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Kenny M · 8th November 2009

I'm a long time Logic user (since about V4) and Pro Tools HD user since Mix. While I sequence a lot of midi in Logic I have only actually recorded audio into it a handful of times. Pro Tools has always been my preference for that.

Lately I've been tracking drums at a studio that while having a PTHD rig all the composers there use Logic and prefer not to convert their projects over to PT for tracking drums and percussion. No problem I thought as I'm comfortable using Logic. The problem I discovered, at least with Logic 9 is that the track meters only seem to monitor the tracks output, not the actual input level. In other words if you turn down the tracks fader to set up a balance between all the drum kit inputs, the channel led's show a much lower safe level - EVEN IF YOU'RE SLAMMING THE CONVERTER INPUTS!

This is a big monitoring flaw as I see it and I can't believe that there isn't a way to monitor the actual input levels although I can't seem to find where to select that option neither tooling around the menus or the manual. Nor can these other composers who are what I consider to be Logic experts.

Is this a bug with Logic 9? Can anyone tell me how to monitor the actual inputs? Even though I love sequencing in Logic, a system that can't do this is pretty useless for tracking in my opinion.

8th November 2009	#1
Kenny M Gear addict Join Date: May 2006 Posts: 365 Thread Starter	Monitoring Input Levels In Logic 9 While Tracking Drums I'm a long time Logic user (since about V4) and Pro Tools HD user since Mix. While I sequence a lot of midi in Logic I have only actually recorded audio into it a handful of times. Pro Tools has always been my preference for that. Lately I've been tracking drums at a studio that while having a PTHD rig all the composers there use Logic and prefer not to convert their projects over to PT for tracking drums and percussion. No problem I thought as I'm comfortable using Logic. The problem I discovered, at least with Logic 9 is that the track meters only seem to monitor the tracks output, not the actual input level. In other words if you turn down the tracks fader to set up a balance between all the drum kit inputs, the channel led's show a much lower safe level - EVEN IF YOU'RE SLAMMING THE CONVERTER INPUTS! This is a big monitoring flaw as I see it and I can't believe that there isn't a way to monitor the actual input levels although I can't seem to find where to select that option neither tooling around the menus or the manual. Nor can these other composers who are what I consider to be Logic experts. Is this a bug with Logic 9? Can anyone tell me how to monitor the actual inputs? Even though I love sequencing in Logic, a system that can't do this is pretty useless for tracking in my opinion.