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jonnyclueless · 26th October 2005

I'm glad this thread has come up. Because I am a huge fan of logic and use it extensively for production work. But recently I used it for mixing (using an external mixer). Boy was that the biggest nightmare of my life.

You got your arrange window track name, which corrisponds to an audio object wth a name, and that corrosponds to an actual audio track in that engine. Start moving things around and it gets out of hand. Having to manually change paths one channel at a time (I can change a big group of audio objects all to the same buss/output, but if I want them to be consecutive, I have to do them one at a time). No means of sending LTC. Audio constantly playing out of time (randomly). regions moving by themselves. No way to disable TDM plugins (freeing up DSP) w/o removing them all together. Tracks would come in stero interleved, and I couldn't easily convert them to split and automatically replace the audio regions in the session already. Having to line stero stuff up on odd/even groups of tracks. Had a hard time doing fades on large groups of regions (either had to grup them or do one at a time).

I'm sure there are work arounds and a lot of my problems came from teh TDM side of Logic, but the experience made me never want to touch logic for audio again. Almost as bad as doing MIDI in pro tools.

26th October 2005	#12
jonnyclueless Lives for gear Joined: Aug 2004 Location: Los Angeles Posts: 799	I'm glad this thread has come up. Because I am a huge fan of logic and use it extensively for production work. But recently I used it for mixing (using an external mixer). Boy was that the biggest nightmare of my life. You got your arrange window track name, which corrisponds to an audio object wth a name, and that corrosponds to an actual audio track in that engine. Start moving things around and it gets out of hand. Having to manually change paths one channel at a time (I can change a big group of audio objects all to the same buss/output, but if I want them to be consecutive, I have to do them one at a time). No means of sending LTC. Audio constantly playing out of time (randomly). regions moving by themselves. No way to disable TDM plugins (freeing up DSP) w/o removing them all together. Tracks would come in stero interleved, and I couldn't easily convert them to split and automatically replace the audio regions in the session already. Having to line stero stuff up on odd/even groups of tracks. Had a hard time doing fades on large groups of regions (either had to grup them or do one at a time). I'm sure there are work arounds and a lot of my problems came from teh TDM side of Logic, but the experience made me never want to touch logic for audio again. Almost as bad as doing MIDI in pro tools.