, > I would like to buy a second Xkey so that I don't have to take it out of the studio when I do > outside projects,Once I took my laptop and all to New York but forgot the key :-) can anyone > tell me where are the best places to look for a used one on the net. So far I'm not having > much luck. > Thank you very much. > Vic > http://www.apple.com/support -- Chris http://www.descentrecords.com ----------------------------------------------------------------- LUG Group Buy for Serato's Pitch n' Time LE until June 14th! See http://logic-users.org/groupbuy/serato for full details

From: "Nick Batzdorf" recording@earthlink.net > Subject: Re: [Re: Node setup > > >>> I meant what software - what are you serving. > > From: "Paul Najar" paulnajar@jaminajar.com > >> Ah I see. OK. [long list of useful things to put on the server] > > Okay, sold. That all makes sense. :) > >> I was >> testing network midi and AU Net send & receive in conjunction with AU >> Lab on the server but the G5 does not ever seem to run out of steam >> and I think it was you that mentioned that latency seemed to change >> after a period of time with this stuff. > > Yes. It turns out that you need to clock the slave machines along > with the master so they don't drift. If you run a TOSlink cable from > the master machine, for example, it won't drift. FX Teleport gets > around that by clocking to the ethernet ports - on PCs, of course - > there's no Mac version yet. > > However, the latency is still very noticeable - I mean like 150 > milliseconds (judging by ear). It's not yet a happening thing. Clarification: FX-Teleport is a happening thing. I meant AUNetsend/ Receive isn't yet a happening thing! Nick Batzdorf, editor/publisher Virtual Instruments Magazine - the world of softsynths and samplers www.Virtualinstrumentsmag.com 1-877 VImagzn (846-2496) 818/905-9101, cell 590-9101 ----------------------------------------------------------------- LUG Group Buy for Serato's Pitch n' Time LE until June 14th! See http://logic-users.org/groupbuy/serato for full details

Hi, I recently began a search for a mic pre. Ultimately I decided to wait until a later date to make the purchase. However if I had the 1500 bucks I'd get the Groove Tubes SuPRE. It will be in stores in July, but it seems fantastic. I was also eyeing the Summit Audio 2BA-221. It costs 630 bucks. -jg.

In 7.1 surround mode, when panning an audio track to the Rear Left position, the audio bleeeds through to either mid channel left, or Rear right position, depending on pan setting. I cannot set the pan position so the track audio only appears in the Rear Left output. This occurs, with all three pan law settings and the bleed through is apparent when a full level signal, -0.5dBFS peak, is the source. Unlike the Rear Left, when panning to Rear Right output, it is possible to position the pan setting so the output can be directed to only the rear right output. I can provide further details if needed, or maybe something with my configuration is not optimal, but it is strange it is only some channels that cannot be isolated to one output. I have tried using automation for the surround angle, to allow precise placement in the rear left channel, but the audio either bleeds to one or the other neighboring channels. Maybe this is due to the value incrementing in steps of 2. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thank you. ----------------------------------------------------------------- LUG Group Buy for Serato's Pitch n' Time LE until June 14th! See http://logic-users.org/groupbuy/serato for full details

Here’s a little technique of mine should any of u do lots of softsynth native to logic type work/programming. I find this is cool and it saves me time. Iss'nt THAT what we need? It seems that all of garage band synthy tone generators are all based on one instrument native to Logic: The ES2). Let's say I’m scoring a scene that needs a particular synth sound for it. I start by instantiating a garage band instrument first. I’ll call up a garage band synth that may have a sound in particular that I’m thinking about for the scene. It just has to CLOSELY approximate the sound I was thinking of. Now that I have that instrument up I start tweaking it to get a sound close to what I am thinking of in my head. (maybe it’s a pad or a sound that has more of an attack at the beginning…) When I’ m close to the sound I want I go back to the channel strip/instrument selection area and select an ES2. You will see a very cool thing happen. The ES2 takes on like a mirror all of the garage band instrument settings! Now I can go in and fine tune that sound I am after! Fun stuff. This way your not overwhelmed with all the settings that the ES2 would have to get your basic sound BUT once the es2 IS called up you have IT'S power at YOUR command! -Terry Michael Huud www.Music4TheMovies.com ----------------------------------------------------------------- LUG Group Buy for Serato's Pitch n' Time LE until June 14th! See http://logic-users.org/groupbuy/serato for full details

> I recently began a search for a mic pre. Ultimately I decided to > wait until a later date to make the purchase. However if I had the > 1500 bucks I'd get the Groove Tubes SuPRE. It will be in stores in > July, but it seems fantastic. I was also eyeing the Summit Audio > 2BA-221. It costs 630 bucks. I'm a big fan of the Vipre- I have one and use it daily. I've looked at the spec for the Supre and spoke to the GT boys at Musikmesse- pretty it is not going to be the same sort of thing- I'm slightly dubious as to how good it is going to be on spec. Definitely a try before you buy item-I'd love to think that I can get 4 channels of the 'GT tube sound' for the cost of one Vipre... but experience tells me that corners will have been cut. JR ----------------------------------------------------------------- LUG Group Buy for Serato's Pitch n' Time LE until June 14th! See http://logic-users.org/groupbuy/serato for full details

