Hey man, I feel your pain... I do primarily instrumental guitar rock stuff, but I wanted something to add a little variety, a few more instruments....so i dropped $300 bucks on Unity. I can barely get it to work at all, let alone in unison with Logic. For now, I've basically written it off as a 300 buck loss, which is really a shame. But I'm holding out hope that future revisions of Logic and/or Unity will eventually get them jiving. Anyways, don't feel bad, you're not stupid (during the day, i'm a mild-mannered phd student), and it's most likely not (entirely) your fault that things aren't working. If it helps, hold out hope that programmers are doing their best to make things work they way they should. Chin up, Mike P. ---------- >From: "John Bertsche" <jnyb@...> >To: logic-users@onelist.com >Subject: [LUG] general frustration (long) >Date: Fri, Oct 1, 1999, 12:52 PM > > From: "John Bertsche" <jnyb@...> > > I've tried running the demos of various software synths, samplers, drum > machines (Reaktor, various Bitheadz stuff, etc.) and I can't get any of them > working w/Logic in a usable way. I'm not even sure if they're SUPPOSED to. > > Reaktor, for example, requires OMS, but the installation/setup instructions > for OMS don't make sense to me at all; i.e., they offer choices (instrument, > MIDI interface, etc.) none of which exist in my case. There seems to be, in > general, a vast pool of "assumed" knowledge, and if one isn't privy to this > pool, there's no alternative offered. It seems like it should be easy, from > the promotional/advertising impressions one gets from these programs, to get > up and running in a short time, but I've spent hours going in circles with > nothing but frustration as a result, when I could have been making music > connecting 20-year-old equipment with guitar cables. I actually WAS able to > play Reaktor sounds from my MIDI keyboard (BTW, they sounded great), but a > monkey would probably have been able to accomplish that faster than I did, > just by trial and error. And forget about playing Reaktor from inside Logic, > and/or recording the results...that would have taken me days to figure out. > <snip>