Deborah

This is fantastic, thank you! I successfully imported this Environment layer and can now see and change Fantom patches, kits and performances flawlessly. My big question: I use the Fantom Performances almost exclusively in my sequencing, and I need to be able to STAY in Performance Mode while changing individual parts/patches. Any suggestions?? I would love to utilize your system, but at the moment I have to view and audition the patches in another track of my sequencer, then change the part in my Performance track by hand. This is obviously a bit cumbersome. Help!

Hi there - fixed the problem! Hope this helps anyone else going nuts over a navigation snafu. It was a sync issue: Customize the Transport bar by control-clicking or right-clicking the Play button. Select "Sync" from the right column so that it shows up on the right side of the transport bar. If the sync button is highlighted (in blue), some form of external sync is enabled. I think that something happened when I opened my Logic 8 project in Logic 9 for the first time with a movie attached, and a different set of audio interfaces. Previously, sync was always set to internal. Click on the circle to unhighlight, i.e. select internal sync. Voila, all play, record and pause functions now work normally!! Hope this helps someone NOT waste a day on troubleshooting...

I just upgraded to Logic Pro 9 from 8.0.2 and suddenly my key commands are fubar. I've tried numerous reconfigurations of key commands, but no matter what I do I cannot get any button to resume play at the paused or stopped location. And other "play from" shortcuts just move the playhead to the specified location but then sit there until I hit spacebar again. On top of that, the record button lights up the red button but does NOT actually start recording, which is making me crazy. I have to hit spacebar or play to get the sequence to go. I cannot for the life of me figure out what is going on, and of course I'm on a deadline. Been using Logic since the Dark Ages, around 2000. Haven't come across a problem like this. Help? -Deborah MacBook Pro 17" 2.4 GHz, 4GB RAM OS 10.5.8, Logic Pro 9.0.0 MOTU 828 and Traveler MOTU Midi Express and MIDISport 2x2 Multiple external drives (USB and Firewire)

Forgot one other thing: I unchecked "Larger Disk Buffer" in Audio Hardware and Drivers when I bumped up the I/O Buffer to 1024K. I don't know which thing did the trick, but I haven't had the problem since.

Hey Pantomime - Thanks! I forgot that I had changed my buffer to a mere 128K to minimize latency in record, and that was definitely causing trouble. Doubling the buffer didn't work though - I had to jump it all the way back up to 1024K to get rid of the ghosts. But so far that seems to do the trick. Thanks again.

Will do as you suggest and get back to you - I've been traveling for the past few days and haven't gotten set up in my temporary digs just yet, but I will shortly. Thank you SO much for your help.

Hey Panto, It is always a chunk, about 1/4 second long, sourced from the last second of the bounce and consisting of the bounced material in its entirety. Sometimes that includes MIDI & outboard gear, sometimes it is JUST audio (created in Logic or otherwise imported), and sometimes it is a combination. The source of the bounced audio doesn't seem to be a factor - it just shows up at the same spot in the same way every time. There can be plug-ins, elaborate routing, etc. or there can simply be two audio tracks with absolutely nothing on them (like a stereo music mix and mono VO file, for example), and I still get the same problem. Thoughts?

Hi there - I am currently in L.A. but can recommend tons of Logic users in NY who could do this for you if you don't want to touch it yourself. Let me know if you still need someone and I'll get you a few referrals.

To clarify one other thing: The "finely-tuned fades" I was talking about are the fades on the original music cues, i.e. internal to the stereo files I'm now bouncing with VO. Those fades are built into the sound - there is no fade on that region in the current track - and are getting mucked up by the splat of sound at the end.

To answer the questions: This is happening in an irritatingly simple context: I have one mono audio file (a VO) and one stereo audio file (a track mix), neither of which has any effects, crossfades or plug-ins of any kind applied. No aux sends, no inserts, no edits, just two files that I'm bouncing together with some volume changes on the automation track. I understand the idea of a reverb tail or some effect blip getting stuck in there, but in this case there is none. As far as the suggestion to play the song where there is no sound, I think that would only help with sound stuck at the beginning of a bounced file. This is an echo of the last couple of beats of bounced sound at the end of the file. I gave up and went to bed last night - but I really appreciate these prompt replies! I'm back at it and will eagerly anticipate a response...

Hey all - A new problem has suddenly appeared for no apparent reason and it's driving me crazy. I'm in the midst of a piece with 40 cues that need to be bounced separately. As I'm checking my bounces (done both offline and realtime, depending on whether MIDI is involved or not), I'm hearing a sudden burst of sound, like an echo of the last beat or so, splatted across the end of the cue. It's intermittent - every third cue or so - but when it happens, it's a consistent 'ghost' of the last 1-2 beats of the bounced time frame. The total bounce time doesn't change, just my finely tuned fades! I cannot figure out why this is happening and don't even know where to begin to troubleshoot. My workaround has been to open the screwed-up bounce file, silence the blip and reconstruct the fade, but that's obviously time-consuming and not a real fix. Help?!?

Thanks for the suggestion. I was hoping to find a solution inside Logic, but that's a great idea. Might be time for me to incorporate ProTools into my everyday repertoire at long last...

Hello all - I'm new to this forum and am thrilled to have a clear,supportive space in which to post questions. I've been using Logic for almost five years now, through my transition from OS 9 to OS X, from MIDI only to virtually MIDI-free and so forth. It's a bear, but I feel pretty competent at this point. Nonetheless, I keep having those "There must be a way to do this" head-scratchers that leave me wondering where to turn. Perhaps that's here. So - my latest question - I've constructed a bunch of drum patterns using audio samples, i.e. individual kick/snare/hat hits, etc. I now want to replace my kick, but of course it's not like MIDI, where I can just trigger a different sound. Is there any function like a word processor, where I can look for any instance of sound file "X" within certain locators and replace it with sound file "Y"? I'm praying there's a workaround that will save me replacing every individual instance of this sample over many measures. Rebuilding the whole sequence is a major pain. Help?