> I would like to buy a second Xkey so that I don't have to take it > out of the studio when I do > outside projects,Once I took my laptop and all to New York but > forgot the key :-) can anyone > tell me where are the best places to look for a used one on the > net. So far I'm not having > much luck. The whole idea behind the XSKey is that you can only run as many copies of Logic as you bought. :o) Hence, buying a second XSKey is the same as buying a second Logic. Obviously, nobody is going to get rid of their key without selling Logic as a whole, so what you really want is a second-hand copy of Logic, there should be some out there. The question is of course, whether you really want to buy a second copy of Logic just so you can keep one (key) as a spare in your laptop bag. But technically there is no such thing as "cheaply" buying a key without buying Logic. And if you could (like maybe buying Logic 5 off someone and somehow hacking your installation to upgrade both keys to Pro 7) it would be illegal. The key _is_ Logic.. the disc you get with it is just a little extra needed to make it work. :o) Maurits. ----------------------------------------------------------------- LUG Group Buy for Serato's Pitch n' Time LE until June 14th! See http://logic-users.org/groupbuy/serato for full details

Not sure if I can formulate a clear enough question: When at home, I run my kbds through my stage MIDI Patchbay ( MIDITEMP) which in turn is routed to my studio MIDI Interface ( AMT8). The former organises how my 2 keyboards talk to each other and rack modules, the latter interfaces with my Mac and Logic, taking over the routing when necessary - as set up by my patches. It works well: when I go to/return from gigs, I don't need a major rewire, all I need is different patches on my stage MIDI patchbay and to plug/ unplug a loom from AMT8 The problem I'm having atm is that when I don't have Logic running, my mother keyboard still talks to an external module, even though my stage MIDI patchbay isn't routed to do so. In other words, the AMT8 routing still seems active without Logic running. As soon as I open AudioMIDI setup, the problem clears. Does anyone know why this happens? peter ----------------------------------------------------------------- LUG Group Buy for Serato's Pitch n' Time LE until June 14th! See http://logic-users.org/groupbuy/serato for full details

<admin note - search through the LUG archive [http://logic-users.org/forums/LUG/search] for previously stated comparisons> Anyone out there running Logic Pro on a Macbook Pro? If so what are you're opinions as to it's performance, and how does this compare to a Powerbook G4? Leon ----------------------------------------------------------------- LUG Group Buy for Serato's Pitch n' Time LE until June 14th! See http://logic-users.org/groupbuy/serato for full details

I realize that I probably missed out on a good group buy last year, at which point there was a great deal of discussion regarding this, but please bear with me. I'm looking for recommendations on an excellent sampled piano for the EXS24. One that will sit well in a mix (British-influenced pop, in my case) as well as solo. Is it possible to find something under $250 or so? Thanks! David ----------------------------------------------------------------- LUG Group Buy for Serato's Pitch n' Time LE until June 14th! See http://logic-users.org/groupbuy/serato for full details

On 31/05/2006, at 2:58 PM, Nick Batzdorf wrote: >>> I meant what software - what are you serving. > > From: "Paul Najar" paulnajar@jaminajar.com > >> Ah I see. OK. [long list of useful things to put on the server] > > Okay, sold. That all makes sense. :) > >> I was >> testing network midi and AU Net send & receive in conjunction with AU >> Lab on the server but the G5 does not ever seem to run out of steam >> and I think it was you that mentioned that latency seemed to change >> after a period of time with this stuff. > > Yes. It turns out that you need to clock the slave machines along > with the master so they don't drift. If you run a TOSlink cable from > the master machine, for example, it won't drift. FX Teleport gets > around that by clocking to the ethernet ports - on PCs, of course - > there's no Mac version yet. > > However, the latency is still very noticeable - I mean like 150 > milliseconds (judging by ear). It's not yet a happening thing. Ah cool. Thanks for the info. >> Music production has a habit of >> expanding to use all available resources I've found. > > You're joking, right? Since when?! > > :) ;-0 >> (Um not >> sure weather GS [Gigasampler] runs on Mac???) any way, I think you >> get the picture. > > They're coming out with a Mac version! There are also going to be OEM > player versions, just like all the libraries in Kontakt players. The > first library for GVI, the new plug-in version of Giga, is Sonic > Implants Muse. It's imminent, but it's not the PC version yet. > > I can't wait for the Mac version. Thanks again Nick for this info. Maybe I don't need that esub to Virtual Instruments. I can just ask you here ;-) But seriously this article you mention sounds like really worthwhile reading... Kind regards ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: Paul Najar Jaminajar Music Production www.jaminajar.com ----------------------------------------------------------------- LUG Group Buy for Serato's Pitch n' Time LE until June 14th! See http://logic-users.org/groupbuy/serato for full details

