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"Stop hoarding your broken old tat, and get one of *these* instead!" 😉 I dunno, I can't say I was reading much into it, it's just a "please buy this" ad, the philisophical content, if it was meant to be there, was lost on me... (to be fair, during the event, I just learned that LP11 had dropped, so I was a bit flustered... 😂)

I saw it in the event - what’s the problem with it? Don’t Apple make a lot of their stuff out of recycled materials now? I thought it was a nod to that, smooshing a bunch of old stuff to make iPads…

Yes, to run Mac software, you need a Mac. Similarly, to run Windows software, you need a PC. Macs can be had (new) from about £650, PC's can be had for a bit cheaper (new), or you can go secondhand of course. The prices can go up a lot depending on the machine specs you want. Either way, these days you get a lot of power for not a huge amount of money, you don't need spend two grand or more to get in at the ground level, regardless of the platform you choose. And you're right, some people cannot afford to buy any computer at all, so a DAW probably isn't for *everybody* if we're going to be literal about it.

Also, if you're on an Apple silicon Mac and using the age-old "increase the buffer size" thing, you'll need to relearn that behaviour. Put the buffer sizes down, Apple silicon is more efficient at lower buffer sizes.

Great, glad you've got a better experience now!

Hmm, not sure. I'd probably futz with it, to try to see if I can make a difference. If you don't capitalise the search terms, any difference? Type the letters slowly - with "ali", I get 61 matches, which goes to 51 with "alie" and "alien". I'm not sure where the Alchemy preset database is offhand, but I'll go look, I think it's an sqlite database, separate from the tags and ratings db...

It's an "implied Tap", no need to be overt in these things... 🙂

Indeed. The copyright issue is not so much in processing that audio (we've been able to record and edit copyrighted audio for decades), but in *doing* anything with it, eg, releasing a record containing audio under copyright that you don't own or have permission for. Stem separation is a genuinely useful tool, that, like many tools, can be put to more nefarious uses... If it works well, it will be a time saver to have it in Logic, but if other tools do it better, I'll probably still go to those to do it.

Have you tried doing a File -> Refresh Library? I can't find Handheld vowels at all by the way, in the preset, or legacy content - where's that from? Edit - Ok, found it manually - but "vowels" didn't find it in search either. But, it does now when I tried again. Definite weirdness going on here(!) but mine now seems to be working as expected.

Hmm, I can't reproduce that here... Do any other searches work as you expect? Are you searching "All" presets? However I do get matches where "alien" doesn't seem to be in the name, or the tags, so I'm stumped as to how those are matching or what's going on in the backend... (Edit: Ok, the word was in the performance pads area in that case, so it's ok...)

Log into the App Store on the new machine. Download Logic. Then check this article:

See: "macOS Ventura is compatible with these computers" https://support.apple.com/en-gb/102861

So I'd suggest to do a little bit of level juggling - first, put the audio interface gain where you are getting the optimal signal, without clipping. Peaking at under -12dBFS is fine, averaging down in the -20dBFS is OK too. Now, if you are struggling with monitoring, it's likely that your mix in Logic is super loud (ie, up in the 0dBFS peak range.) Turn your tracks down, and when your track is record enabled, turn the level of that fader up (faders have an independent level when in record mode) and see if you can get a monitor balance you're happy with. If not, you can always put a gain plugin, or compressor plugin, on that channel which will also non-destructively add gain. Juggle with these things until you can find a happy balance that works for you, and things will be much better, and yes, turn your monitoring up to compensate bringing the mix down. If you want to run through a mic-pre, then a hardware compressor, then into your audio interface, then go for it, if that works better for you and you can generate a hotter signal without clipping. But I think the main problem is often people are running their mixes a super-loud, and recording quite low, and struggling to achieve a balance. In this case, giving proper mix headroom to bring those elements down will help a lot - you can make up the final gain towards the end of the process after the recording is done. Your problem isn't fixed by printing software compression into the files - it almost never is, which is why I responded as such in the first post. There's almost no reason to do this. 👍

I have no idea what your computer is. You'll need to determine whether your computer can run Ventura first.