Setup Compressor Hardware On Logic 7? Options

[Mastiksoul]

Hi,

its my first post on this forum... Hi to all ;-))

I was woundering if any of you around have manage to setup external compressor in to Logic 7?
I am getting a TLA this week and wanted to route the audio of the compressor to the buses in L7.
Basicly make the sound go frow the compressor(to make it fat of course) and route it back to L7 to one of the buses.
Is any one in the forum that could help set it up?

Other question is!!!

Would it be worth it to bounce the track in the end in L7 or to record to an external device (like CDR or DAT).

Some people have said to me that they don´t actually bounce the track so they don´t allow the sound card to make the digital conversion.
They basicly make the sound go fro a nice compressor and Record the all track to a diferent Audio Track in L7.
I am kind of confused with all this information.

Please understand that i always used the bounce method and only used Soft compressors.
I obviously want to start different ways.

Any thoughts is kindly appreciated.

Thank you

[jaffi]

There are many ways to do this. Some are permenant and others aren't. I'll focus on the most common. First, you could route your original signal so that it doesn't go into Logic until after the outboard effect. To do this you will use you mixers auxillary bus. Just connect your effect to the aux bus on your mixer and then send the audio signal to the Aux and from there to Logic for recording. You can also use the I/O Plugin. This essentially turns your outboard gear into a plugin and is pretty straight forward. You can put this into any object in Logic (i.e. Input Object, Bus Object, Aux Object, etc). When put into an Input object it will create an effect permenantly (will be recorded with effects). If using an I/O plugin with Audio, Instrument, Aux or Bus Objects it's just like adding a plugin during the mixing stage. You can always change your mind later and take it out. However, when doing it this way, be sure that when you Bounce the song you bounce it in realtime. Otherwise, the effect will not be used effectively.