Apple Logic Pro /LogicExpress Discussion

David,
Wow! Up in flames eh, that never happened to me, I switched to a a 
Power Computing Mac clone around the same time you did your Mac 
conversion, after all the heads on my three DA-88s were going to cost 
$700.00 + to be replaced.
Anyway on to business,
I do use scroll bars, and I have tried to keep all my AUs to their 
latest version. I think I had one scroll bar crash when I was trying to 
use some of my waves plugs.
I reformatted my system drive and reinstalled Logic to wherever it 
wanted to reside.
So is the location the PDF tells you different than where Logic 
actually puts them?
Speaking of presets, Logic can't find all the old Sound Designer 
presets that were used in V6 , are they even included in the new 
presets or do I need to load them back in from version 6 disks?
I did trash my prefs and built a whole new Autoload.
All the Spectrasonics stuff pops and clicks now that I reloaded 
everything. I'm sure it is some preference I haven't gotten set back to 
where it was. Although I have my buffer set the same at 128.
I also failed to mention in my gear list that I have a Unitor, Logic 
Control,(2)XTs and a Mackie C4.
I'm completely okay with your system working well and everyone else's 
too and I only wish this best for everyone who uses Logic and  hope I 
haven't come off as being bitter, It just  really baffles me that some 
of these folks use the same gear as i do and have no problems at all, 
but seriously I hope I haven't offended anybody here and some of my 
redneck humor hasn't  been taken the wrong way. I have continued doing 
sessions (although stressful at times)
with Logic in what I consider very untypical behavior for the program 
and my 15 or so years as a user.
  I actually have taken heart that I get some response off this list as 
I seem to be rather ignored on the LUG for some reason?
Maybe I should leave my machine on all the time? I'm just a little 
paranoid especially after your ATARI  monitor story.
I do have my system disk partitioned and use one for audio and the 
other for sys/apps.
I keep all my samples on a completely different drive, I have four 
installed all internal.
> I do not know about this(~/music/logic folder) , I have always had a 
> separate folder with the name Logic that I have kept mine and my 300 
> or so clients song files in. Should I just put my Autoload in there or 
> all my songs?

I was reading on the LUG that most folks store there songs and audio 
files together and I have always kept mine on separate drives.
David you are a real champ for trying to help me and I 
really,really,really appreciate your efforts and you have indeed
set me on some new paths to trouble shoot!
Thanks Again!
Alan
  located On Jan 15, 2005, at 10:09 AM, Logic_Cafe@yahoogroups.com wrote:

> Yah I still have my 1040 running, but I tell yah, I have watched
> several Atari monitors go up in flames in my day.(2 actually....they
> just start smoking and burning inside). At least my mac doesn't do
> that. The last time my Atari smouldered I went out and got a Mac
> system (aroung 1996) although I still went out and bought another
> Atari monitor.
>
> At any rate, regarding your constant crashes, do you use the scroll
> bars? I had issues with that for awhile, until all my plugs were
> updated (the scroll bar updates, not the very first Logic7 Au
> updates)
> I also found that putting all the files in the locations Logic wants
> was beneficial as well, ie where they are recommended in the PDF
> update file. I put all my old presets in the places they recommend
> (see the PDF for specifics)
> Although I hear that that wasn't really all that important, I find
> it works for me.
> I also trashed all my old Logic preferences, as well as emptied the
> cache (~/library/cache and library/cache).
> I don't use waves but I do use RMX and Stylus with no problems at
> all.
> Ok you probably don't want to hear this (or maybe you do) but my
> system doesn't crash at all anymore. I use it 7 days a week about 10-
> 16 hours a day. I never turn it off and I never defrag. I have a
> raptor internal as well as the standard mac one, and I record audio
> freely to both (the Raptor clicks when recording but otherwise works
> fine). I haven't partitioned my drives and I keep all my samples in
> the logic folder (ie~/library/applicationsupport/logic/samples...the
> one that has channel strip settings, plug-in settins, sampler
> instruments, templates etc.)
> My application itself is in ~/applications and the autoload song is
> in ~/music/logic folder. Since I put everything where it was
> recommended I no longer get crashes on saving (only had that a
> couple of times at any rate).
> The only real problem I have is with my firewire 410, which fucks up
> every time I switch the external sample rate (it reads it from my TC-
> finalizer via spdif) to match the different rates I have recorded
> projects on in Logic. Sometimes it might crash Logic, but as long as
> I switch sample rates when Logic is not running it usually works
> (although it takes forever to recognize 48 )
>
> I have a G5 2x2 with 2.5 gigs of Ram and osx 10.3.7
> I could never get the old Logic 6.anything to work with Logic 7
> unless I trashed the preferences (I do have 6.4 still on and it
> loads fine, but I haven't set it up or created new preferences) so I
> lost it all, and kept 7. Garage band won't work, but that's all
> right.
>
> Ok I hope this helps, good luck, and don't shoot your mac (yet)