I have just started to teach music tech in a school that runs Logic Education on PC and MAC. In my previous school I was using Logic Platinum with the EXS24 and various other plug-ins. It seems Logic Education has neither of these, so for A2 where sound sampling and manipulation is required it's not looking good! Can anyone please tell me if it is still possible to purchase the EXS24 and any VSTs for Logic Education. Downloads are no good because I can't get them past the in house IT department! Many thanks

Hi Luggers, Any suggestions on a good native compressor? I have a UAD-1 and a Powercore, with the sony bundle, so I'm covered at home, but when I go on the road I loose these great sounding tools. What do you use? Thanks, George

At 0:54 Uhr -0700 20.09.2006, George Leger III wrote: >Any suggestions on a good native compressor? I have a UAD-1 and a >Powercore, with the sony bundle, so I'm covered at home, but when I >go on the road I loose these great sounding tools. > >What do you use? I have heard from personal reliable sources (whatever the hell that means to anyone else...) that the URS plug-ins are top-notch and absolutely worth the money. I am currently saving for those. Cheers Hans

--- In logic-users@yahoogroups.com, George Leger III <george3@...> wrote: > > Hi Luggers, > > Any suggestions on a good native compressor? I have a UAD-1 and a > Powercore, with the sony bundle, so I'm covered at home, but when I > go on the road I loose these great sounding tools. > > What do you use? > Hi George Here are a few that spring to mind, though I imagine you are familiar with many of them: Sonalksis SV 315 Waves C1, Rencomp, SSL channel and SSL Bus compressor, C4 and Lin MB if you need multiband PSP Mastercomp Metric Halo Channel Strip I assume you have a Powercore PCI card? You could always look to one of their Firewire solutions - I have the sony eq, dynamics and Inflator running on a powercore FW, handy for switching between PC and Mac, or for a notebook. Hmmm, it is a little hard to resist starting a "UAD, give us a FW solution, purleeeease!" rant .... HTH, kind regards Mark Cahill

> At 0:54 Uhr -0700 20.09.2006, George Leger III wrote: > >Any suggestions on a good native compressor? I have a UAD-1 and a > >Powercore, with the sony bundle, so I'm covered at home, but when I > >go on the road I loose these great sounding tools. > > > >What do you use? Hans Hafner <hanshafner@...> wrote: > > I have heard from personal reliable sources (whatever the hell that means to anyone else...) that the URS plug-ins are top-notch and absolutely worth the money. > > I am currently saving for those. > > Cheers > Hans On some material I can get very '1176'-like results with the sonalksis sv 315. www.sonalksis.com The new Nomad factory Fairchild clone (analog signature series) is very cool for limiting. O.

--- In logic-users@yahoogroups.com, George Leger III <george3@...> wrote: > > Hi Luggers, > > Any suggestions on a good native compressor? I have a UAD-1 and a > Powercore, with the sony bundle, so I'm covered at home, but when I > go on the road I loose these great sounding tools. > > What do you use? > > Thanks, > > George > Hi George, The most flexible compressor (utility style) i have come across is Dynam-izer (formerly neodynium by elemental audio). It doesn't have much in the way of character, but it can do pretty much any job you want it for, upwards/downwards compression, upwards/ downwards expansion, or a combination of the both. Its great for dealing with awkward sources (such as live recording concerts etc.) Unfortunately its got rather pricey since EA's takeover by Roger Nichols Digital, but its the only thing of its kind and well worth looking at the demo. Hope this helps , Mike

> --- In logic-users@yahoogroups.com, George Leger III <george3@...> > wrote: >> >> Hi Luggers, >> >> Any suggestions on a good native compressor? I have a UAD-1 and a >> Powercore, with the sony bundle, so I'm covered at home, but when I >> go on the road I loose these great sounding tools. >> >> What do you use? >> On 20/09/2006, at 8:48 PM, markdvc2002 responded: > > Hi George > > Here are a few that spring to mind, though I imagine you are > familiar with many of them: > > Sonalksis SV 315 > Waves C1, Rencomp, SSL channel and SSL Bus compressor, C4 and Lin > MB if you need multiband > PSP Mastercomp > Metric Halo Channel Strip > > I assume you have a Powercore PCI card? You could always look to > one of their Firewire > solutions - I have the sony eq, dynamics and Inflator running on a > powercore FW, handy > for switching between PC and Mac, or for a notebook. > > Hmmm, it is a little hard to resist starting a "UAD, give us a FW > solution, purleeeease!" rant .... Don't overlook logic's compressor. It can deliver an extremely wide range of sounds, it's very CPU efficient and low latency and for live work may be more than enough...? Kind regards ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: Paul Najar Jaminajar Music Production www.jaminajar.com

On Sep 20, 2006, at 7:48 PM, markdvc2002 wrote: > Hmmm, it is a little hard to resist starting a "UAD, give us a FW > solution, purleeeease!" rant No it is really easy to resist saying that. It is hard to resist saying UAD knock the fakey "we need this hardware to run" crap and simply port their plugins to native. The notion that those ancient video cards are actually doing something a modern CPU could not do in it's sleep is absurd. And the bottlenecks, bugs and latency they cause is just ridiculous. If they want to use a dongle then let them use a *real* dongle. The most frustrating part of it all is that UA do make some very nice plugins.

