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I bought my Mac Pro in 2009, because i was sick of the PC letting me down when i was editing footage for clients, sometimes it would take ages to boot up. The Mac last 10 years with no problems at all, it never let me down....until i was in the middle of some video work last November and it kept crashing. So off i went and bought a new iMac, Retina 5K, 27-inch, 2019, 3 GHz Intel core i5. Over the moon with it and it does everything i ask of it. So just go and get what's available, they aren't that expensive these days. The 2009 Mac Pro cost me 3.5K with Logic Pro and Final Cut Pro bundled. The iMac cost me 1.3K and does exactly the same as the Pro did.

It's all pretty different here Mike, similar in some ways but slightly different. The government here have messed about with the vehicle licencing a few years ago, 2014 i think it was. You had to have a road fund disc in the windcreen of the car, usually held in place by a circular soft plastic wallet, that the paper disc was inserted into and the plastic was such that it stuck to the windscreen. We've had the road fund disc since 1937 but due to some twit deciding it would stop vehicle road tax evasion if we went from selling the car with the road fund disc, until it ran out (annually, or bi-annually), wheras the new owner would then have to tax it again when it ran out, to sending the disc back to the licencing authority (DVLA) and they would refund you the amount left to run on the disc, the new owner would have to tax the car before he could drive it away, which has caused all kinds of problems. So if you sold the car in the middle of the month, the new owner would have to tax the car from the beginning of that month, so it was a win-win for the government. It wasn't really thought out properly, as a report says that "In 2008 it was reported that flaws in DVLA enforcement practices have meant that more than a million late-paying drivers per year have evaded detection, which lost £214 million in VED revenue during 2006". Go figure.

Yeah, pretty much the same here with PRS/MCPS but we don't have to pay to register the works for copyright ownership, i find that very odd considering that if you register the works with the collection agencies (PRS/MCPS), then that is your proof of ownership. Certainly some years back, each track had to be registered in triplicate on paper, each sheet being a different colour, you kept one, the other two were posted to PRS/MCPS in London and it could be aright ballache filling them in, especially if there were say 12 tracks. Anyway, i'm sure each country has it's own way of registering works and i expect they are very similar.

I'm a music publisher and label owner in the Uk. I've released about 30 albums for client i've recorded and published since 2004. All of the tracks on the albums were registered with PRS/MCPS and PPL. I never submitted the tracks to any music libraries but they have all been used on radio and TV stations worldwide, so as the publisher i recieve the royalty income and then i distribute the agreed prcentages to the clients that have had their music used. I also provided CD's to CD Baby pretty much from the beginning of release time and have sold quite a few hard copies, of course now with the era of downloads, the hard copies aren't in demand these days, so i now recieve a quarterly royalty income statements to my email address, whereas several years ago i'd recieve the statements in paper format. One bit of advice that i was given in the early days of distributing from a TV producer, was when the promo copies were posted to to the various media for review, the advice was when sending them to the TV and Radio stations, make sure that instrumental versions were included, so they could be used as idents, background, etc. This made a hell of a difference to royalty income, due mostly to the mechanical usage on TV. What i realised over the years, was that you don't really know where the music is going to end up. A six track EP i released in the Welsh language (i live in North Wales, UK), became record of the week on an Italian radio station, so it can be an amazing business. I would certainly consider startinga publishing company, if you intend submitting the music of the bands you are in, as you state. I'm not sure what the situation is in the US but here in the UK, it's very unlikely that radio and TV stations will take the submissions seriously, unless they have been submitted by a publisher. I have two record labels, one for the Welsh language releases and the other one for everything else. A music publisher can have several labels under the publishing umbrella, depending on how many genres of music is intended for release. So i would seriously consider taking on the role of a publisher and a label owner, it tends to keep everything under control, plus you have the added kudos of owning/holding the copyright via the publishing company. Maybe do a touch of checking out what i've mentioned online and see how things are for a similar business in the US. Any other questions, just ask. Take care.

Thanks Atlas. It seems the problem may have been due to a setting in the Focusrite Saffire Pro 40 audio interface software. I've been messing with MSB's and LSB's lately, whilst resurecting the outboard midi gear, after several years of software synths, etc. So not necessarily a bug as such, more of a self-inflicted problem maybe. Cheers again.

Hi guys, newbie here from North Wales, UK. Been using Logic since 2004 on the PC, V5.5 then went over to Mac Pro in 2009. I bought an iMac last September and i'm running Logic V10.5.1. For some odd reason, when i arm the metronome it records the clicks to the audio track i'm recording on, this has only started a few days ago. Previous to that, it wasn't even producing the sound from the metronome. I'm aware that Klopfgeist is a software instrument and it should be on channel 256 but in the mixer view, i have Audio 1, Preview, click, stereo out and Master, with the "All" tab selected. I've also noted that the volume is very low on playback, when i click on the automation button, the volume string is very low, about -20db, i then ajust this to nominal and all is fine, there has been no volume automation recorded, so why the volume should drop is a bit of a mistery. Any help is much appreciated. G.