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  1. Upper northwest Georgia, USA. On twelve-plus acres of land with no mortgage. What's not to love? (Except the miserable humid summertime heat and the mosquitos.)
  2. Because I was forced for other reasons to store the library on an external drive, in a library folder that I innocently did not think to duplicate, I'm now left with a full-day restore process. But: "why did this happen, and why did it now happen twice?" 😡
  3. Y'know, I'd just say: "don't blame the software." 😀 And, in this segment of the computing world, don't expect any(!) of it not to come without a very-substantial learning curve ... no matter how much "sugar" the various marketing departments try to put on it. Even today's "open source" DAWs do a very good job, but guess what: "they have a big 'learning curve' also." ("After you begin to scratch," at least.) The complexity comes from the intrinsic(!) nature of what the software – in every case – is trying to do. Also: if you are participating on a project in which "Product-X [Version-Y]" is the standard ... well, that's precisely what you shall use. Either your Macintosh can do it, or you will invest in a compatible computer that will ... and write the whole thing off on your taxes [legitimately ...] as a business expense.
  4. I still have a T-shirt which shows an "utterly impossible" thirty-second-note transcription of about two seconds of actual music. (Along with another shirt which shows a blank stave with the word, "Staff." "A click track" is a helpful reference point to guide your performance – real or virtual – but it should be no more "a religious thing" than "quantization." They once invented a device which could lock both note-duration and note-timing, and they called the thing a "drum machine." It sounded exactly as the name implied.
  5. "I simply started Logic," saw that new sounds were available, and asked Sound Library Manager to download them – which it subsequently did. As I recall, it was just one fairly-inconsequential library with about a 250K download total. Then, I noticed that several other sections of the "patches" section had indicators that they needed to be updated. This occurred after the Sound Library update was supposedly finished. I clicked on the various icons but apparently nothing happened. After a reasonable pause, no new downloads started. (Curious ...) I then exited and restarted Logic to see if that fixed the problem – and now, "Logic will not start at all." Yes, I sent a crash-report to Apple. But now, Logic is completely unusable. This happened to me once before, and I finally had to trash the library and spend more than a day reloading it from scratch. Is there anything else that I can do? (OS: Ventura. Apple won't let me use more than that on this machine. Software up-to-date for that version.)
  6. I have now begun to receive responses from several members of the Korg technical support team, and I will keep you posted. "Yeah, this one is a weird one." I've had several other electronic keyboards "go south on me" before, but never in this way. (Never in such an "obviously software" way ...)
  7. Y’know, there is a reason why I never used “social media,” but constantly use “forums” like this one. I never really understood how “chatter-boxes” became so popular: I simply don’t have the time. 🤷‍♂️ Also: “David’s Book.” It’s quite an accomplishment to teach(!) using the mechanics of only “the printed page.” But you very certainly did. And: I know that you had “silent help” from many other people, and “hat’s off” to them too. It was an huge project, and it all came together. Well Done.
  8. You know you’re getting old when the music you grew up with shows up on “oldies” channels. But “wisdom” comes when you point out that none of it ever used “auto-tune …” 🫣
  9. “ChatGPT notwithstanding,” I am now going to reach out to Korg technical support. (I will report back.) Because this(!) level of “utter technical failure” is bizarre.
  10. I admit that I failed to notice your “reset instructions” in your original reply but I will soon try them. I’m pretty sure that I don’t need to dismantle the keyboard assembly because what I’m seeing makes no “physical” sense: random blocks of dead keys scattered among those that work, and keys that don’t play the right notes. This must be some kind of software problem, and a “magic three-finger reset” sequence might help somehow. I’ll let you know.
  11. This "total and complete hardware failure" has nothing to do with Logic. I turn the machine on this morning to continue with my project, "just like yesterday," and this is what it presents me. It's like the main CPU has completely forgotten how to communicate with the keyboard. (I cannot imagine that the keyboard hardware itself could do something as bizarre as this, no matter what you poured into it.)
  12. My keyboard is always stored under a plastic cover so that it won't get damaged (we have cats ...), but today the entire keyboard – perfectly clean – went "absolutely crazy." Now, a full two-thirds of the keys do not play. And, when I try to play an octave in a section that still works, the notes that come out are not only sometimes in the wrong octave, but actually play out of sequence! There is no "electro-mechanical" explanation for this behavior. (But I can send a MIDI file through it and it plays perfectly.) Has anyone else experienced a total failure such as this, and is there anything that I can now do other than to just throw the damned thing away? KORG Kross-2. Used. No warranty.
  13. You should also be aware of MuseScore, which is an extremely good open-source "dedicated music scoring" program that runs on a variety of hardware platforms. Complementary to Logic's "Score Editor," this tool focuses on "symbols on the printed page." (The "MusicXML" file format is common to both programs.) All I can say is that, when I "had money burning a hole in my pocket" and I was considering Finale and Sibelius ... I bought neither. (I am not a professional composer – I use these tools only for my own pleasure.) (P.S.: There is also a ".com" sister-site, which hosts both free and by-subscription sheet music libraries.)
  14. This doesn't have anything to do with "hard drive space," and yes, your hardware looks fairly recent. I think that the root problem is simply that your project has 124 tracks, with "about 4 plugins" on each. This basically means that your CPU is doing an awful lot of work. But also, that "an awful lot of" that work is purely repetitive: it's forced to do it every single time, but to produce an identical result. Those computing resources are better used elsewhere. You probably need to start grouping ("stacking") the tracks and then freezing them. This converts the track into an "audio-file stand-in" and then mutes the source material. Now, the CPU doesn't have to do that computation again. It doesn't require any significant CPU resources to "play an audio track," but (at least for now) it sounds the same. Now, as you move through your project – if you're "actively working on it right now," you keep it "live." But if not, use the freezer. Of course, just as "freezing" is easy, so is "un-freezing" and "re-freezing." The process is entirely non-destructive. Logic's designers knew that this feature (like "bouncing") would be important, and they did a very good, clean job.
  15. It occurs to me that some of your [past?] [happy, of course ...] clients might be a very useful resource here. What might they suggest? And ... when they [presumably] used "the hardware you now have," what did they actually think of it? Worth askin' ...
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