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  1. I have got this strange thing going on in Logic 9.1.4 in osx 10.6.8. drawing in an automation fade to either output 1-2, or the master fader in the arrange page doesn't lead to predictable results. If I try to apply a straight line fade from 0.0 db to -infinity, and want it to last from beat 4 1 1 to 4 3 1 (i.e. half of a beat at 126 bpm for a quick fade on a cutdown of a commercial type song) Logic seems to fade out to nothing on beat 3. (2nd screenshot) If I decrease the slope of the fade out so it starts on beat 3 (1st screenshot), then it starts fading on beat 3, and seems to end where I have ended the fade. Almost like there is a minimum slope on a fade. I have been doing auto fadeout this way for a while, and this is the first time I remember ever having this problem. Anybody else get similar? What do I do to troublshoot / fix.
  2. If you have logic and use Altiverb 6 feel free to give me info on the number of instances of Space Designer vs. the number of instances of Altiverb 6 you can get going in logic before your machine coughs up a lung. Weighing saving my money for a new machine vs. hoping that Altiverb 6 is really as light on CPU hit as Audio Ease says/
  3. hey Joe, thanks for responding. I get the picture. definitely going to look at getting an apogee (or maybe Lynx) interface to have the best of both worlds and not deal with the digi core audio driver. take care, andy
  4. I am very interested in this too. the LogicTouch template is working great for me with logic 9.1.2, but it would be nice to tweak a few things. like..... be able to control CC numbers on midi / software instrument regions - ya know for virtual orchestration stuff. moderators? anyone?
  5. also seems that way to me. you need OSCulator if you want to use one of the other templates and mod it to work the way you want.
  6. I am very interested in this too. the LogicTouch template is working great for me with logic 9.1.2, but it would be nice to tweak a few things. like..... be able to control CC numbers on midi / software instrument regions - ya know for virtual orchestration stuff.
  7. hey Joe! did you have a chance to see what happens? Thanks!
  8. First off, max out your ram if you can afford it. www.macsales.com Then for hard drives: www.macsales.com Seagate now has 64 mb cache on their big drives: http://eshop.macsales.com/item/Seagate/ST32000641AS/ drive speed - 7200 RPM at least. internal or external. drive interface speed 6 gb/s is theoretically preferable, but as pointed out above, you only have a 3gb/s connection in the machine, so buying a 6 gb/s drive is useless, just get a 3 gb/s. yes in general, internal drives are faster because they use SATA interfaces which are generally faster than FW800, FW400 and USB 2.0. But if you are trying to run everything off the same drive (triggering samples, record / playback audio, run system / logic, playback video) the read head on the drive is going to be jumping around like crazy, so you will probably get nowhere near the performance you want, Logic will always be giving you error messages if you are running a lot of tracks, or have a lot of sampled instruments / VI's going... if you have the ports or internal connections, in general more drives = more happiness. On my Mac Pro with 4 drive bays: 1 - 0.5TB system / logic 2 - 1.0TB trigger samples 3 - 0.5TB record / playback audio 4 - 0.5TB playback video + external FW800 3.0TB RAID 0 mirror audio and system backups If you don't do any video work, and if you are way into samples / orchestral VI's you can use more than one drive for samples. If your iMac is new enough, you can upgrade it at OWC so it has an eSata port on board. http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/turnkey/iMac_2010_27/eSATA_SSD so you could then have: 1 - internal HD for logic / system 2 - external eSata for triggering samples 3 - external FW800 drive for recording Although USB may not make a great external drive connection for recording / sample playback, you could have some of your external samples hosted on a USB drive to spread out the load too, or maybe put your video playback on that drive if you are scoring a movie / video. these days big drives are so cheap, I would make all of them 1.0 or 2 TB. In general, the more free space on a disc, the closer to the rated speed it will run.
  9. Macsales is a great resource. I would buy one of their systems rather than an off the shelf Western Digital drive, if you can afford a little extra. I have bought multiple single drives from them, and recently got a backup system for my Mac Pro which is awesome: http://eshop.macsales.com/item/Newer%20Technology/GM8Q7S15TB64/ I got this one cause it has Seagate drives in it, and I have had really good luck with Seagate. They are also big and fast. If you have a recent iMac, you can upgrade to have an eSata port - and either connect an external HD or an SSD, downside is you have to send away your machine for a minute to OWC. Upside is you have a much faster connection than using a FW800 or FW400 drive, and you wouldn't be clogging up the same FW path that your audio goes through to and from your interface. http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/turnkey/iMac_2010_27/add_eSATA And whatever external hardrive you buy, get one that is at least 7200 RPM capable. a 5400rpm is too slow for recording / streaming / sample playback. Having a large cache can be beneficial as well - these would be good choices - they are 6 gb/s as well, so you might have to check out compatibility with the iMac eSata port upgrade: http://eshop.macsales.com/Search/Search.cfm?Ntk=Primary&Ns=P_Popularity%7c1&Ne=5000&N=7823&Ntt=western+digital+caviar+black then get an enclosure for the drive: http://eshop.macsales.com/Search/Search.cfm?Ntk=Primary&Ns=P_Popularity%7c1&Ne=8051&N=6778+8052&Ntt=external+enclosure All these ones have multiple interfaces, so you could buy the drive / enclosure combo first, and try it out with either the FW connection or USB (gasp, who knows, it might work, it's as fast as FW400 for short bursts) and if you want to later, get the eSata port upgrade and be totally cruising.
  10. now in 64 bit: Cytomic The Glue PSP Vintage Warmer / VW2 / Micro Warmer PSP Master Comp / Micro Comp
  11. it's only $249 if you already have ProTools LE 8. So I probably will go for it at some point. Esp since there are more video options built in so you could more functionally use it for scoring stuff instead of shelling for the expensive extra toolkits. I am interested to know if the old crash prone Digidesign Core Audio Driver still pops up when using Logic with the 002R after having installed PT9 (maybe you never do this cause you have the ensemble). If its gone, that would be worth $249 right there (short of just buying a new interface like the ensemble or better)
  12. Thanks to everyone for the discussion of what I was doing and why. Yes at the end of the day, this workflow allows you to create Bar 1 1 1 1 at any SMPTE position and this allows easy tempo setting at that point, and therefore allows a count-off to be at the correct tempo when recording starting at bar 1 1 1 1. I agree with SteveH that adding the commands "move region anchor point to start / end of region" and "move region anchor point to playhead" would make things pretty easy. thanks.
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