Hi George, On 20-Sep-06, at 12:54 AM, George Leger III wrote: > Hi Luggers, > > Any suggestions on a good native compressor? I have a UAD-1 and a > Powercore, with the sony bundle, so I'm covered at home, but when I > go on the road I loose these great sounding tools. > > What do you use? I'll second the recommendation on the URS compressors. I think that they sound great. Also, the Waves SSL bundle sounds excellent IMHO. Both of these require iLok though. For non-iLok plugs, I like Sonalksis SV-317 and Metric Halo Channel Strip. The PSP Audioware sound good too. HTH, Fernstudio

On 20.09.2006, at 09:54, George Leger III wrote: > Any suggestions on a good native compressor? I don't own many but since I got them my mouse runs always after the URS 1970 and 1980, especially the limiter versions. Input up, peak down with the limiter and then compress to taste. Sounds very good and is fast and easy to setup even for me. That means better ears can get better results in half the time. I am not a friend of the MH Channel Strip compressor and don't have the Sonalksis SV-315 yet but I have their multiband comp which is truly great. I like Logic's compressor for neutral sound and I hate the WaveArts Multipressor and l don't eat babies. Neodynium (now the what-do-I-know-IZER) is a unique baby. It compresses loudness bands instead of frequency bands. It can do things which no other single plugin would do. But I think it that not what are you looking for at the moment. It's more a weapon than a tool. ___ Peter Ostry

On Sep 20, 2006, at 2:54 AM, George Leger III wrote: > Any suggestions on a good native compressor? I have a UAD-1 and a > Powercore, with the sony bundle, so I'm covered at home, but when I > go on the road I loose these great sounding tools. > > What do you use? > > Thanks, > > George hola, i do use and like very much the urs 1980 compressor. regards. Vico vico@sonidomambo.com sonido mambo atletas 2 edificio luis buñuel c307 estudios churubusco azteca col. country club mexico d.f. 04220 tel mex 5255 5549 7869, 5255 5549 3060 x 208

Gareth http://www.garethjones.com > On Sep 20, 2006, at 2:54 AM, George Leger III wrote: > > > Any suggestions on a good native compressor? I have a UAD-1 and a > > Powercore, with the sony bundle, so I'm covered at home, but when I > > go on the road I loose these great sounding tools. > > > > What do you use? > > > > > . > > > > Also the URS "strip" is a handy plugin I am using a lot at present Gotta Love URS.

On Sep 20, 2006, at 12:54 AM, George Leger III wrote: > Hi Luggers, > > Any suggestions on a good native compressor? I have a UAD-1 and a > Powercore, with the sony bundle, so I'm covered at home, but when I > go on the road I loose these great sounding tools. > > What do you use? > > Thanks, > > George Thanks to everyone who answered. I forgot all about the Sonalksis, DOH! I did just get a Focusrite Liquid Mix last night. I'll be sure to post some review info in the next week to let you all know about it. For me, 32 tracks of compression and EQ for just over $800 is a steal. So far so good, but I'd rather wait for a while to say how well it really works and sounds. Again, Thanks to all who suggested ideas. George Leger III www.utopiaparkwaymusic.com

On 22.09.2006, at 02:24, George Leger III wrote: > I did just get a Focusrite Liquid Mix last night. I'll be sure to > post some review info in the next week Yes please. And please supply addresses of some people who might be willing to buy all my new plugins if I want a Liquid Mix either ;-) ___ Peter Ostry

Hi Luggers, I have discovered an issue with the Liquid Mix, IF you are using the UAD-1 or Powercore card plug-in on the same track. When you start playback, a big SNAP can be heard. And while I appreciate the LM, ya ain't getting me to give up my UAD-1s or Powercore and Sony plug-ins. George

--- In logic-users@yahoogroups.com, George Leger III wrote: > >Hi Luggers, > >I have discovered an issue with the Liquid Mix, IF you are using the >UAD-1 or Powercore card plug-in on the same track. > >When you start playback, a big SNAP can be heard. That's an odd problem... sounds like a sample rate adjustement. (ie: shifting from 44.1 to 48khz) Does the LM have a default sample rate? If so is it the same as your project? Does it behave this way in both Logic and Nuendo? Howard

On Sep 28, 2006, at 3:05 PM, pancenter wrote: > >Hi Luggers, > > > >I have discovered an issue with the Liquid Mix, IF you are using the > >UAD-1 or Powercore card plug-in on the same track. > > > >When you start playback, a big SNAP can be heard. > > That's an odd problem... sounds like a sample rate adjustement. > (ie: shifting from 44.1 to 48khz) > Does the LM have a default sample rate? No it doesn't > If so is it the same as your project? I imagine it is then > Does it behave this way in both Logic and Nuendo? Don't know. Only used Logic while I had the LM, as it's my main music creation platform. I suppose I should have checked this one. For the record, one of the sales guys at GC had also heard of the same issue, so I guess that it's now an isolated issue with my system, which has just been rebuilt from scratch in the last few months. > > Howard George