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What's your latency at? What interface? What HD config are you attempting to write to?

And stupid question, but have you restarted?

At 8/25/09 10:21 PM, nathanallenpinard wrote: What's your latency at? What interface? What HD config are you attempting to write to?

And stupid question, but have you restarted?

actually. funny you should ask. I haven't shut off my computer in a couple days..I'm gonna do that.

Figured I would post this here. Never realized this was hosted by the site I also post music on.

Logic Pro Audio Tuts

Has some reallllly nice stuff. Some basic things and general music and mixing tutorials. I linked the logic pro section but you can find more if you go to the general tutorials section.

dude thats awesome! I've got some reading to do!

Is this: The m-audio x-session pro

compatible with logic, it doesnt say, but do you think it could be mappable?

Pretty much all midi controllers are compatible. You may want to use M-Audio's Enigma software for the best results. It works like a charm with my Axiom, it appears to work with the X-Session controllers too.

I need some advice with mixing. I try to keep the volume levels from peaking but the end result sounds way too soft. Even if I have a limiter with the gain turned up, it still sounds too compressed. Is there some trick to make it loud enough but still sounding good?

after you bounce your song open up a new project in a stereo mastering template and import your bounced file. the go into the mixer and un-bypass the plugins and mess around with the settings to your liking. Sorry this is pretty bad advice really. But you don't learn how to master over night lol. Its a good place to start.

At 9/15/09 03:42 PM, ZStriefel wrote: after you bounce your song open up a new project in a stereo mastering template and import your bounced file. the go into the mixer and un-bypass the plugins and mess around with the settings to your liking.

Sounds like a lot more work than simply slapping one of the mastering presets on the Stereo Out channel strip and working on it from there. At least some of the presets will work with most contexts and you don't have to leave the main project file before the final export.

At 9/15/09 12:54 PM, alextheDJ wrote: I need some advice with mixing. I try to keep the volume levels from peaking but the end result sounds way too soft. Even if I have a limiter with the gain turned up, it still sounds too compressed. Is there some trick to make it loud enough but still sounding good?

Well, there's a tool under Utility called Gain. You might want to try it out. I don't know if it is a compressor or just a tool to boost the sound higher then you can with sliders. If that doesn't help I'm not sure what else you could do.

At 9/15/09 05:22 PM, Mrmilkcarton wrote:

At 9/15/09 12:54 PM, alextheDJ wrote: I need some advice with mixing. I try to keep the volume levels from peaking but the end result sounds way too soft. Even if I have a limiter with the gain turned up, it still sounds too compressed. Is there some trick to make it loud enough but still sounding good?

Well, there's a tool under Utility called Gain. You might want to try it out. I don't know if it is a compressor or just a tool to boost the sound higher then you can with sliders. If that doesn't help I'm not sure what else you could do.

Thanks! That does help a little. If I turn it up too much though it still distorts, but it definitely sounds better than my previous attempts. :)

I have a quick question. I'm trying to spruce up my track that has some vocals in it. I'd like to make them a bit more complex then just a chop and vocals going. So here's my question....

How would I go about getting that effect on vocals where it sounds reversed but, it's the reverb being reversed. Kind of like the vocals in the background of this dub mix. Or like this song.

Thanks if anyone can help me.

Maybe you could try taking the dry vocals, reversing them, adding reverb to the reversed vocals, bouncing it, then reversing the bounced vocals.

I pretty much figured it out after writing the post. :P

A few quick questions. I'm setting up a multi-output setting for Kontakt player 3. I'm trying to make an orchestral preset so whenever I want all my sounds loaded up I can just open that Logic file. So I have this all set up, I'm using more then one instance of Kontakt player since I have more then 16 sounds I would like to use.

First question; how would I set up a bus/aux for each separate channel if I wanted to add different amounts of reverb/EQ to each.

Second question; Since I'm using more then one instance of Kontakt player I hit Multi-timbral option when adding a new instrument channel. Will having more then 1 of these up mess with any other signals?

Third question; Somewhat has to do with the first. When I play one midi channel all the others show sound coming through. I have each mixer channel inside Kontakt3 separated to their own channel but, Logic seems to have the channels show sound when another is played. Is this a problem, or something that just happens?

Last question, I remember watching a video that showed me how to get the colors to show up next to the right edge of the Channel I was on. How do I turn this option on so I can set up the colors for each channel? It would make life easier when selecting instruments of the same kind.

Im trying to do a parent/child sort of thing with reigons. So i can have One master region and then i can have other ones that are exactly the same as the master one, change when the master one is changed etc.
At the moment im using repeat, but this doesnt give me the option to have gaps and other bits in between.
If someone could help it would be great.

At 10/16/09 04:59 PM, Vorlek wrote: Im trying to do a parent/child sort of thing with reigons. So i can have One master region and then i can have other ones that are exactly the same as the master one, change when the master one is changed etc.
At the moment im using repeat, but this doesnt give me the option to have gaps and other bits in between.
If someone could help it would be great.

You could work with region aliases: press shift+option while you drag a region in the arrange window. That will create a region alias, which does not contain data but only refers to the original midi region, much like the relationship between audio files and audio regions. So you can make a lot of copies of that midi region quickly, which will always be identical to the parent region. If you want to change one of the clones, double click the region and choose "Real Copy" in the dialog box to make it an independent region.

Thanks alot, that seems to be what i need :)

ok im gonna fel stupid when i get the answer to this but im looking for a way to copy a personalized synth.

Example

i had gone and made a synth with an es2 with effects and had gotten it to the perfect sound i want with that synth...BUT i had not made it in the project i want to use it in.

how would i be able to copy that synth into another project without tediously recreating each little manipulation i had done to it.. i had tried dragging and dropping, copy pasting, and every other simple method under the sun..

i would appreciate very much for screen shots if possible cause as you all know things need to be explained to me the way they would be explained to a 5 year old that sniffs too much glue

At 12/5/09 12:52 AM, SymbolCymbal wrote: ok im gonna fel stupid when i get the answer to this but im looking for a way to copy a personalized synth.

Example

i had gone and made a synth with an es2 with effects and had gotten it to the perfect sound i want with that synth...BUT i had not made it in the project i want to use it in.

how would i be able to copy that synth into another project without tediously recreating each little manipulation i had done to it.. i had tried dragging and dropping, copy pasting, and every other simple method under the sun..

i would appreciate very much for screen shots if possible cause as you all know things need to be explained to me the way they would be explained to a 5 year old that sniffs too much glue

All you have to do is click on the settings button in the channel you want then click save channel strip settings. That way, you can use it in whatever project you want. Hope that helps :)

i love you alex, thank you sincerely

At 12/5/09 04:37 AM, SymbolCymbal wrote: i love you alex, thank you sincerely

no prob :)

I mean, when I shorten the envelope with the sustain button on, it still plays full length. When I turn it off it plays like it should.

I presume that's for an external sustain pedal like on a piano then?

At 7/3/09 08:41 PM, Mrmilkcarton wrote: This one may just be hardware issues but, Logic has trouble with remembering where my samples are. I keep them on an external hard drive so I don't lose them if I load them into the EXS24 and don't save the samples to the project folder it won't locate the files. I think it just might be my computer since sometimes the search function doesn't work for it.

Dude you should keep them in the project folder too. External drives are slow though so really you need two internal drives if you are using samples. You'll confuse and wear out a hard drive if it's continuously scanning between which sample it needs to access and which part of your track is coming next. I recommend getting another internal drive, saving your projects to one, and keeping your samples on the other.