Hi Dennis, > always**** have a bootable back up of the most recent > version of your system. Carbon Copy Cloner will help you do this and > maintain it, it even lets you update only the files that have changed > so you don't end up having to write your whole system all over again. How do you do this in CarbonCopyCloner? - updating only the changed or altered files. PS: feel free to email me off line - as this is getting off topic.... -------- Eli Krantzberg http://www.nightshiftorchestra.com Almat Productions

> > > Just hit the automatin tool that looks like a wiggly arrow from the > toolbox and make sure it is in select mode (because this specific tool > can also be in curve mode to change the shape of your automation > curves). > > Then just highlight the region that includes your automation data, > click on the option key and pull it to the new location you would like > it copied. > > This should do it, > > iraklis > Perfect! Thank you.

>> << If you need >> headphone and talkback for players in another room, then you can >> now get >> quite inexpensive modules for this (Samson do one that is quite >> good).>> >> >> OH!!! Pete! I forgot about HEADPHONES!!! Your right. I CANT >> plug my >> headphones into an AMP!!! DUH! What would you call this Samson >> thing that I >> could plug my headphones into? > > Samson C-Control > http://www.samsontech.com/products/productpage.cfm? > prodID50&brandID=2 > > Good and well-priced. > > ___ > Peter Ostry > Also check out Mackie Big Knob, it is pretty cool. Danny B.

> I want to have a counter on the screen that tells me how many midi > notes I have triggered, so I can know when I've struck my 100th note > on my controller. I can't see a way to do that in Logic, unless > there's an environment object I'm not aware of. Any thoughts? > > Gregory I'm responding to my own post, because while kludging together a solution I came across two little utilities that might prove useful for others using midi in an unconventional manner. 1. Midi Monitor - does what it says. Big scroll screen showing all the midi data coming in. Allows different formats for notes, time, etc. columns 2. midiStroke - converts incoming midi data into computer keyboard keys (ASCII?). Not something one normally has use for, but I was able to use it to convert a drum pad (on my padKontrol) to the down arrow, so while recording a rhythm part into logic, the user is also scrolling down in Excel, highlighting the numbered rows in order so he knows how many times he has hit the drum pad. Gregory

On 30.08.2006, at 17:56, Daniel Gordon LUG wrote: > So, use different HDs for the Samples, Apple Loops and for Logic > sessions and audios. Then get a second set of three hard drives where Carbon Copy Cloner copies everything to, every night, after you go home. kai -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- canine_at_waf80_dot_de good night europe. http://kainiggemann.de <your name here> ---------------------------------------------------------------------

On 8/30/06 10:33 AM, "Maurits van de Kamp" <maurits@bassment.nu> wrote: > > > > >> > You should never let the free space on an OS10 system disk go below >> > 10 gigs or you are asking for trouble in the worst way. > > That's strange, I'm running Tiger on my iBook with only 10 gigs of > harddisk space in total, just about 400MB free, no problems at all. > Hi Maurits: My personal experience has also been that getting low on hard disk space creates major problems. I have also heard others say the same thing. I just know that when my free disc space got low (I don¹t remember exactly how low, but way more than 400 MB) everything slowed way down ­ even processes that I didn¹t think were using the disc. I wasn¹t running Tiger, so maybe Apple has fixed the problem ­ however I am not about to find out ;) It was agonizing. Blair -- blairfisher@shaw.ca

On Aug 31, 2006, at 6:56 AM, themiddleman wrote: > Anybody got any nuggets of wisdom regarding twaeking OSX to get better > performance for doing music only on your computer? Install it on a MacIntel quad?

--- In logic-users@yahoogroups.com, "themiddleman" <forums@...> wrote: > > Message posted by themiddleman <lorin@...>: > > Anybody got any nuggets of wisdom regarding twaeking OSX to get better > performance for doing music only on your computer? > > I've disabled Widgets to free up more RAM but is there anything else anybody > can recommend? > > I'm using a Powerbook G4 1.67 Ghz, 120MB 5200rpm, 2 GB RAM and it's creaking > a bit with Logic and Reaktor and I'm having to bounce down every 20 mins. > > Many thanks > > Lorin > How do you disable widgets?

