New With ??? About My Set Up Options

[torchsong]

Hi, new girl here with lots of questions about hardware and software.
I've read just about everything I can that is somewhat related to my situation but still have ????

I am a cellist and vocalist and want to make backing tracks to play with live and also make demo recordings on my computer. I come from the portastudio school of home recordings so the MIDI stuff is making me nuts!

Here's what I have:
imac running OS 9.2
DX7
Boss DRmkII
Behringer Eurorack
MOTU Fast Lane
Metro 5
OMS 2.3.8 grrrrrrr.....
cello with pickup (although I usually am miked for studio recording)
guitars
cables

I've tried to keep the basic set up simple but am having problems with OMS I think. Metro doesn't seem to like to work with Free MIDI.
I am also having problems playing back audio after recording a track, how am I supposed to hear what I've played to do over dubs?

BTW, I downloaded Pro Tools Free to try it out and just can't get the thing to open (memory error 1,010) so I gave up and went with Metro instead because it was inexpensive to start.

Thanks for any help, this is a great site!

Shall I jump in at this point? Yes!
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From the Digidesign Answerbase:

Error 1010 when launching Pro Tools results in the application not opening.
This error can be caused by a corrupted OMS application.
Remove all the OMS software including the Opcode folder, the OMS folder in the system folder and the OMS control panel and extension. Then do a reinstall from the OMS installer on the Pro Tools CD.
Another possible cause of this problem is a corrupted system folder. This can be fixed by repairing or replacing the system folder.
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Torchsong:

From the above quote I'd say you've definitely got something going on that needs to be fixed before you can expect ANYthing to work properly. Also, important in installing Pro Tools is following the instructions, and OMS is supposed to be installed AFTER Pro Tools. You would need to toss everything OMS related, including prefs, before installing PT.

If you ever get PT FREE running there's a free app called "UglyVSTi" that will enable you to route VST instruments into Pro Tools. Check out my response to another post:

http://www.macmusic.org/agora/forums/index...4871&s=&lang=EN