Hi, im new to pc recording and have just bought logic audio5. i had my audio instruments working, but somehow i erased all my audio instrument channels and this is now my default song, and i cant seem to get new ones up! i've read all the bits in the manuals (new- audio inst.) but still cant seem to get up new ones. if i go to the 'example setup song' they are there but all the insert boxes are crossed out! what am i doing wrong?

> Hi, im new to pc recording and have just bought logic audio5. i had > my audio instruments working, but somehow i erased all my audio > instrument channels and this is now my default song, and i cant seem > to get new ones up! i've read all the bits in the manuals (new- > audio inst.) but still cant seem to get up new ones. if i go to > the 'example setup song' they are there but all the insert boxes are > crossed out! what am i doing wrong? Sounds like maybe you don't have an audio driver for the crossed-out plugs. Can you be more specific about what goes wrong when you select new audio instrument in the menu? Gregory

hi Gregory, at the minute my default song is sitting with 4audio tracks and ill midi tracks, but no audio instrument tracks. if i follow the manual step by step to creste an audio inst. track, i get to the point where i double click on the waveform icon to turn it into a fader, but when i then click on the channel entry in the parameters box, i get no choice of instrument. if i load the example setupsong, it has all the audio inst channels there, but when i click on the inserts button, it just says 'no effect, and gives no other choices. All my synths are working and activated, as it was working last week! cheers, ronan

does anyone have any suggestions for me I changed over to asio drivers (audio driver 2) after i was having sync problems (5 or 6 midi tracks and 1 audio track) using pc/av qith mt Delt 1010 someopne suggested i should be using NTFS - instead on Fat 32 so .......I reformat and converted to NTFS still the same problem then someone else suggested i really should be using asio drivers and not pc/av delta easi mme so - i found out how to use my asio drivers - suppled by delta (midiman) now - i get as far as bar 12 on a song with NO AUDIO TRAX - just 7or8 midi trax and i get the ...............Asio drivers 'AUDIO ENGINE OVERLOAD - can't process all the data - message and my sequence will refuse to run past bar 12 so i've gone back to pc/av - and the easi drivers - just to get midi trax to run so i'm back to square one 'unable to sync audio and midi' I have a pentium 4 1.7 xp 512 ram 40 gig drive motu timepeice does anyone have any advice here - other than - go get cubase sx or buy a mac ???

--- In logic-users@y..., "aaron" <lakeplacidblue@t...> wrote: > I have a pentium 4 1.7 > xp > 512 ram > 40 gig drive > motu timepeice What video card do you have? Is the Desktop set to 16 bit color, and is "bus mastering" disabled for your video card? Check out the Windows (tweaks) section of my Music Links web page.. there are many sites out there with all kinds of things you can do to make WindowsXP run more efficiently for a DAW. All the best, Jeremy Martin; sadus@... http://www.carrollsweb.com/sadus

--- In logic-users@y..., "djronankerr" <djronankerr@h...> wrote: > at the minute my default song is sitting with 4audio tracks > and ill midi tracks, but no audio instrument tracks. if i > follow the manual step by step to creste an audio inst. track, > i get to the point where i double click on the waveform icon to > turn it into a fader, but when i then click on the channel entry > in the parameters box, i get no choice of instrument. > if i load the example setupsong, it has all the audio inst channels > there, but when i click on the inserts button, it just says 'no > effect, and gives no other choices. > All my synths are working and activated, as it was working last > week! By default song do you mean the one that appears when you just go to File / New? Try holding down Control when you click on New (or New Song, forget what it is named exactly) which makes Logic build a truly default song... That should have a few audio and audio instrument tracks with a bunch of midi tracks below. Or does even that not have any audio instruments showing up? All the best, Jeremy Martin; sadus@... http://www.carrollsweb.com/sadus

> --- In logic-users@y..., "aaron" <lakeplacidblue@t...> wrote: > > I have a pentium 4 1.7 > xp > 512 ram > 40 gig drive > > motu timepeice From: "Jeremy Martin" <sadus@...> > What video card do you have? Is the Desktop set to 16 bit color, and > is "bus mastering" disabled for your video card? > Check out the Windows (tweaks) section of my Music Links web page.. > there are many sites out there with all kinds of things you can do > to make WindowsXP run more efficiently for a DAW. thanx for your reply I have an NVIDIA geforce2 MX/ MX400 64mg video card I don't know where i'd disable the bus mastering for the video card - i'll check it out thanx again

