jp2020

Hi guys Hopefully this will make sense. Have a project with many tracks. Edited the project so that the back half off the song has changed length. It wasnt a simple copy and paste, i made about 7 surgical edits across the tracks (drums, bass, keys, etc etc) to get it sounding right. Since then, my mix engineer has taken the original drum stems (pre-edit) and run through his tape machine. He gave them back to me to replicate the edit so we can use them in the final mix. It's proven difficult to match the original edit i did. Doing my head in. I'm wondering if i can tell Logic to look at the new (tape machine) files and put them in, in place of the original drum files? I was imagining deleting the kick drum file, for example, i have in the project and then when Logic says "where is the file" i point it to the new (tape machine) file and it inserts that file, undertaking the edits automatically. Is this possible? Thanks! jon

hi there thanks for taking the time to post. That all sounds really good. I'm just about finished on this project, so will stick with what i've got for now, but i'll be re-reading your stuff again in a few weeks. I'm pretty keen to move away from Time Machine at the very least, have had a few troubles with it over the years... Anyway, thanks again. cheers jon

Cool, thanks David Yep I was wondering whether the mono / stereo thing was happening in the export, but also why they were both different to the original. Thanks again, will go with the export all tracks option! Cheers jon

Hi guys My mix engineer wants me to send all the drum tracks. If i "export all tracks as audio files" I get a file for each instrument (e.g. snare, hat) that is 25.1Mb (the example song is about 4:45). If i bounce the individual tracks separately (painful) i get a file for each instrument that is 50.8Mb. The original audio file in the project folder (from the recording session) is 37.6Mb. I just slid the original file back into the project to show how little difference there is between the original and current (very slight edits, a bit of topping and tailing, starts a bar or so later, but otherwise unchanged). What am i missing? I'd give him the original files, but the "1" isn't in the same place....What is the "right" file to bounce / export etc? Obviously wanting everything to start from my current "1". Cheers! jon

Hi guys For those interested, I replaced the HDD with a Samsung EVO SSD. Worked a treat. No system overloads, no takes lost. My prediction about the talent being fussy (justifiably) about monitoring was spot on - I don't think I would have got away with stems... Thanks again for the help. cheers jp

yep that's an option I'm keeping up my sleeve if the SSD doesn't do the trick... cheers

Thanks for the tip DNB. Actually ended up making the decision last night to head to the computer shop and change the internal HD for a SSD. Booked in today, will try get back here after the recording session tomorrow to give an update on how it performed...just in case anyone is interested! thanks again guys!

Cool, thanks!

Hi Haven't got to testing the daisy chained FW set up yet (and session is in two days, I'm hopeless!) Thought I would just ask is a 7200rpm external drive via USB 2.0 going to cut it? Just in case I cant work out the FW option... Cheers jon

Thanks so much for the reply! Had no idea about the partition issues. Good to know! I'll give the external drive via FW a crack. Cheers!

Hi there. I'm running some large projects at the moment (50-85 tracks depending on the song) and have started getting the dreaded "logic too slow or system overload" message...I've only noticed during recent tracking. Playback is fine. Now, I'm guessing that the best way to get around this is to get a new machine. As you can see from the signature, mine is a vintage 2008 model. Unfortunately, there's no budget for a new machine. I'm about to track a Hammond / Leslie and will potentially be using three mics to mic the Leslie. So am guessing Logic will be extra unhappy about this. We've only got the Leslie for a five hour session so can't afford for the gear to let us down. I'd prefer not to bounce the whole project down to a stereo file and track to that (or to four or five sub-mixed files) and then re-insert the recorded Hammond parts back into the mother project later, as our keys player is notorious for saying "more of this", "less of that" during tracking. I'd also prefer to not go thru and disable all the plugins. Not that there are a heap running anyway, but I'm sure they're contributing to the problem... I currently have my internal hard drive partitioned, with a separate partition dedicated to saving and playing back the audio files in logic (someone supposedly knowledgeable advised this way back in 2009 and I've stuck with it). Will I get a better result saving and playing back files from either a firewire 800 external drive or a USB 2 external drive? Noting that I use the ensemble in the firewire port (can I daisy chain the hard drive to the ensemble)? Cheers for reading!

Hi I think the offness is consistent. The offness is there at Bar 3 (assuming that's where i press play...) just as it is at Bar 53 (if i press play there) I have five stems in there (my audio files from the parent project) and one drum sample. The stems are all out (but perfectly 'out' together) but the drum sample is fine. That is, if i press play with the drum sample and click muted, the song sounds fine - the vocal, guitar and keys sample all play together , but when the click is on it' obvious they're not playing on the beat.... weird. btw - am running Logic Pro 9.0.2 on a 2.66GHz Macbook Pro (10.5.8). and never had any problems running massive projects (70+ tracks) or any project really! Thanks!! jp

Hi I bounced a bunch of tracks from a song (in Logic) to use in a remix of the song (also in Logic). All bounces taken from exactly same start and end point. When i load the bounced audio files into the new project a weird thing happens. If i play the tracks from the beginning, they stay in time with the click (i set project tempo to match). However, if i move to the middle of the song and press play there, the files are out of whack. I can play the whole song through and it stays perfectly in time if i start from the beginning. Only get weirdness when i press play from somewhere in the body of the track. Even weirder - if i "look" at the wave file in the region, its stops matching what i hear. So when i look at the file and expect to hear the sound, it starts later. Have tried turning off and on logic. No change. Have tried setting up a new project and reloading files. No change. Have tried setting up a new project and loading in different files. This worked, but they were done the same - just bounced audio files from a different song. A problem with the source project? Thanks! jp