kelitupu

To Partition Or Not

Hello all,

I recently bought a second G4 500 mhz 25 gig which I'm going to use solely for music. I have a couple of questions:

1) Is it relatively safe for me to remove the Soundcard (M Audio Delta 44) from my old G4 and transfer it into the new G4. I don't see why not, but I just wanted comments from anyone who's done this before. Other than making sure I've cleaned my hands and grounded them before touching the PCI, I can't think of any other reason why it might be a problem.

2) I recently bought an external hard drive for my audio files. Should I reinstall Logic on the external HD or on the Startup disk. If I'm saving my audio files on the external drive, how do I minimize the latency? I bought a Que 120GB Firewire external drive.

Thanks in advance.

Tips for the perfect mix?

Hi everyone,

I'm running Logic Platinum 4.8 on a Mac G4-466, with a Delta 44 4in, 4 out soundcard, a Behringer 16 channel mixer, Roland JV 1010 module.

I'm a newbie who's doing his first mixdowns, and I was wondering if anybody had any basic tips/recipes for getting a good final mix. I know it takes years to learn mixing and millions of books have been written, but all I'm really looking for is some general tips on how to set reverb, compression, and how to keep the signal to noise ratio down as you bounce down. This is only to augment all the
reading about mixing which I'm doing right now.

Also, if any one has the time and inclination to address a mixdown which I did last night, I'm including a play by play below:

1) Recorded MIDI tracks.

2) Recorded lead and background vox.

3) Bounced each individual MIDI track to audio tracks.

4) applied compression and reverb to all the audio tracks, then bounced to just lead vox, background box, rhythm section (bass and drums), and piano/synth track.

5) applied compression again, bounced down to just vocals and music.

6) applied compression again, and bounced down to final stereo mix.

The end result was pretty crappy. There was a lot of hiss, and the vocals were way in the back and very muddy. I'm trying to get a very pristine/pop R&B sound. I know that compression is important in doing this, but I don't quite know how to get the vocals up without bringing the noise along with it.

Last 2 questions:
Is Logic sufficient to master a recording with, or do I need to buy an additional software package? If so, any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Is it a good idea to build a synth mixer to control the reverb parameters, etc of my sound module so I can record more of a dry signal patch then with the factory presets -- and then apply Logic's
reverbs to the bounced audio?

Sorry if this was too long, but thanks in advance to the brave soul who takes the time to read this and perhaps even respond.

HELP! My monitors are panning to the right

Okay, here's the situation...my parents went away for a week's vacation, and I got the keys to the brand new Porsche....oops, sorry, that's a song by the Fresh Prince.

Anyhow, I'm a Logic Platinum user, and ALL my MIDI tracks are coming out on my monitors panned to the right. I've got the panning in Logic set to the default right down the middle (at 64 in the parameter box to the left), so I don't think it's a software problem. I know the cables are working fine, because my audio (coming out of a Delta 44) are working right (the panning is right down the middle), and the cables I'm running from my mixer's main outs to the monitors are brand new.

Here's the weird thing: When I swap the monitor outs on the mixer, the MIDI tracks start coming out of my left monitor, but the equalizer on my mixer still shows the signal being played on the right side.

So, to recap:

1) I know the cables are fine.

2) I know the monitors are fine.

3) When I swap the monitor outs on the mixer, the sound is then panned mostly to the left monitor (instead of the right monitor), but the signal on my equalizer shows the signal is still strongest on the right side (in other words, the mixer is playing it loudest on the left side, but still registers the right channel as being the loudest.)

On my mixer, I'm pressing the PFL/Solo button when playing back.

I'm definitely still a newbie to this home studio setup thing, so any comments and input are desperately sought.

Thanks in advance for your help people.

Gary
kelitupu@yahoo.com

Hello all. Many thanks in advance for any help you can offer towards my problem. I'm running Logic Platinum (which I just upgraded to from Silver) on a G4, so
naturally, I don't have enough USB Ports: I purchased a 4-port hub to accomodate the USB Dongle that Platinum users must have, my keyboard, and my MIDI sport
USB interface (before, when I was using Silver, which uses CD authorization, not the dongle, I simply plugged in my keyboard and the USB midi interface to the 2 ports
on the back of the G4). Got that?

Well, now I can't seem to get Logic to recognize my MIDI interface (there is NO Midi through). I'm using OMS, but I don't know if I need that. I've tried shutting OMS
off and letting Logic use the built-in MIDI driver, but it doesn't work. I also tried connecting my keyboard to the Hub, and plugging the interface directly to the back, but
then my keyboard doesn't work. I hope this isn't too confusing.

Thanks again for any help you can give.

bye

Getting rhythm sets into Logic

I have a Roland 1010 Sound Module, and am trying to figure out how to get my rhythm sets loaded in Logic so that when I pull down the program menu in the parameter box, I can see each of the 'rhythm set' or 'kit' names, and the associated keyboard map? Can anybody help me out?

Thanks for your help in advance