--- In logic-users@y..., "aaron" <lakeplacidblue@t...> wrote: > thanx for your reply > I have an NVIDIA geforce2 MX/ MX400 64mg video card > I don't know where i'd disable the bus mastering for the video > card - i'll check it out I have a Matrox G450 dual head video card.. It came with some software that runs in the system tray down by the clock. For me I just double click on the icon down there, and its in the settings somewhere. I'm pretty sure most GeForce cards come with similar software so you can tweak everything, just look in the video card settings somewhere. I think you can also open up the video card settings by right clicking on the Desktop, going to the Settings tab, and clicking on the Advanced button? Hope this helps, Jeremy Martin; sadus@... http://www.carrollsweb.com/sadus

> By default song do you mean the one that appears when you just go to > File / New? Try holding down Control when you click on New (or New > Song, forget what it is named exactly) which makes Logic build a > truly default song... That should have a few audio and audio > instrument tracks with a bunch of midi tracks below. Or does even even if i do that it brings up the one with no audio instrument channels. i even uninstalled it then reinstalled it but it keeps bringing the same one up! it is really doing my nut in!

> hi Gregory, > at the minute my default song is sitting with 4audio tracks and ill > midi tracks, but no audio instrument tracks. if i follow the manual > step by step to creste an audio inst. track, i get to the point > where i double click on the waveform icon to turn it into a fader, > but when i then click on the channel entry in the parameters box, i > get no choice of instrument. > if i load the example setupsong, it has all the audio inst channels > there, but when i click on the inserts button, it just says 'no > effect, and gives no other choices. > All my synths are working and activated, as it was working last week! > > cheers, > ronan > Ronan, Something sounds corrupt there. If you click and hold on the insert button you should get No Effect, Mono, and Mono-Stereo as options. If that is not the case, I don't know of any user error that could account for that, as the logic fx are built into the program, unlike VSTs, which need to be in a certain folder to work. You might try creating a brand new autoload by removing all songs from your Logic program folder and launching the program. If you still can't insert fx, then I guess trash your prefs or something. I think you're on PC, which I know little about. On a Mac, I would also rebuild my desktop dB. Also, is this the entry-level Logic Audio 5 that used to be Logic Silver? There may be limitations there that I don't know about. Gregory

> so i've gone back to pc/av - and the easi drivers - just to > get midi trax to run so i'm back to square one > 'unable to sync audio and midi' > I have a pentium 4 1.7 xp 512 ram 40 gig drive > motu timepeice > does anyone have any advice here - other than - go get cubase > sx or buy a mac ??? I'm not sure if this would be true for you, but... I have the MotU ExpressXT. I've had had the following problem forever. Logic defaults to sending MIDI clock to all ports. With that setting, I can't run one single track of audio. My machine just grinds to a stop. Changing the setting by either sending to one port or turning it off all together fixes this problem. BTW - in LAPW 5.3 this seems to be a song setting. I always thought that is was saved with the program before... Lance Lasky Miracle Creations

Hi, It sounds like the reason you don't see your Insert FX is because you don't have an Audio Driver selected in the "Audio Hardware and Drivers" menu. Once you select the respective driver you'll probably have to re-lauch Logic in order for it to work. M-De

> > It sounds like the reason you don't see your Insert FX is > because you don't have an Audio Driver selected in the > "Audio Hardware and Drivers" menu. Once you select the > respective driver you'll probably have to re-lauch Logic in > order for it to work. > > M-De Matt you hit it spot on there. cheers. im new to the whole thing, and i was at this for a week, trying to fugure it out. thanks all for the help, no doubt i'll have more queries soon cheers ronan