On May 25, 2006, at 8:38 AM, Gareth Henderson wrote: > On 25/5/06 12:01, "Jonathan Perl" <jon.perl@verizon.net> wrote: > >>> Will PitchNTime work well in this instance? >>> We shot a concert with two cameras and recorded 24 track audio >>> with a MACKIE HDR 24/96. Big mistake. >>> Big technical glitch with audio: somehow all 24 tracks are >>> slightly sped up. So now we have to slow down the wav, files >>> to match the video Quicktime files. Yikes. It's nearly 3 hours >>> of 24 track audio. >>> Is this a job for Pitch'n'Time? > > I have the same problem every year. I use an Alesis HD24 to record > my annual > concert then post mix to make a DVD. The mixed files are always very > slightly out of time (no where near enough to be sample rate > settings, more > like clock differences - God I wish the master video deck took word > clock!!) > I solve it by getting one song from the audio mix, extracting > the audio > from the QT movie, defining EXACTLY the same start and end point in > both > files, checking the number of samples difference and them using > time machine > to change the mixed audio file to match the number of samples in > the QT > audio file. This gives me a percentage time stretch figure in the Time > Machine that I then use for all the songs. > Usually I try the value on a couple of tracks first and make > sure they > sync up well in FCP and sometimes the value needs a tiny bit of manual > tweaking, but once I'm happy with one, it always works on the others. > Annoying isn't it!? > Gareth > Why do you not record with time code from the video deck going to the recorder, and resolving all to video sync? This is the only way it will truly work. -Evan Benjamin ----------------------------------------------------------------- LUG Group Buy for Serato's Pitch n' Time LE until June 14th! See http://logic-users.org/groupbuy/serato for full details

>> What do people like for distortion plugs? Logic's distortion plugs >> never >> suited me. I guess there is Trash, Tube (a bit subtle but sounds >> good - but VST >> only, and Antares does not have a good porting record), ValveTone >> by Tritone, >> Predatohm (only mono and good but seems lack subtlety). Maybe Blue >> Tubes? > > Don't like Guitar Amp Pro either? Guitar Rig 2? I get some pretty nice sounds out of this hungry beast! Download the demo and give it a go Best Regards, Matt _ _ _ _ _ ___ __ _ _ _______________ MATT MCKENZIE-SMITH MUSIC • AUDIO DESIGN • PRODUCTION PO Box 10395, Adelaide 5000, South Australia. Ph.+61 416 197 883 iCHATav. mattrix@mac.com http://www.mattrixx.net _ _ ___ _ ____ _ _ ________________ ----------------------------------------------------------------- LUG Group Buy for Serato's Pitch n' Time LE until June 14th! See http://logic-users.org/groupbuy/serato for full details

"Noble Gowing" <dangcookie@comcast.net> wrote: > I'm looking for recommendations on an excellent sampled piano for the EXS24. Ivory by Synthogy. It's not a library for EXS24, but an AU plugin that works in Logic. It's excellent. f-erenc szabo, smarty pants Z+E+R+O+B+E+A+T "NOW POWERED BY THE MIRACLE OF THE TRANSISTOR!" <http://home.goodmedia.com/~zerobeat> ----------------------------------------------------------------- LUG Group Buy for Serato's Pitch n' Time LE until June 14th! See http://logic-users.org/groupbuy/serato for full details

On 01/06/2006, at 9:34 AM, Matt McKenzie-Smith wrote: >>> What do people like for distortion plugs? Logic's distortion plugs >>> never >>> suited me. I guess there is Trash, Tube (a bit subtle but sounds >>> good - but VST >>> only, and Antares does not have a good porting record), ValveTone >>> by Tritone, >>> Predatohm (only mono and good but seems lack subtlety). Maybe Blue >>> Tubes? >> >> Don't like Guitar Amp Pro either? > > Guitar Rig 2? I get some pretty nice sounds out of this hungry beast! > Download the demo and give it a go Thanks Matt. GAP is all I need really. I also quite like Logic's Clip Distortion. My needs are not that big. My idea of pulling a great guitar sound is to hire a wonderful player with wonderful amp & pedals and 3-5 $5000 guitars and stick a mic in from of it. As for dirtying up everything else the aforementioned are enough... ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: Paul Najar Jaminajar Music Production www.jaminajar.com ----------------------------------------------------------------- LUG Group Buy for Serato's Pitch n' Time LE until June 14th! See http://logic-users.org/groupbuy/serato for full details

