On Sunday, February 2, 2003, at 12:31 PM, logic-users@yahoogroups.com wrote: > 1. Is it easy or tricky to open and work on a LAM song in LAW? > 2. Is it easy or tricky to open and work on a LAW song in LAM? > How about audio formats? Does windows recognize SDII and aif? Hi Gunnar, I've had no problems transporting songs back and forth between my LAM system and a writing partner's LAW system. The things that were a bind were: I converted all my SDII to wav before burning the CD, I don't know what LAW can read, but I know it's 'native' format is wav (LAM 'native' is SDII, although it can read any old thing). The biggest difficulty was my system runs a DIGI001 on DIO, while his was an M-Audio running off ASIO. This isn't a specific LAM / LAW thing, but I spent ages having to convert stuff from one driver to the other, since it didn't seem to want to do it automatically. I now have a (not very good) ASIO driver for DIGI001, so that I can do the conversions here before burning. And I think that was it. There was a couple of issues with CD burning (Windows doesn't like Mac multi-session discs), but again, nothing that relates directly to LAM to LAW. And I've done it the other way also, and it's just as easy. Feel free to mail me off-list if there's any other specific issues, Nigel

> On Sunday, February 2, 2003, at 12:31 PM, logic- users@yahoogroups.com > wrote: > > 1. Is it easy or tricky to open and work on a LAM song in LAW? > > 2. Is it easy or tricky to open and work on a LAW song in LAM? > > How about audio formats? Does windows recognize SDII and aif? --- In logic-users@yahoogroups.com, Nigel Powell <guch@t...> wrote: > I've had no problems transporting songs back and forth between my LAM > system and a writing partner's LAW system. The things that were a bind > were: > I converted all my SDII to wav before burning the CD, I don't know what > LAW can read, but I know it's 'native' format is wav (LAM 'native' is > SDII, although it can read any old thing). > The biggest difficulty was my system runs a DIGI001 on DIO, while his > was an M-Audio running off ASIO. Has anyone ever had to try to read a mac disk into LAW? When I saved all my mac projects to disk, I didn't realize my mac would die, and I would be moving to PC. I have been able to open the disks with MacOpener, which is also able to supply file extensions for the files. I can open old songs, but here's the problem: All aiff files CREATED IN LOGIC are not recognised as stereo. Nor does macOpener recognise them as AIFF files, and apply the appropriate extension. I can force MacOpener to use a default extension, and using .aiff, I can open them. But they all play back at half speed, and the audition window shows them wrongly as mono. If I use the .AIF extension that MacOpener correctly applies to files from commercial sources (SAVED ON MAC FORMAT DISKS, mind) Logic can't open the files. It seems like there is a header problem, and I'm wondering if anyone could hazard a guess as to what might be the problem. I have a UNIX shell utility, and could probably figure out how to batch-modify the files if anyone had an idea what the confusion might be. Also, I could send a short audio file exhibiting the problem to anyone who might know how to investigate what's going on. Any ideas??? Thanks in advance. eric moon registered logic 5 user. Dell inspiron 8200 p IV 1.6 ghz 512mb ram

> Has anyone ever had to try to read a mac disk into LAW? When I > saved all my mac projects to disk, I didn't realize my mac would die, > and I would be moving to PC. > > I have been able to open the disks with MacOpener, which is also able > to supply file extensions for the files. I can open old songs, but > here's the problem: > > All aiff files CREATED IN LOGIC are not recognised as stereo. Nor > does macOpener recognise them as AIFF files, and apply the > appropriate extension. I can force MacOpener to use a default > extension, and using .aiff, I can open them. But they all play back > at half speed, and the audition window shows them wrongly as mono. > If I use the .AIF extension that MacOpener correctly applies to files > from commercial sources (SAVED ON MAC FORMAT DISKS, mind) Logic can't > open the files. > > It seems like there is a header problem, and I'm wondering if anyone > could hazard a guess as to what might be the problem. I have a UNIX > shell utility, and could probably figure out how to batch-modify the > files if anyone had an idea what the confusion might be. Also, I > could send a short audio file exhibiting the problem to anyone who > might know how to investigate what's going on. > > Any ideas??? > > Thanks in advance. > eric moon > registered logic 5 user. > Dell inspiron 8200 p IV 1.6 ghz > 512mb ram One other thing. If I take an AIFF file created by logic, and give it a .aif extension, logic says "what kind of file is this?". If I give it an aiff extension, logic opens it, and plays it back at half speed, and says "the file seems to be damaged". I know it's not a problem with the disk-- I'll have a file "drumloop.aif" that plays fine on the same disk with a "drumloop dup.aif" created by logic, that plays back half speed. Thanks again for any ideas. eric moon

Well, I seem to have solved my problem, so I will paste my answers in case anybody ever tries to do this again: I got a shareware batch-convert program called "awave" for $50 which has no problem recognising aif files, with or without an extension, whether created by logic or anyone else, and can batch-convert whole directories to .wav. I haven't tried a whole song yet, as the demo only does one file at a time, but this looks like a solution. It does seem ironic that Logic is not capable of recognising these files it itself created..... it also does not recognise the .wav files created by Cubase SX. e