--- In logic-users@y..., "aaron" <lakeplacidblue@t...> wrote: > I have an NVIDIA geforce2 MX/ MX400 64mg video card > > I don't know where i'd disable the bus mastering for the video card - i'll > check it out I have the same graphics card and similar (though not identical) problems. Coincidence? Emagic support were looking into this problems for me, but they seem to have given up. :-( My machine's going back to Dell for a "service" because of some other (probably unrelated) problems, but when it comes back I'll try swapping the GeForce2 with an old ATI Rage Pro card to see if that helps. I don't know how to disable bus mastering on the GeForce2 either, so if you find out, please let me know. It's probably worth taking a look at http://www.musicxp.net too. Also check your soundcard has its own IRQ. If it doesn't, and you can't disable what it shares with, move it to a different PCI slot and try again - try the PCI slot closest to the AGP card (apparently this sometimes has priority). On my PC the two PCI slots closest to the AGP card have their own IRQs and the two furthest away share them with other devices. I've also been told that having "fade effects" on for menus can cause big problems (Display Properties -> Appearance -> Effects). If your PC has an ACPI installation of Windows, it might even be worth thinking about a reinstall as a standard PC. Though if your sound card does have it's own IRQ this *ought* not to be necessary. You can tell if it's ACPI from the device manager ("ACPI Computer" instead of "Standard Computer"). When you're installing XP, if you hit F6 when it says "press F5 for a third party raid driver" you can choose the PC type. (I might have got F5 and F6 the worng way around - just press the other one to the one that Windows suggest for RAID drivers!) Hope this helps. Let us know. Disclaimer: I have no idea what I'm talking about! OK that's not quite true, but don't take it as gospel. I've found out most of this stuff while trying to sort out the problems on my own machine. I've tried it all apart from the non-ACPI Windows installation. Try it at your own risk! Regards, Robb

"robbmasters" <robb@n...> wrote: "aaron" <lakeplacidblue@t...> wrote: > > I have an NVIDIA geforce2 MX/ MX400 64mg video card > I have the same graphics card and similar (though not identical) > problems. Coincidence? BTW, just got this from USENET: > As for bus problems, I do recall from the Socket-7 days that the > GF2 cores do tend to hog the bus quite badly. This shouldn't be > an issue in general use, [but] some low-latency PCI devices don't > like it much. So that could well be our problem... Regards, Robb

Would it be possible for Logic Control to retain control of the master audio output of the Mac OS even when you're not in Logic? kid

At 12:15 Uhr -0400 05.10.2002, thekid@... wrote: >Would it be possible for Logic Control to retain control of the master >audio output of the Mac OS even when you're not in Logic? Possible yes, but it would require some sort of driver/control panel. On Mac OS 9, you would have to use OMS with all MIDI applications, as the direct hardware support can't be shared. -- Beste Gruesse - best regards, Michael Haydn - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dipl.-Inform. Univ. Michael Haydn mhaydn@... SoundDiver Group Executive http://www.emagic.de/ Logic Developer (Logic Control integration) Emagic Soft- & Hardware GmbH - Germany Phone: +49 4101 495 0 Halstenbeker Weg 96, 25462 Rellingen Fax : +49 4101 495 199 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

Ever since I upgraded from Logic 5.1.3, and at the same time had to reinstall my system after a hard drive failure, I've been plagued with "overload" errors under even lightest load conditions - despite a high spec. machine. Further reinstalls, reverting to 5.1.3, newer drivers, older drivers, hardware settings, OS tweaks, correspondence with Sound Technology and Emagic, and more failed to make any difference. Then I remembered this message: --- In logic-users@y..., "Lasky" <llasky@i...> wrote: > I have the MotU ExpressXT. I've had had the following problem forever. > Logic defaults to sending MIDI clock to all ports. With that setting, I > can't run one single track of audio. My machine just grinds to a stop. > Changing the setting by either sending to one port or turning it off all > together fixes this problem. Changing from "all ports" to "Micro: sync in - all out" (a port on my 4x6 MOTU Micro Express that apparrently send the incoming clock signal to its 6 MIDI outs) seems to have made these problems go away. What's more, testing system performance with one of the test songs from http://www.digitalnaturalsound.com/logic_dsp/index.shtml showns I can now run an additional 15 PlatinumVerbs (39 instead of 24). So even if you don't have a problem, changing from the default might be well worth doing! My best guess for the reason this happens on my system is that with it set to "all ports" MIDI clock also goes to the MIDI synth on my motherboard (which I never use anyway) and it just can't keep up. Thank you Lance Lasky. ;-) Regards, Robb