Tabasco Fiasco

Thanks Des I think you have nailed it and kind of how this project has been going but I have been happy to help them. I have resolved to provide them full res PCM and even pointed them in the direction of tuitional videos on their video editing software to help them get the audio specs they need. Talk about over and above :'D

😅 After talking with an editor i know these audio settings are relevant when rendering the final film in likes of Premier or Final Cut etc and I should just provide a lossless file...

Attached is the audio spec my client has asked for for their film. I'm struggling to get it right and starting to wonder if it's even a possible spec for AAC. My Logic project for mastering is 48Khz/24bit and that's what the stems are. If I select a 192kbps bitrate AAC then I get a 16bit file. If I select Apple Lossless AAC then i do get a 24bit file but the bitrate is 1599kbps. (Also tried converting a 48/24 WAV in apples Music app and I got a 44.1 / 16bit file.) Any insight would be much appreciated. Starting to think that the 192kbps / 16bit file will be fine...

Thanks Triplets. So for making 44.1 MP3s... I opened a 44.1khz logic project and dropped in the 48k WAVs converting them to 44.1 in the process. Then made up the 44.1 MP3s. Is this the best way to do this? I.e. you can't make a 44.1khz MP3 from a 96khz logic session? Also read maybe some other programs are better than logic at sample rate and file format conversions. Any views?

Hi everyone I was wondering if any experienced Logic users have any tips and insight into making up various file specs for submitting to libraries. I am just about to submit a 10 track horror album. I record at 96 / 24 and specs from publisher is 48 / 16 WAV plus both 320 / 48 / 16 & 128 / 44.1 / 16 MP3. I got it all done but it seemed a bit like too many steps and I had some confusions... Initially I bounced out the WAV and 320 MP3 directly from my 96 / 24 session and used POWr #3 dither. But should I have bounced out 96/24 file first and then converted it? And is that the correct dither setting to use? I got in a muddle with the MP3s as you can't choose the sample rate of MP3 in Logic? It seems to be based around the sample rate of the project? Also, in terms of workflow I didn't want to bounce every individual MP3 so I selected all the audio in the audio folder and selected 'copy/convert file' however here it doesn't give any bitrate options. But I think maybe the settings in the 'bounce' window dictate this? So if I want 128kbps bit rate and a 44.1khz / 16bit sample rate MP3 I needed to convert the 48khz WAV to 44.1khz and then open them in a new project and then create the MP3 in a one-er with the 'copy/convert file' option. It all seemed like too many steps.... am I missing something or misunderstanding how Logic creates MP3s with different sample rates? Thanks a lot Gary

Ok thanks. So does an audio interface provide MTC too? I think I've actually tracked it down to plugins causing the pops. It might be a combination of a few but I'm keeping ny eyes & ears peeled for it happening. I started a new session using software instruments with no problem. Bounced the tracks in place audio & again no problem. It could be a IK multimedia reverb or LFO tempo synced ring mod being sent to it. Anyway good news i don't think it's a Logic / Audio interface error...

Unfortunately removing the controller makes no difference. The current session is only reading audio from an SSD so Arturia plugins not in use. I've been trying to understand how a DAW works in terms of generating MTC and how the 'clock' works. Within my audio interface the only option for the clock is 'internal'. Within Logic it's also on internal and wondered if that was wrong? But I think that means logic is using the clock of the interface which is correct?

Thanks for the reply. Yes that's what I'm thinking too but I can't quite seem to get to the bottom of it. It's Thunderbolt 3. Do you have any thoughts? The only thing I can think that I've changed (it didn't used to do it) was add in an Arturia Keylab MIDI controller

Hi everyone, Been wrestling with this for a while and not sure if it's a Logic issue or audio interface related (or both) but any advice on settings to try would be very much appreciated. Getting audio pops whenever I stop playback that are sometimes worse than others and sometimes the 'Error while trying to synchronize Audio and MIDI' msg appears. I've tried the standard troubleshooting - checked sample rates match, increased buffer size in logic and mucked around with options on the 'sync' preferences in Logic buit nothing seems to work. It seems to happen even if just one audio track is loaded and no MIDI parts or plugins are used. My UA Arrow audio interface is up to date in terms of software / firmware. My gear is: 2018 MacBook Proc / Logic 10.5.1 / UA Arrow interface / OS Mojave 10.14.6 Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Gary

Cheers David always good to have approval from the experts rather than doing things the 'wrong' way but still somehow getting there in a convultuted way, which I think is an option I sometimes take!

Thanks for that David. Rather than solo-ing the tracks and boucing the project I meant selecting two guitar tracks and then selecting 'bounce-in-place' which then pops them onto a new audio file in the arrangement window... Just wondering if pro's and con's to either approach but I suspect as you say, both are correct... maybe just preference...?

Hello everyone, I have a project ready to be consolidated to stems. All guitar takes were double tracked and I want to sum every double track into 1 mono file. I'm just wondering if using 'track stacking' or 'bounce in place' is the 'correct' way to do this. Any opinions? I think track stacking is perhaps intended more for mixing and tidying up the arrangement window, making sub mixes etc etc so I'm thinking 'bounce in place' but am I right in saying both of these options would result in the same thing? As when I consolidate stems I can either select the 'stack' or the new summed audio file to mke the stem? I don't need to apply any plugins - just the untouched source recordings. Thanks a lot

Hello everyone, I have hit a stumbling block when trying to use Logic to live stream both musical performances and also tutional guitar videos to YouTube. (Both of these just guitar & vox). I am using a UA Arrow interface and not quite sure if it's possible to route the signals with this as it's just 2 in / out. However I may be not understanding the 'virtual' in/out and internal bussing within Logic. I have watched a number of tutional videos on this and quite a number of people have used say a Motu interface and physically taken an output from the interface and back in to itself in order to achieve a headphone mix plus the mix that goes to OBS. (I have Soundflower installed too as I understand this is required along with OBS.) I suppose if anyone is able to tell me whether doing this is impossible with my interface I can happily give up!? Am I trying to achiev this: Two stereo signals - one that I can monitor and also one that goes to OBS via Soundflower? (I have created the aggregate device in Audio/MIDI setup but I don't see the options on the logic channels I need. Thanks a lot Gary

So further to this. Starting a new project. Buffer size was 128. I have 29 audio tracks - drums / guitars / bass and I have just added 1 Kontakt instrument (violin) and that was enough to hear a crackle. So I changed buffer size to 256 and it helped a lot. However does that sound right? Shouldn't my processor handle only one Kontakt instrument!? During playback the other threads are at a minimal and the audio being read form SSD drive. Thread 12 goes through the roof with 4 MIDI notes when at 128 buffer size!

Do you use Kontakt Jakob? I noticed a weirds thing happening where no matter what Kontact instrument I selected, on the piano beside the instrunment navigator, it was playing keys from my first Kontakt instrument (a piano in this case) however it wasn't actually triggering the sound. I could just see the keys being pressed down. And in the MIDI piano roll in Logic I on occasion saw keys 'sticking'. I'm starting to think perhaps somerthing is not set up right in Kontakt and maybe it is using a lot more processing power than it needs to. It's like 'ghost MIDI' or something! Might be best to hop onto the Kontakt forum unless anyone here using it?