a GREAT tip for logic users

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I found this today and I felt the urge to pass it on. If it only helps one person....

Anyhow, I never used auto input monitoring cos the latency was like a whole second and it was impossible to monitor vocals and music at the same time in the headphones, since the headphone amp is going out of output 7-8 of my soundcard and not my main outs

I also wished that I could monitor with some effects plugins like reverb.

Now you can do all that. You can monitor in real time with effects and you can monitor inputs with no latency

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Go to audio preferences.
go to audio drivers. Set software monitoring to "on" for whatever driver (asio, easi, pcav,) that you use.


Go to the environment and choose audio. Or for a faster way, go to audio and choose "audio mixer"

Create a new audio object

double click the audio object to open it and select it by clicking on its name.

press H

Now set it to Input(whatever input it is that you want to monitor) In my case, i wanted to monitor my spdif input becos my vox mic is connected to it, so I chose input 9 (dont choose audio track, output, bus, or any other thing) just choose input and select the input you want.

Now, on the audio object, select the outup you want that input to go to. For example, my headphone amp is on 7-8 so I set mine to 7-8. you can create as many input objects for as many inputs you want to monitor

Now, when I put on the headphones and speak into the mic, I can hear my voice loud and clear. You can also increase or decrease the volume of the input so that you get a good headphone mix. Mute and solo are also available

You can choose if you want stereo or mono.I use mono.

THere is no latency on this object.


To monitor with reverb plugins
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set up a reverb on the input channel and you get realtime reverb,
or you can send some of it to your main reverb bus . It does not record the reverb. It only monitors it.

sweet.
 
Please someone give this guy a Prize.

Logic can be one of the most annoying bits of software on gods earth. It's also one of the most powerfull (yeah yeah, i know, please don't waste my time with, "so is cubase etc..." i really don't care)


There's only one problem... I'm 800 miles away from my studio. and will be for the next year. Oh, woe is me. Actually, to phrase it better. Pissed off is me!

comeon, some sympathy would be nice. How would you feel?

Rochey
 
I would cry every day like a baby if I were away from my studio. Well, not quite but close.

A neat trick is to put a pitch shifter on the input and see the funny faces people see when they are hearing a bad monster real time.

Or you could slap mic modeller on that bad boy. Just for the fun of it. Just because you can do it.
 
logic is indeed one of the most powerful audio software out there. Maybe even the most powerful. THe speed of using it and the power that is available in the environment is mind boggling.

Cubase does not come close IMHO
 
Rochey said:

comeon, some sympathy would be nice. How would you feel?

My PC is in my band's rehearsal room now again for a few months, and I'm really pissed off sometimes, because of that. And it's only 5 kilometres away!

I feel with you!

David.

PS.: CyanJaguar: half a year ago I updated to 4.7 and read it in the manual, haven't tested it but will next time we record vocals.
 
by the way,

I found this out from the logic guru at sound on sound magazine.

For many more great tips like this

go to www.sound-on-sound.com

Every month has a section on logic.

For example, do you know how to solo a track without soloing the fx busses?

Or do you need great ideas to set up your screensets
or how to optimize vocal comping and the use of touch tracks.

sound on sound baby.
 
Thanks Cyan. I've been tryin' this exact thing for over a month now. Found the explanation from bits and pieces on the sonik bbs. I think it hasn't worked for me because I haven't tried it with input monitoring on. Maybe this is the last bit I needed. I'll try it tomorrow.

Do you frequent the sonik site? Any other LOGIC/Delta sites you like? I've seen you around on the ezboard forum.

I've been thinking of subscribing to SOS but it's like buying a Neuman mic-"yeah, I'm sure it's great... maybe when I'm rich some day."
 
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