You should install Logic on the sytem drive and keep all the audio/ samples on the F/W drive Cheers Clive Young

LUG, I just noticed after 2 1/2+ years of using GarageBand Loops and ALL the Jam Packs that some of the Drum Sets, and it looks like mainly from the Jam Pack 1, are not showing up in Logic. In The Drum Sets there are no Telephone Kit Twang Kit, Android Kit, etc., etc., and some of the loops are not showing up either. Any suggestions from anyone who uses these sounds/loops a lot? I tried loading settings in the channel strip boxes for the different instruments, AU's , etc., but no luck. Someone give me the heads up! Thank you in advance. Tim mtjkeys@aol.com www.timjennens.com

> How do you disable widgets? By switching them off in the dashboard. There is also a hack around somewhere to switch off the dashboard in total, but the effect of this should be negligeable next to audio processing. By the way, the widgets won't even load until you switch to the dashboard in the first place. Then when you switch back from the dashboard, the widgets will sleep and use no CPU; just some memory that will be swapped out eventually (and not swapped back in until you re-open the dashboard so again, no real performance loss there). Don't expect to be able to open a single Silververb more with tweaks like these. ;) Maurits.

At 12:27 Uhr -0500 30.08.2006, Mati wrote: >I have made a cool automation movement on a 4 bar bassline, now I >want to duplicate it throughout my track, i can copy and paste the >region, but not the automation. what am i doing wrong? In this case I usually - create a "dummy" region on the track - select that region - execute the command "move selected track based automation to object" - loop that region. Cheers Hans

Every time I open Logic Pro (7.2.2) just before itopens I get a dialogue box saying that CoreAudio plugin " " not found.Would I like to proceed? Then I have to click on OK or Yes,whatever it asks, then the app loads. Has anyone seen this? I've checked my components folder where the AU plugins reside, and any other plugin home on my drive but cannot seem to find anything that I didn't recognize......especially anything without an actual name, which I would guess " " means. Thanks for any handle on this. Bruce

> Message posted by Peter Buhr <peter.buhr@arcor.de>: > > I'm sorry if there was a misunderstanding. Of course the quicktime > instrument is useful to play back the .mid file, but then you only > have the whole mix, not the single instruments. > I meant there is no Audio Multi-Instrument in logic that lets you > load a .mid file of a whole song and assigns the different regions/ > channels to the instruments that they were intended for. > For example, a region with a bassline would automatically played > back with an AU that creates a bass sound. You can achieve this by another (better?) method ... You can actually 'unmix' the GM track by midi channel to create individual midi instrument tracks - determined by the midi channels actually used in the GM track Depending on the source quality, the 'new' individual midi tracks will include some kind of instrument name and even GM instrument assign number These individual tracks do not need a GM sound module but can be assigned to anything you want ... Note: GM Drumkits are usually on channel 10 - and these can be further 'unmixed' by midi note number to give you individual drum tracks cheers

On 31.08.2006, at 04:49, Blair Fisher wrote: > My personal experience has also been that getting low on hard disk > space > creates major problems. I have also heard others say the same thing. recently I was copying a large video to my drive and filled up the drive to the brim. Address Book, iCal, FileMaker pro and many other programs that don't ask you to save suddenly went all wacko -- but since I freed up space and never restarted, I only realized that some of these had gone weird after two days (when FileMaker forgot a long text I typed into a database...:( so really: keep an eye on it. Dataloss is imminent if you fill up your drive. Never ever get to 0. make sure you always have 10% of your drive free (because Maurits, I think it's 10%, not 10Gigs you should leave available...) you will lead a happier life... And: by all means: backup your work regularly! I just went through a restore process of my Address Book, after a .mac sync cleared everything (first on my Mac, then on the server. GOod Thing I am using Backup...!) kai -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- canine_at_waf80_dot_de good night europe. http://kainiggemann.de <your name here> ---------------------------------------------------------------------

On Thu, 31 Aug 2006 12:46:24 +0200, K9 Kai Niggemann wrote > your drive free (because Maurits, I think it's 10%, not 10Gigs you > should leave available...) I should hope so, there's no way I'm going to keep 10 gigs free on my 10gb iBook. :) Obviously, running apps need to be able to write out (temporary) data and stuff. That's why the system drive needs some room; although this isn't really dependant on the amount of total drive space (hence no percentage) but on the amount of stuff you have running and what you do with it. I think a few hundred MB as buffer is normally enough. Anyway, you'll be warned before the disk fills up. Maurits.

