LennieJ

Experimenting is the key! A dry oboe combined with Sculptures mountain flute pst & a few tweaks seem to reproduce that sound,

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You believe incorrectly. It is an Irish Pennywhistle. Thanxs for the correction,, but is it really? Do you know for sure? Or are you educatingly guessing? There is a differrence.

I always believed the Titanic flute was a Shakuhachi http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shakuhachi Its hard to find samples , other than maybe a few old Akai libraries.

Check that Virtual Memory is on for the EXS. It kinda sounds like all the samples are not loading, & 6 gigs a samples is quite a few for one instrument. BTW how much ram do you have?

Takes me an hour or 2 to write a song from the moment of inspiration, at least the ingrediants for a song, melody,verse chorus, bridge if needed & a backing instrument , usually an acoustic guitar or piano for me, sung & played live. Then another few hours on vocal phrasing & figuring what words in the lyric aren't needed to say what I wanna say. Less words the better, people talk way to much. hehe At that point if I have a good song I would rather someone else sing & produce it, I have no trouble arranging & producing other peops songs but mine. well just a bit too picky I guess,, because there is no one around to say 'OK enough is enough' things tend to be un finalized. Like who likes a finished song anyhows, no one, but at least it's out there. Or should I say at least the unfinished version is out there. Short awnser,, ,If it doesn't come together quick, it may not be worth the effort. I've spent years on some ideas just trying to make a tune from an idea I liked sitting at the kitchen table with an acoustic guitar & a voice , the good ones kinda don't take a lot of work, they just happen. So now all the work is in not wrecking what you wrote to begin with. & round & round we go.

Teaching complete newbies? Howbout basic signal flow through any mixer as lesson 1. I think I'd like my students to at the very least know that before diving into software DAWS.

see your thread titled 'Logic Crashing''

Could you give the panel of experts some more info? re computer, OS. version of Logic, audio & midi hardware, 3rd party plugins, added ram etc. Logic typically doesn't crash doing what you are doing .

Sure, there are many ways. Easiest, In the audio window, select the files to move & use the copy convert, or move audio files from the audio window menue, depending on whether you just want to move the files or make a copy of the files leaving the originals where they are.

Isn't the ES2 authorization included with LogiPro6? Maybe try installing Logic Pro 6.4.3 from here: http://download.info.apple.com/Apple_Support_Area/emagic/Legacy_SW/OS9%20SW/

Roughly figure the bpm, set the tempo & replay to the click. Or spend the next few hrs beatmapping,

The G4 400 will work great for audio running up to 30 + audio tracks at 16 / 44.1no problem. As for VI's, stick to the exs24 & you will get between 10 to 15 instances depending on ram. My wife now uses my G4 400 with an updated Graphics card & a 2ghz processor upgrade. Great Machine!

I can run this test on a 2.66ghzMacPro this weekend. I have a feeling you are gonna have to add a whole lot more EXS24's to your test .lso though. I just ran it on a PPC 2.5ghz quad & got 40 tracks. 40x24= 960 Processor set to "automatic in system prefs. Activity monitor average about 60% across all 4 processors.

Well ,, Any current Intel Mac Pro users would not likely have a need for nodes, not just yet anyhows. Wait & see.