dryanrussell

Thanks I will try this out. Ryan

Hello, I have transitioned from Garage Band to Logic Pro however I am still very green. One of the top things I want to know is can I transfer a session from GB to LP? In other words, I want to transfer guitar parts and drum parts from Garage Band into a new project on Logic Pro. I use Easy Drummer / Drumkit from Hell as my drum software. I have several songs I recorded on GB but I want to at the very least move the drums from GB and put them in LP. I also want them to be editable as well. Not just as a recorded sound, but let's say I want to be able to change a fill, that would be possible as well. Hope I am making sense. Please let me know. Thanks, Ryan Russell

Hello, I am in the middle of recording on Logic Pro 9. I am still rather green when it comes to using Logic although I have read the Logic Pro 9 Training book to get me going as I transitioned from Garage Band. It has been very helpful and I use it quite a bit as I am learning still but I am not sure if what I am looking for was covered specifically. Tempo change was one of the lessons in the book but what I need to know is can I be recording a song (let's say verse and pre-chorus is in 110 bpm) and change tempo or bpm (chorus goes to 150 bpm) in the song and go back to original (EX. 110 BPM, 150 BPM, 110 BPM). I write a lot of stuff that changes BPM and I write a lot of stuff that changes time signature as well, which is something i am also not sure about because I do not see any odd time counts in Logic. Anyway, when I switched tempos in garage band, I would have to record one part in one bpm. then I'd have to record the other song part in the other bpm then mend them together. Kind of like mending 2 songs together in a separate project. Hell, maybe there was an easier way in GB, but if so, I don't know what it is. When I have been recorded in studios, the sound engineer could change BPM mid song and go back and it was easy to follow as well. Anyway, any help would be appreciated! Thanks, Ryan

What it turned out to be is this. Like I mentioned, I watched several videos, I read instructions (somewhat), I went on several forums (BTW, you guys have been the most helpful and I sincerely appreciate it), and I did trouble-shooting here at my house. I tried my Les Paul, my Explorer, and my SG, all of which I gig with. I went through all of my instrument cables. All had the same results in Logic and through the Apogee Maestro program on my Mac which was nothing. So it dawned on me that since the internal mic worked on the Apogee, I might as well try the XLR input on the Apogee. Turned out it worked with the mic on the guitar track, which to be honest my intention was to record with my amps and cabs anyway for final guitar tracks. But when I want to write, I can't be blasting a 5150 head while my kids are in bed and they have school the next day. So I need the ¼" input for amp models, not to mention for DI on bass so at the very least I can lay down my drum grooves and put down rough guitar ideas. So, after determining the XLR worked but the ¼" didn't, turns out that even though I am very new to this platform I'm not as technically inept as I first thought and my breakaway cable is indeed defective. I bought the Apogee on Ebay last month and when I got it, I registered it and with that comes a 1 year warranty. So, the guy at Apogee grabbed me a new on, tested it, and he is sending me a new breakaway cable free of charge. I sat at this computer for about 6 hours trying to figure this crap out. But that figures because a lot of times at gigs, as many times as i have been on stage, when I am about to start the show I ALWAYS forget to cut up the volume on my volume pedal and I always run around checking for inputs, checking my heads, checking cables, checking the guitars before doing the most obvious thing which is to check my frickin volume pedal. All that to say this, you all have been very helpful and I sincerely appreciate it. So, as it stands, I will hopefully be recording my next song in the next few days and start working on my album very soon Y'all have a good night! Ryan

Yeah. I've tried the reinstall, I've gone to another forum even to see if there are other opinions, and I have contacted Apogee as well. Hahaha. I think the problem is mostly due to me and my lack of experience on this platform. I am probably missing one detail that is holding me back. I know the unit works. External mic works. Very experienced player and writer and a newbie in the recording world...

No levels are moving in maestro on the instrument setting. I am tempted to just uninstall then reinstall with the install cd. I'm for sure the cables work. Also I checked the internal mic and it works. I pressed record, tapped on it, and it recorded the taps.

I checked that as well. I even updated the Maestro software to OS X 10.9. I am at a complete and total loss.

All of the inputs on the Mac actually.

It is indeed selected. Still nothing.

Hi. I am quite sure I am the 87,000th person to probably ask this question on this forum. I have been using GarageBand for a while. I have gotten pretty decent with it so I figured, why not move on up to Logic Pro? I bought myself an Apogee One, I bought EZ Drummer / Drumkit from Hell (I started using it on GarageBand first), and I bought myself a dynamic mic. First though, I figured I practice recording something with the Amp Designer. I have the Apogee installed on my Mac. It's plugged in, and since I am not using the mics at this time, I plugged the instrument cable directly into the instrument input on the Apogee. I set myself up a new project. I used the software instrument setting for the first track and set it up for Drumkit from Hell. I laid down a few drum grooves. Easy enough. Then I set up another track as an audio track, mono, input 1, output 1-2, and finally I clicked the I and R. Then I went in and set up the amp designer. In my mind, my next step was to just hit record. So I did. Drums started then I started to play the guitar and nothing! The program isin't reading the guitar. No sound. Nothing recorded. Nothing at all. I went through several cables. All of my cables are good. Checked volume on guitar. It was turned up to 10. So I have clicked several of the "buttons" on Logic Pro to see if there was anything that needed to be turned on to make the guitar audible. I didn't see anything. I'm obviously not a sound / recording engineer. however my idea here is for me to be able to write, record at home, and send to the studio for mixing or do it myself. But I can't figure out the first step of the whole thing, which is obviously to make my guitar make noises so they can be recorded. I understand I may be doing it completely wrong here. In the past I have just plugged directly in the back of the Mac. So I just figured that the interface would change everything and I could make some music. Not happening. Please help me. Thanks, Ryan