>>I need a good mic preamp to run one microphone through. The quality >>needs to be on par with the mic pre's on the Yamaha 01V (or even of >>Mackie mixer quality). What would you recommend? There are mic pre's >>running into the thousands of dollars, but I don't need anything like >>that...only something comparable to the Yamaha (or mackie) Mic Pre's. >> Any suggestions? >> >>Thanks for your help! >> >> >> Thanks everyone for the responses on this thread. I really appreciate it. I don't do many vox in my studio...most are done in my colleague's studio, but I occasionally need some "emergency" vox takes. Kind regards, David ----------------------------------------------------------------- LUG Group Buy for Serato's Pitch n' Time LE until June 14th! See http://logic-users.org/groupbuy/serato for full details

Hey, I'm fairly new to Logic's audio facilities and have an issue I can't figure out: When I record a new pass in the arrange track with previously recorded audio in it, it alwasy plays the original take and not the new one. How do I stop Logic from doing this and prioritize the audio playback of the new take? I just want to hear my latest take after recording over another audio region in the Arrange track. I don't want to do this in cycle mode, just in 'regular' recoring mode. TIA, Michael ----------------------------------------------------------------- LUG Group Buy for Serato's Pitch n' Time LE until June 14th! See http://logic-users.org/groupbuy/serato for full details

Maybe this has been going on for a while but I never noticed it until a new user pointed it out to me. His example was to record a MIDI region on a Audio Instrument track, then select an Audio Track to record on in cycle mode. Create new track and auto mute functions are enabled. Do three or so passes, stop and hit undo. The recordings disappear, but not the new tracks. The MIDI region moves back to the original track number - which is now the wrong instrument or even an Audio Track as all tracks are displaced by the number of new tracks created. When I replicated this at home, it did exactly the same thing except I additionally get two of the clone tracks sometimes recording instead of just the first one. The ensuing cycle removes the duplicate recording but not the new clone track so I end up with tracks with no recording on them. Doug ----------------------------------------------------------------- LUG Group Buy for Serato's Pitch n' Time LE until June 14th! See http://logic-users.org/groupbuy/serato for full details

On May 31, 2006, at 5:22 PM, Evan Benjamin wrote: > Why do you not record with time code from the video deck going to the > recorder, and resolving all to video sync? This is the only way it > will truly work. > > -Evan Benjamin This sounds like good advice if we didn't already do the gig... but are you suggesting syncing up through timecode after we've recorded? Dan ----------------------------------------------------------------- LUG Group Buy for Serato's Pitch n' Time LE until June 14th! See http://logic-users.org/groupbuy/serato for full details

Hi. I'm trying to decide between the MacBook and MacBook Pro. My biggest issue is with the FireWire bus. I'll be using a Metric Halo 2882 +dsp on the FireWire bus so my only options for external drive on the MacBook would be if it's daisy-chained to the sound card or connected through USB 2.0. I understand that the USB 2.0 is not implemented well enough on Macs (it is slower than FW400 on my PowerBook) and I'm wondering whether the FireWire bus won't be "too busy" with the Metric Halo box connected to it directly, to perform well in situations where the external hard drive is working "hard". Can anybody shed more light on this? Also, how important are the graphics card and video memory, in which the MB Pro is superiour, to someone who will only use his machine for Logic Pro and other audio-only applications? ::: ::: ::: Thanks, Aviad ----------------------------------------------------------------- LUG Group Buy for Serato's Pitch n' Time LE until June 14th! See http://logic-users.org/groupbuy/serato for full details

Hi. I am using Logic 4.7.3 Platinum to do some mixing work at the moment. I have noticed that when I send my drum tracks (1-8) on a stereo bus 1&2, and then put a compressor over them when they come back on returns 1& 2, the level coming back off my returns does not directly correspond to my master fader. i.e. in order to avoid clipping having used up head room near the end of the mix, I took the level of the master fader down very slightly but noticed that, whereas the level of the drums did fall on bringing down the master as expected, the compressed drums of buss send1 & 2, which were coming back on returns 1&2 did not fall in direct relation to the rest of the track which left my mix unbalanced. Again, they did fall, and indeed when the master was fully down they were completey muited along with everything else, it's just I thought the master should reduce everything (including returns) relatively. The compressed drums were left very noticeably above everything else in the mix when pulling the master down. So I guess what I'm asking is, has anyone had a similar problem and am I missing something in my signal routing?

I'm running Logic 7.1 with an M-Audio Keystation 61 and MOTU 828 on a dual 2.0 G5. The M-audio controller is connected directly to the G5 via USB. Here's the problem... The keyboard works initially, but after playing a few notes Logic stops getting MIDI in signals. It can be fixed by resetting MIDI drivers in the MIDI preferences, but obviously this is a bit of a drag to have to do every 5 minutes. Anyone else have a problem like this? Any advice? Thanks, ~Art