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You could look at the waveform of the imported audio. If it clips a lot at the top of of the range like a plateau then the recording was recorded with a lot of clipping and very little could be done unless you just used this as an effect similar to rage-rock recordings.

You can use the Adaptive Limiter to achieve maximum gain, without introducing generally unwanted distortion and clipping, which can occur when the signal exceeds 0 dBFS. I.e. with gain you squeeze the dynamics range closer to zero or any threshold below zero specified.

The viewer is clipped so we don't know if there are more instruments below. Same with overlapping regions where some might be looped underneath.

One scenario is if you have Ultrabeat's sequencer on/running on the instrument track. Another harder to catch case is copying regions back and forth and have one region with looping enabled but this is hidden by the other regions copied on top of the looped section.

There are peaks and there's an average dynamic range. The meter should show both cases. The limiter clips off sudden peaks. The adaptive limiter makes sure the dynamic average range is as close as 0 due to the demands of todays' hyper-compressed sounds where every track has to be the same level as any earlier hyper-compressed tracks.

Lots of CPU-hungry plugins such as realistic analog-model SW synths =>CPU power needed. Lots of multiple parallel recorded audio tracks = > Fast hard disk (SSD even better) needed. Huge sample libraries in memory => Lots of RAM and a fast hard disk also helps. And there are permutations around these points.

Leave out Stable and it is possible.

The CPU meter in Logic (click on the cpu indicator in the transport panel) is also good to check if the CPU is hogged, or if the I/O is hogged. More RAM is always good as the app could keep more things in memory without virtual memory; a faster disk is also good; worst case bounce to track or freeze tracks.

Threads come and go. Open up the Activity monitor and see yourself.

I think you are talking about 12 cores activated versus 12 threads all together. Most apps have plenty of threads and if you know what you are talking about then you know how to use Activity Monitor and Sample Process to examine the threads.

Newer versions of Logic has fixed related to latest OS versions so if you upgrade OS you suddenly encounter bugs fixed in newer versions -- i.e. always upgrade.

WAV and AIFF files are lossless, so same audio bits in both cases and the AppleLoops metadata in AIFF is separate from the audio bits. If you have the exact same material in WAV and AIFF you could check it yourself you either have AIFF material that was not properly recorded or then if you stretch it via AppleLoops time stretching you will always get artifacts as that's what you get when you stretch audi.

Old file, old software, old behavior.

It's an unusual workflow so the bin solution is most likely the best.

There's no max SSD memory size for laptops as long as the electrical/physical specs like size and the wallet allows it.

Mixing should be done by the ears and not by the eyes.

The EXS24 has expected paths to find samples. You could have used folder aliases that would not break this dependency.

It would be nice if you knew something about playing keyboards so you could create interesting melodies and chord structures, them map those to single-oscillator ES1 instances or something similar. If you know how to play piano properly you could play all kinds of styles easily.

The most typical mastering scenario is to put one single Ozone instance to the master channel. You could add as many Ozone instances to instrument and audio tracks for specific tasks, let's say multi band compression for an electric bass. But that's more of mixing we are talking about then.

The installer installs most likely VST plug-ins to the VST sub-folder. If you put those into the components folder (.component) they don't work inside Logic. Easiest really is to run the installers unless you know what a .component is.

http://www.tech21nyc.com/products/effects/midimoose.html or http://www.tech21nyc.com/products/effects/midimouse.html Many are also using a keyboard controller with buttons to change presets.

What's the diff if you just pipe the live music via an iPod/iPhone into the mixer? Otherwise I think live music will soon do a comeback when the next generation of audience thinks the current one is stupid looking at someone tinkering with a laptop on-stage.

Would help if you explain what you want do do at the live gigs as well if you prefer light, semi-weight or weighted keys.

...there's a reason Library is hidden for end users starting with Lion...

Vanguard is one of the closest Sw synths to a typical-typical trance synth sound.