At 13:41 Uhr +0200 31.08.2006, Maurits van de Kamp wrote: >On Thu, 31 Aug 2006 12:46:24 +0200, K9 Kai Niggemann wrote >> your drive free (because Maurits, I think it's 10%, not 10Gigs you > > should leave available...) > >I think a few hundred MB as buffer is normally enough. Anyway, you'll be >warned before the disk fills up. Actually I have had 6 swap files on my Powerbook (1 GB RAM, numbers vary with varying amounts of RAM)when working with large sample libraries. These happen as follows. 64 64 128 256 512 512 makes a total of 1536 MB So I would _strongly_ suggest to keep 3 GB free. Everything above that is fine, but that seems to be the number that makes the most sense. Still enough buffer for a seventh swap files although that probably won't be necessary as you will think your PB breaks down any second because of all the swapping. Cheers Hans

At 06:30 AM 08/30/2006, you wrote: >First: > >You can and should use Carbon Copy Cloner to clone your system disk >to an equal sized or larger disk.... >The bad news is if you find you have to migrate to a larger disk you >will probably have a couple entertaining days of renewing software >authorizations,.... An earlier thread on this subject implied that CopyCatX was much better than the alternatives when it comes to including hidden authorization files in the backup system drive. Not so? I bought it but haven't tried it yet, so I can't verify.

>> Always have a bootable backup of the most recent version of your system. >> Carbon Copy Cloner will help you do this and maintain it, it even lets >> you update only the files that have changed so you don't end up having >> to write your whole system all over again.. From: "Eli Krantzberg" elik@videotron.ca elikca: > How do you do this in CarbonCopyCloner--updating only the changed/altered > files. PS: feel free to email me offline--this is getting off topic.. Hi Eli - You have to install psync (a Unix utility) and enable incremental backup in CCC's Preferences--CCC will fetch psync and install it for you when you turn inc.b/u on, or you can get it manually from Bombich's site, I believe.. -- Cheers, Joe Albano ROOFTOP PRODUCTIONS NYC NY Music Production : http://www.rooftopproductions.com Freelance/Consult : http://www.rooftopproductions.com/Consulting.html

Thanks Yavuz...I followed your advice. The startup items folder has an 'ownership and permissions' section which you can unclick after pressing for information. Trouble is, I have no idea what I should do next. I tried unclicking the lock and reinstalling the driver; that didnt work. Only good thing is that now I can see the A26 driver in the startup items folder. I wonder why the finder didnt find it?

Here is some explanations how to free up space on the start up drive: http://www.thexlab.com/faqs/freeingspace.html And a good article about Virtual Memory and RAM: http://www.thexlab.com/faqs/lackofram.html Frédéric BERTI S.M.M. ESSANIA design –––––––––––––––– 3D | WEB | MUSIC –––––––––––––––– Grand-Rue 33 1204 Genève Suisse +41 22 310 4263 http://www.essania.net

Also this excellent explanations from MicroMat on the Macfixit forum: http://www.macfixitforums.com/showflat.php? Cat=&Board=tiger&Number=768384 Frédéric BERTI S.M.M. ESSANIA design –––––––––––––––– 3D | WEB | MUSIC –––––––––––––––– Grand-Rue 33 1204 Genève Suisse +41 22 310 4263 http://www.essania.net

And this great applications "a simple tool that allows the user to quickly measure the size in bytes of a given folder and all subfolders and files within it." http://www.id-design.com/software/whatsize/index.php Frédéric BERTI S.M.M. ESSANIA design –––––––––––––––– 3D | WEB | MUSIC –––––––––––––––– Grand-Rue 33 1204 Genève Suisse +41 22 310 4263 http://www.essania.net

> By the way, the widgets won't even load until you switch to the dashboard in > the first place. Then when you switch back from the dashboard, the widgets > will sleep and use no CPU; just some memory that will be swapped out > eventually (and not swapped back in until you re-open the dashboard so again, > no real performance loss there). > > Don't expect to be able to open a single Silververb more with tweaks like > these. ;) I've been able to play songs by switching off all my widgets, that wouldn't playback with the widgets open. I'm only talking about 3 or 4 factory widgets. And I'd never used or opened the Dashboard before. So you do get a performance gain by switching off all widgets. This is on a powerbook G4 running 10.4.6. David Nahmani Apple Certified Trainer Level II Logic Pro Help (http://LogicProHelp.com) President, Los Angeles Logic Pro User Group

On Aug 31, 2006, at 3:53 AM, keith murrell wrote: > You can actually 'unmix' the GM track by midi channel to create > individual midi instrument tracks - determined by the midi channels > actually used in the GM track Could you please describe how to do this? Thanks Dave Shirk