Wakes

Was a godsend I splashed out all that money 20 years ago to get my DATs put on CD! Seem to remember the studio time coming In 4 hour blocks and having to pay out something silly like 400 quid just to transfer to a CD. Seems ridiculous this day and age paying that for something so outdated and what you would actually do for free at home on your laptop and that is so much more flexible! The CD-R kept the files perfectly despite being so old so was delighted with the result!

Was a godsend I splashed out all that money 20 years ago to get my DATs put on CD! Seem to remember the studio time coming In 4 hour blocks and having to pay out something silly like 400 quid just to transfer to a CD. Seems ridiculous this day and age paying that for something so outdated and what you would actually do for free at home on your laptop and that is so much more flexible! The CD-R kept the files perfectly despite being so old so was delighted with the result!

The LUFS is around -15db however the L and R Meter next to it is peaking at around -3db

Just done that to one of the tracks and it’s barely peaking at -15db so guess I’m good to go!

Well I’ve only gone and done it! Put the CD into my old MacBook Pro (which is as slow as a cart horse!) and up popped 16 AIF files 60 odd mb each! Transferred to external hard drive and loaded onto new MacBook Pro. Job done! All I’m wondering now is whether the AIF files have any head room as you’re supposed to leave around 4dbs spare? I’m guessing the levels would have been set as hot as possible going onto CD to give max volume to a quiet unmastered recording or would it have just transferred with automatic level detection? Not sure how those machines worked as I went to a studio and paid someone to do it..

That’s good to know! Now for the task of actually getting the cd into my MacBook Pro, no CD drive!

Hope someone can give me some guidance on this! I have some old recordings on CD which were copied straight from DAT without ever being mastered. This was done 20 years ago on a CD recorder and although I have all these recordings on MP3 I would like to actually master some of them properly. I know MP3 files are compressed and not suitable for mastering, but would it be possible to save the uncompressed CD song files and master them instead of the MP3s? I no longer have the old DATs unfortunately so would the CD files be as good a quality and as uncompressed as DAT if recorded at 44.1? Many thanks, Wakes.

Right I have now tried that and it now works, albeit only when it feels like it! Have to load song and quit and re-load until error message no longer appears. Is this a bug do you think? Anyway thanks for helping me get this to work intermittently at least. Wakes.

Tried that still exactly the same as before I'm afraid..

Ok in that folder are: Emagic USB midi driver plugin, Korg USB midi driver plugin, Onyx FireWire midi driver plugin and Saffire midi driver plugin. Incidentally I have been using a Korg X50 or micro Korg as controller and have a saffire pro 24 interface.

Ok there are two folders: Generic and LOUD. Inside Generic is Images and inside that are images of various music hardware devices. Inside the LOUD folder is Images and then a circuit board image named EVM002...?

Please excuse me if this question has already been asked recently, but since updating to Logic Pro 10.2.0 and El Capitan 10.11.1, Upon loading Logic I get the messages "Error initialising core midi" and "warning midi services not available" thus not being able to input any data on my keyboard controller. I have updated the drivers for my Focusrite Saffire pro 24 but to no avail. Any help greatly appreciated. Wakes.

And did your songs play incorrectly in the updated version? I tried the time machine option and recovered the older version and yes it did open as 10.2 as I guessed it would. Thanks Logic, genius, absolute genius!!!!

Yeah but a time machine backup will still play my songs in 10.2 won't it? How do you go back to using 10.1 or is the update permanent? The question is how many other people is is going to affect or is it unique to my software due to the settings I have?

Just updated to 10.2.0, I load my songs which worked fine on previous update and they all play incorrectly as if the volumes and effects have been changed. Piano sounds now have a weird chorus effect added to them. How do I get rid of this update and go back to previous version? I'm panicking now. Wakes.