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September 30, 2004
Logic Pro 7 and other woes
I am rather miffed. After ordering and paying for Logic Pro 6, I just discovered that Logic Pro 7 is out.
I don't think I need to upgrade desperately but I am still a little miffed.
Anyway, some news about a problem I'm experiencing. Logic was working fine on my system on Saturday night after connecting the two audio outs from the Korg Triton Extreme (keyboard), to the M-Audio card, then two audio outs from the card to my Bose speakers. I was able to play MIDI sequencing from Logic to my Korg Triton Extreme to my M-Audio card to my speakers - in an instance! I was very happy.
On Sunday the whole setup was working fine as well. On Monday morning I whipped out Reason, touched up a dance loop, then shut down the Mac.
On Monday evening I came home, checked my emails on the Mac, then suddenly - POOM! - there was a blackout. When we did get the power back on, Logic just couldn't play the audio coming from my keyboard. However when I swapped cables, replacing the connection to the M-Audio card with my earphones, I could hear the sounds from my keyboard. So by process of elimination there was a problem sending Audio back in.
Strangely, Reason was totally unable to connect with my keyboard. Wouldn't take any MIDI commands in. That was bad. However, Garageband, which I have boycotted for not being able to export files to MIDI format, was able to take in all three MIDI IN, MIDI OUT and AUDIO IN commands. So it wasn't a cable connection problem either.
Anyway, following advice from my producer-uncle, I reset all MIDI connections and removed any possible conflicts between my built-in Apple audio card and the new M-Audio card.
The sad thing is I can no longer control my system's general volume by hitting those dinky little keys on my Apple keyboard - I have to double-click on the M-Audio control panel and go to the volume tab. Oh, well.
Logic still can't seem to do what it used to do up till Sunday night - that is, automatically play the audio sounds sent from my keyboard. To do that now, I have to click 'R' on an audio track so that that 'port' is open. Then I can hear sounds from my keyboard. Strange, is it not?
Fortunately, Reason is back to normal again. It's always only been a one-way MIDI in, audio out process with Reason anyway. Let's just say my experience with both software has not been entirely logical or reasonable!
Posted by vantan at September 30, 2004 4:43 PM
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