Perhaps my previous attempt to post got filtered out for being too basic but I'll have another go anyway: I've been using an early version of Logic for some years now and have accrued a large number of Logic files which I can no longer use as a day or two ago I lost sound output from Logic (I use Logic for learning tunes as I can't play from music). I was playing a midi tune when Logic freezes and up pops an error message with three options none of which I understood or can now remember (You may by now be rightly suspecting that my technical knowledge of Logic and computing in general is limited). I clicked what seemed the most innocuous option. Nothing happened. I tried the other two. Still nothing. I closed and restarted Logic and everything seemed to work fine, but no sound. I can get sound from midi files with windows media player but nothing from Logic. I've tried uninstalling and reinstalling Logic but still no sound. I've searched Logic and this site but can find nothing I can understand. Due to my poor computer literacy, any ideas for solutions would need to be in the "click this/ type xyz / press this " format. Thanks in advance to anyone who thinks they are able to bring themselves down to my level and help me out. Regards Ken

--- In logic-users@yahoogroups.com, "Ken" wrote: >Perhaps my previous attempt to post got filtered out for being too >basic but I'll have another go anyway: Ken, your earlier post made it through. It's not that peeople don't wish to help, it's that Logic is vast and your problem is hard to define given the information you've posted. > >I've been using an early version of Logic for some years now and have >accrued a large number of Logic files which I can no longer use as a >day or two ago I lost sound output from Logic (I use Logic for >learning tunes as I can't play from music). Are all of these MIDI tunes? Are you playing MIDI files with the Microsoft synthesizer... or your soundcard? >I was playing a midi tune when Logic freezes and up pops an error >message with three options none of which I understood or can now >remember (You may by now be rightly suspecting that my technical >knowledge of Logic and computing in general is limited). And this is the problem as Logic is definitely a technical program. No one knows what options you're talking about. The audio selection should probably be PC/AV The MIDI output can be set on the side strip at the far left of the screen. Select a MIDI track and in the space above the word "CHA" and below "Icon" there's a space to select the track output. Click and hold the left mouse button and a pop-up with options appears. HW

"pancenter" <hwooten@dakotacom.net> wrote: > Ken, your earlier post made it through. It's not that peeople don't wish to help, it's that Logic is vast and your problem is hard to define given the information you've posted. Hi HW. Thanks for reply. It will underline my level of expertise if admit that I still can't locate my first post .. but that's a side issue now. > Are all of these MIDI tunes? All the tunes I use are either midi files I've imported into Logic or ones I've written on Logic's stave. > Are you playing MIDI files with the Microsoft synthesizer... or your soundcard? Short answer: I don't know. Longer answer: A midi file can sound slightly different depending which program is playing it. Might this mean media player is using the synthesizer and Logic the soundcard ? Is there some way I can find out ? > No one knows what options you're talking about. In retrospect my biggest mistake was not to note the three options that appeared in the pop up error box. I assumed it was an error message from Logic. It certainly was that event that vanished Logic's sound output. > The audio selection should probably be PC/AV Many of the Logic files I have saved don't have any Audio lines as the first version of Logic I used did not have any audio function. I've only ever usded Logic for midi stuff. The little audio work I've was not done with Logic. > The MIDI output can be set on the side strip at the far left of the screen. Select a MIDI track and in the space above the word "CHA" and below "Icon" there's a space to select the track output. Click and hold the left mouse button and a pop-up with options appears. My version has no space below "Icon". It has "Icon" with an icon I can change as you describe. Underneath that I have "Channel" with a number I can change from one to 16. I realize that I am making perhaps unusual and very selective use of Logic's functions but the eight or nine bits I do use are extremely helpful for my purposes. The only other prog I have that will do similar stuff is Melody Assistant .. but Logic is much easier to use (and I have stacks of files saved) so I would really like to get it going again. So thanks for your attempts so far and for any further ideas you may have. Regards Ken