Logic-Pro

You may know or be interested to know that Logic Pro 8 has an Audio Track limit of 255 Audio Tracks. My current session has 278 Environment objects, 255 of which are Audio Tracks. Trying to add another one brings up a dialogue box “No tracks could be created!” So that’s it. I hope this at least doubles in future releases.

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Tags: Arrange, Audio, Channel Strip, Environment, Track

External MIDI Instruments can be routed through Logic Pro’s Mixer and Effects by way of the External Instrument Plug-in.

The resulting track behaves just like an internal Software Instrument.

Notes:

• Realtime Bouncing to an audio file IS possible
• Offline Bouncing to an audio file is NOT possible
• Freeze Function is disabled

Set up Effects Processing for External MIDI Instruments.

1. Connect the Output (pair) of the MIDI Instrument to an Input (pair) on the Audio Interface.
2.  Create a Continue reading »

Tags: Channel Strip, Effects, MIDI

1. Connect an Output (pair) from your Audio Interface with with an Input (pair) on the Effects Processor.
    
2. Connect the Output (pair) of the Effects Processor with the Input (pair) on the Audio Interface.
    
3. Click a free Insert Slot on the the Channel that you want to apply external effects processing and select Continue reading »

Tags: Audio, Channel Strip, Effects, Recording

To edit  / view automation data for any function or process on an Aux or Stereo Bus Track, you need to make it visible in the Arrange Window.

1) Click on a track in the Arrange Area, below which you would like to place your Aux or Bus track.

2) open the Mixer pane and Continue reading »

Tags: Arrange, Aux, Bus, Channel Strip, Track

Don’t forget you can add mono effects to stereo objects simply by doing the following:

Hold down Option + click the plug-in bar on a stereo audio object.

Now you can choose between a Continue reading »

Tags: Channel Strip, Effects, Plug-in

I worked on an audio session bounced down to 59 tracks. All rendered files are stems that are longer than the actual audio file length and start at bar 1 so that I could be sure of lining them up properly in my new session.

I’ve rendered off from a previous session in order to hardwire all automation data from Continue reading »

Tags: Channel Strip, Mixer