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September 21, 2004

Complicated problem

I'm in a slightly complicated situation because my equipment's been split into two. This is what I have, here in the apartment:

  1. Korg Triton Extreme (keyboard with MIDI and a gazillion power sounds)
  2. PowerMac G5 dual 2.0Ghz processor, 1MB RAM
  3. Apple 20" Cinema Display
  4. Bose computer speakers (enough to do the job at the moment)
  5. Music software: Reason, Logic and GarageBand (which is now blacklisted for not being able to export my songs back into MIDI format. Boo, Apple!)

What I have, tucked away in the house studio:

  1. Korg 01/W (MIDI keyboard with decent sounds; served me well for nearly ten years)
  2. Korg D1600 hard disk recorder with built-in Yamaha CD writer (the biggest white elephant in my setup thus far)
  3. Shure 58 microphone. All the above are linked, directly or indirectly to my...
  4. Mackie 12 track mixer (small but keeps our home entertainment system in check)
  5. Big Pioneer speakers (enough to keep Warren G happy)

Right now I have a new song, split into 9 tracks thus far, sequenced originally in Reason, exported into MIDI, imported into Logic, re-arranged in Logic. Logic transmits data to my Korg Triton Extreme, where I have saved program info for each track (e.g. Track 1 > Electric Piano).

But unlike in Reason where all the sequencing gets recorded instantly to an audio file, Logic relies on my Korg keyboard to output the music. So far, the only way I can record my song to an audio format, is to record each track from Logic, one by one, into my keyboard and then export it to WAV. It's do-able but a little troublesome if you have many tracks in each song to 'layer'. I don't see myself doing this for every song I produce in future.

As a short cut, I tried selecting 'Master track' in my Korg track settings to see if I could do everything all at once, but was told I cannot record that way. Any better ideas?

Posted by vantan at September 21, 2004 10:21 PM

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