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Dear Home Recordists, Here is a very specific riddle for you to solve. I'd like to do some recording on my MacBook Air. I have a Presonus FireStudio Mobile and an Other World Computing Thunderbolt Dock. The MBA has only 2 USB 3.0 inputs and 1 Thunderbolt input. The FSM has FW 400 outputs...

Hi. My Firestudio Mobile has an antiquated FW 400 (!) connector out to the computer. My MacBook Air has no FW in at all; it has Thunderbolt and USB 3.0. I have a FW 400 to FW 800 cable, to which I attached a FW 800 to Thunderbolt adapter. My AT2020 mic gets no phantom power. This is the...

Hi. I do not play the drums. I do not have a drum kit. If I want drums on a song, I have to do them digitally, either with a loop or a software drum instrument. If I use a loop, it obviously sounds mechanical because it plays the same thing every bar. No fills, etc. If I use a MIDI...

If there's a thread on this already, I missed it. Sorry if I've duplicated anything. I'm starting to record a basic electric blues shuffle. I use Presonus Studio One 2 Producer and an Axiom Pro keyboard. I don't know if it's best to record the drums first, but that's what I did. I used one...

I have a finished basement in my house at the end of a quiet dead-end street. The larger section of the basement measures roughly 20’ x 22’ – basically a square – and there is another smaller space that comes off the larger one forming a kind of “L” with it. It's about 10' x 15'. In the...

There is a ridiculously simple answer to this, but I'm not seeing it. 1. EQUIPMENT: Audio-Technica AT2020 mic to Mackie 402-VLZ3 mixer to Presonus Firebox sound card to Presonus Studio One DAW. 2. Everything goes from mic to mixer great: I can see the levels on the meter and the signal plays...

I don't use loops much -- usually just for percussion. But I'd like to acquire a nice collection of percussion audio loops (Latin, world, etc.) that I can use in Cubase Studio 4. Not MIDI, but good-quality recorded instruments. I'm not that crazy about what came with Cubase. My question is...

I have a Presonus Firebox, a Presonus TubePre, a Presonus HP4 headphone amplifier, and a little Mackie 402-VLZ3 mixer. I wonder if I can get some advice on how best to wire these fellas up. What I'd love to do, for the purposes of audio recording, is go: Mackie >>> TubePre >>> Firebox >>> HP4...

Here's a beginner's question: I have a Yamaha KX25 keyboard that I'm using to control instruments in Cubase Studio 4 for Mac. I've created an instrument track in Cubase using HalionOne's "Dry Standard Kit." So, low C seems to be a tom; C# seems to be a cymbal crash; etc., etc. Is there a way...

I've just started using some Smart Loops drum and percussion loops within Cubase Studio 4. I've noticed that each individual loop fades out from start to finish, which obviously makes the percussion very front-heavy. My audio and VST instrument tracks do not do this. At some point I added a...

My TranzPort, which I just purchased yesterday, does not communicate properly with my Cubase Studio 4.? I have TranzPort Manager 1.4.2. I am using the TranzPort Native setting. The Status box says “TranzPort Available.” I press the play button; nothing happens.? Interestingly, when I hit...

I'm recording live acoustic instruments into Garage Band (about to be replaced by Cubase 4 Studio), on a Power Mac G5 Quad. My audio interface is a Presonus Firebox. I use an old Mackie mixer for playback but plug my mics directly into my Firebox. When I record with my Audio-Technica AT 2020...

Normally, we post a question when we DON'T get a signal, but I am having a perplexing problem -- I am getting a signal when all my levels are at zero. I am recording with an E-MU 1820m into Sonar 4 running on a Dell PC. I'm using an Audio Technica AT2020 mic running off phantom power. Let's...

This may be the most newbie of all possible newbie questions. This is not a question about equipment or software or setting levels or EQ or anything very sophisticated. It’s about the basic recording process for a one-man-band setup. I play acoustic music. I play guitar, banjo, bass, and...

When I started out recording on a PC, I used an Audigy 2, which I quickly upgraded to an Aardvark LX6. Bad thing was I couldn't play MIDI files through the LX6, so I had to rout MIDI through the Audigy to the LX6. I have recently wiped my PC hard drive in order to turn it into a dedicated...

I am a Mac user (a recent convert) who uses the computer mainly for editing video with Final Cut Pro 5. I’m also a musician who, prior to converting to Mac, happily used Sonar 4 Studio for recording and mixing music. I have enjoyed playing around with Garage Band 3, but I can already feel its...

I just made the switch from PC to Mac. I have a Power Mac G5 Quad, OS 10.4.4. When I wanted to play a pre-recorded MIDI file on my PC, I imported it into Sonar, and it played. Period. No problem. I guess Sonar automatically accessed some instruments for the MIDI file to play. I routinely...

Yes, I know. Aardvark is Latin for "problem." But I have an old LX6 on one of my computers. Recently, I moved my whole computer setup to another desk, and disconnected all the peripherals, including the LX6. When I started everything up again, here's what I got: No sound coming out of my...

I know this is a common problem, and evidently a little complicated to solve, because the solution is different depending on the setup, but here goes... Here's my system: Dell Pentium 4 (Dimension 4600) running at 3.06 GHz, with hyperthreading technology; 1 gig RAM; 120-gig HD; secondary...

I just upgraded to Sonar 4 from Sonar 3, and the program is not recognizing my Aardvark LX6 sound card. It finds the Audigy 2 I use for MIDI purposes, and even offers the LX6 as an option for MIDI input, but it doesn't show up in my options-audio menu. It was working fine in Sonar 3. There was a...