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Friday, 14 April 2006
Live ::
Maybe if I forgo complete sentences I’ll finish this...
- getting ready to send the CD art to the designer
- checking email a bit compulsively, wondering if Christoffer is mastering/checking my work today. I did almost nothing to half the tracks, and made some changes ranging from minor to noticeable on the others.
- exported a song on the CD to perform, from Digital Performer to Logic
- hey, my friend Pat is on the album after all! his part is in the mix, albeit softly, under the synth solo. Good thing the art’s not finished. How do I credit samples of an electric piano being triggered by a MIDI’d Chapman Stick?
- put together a passable “minus one” mix. Logic’s EQ presets are decent starting places for someone with very limited experience in mixing real instruments.
- video-chatted with my son, who pointed me to this awesome video of Genesis performing Supper’s Ready in 1973
- during one of those compulsive mail-checks, saw a link to Thomas Dolby’s blog entry about getting ready to perform. I noticed earlier today that Saturday night’s show in San Francisco is sold out :-( But this was very useful in figuring out how I’m going to do something similar in terms of building a complex computer-based MIDI rig with backing tracks. And it answered a question I bugged one of the Logic programmers about today--how to have access to multiple songs with different tempos in a live environment? (answer: have all the projects open at once.)
- replicated that CS-60 sound with Logic’s ES-2...
- and the Hammond with the EVB3...
- just the lead sounds left
Fri, 14 Apr 2006, 03:46 PDT
[ Making music ]
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2 comments
Beware of opening multiple projects in Logic. Something weird happens once you hit Logic’s RAM limits. The latest projects start to ‘steal’ reosources from the earliest. Things go missing. You quit and save you projects, but you may have just just saved a broken version, and have to go scrambling around looking to the last backup without the errors. Apple are working on this, but it has been the bane of my life for the last couple months!
– Thomas Dolby, Saturday, 15 April 2006, 20:51 PDT
Hi Thomas!
Thanks for the warning... I just noticed today when opening my live version of a song and the old demo at the same time (to fetch softsynth presets) that even doing that little seems to create an opportunity for a Logic crash. So I suspect there’s a bug there.
I also suspect that (with 12 songs open at a time) you may be running into virtual memory problems; we’re still in a 32-bit world which means that there’s no more than 4 GB of address space available to an app, including all of its system libraries. etc.
I’m a ways off from the point you’re at -- just a couple of songs out of 10 or so are prepared -- but perhaps I will look into combining multiple songs into single documents and only having one open at a time.
Break a leg!!
– Doug, Saturday, 15 April 2006, 21:14 PDT
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