Hannes

If you'd just like to add some samples to a live drumming (ie. add samples for bass drum or snare drum), there's a very good trigger plugin called apTrigga that I've used a lot. You insert it as a plugin on an audio channel and then just define a sample(s) to play when audio level hits a certain treshold. Plugin is cheap (35 euros) and you can find it here: http://www.apulsoft.ch/aptrigga/index.php

Hi David and thanks for replying! I'm using Mac Pro so it shouldn't really be a problem. The session was kinda small too. Just a test session with 12 imported regions on 12 tracks (multitrack drums, 44,1k, 24bit). I also launched Activity Monitor to see what's happening and every time I hit the next transient key command there was a massive read operation from hard drive. Like 30Mb/s for a second or two. Should I file a bug report about this?

Have any of you tried the marquee snap-to-transient selection on a set of tracks which are grouped for editing? I tried this on an old session which had 12 drum tracks and it was really, really slow. There is a very annoying few second pause when Logic goes through all of the tracks and finds the next transient. The transient detection works very well but the slowness with multitrack recordings makes this feature completely unusable. Btw. Try the new comping feature on a set of grouped tracks. It works like a dream. This is going to revolutionize my drum recording...

The original question was how to divide a marquee selection without using the mouse, or at least that's what Mark explains in his second post. Just found out by accident when playing with multitrack drums that when you have a marquee selection, alt + any arrow key will divide the selection to new regions. Don't know if this was what you were looking for... Edit: Of course alt + left/right arrows are for nudge so they will move the regions. But alt + up/down arrows seem to work.

No problems at home. Haven't updated work machines yet because of a stable Pro Tools system...

Almost the same setup as above: 11 powermacs (10.3.9) with PTLE, Logic Express 7 and MBox 2 interfaces. And no problems... Logic handles MBoxes quite happily but this is quite a new setup for us so I don't have any long time experiences (yet). One thing I've noticed though is that MBoxes do not like to be hot-plugged/unplugged. If you keep your lab macs clean with regular maintenance and do not give students too much privileges you should be just fine. Are you using centralised management (Apple Remote Desktop, Mac OS X Server) for your lab machines?

I've done this exact same thing with click panned hard right and backing tracks panned hard left. And even if you bounce to an interleaved file those channels will stay separated. Maybe this is just an iTunes thing? I haven't listened my tracks from iTunes but they play back normally from iPod (no click in the house mix). Do you have the Sound Enhancer turned on in iTunes preferences? Maybe that's causing the channels to be blended with each other.

Thanks Ville for this one! The option-scissors trick was new to me. Have to try this when I get home... I usually use Pro Tools for my audio editing and tracking just because of the tab-to-transient and Beat Detective functions. Then when it's time to actually create something I usually start Logic... Would Ville's technique work when editing multiple grouped tracks together? Hannes

This is what I do too. I use Pro Tools a lot too and I really like Logic because of the ability to create several tracks that are assigned to the same audio object. I do miss however the playlist function that Pro Tools has which is very, very useful when dealing with tracks with a lot of editing. Please, please Apple give us some kind of a tool in Logic 8 for efficiently dealing with takes!

Actually you can! Right-click (or ctrl-clik) Logic application in Applications folder and choose "Show package contents". Then navigate to and launch Contents/Resources/Logic AU Manager I'm not sure if I remembered this correctly because I'm currently not on my Logic machine...

I don't know how I ever managed to live without this... I usually need this only when I'm recording my own keyboards by myself. When I'm recording other musicians I always use the cycle recording to get a few good takes on a row and then do a comp track from those takes. When I record by myself I usually like to play longer takes and start all over if I make a mistake. Thanks again all of you!!

Exactly what I was looking for, thanks a lot! I don't how I missed this one from the key commands window.

I'm not sure whether this has already been discussed, but is there a key command to start recording from the previous rec start position. I mean the same behaviour that double-clicking play does (play from previous start position) but for recording. I often find my self in a situation where I quickly need to stop recording and then start the recording from the same bar again. Sorry if this is basic, but I couldn't find this anywhere. And cycle recording is really not an option because I usually record longer takes. Thanks!

I have an issue with setting a track delay on a virtual instrument. I've played a few piano tracks with sustain pedal and when I set for example a 20ms delay on that track the last sustain pedal up message in the regions doesn't get sent to the instrument and the sustain pedal will continue to hold after the region ends. So I figured that if I have a delay, all the data is delayd by that amount but the regions aren't. And if there's an event right before the region end it will "slide" over the region bounds and will not get played. Could some one verify this so that I know whether this is happening on my system only. Oh, and this is happening whether I set a track delay or a region specific delay. Powermac G5 dual 1,8GHz, 10.4.6 and Logic Pro 7.1.1

Because we are a department of an university, most of the studio time is used for education and research. But we also do commercial projects in our studio if we don't have a lot of bookings for the courses. Students are also allowed to use the studio for their study related projects. But mainly music and sound related research. Haven't done any scoring (yet)... The disk allocation is for Pro Tools. If we are using a lot of tracks on a session we'll usually divide them between AV internal and external with Pro Tools automatic disk allocation (round robin). The largest sample library that we use is Synthogy's Ivory which uses about 35Gb for samples. And it is definately slower to load the samples from a firewire drive. We first tried to use Ivory from the project drive but when the track count goes up there are some problems with samples and we decided to use a dedicated drive for them.