Apple Logic Pro /LogicExpress Discussion

Hi folks,

This is a bit OT, but I know I'll hit a bunch of people who use macs
and might run into this here... I also just don't know where else to ask!

I have a couple patchbays that I plug my gear into, and over the
course of time they get disorganized and irrelevant as new gear is
added, old stuff is removed, whatever.

I was wondering if any of you know of a good way to plan a patch bay
configs with software on a mac. I'm currently using excel, but it sucks.

If it helps the gear eventually goes into Logic for tracking and
being routed through I/O plugins. :-)

-- 
Ben Harrison

>a patch bay
>configs with software on a mac. I'm currently using excel, but it sucks.


Excel is the only MS product I use - and I find1001 uses for it - not only 
for calculations - even for graphics types things. I use it to make charts with 
patches for synths, music theory, and I keep a list of my compositions with 
their stages of completions, and my  ranking as to how good they are.

I don't know exactly what you are looking for but its easy enough to set up a 
list of Ins and Outs in Excel. then use the borders feature to separate them. 
 You can enlarge the cells quite large, and go to print setup and make fit to 
a single page. Then print it out and put it on a clip board next to your rig. 
As you make changes, pencil them in. Every so often update your spreadsheet 
and print a new version.

On Apr 21, 2005, at 8:24 PM, GAmoore@... wrote:

>
>> a patch bay
>> configs with software on a mac. I'm currently using excel, but it 
>> sucks.
> Excel is the only MS product I use - and I find1001 uses for it - not 
> only
> for calculations - even for graphics types things. I use it to make 
> charts with
> patches for synths, music theory, and I keep a list of my compositions 
> with
> their stages of completions, and my  ranking as to how good they are.

I use excel for many things as well.
I got into programming as a hobby and now It is a lot more than a hobby.
I am planning to write some excel stuff for music.
Excel could be a great replacement for a personal database.
I find the formulas to be very simple as well.
If you want a sell dynamically to be equal to a sum or multiplication 
of certain cells,
just click on the target cell then click on '=' key then click on the 
1st source cell then click on multiply '*' or plus '+'
then the second cell to be multiplied or added (or the bunch of them if 
it is a range of cells) then hit enter.
I find it very simple.
This works like that on the PC version.
I am a C# .NET programmer so I use PC for programming.
I use MAC OS X for Java, SQL and PHP programming.

Funny turn of events.
I mean, it is really interesting to see Windows XP to be more over all 
user OS
and MAC OS X a programmers heaven where you can run a bunch of servers, 
Database servers etc..
All for free.

Yavuz AKYAZICI
http://yavuzakyazici.com
yakyazici@...

--- In Logic_Cafe@yahoogroups.com, Ben Harrison <pmumble@m...> wrote:
> Hi folks,
> 
> This is a bit OT, but I know I'll hit a bunch of people who use macs
> and might run into this here... I also just don't know where else to
ask!
> 
> I have a couple patchbays that I plug my gear into, and over the
> course of time they get disorganized and irrelevant as new gear is
> added, old stuff is removed, whatever.
> 
> I was wondering if any of you know of a good way to plan a patch bay
> configs with software on a mac. I'm currently using excel, but it sucks.
> 
> If it helps the gear eventually goes into Logic for tracking and
> being routed through I/O plugins. :-)
> 
> -- 
> Ben Harrison

I have to chime in as an excel user too - where I used it in a more
'graphical' form by using cell shading to show routes