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Unless you know the musical phrasing, you can't say it's "plain 5/4". The meter assignment is supposed to capture the musical phrasing. It's not just a mathematical sum to avoid having alternating time signatures.

This is from LP7, but the core concepts of setting up Reason + Logic should be useful. Particularly, it should help for understand Reasons Bus system and how midi is sent from Logic to Reason. http://thelocalhost.googlepages.com/settingupreasonwithlogic http://thelocalhost.googlepages.com/reasontips

I never said previewing the entire kit. I said previewing a cell. Battery has no undo and you can't preview cl3 in the browser without loading them into a cell. This is the completely retard part of battery. When I finish assembling a kit, sometimes i want to experiment with other kicks (while the host is playing), I have to remember which sample I originally loaded, then select a different cl3 files within the browser (to load them into that cell). Since there is no undo, this is completely lame. (the best part is the "in Kit Preview" option in the browser. Maybe someday it will actually work....) I think UB implementation is way better. You can just choice 'cancel' and the originally loaded sample is reloaded. And you realize you can do this "WHILE IT's PLAYING" in Ultrabeat? I still think Battery's browser is big piece of useless s#!+. It makes the battery experience very lame. In general, the program has this 80% completed feel. Ever try to import exs files? The velocity mapping doesn't work. Do you ever use the "Conditions" in the "Cell Activation"? Triggering the cell (in a group by clicking is different than triggering the cells by midi. How do you set the level out of 3/4, 5/6, etc...? Is the main meter displaying all the levels, or just the 1/2? The fact that I have to ask these basic questions, means that there is poor design. Why does drag-drop only work in StandAlone mode? It's has a lot of quarks that are very counterintuitive and sometimes it's a pain to work with. Did I mention the no UNDO feature?

Actually, I think UB is better in this regard. UB has a 'preview in kit' feature that allows you to browse through your sample lib and preview new selected samples. And more importantly, there is a 'cancel' button, which will revert back to your originally selected sample. Battery has no UNDO feature. This makes things very unforgiving. And the fact battery can't preview it's own proprietary format in it's own browser is absurd. Absolutely f-ing absurd. From a workflow perspective, this makes battery very lame. The battery browser is only there to preview rex2 loops. And there's no search!!! What year is this? Battery should have a appleloop-esque browser for samples. It's 2007 and there's this thing called metadata. Battery has a bunch of oddities that make no sense. There is only 1 type of send for ALL the samples (i.e. 1 type of reverb, 1 type of delay). Another oddity. The reverb/delay is only applied to 1/2. Not 3/4, 5/6 etc... So it's usefulness is limited. Battery3 should have a Kontakt esque routing/aux setup. The current implementation is lame. Concerning the interface. I think it's a counterintuitive mess and the browser is worthless. Why are the 'cell' tab and the 'browser' tab so far apart? They should be adjacent. There should be display for the each output and routing to it's OWN send. And there should be search using metadata feature. Battery could be such an amazing program, but the oddities make it a lackluster unforgiving experience.

This is only works if your intonation/setup is correct. I use Guitar Rig 2's tuner. Not trying to hijack this. but...... David what pickups do you have in your Gibson? (I am assuming you got a LP standard) I am looking to upgrade my bridge pickup.

http://thelocalhost.googlepages.com/settingupreasonwithlogic http://thelocalhost.googlepages.com/reasontips

Download the demo and try it out. Everyone should check it out. It has a completely different way of making music. It's a 'non-linear' approach that is perfect for sketching out songs, or trying different arrangements. And of course it has great 'elastic audio' capabilities.

It's all in the manual

I think you may have solved my problem. I have live set @ 44100 and I'm sure logic is set @ 48000. Thx. I also thought about rewiring live into logic. I don't have much experience with this though. Any pointers? The way I rewire Live into Logic is this: Launch Logic first, and then Live. In Logic, create two audio objects in your environment, assign them to Rewire Mix L and Rewire Mix R, pan them hard L/R, pool them together into a bus, and then make a Bus track in your arrange for mute and bounce purposes. (you can make any track in Live rewired to Logic; I just use the mains.) Logic is now the master for tempo. I bounce the Live rewired tracks down to audio loops, mute the rewire tracks (or mute the source tracks in Live), and I'm ready to go. Another method is to run Live in standalone mode and sync the clocks by midi with IAC (you can pick which one is the master). Now you can send midi (via IAC) to Logic (i.e., send midi to sculpture, or Ultrabeat!). Just be careful not to setup any midi feedbackloops. You can send audio between apps too, but that requires soundflower (This is too convoluted of a setup for me, but it can be done) why would you want to do it this way? what benefits are there? The current Rewire machinary allows midi to be sent from the master to the slave, and audio to be sent from the slave to the master. As a rewire slave, Live can't send midi back to logic. Therefore you can't trigger clips in Live that send midi to UltraBeat, or Sculpture. In my opinion, Live as a Rewire slave isn't too useful. I am still on 5.2, so maybe things have changed, but I don't think so. If someone has a few examples or workflow that uses Live as a rewire slave, I would like to hear them.

change the Bus from 6 to 7 Bus1: addresses the currently selected device in Reason (i.e., the little keyboard icon in Reason's sequencer is not grayed out) Bus2-5: Uses Reason midi Bus A-D Bus6 (and up): starting at the first device and goes till the 16th device in Reason's Rack. So in your Reason rack Bus6 can access device # (1-16), Bus7 can access device # (17-32), etc... Bus6 is sometimes the most useful, but realize that you can run out of devices and then you need to go to Bus7 to access more devices in your Reason rack. http://thelocalhost.googlepages.com/settingupreasonwithlogic

I think you may have solved my problem. I have live set @ 44100 and I'm sure logic is set @ 48000. Thx. I also thought about rewiring live into logic. I don't have much experience with this though. Any pointers? The way I rewire Live into Logic is this: Launch Logic first, and then Live. In Logic, create two audio objects in your environment, assign them to Rewire Mix L and Rewire Mix R, pan them hard L/R, pool them together into a bus, and then make a Bus track in your arrange for mute and bounce purposes. (you can make any track in Live rewired to Logic; I just use the mains.) Logic is now the master for tempo. I bounce the Live rewired tracks down to audio loops, mute the rewire tracks (or mute the source tracks in Live), and I'm ready to go. Another method is to run Live in standalone mode and sync the clocks by midi with IAC (you can pick which one is the master). Now you can send midi (via IAC) to Logic (i.e., send midi to sculpture, or Ultrabeat!). Just be careful not to setup any midi feedbackloops. You can send audio between apps too, but that requires soundflower (This is too convoluted of a setup for me, but it can be done)

I am not sure what your problem is, but you could just create an apple loop out of your Live impulse drum loop.

What specific questions do you have? It's the same rewire setup. Just beware of the '16' limit on each Bus (starting at Bus6) The example I listed here (http://thelocalhost.googlepages.com/reasontips) shows how you might need to change the to Bus 7 if you exceed 16). The most important thing to remember is that ALL the devices within the combinator show up as their own device. Just create a few combinators within Reason and then look at the "channel" listing. Your rewire object may not be sending midi to the 'correct' place (i.e. "Combinator 4")

http://thelocalhost.googlepages.com/settingupreasonwithlogic http://thelocalhost.googlepages.com/reasontips

You need a firewire/usb2 interface. Buying that mixer was a complete waste of money.