Apple Logic Pro /LogicExpress Discussion

At 2:32 AM -0500 1/28/05, GAmoore@... wrote:
>I am wondering if I get a G5 if I can ditch my audio board. I have 
>an Apogee Rosetta external Analog-digital converter which I think I 
>can send it in via the optical input, then the G5 has stereo outputs 
>for monitoring. Is that right?

Yes, should work fine.

-C

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On Jan 29, 2005, at 6:16 AM, GAmoore@... wrote:

> I am wondering if I get a G5 if I can ditch my audio board. I have an 
> Apogee Rosetta external Analog-digital converter which I think I can 
> send it in via the optical input, then the G5 has stereo outputs for 
> monitoring. Is that right?

I have tried various forms of it.  It works but there is a problem. 
Personally I find the latency that they system adds when you go that 
route unacceptable.

From: GAmoore@...

>I am wondering if I get a G5 if I can ditch my audio board. I have an Apogee
>Rosetta external Analog-digital converter which I think I can send it in via
>the optical input, then the G5 has stereo outputs for monitoring. Is that
>right?

I believe the optical jack is only an output, so you'll need a sound card.

But I just got rid of my digital mixer about three months ago - I'm 
using a MOTU PCI424 card with two 2408s and a 1224 for synths and 
digital outputs of Giga/Kontakt PCs, as well as the outputs of my Pro 
Tools rig - and it's working great.
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On Jan 29, 2005, at 11:44 AM, Nick Batzdorf wrote:

>   From: GAmoore@aol.com
>
>  >I am wondering if I get a G5 if I can ditch my audio board. I have 
> an Apogee
>  >Rosetta external Analog-digital converter which I think I can send 
> it in via
>  >the optical input, then the G5 has stereo outputs for monitoring. Is 
> that
>  >right?
>
>  I believe the optical jack is only an output, so you'll need a sound 
> card.

There is both optical in and out as well as analog in and out and you 
can freely select which you want to use with the Audio Midi setup 
utility:

El 28/01/2005, a las 22:16, GAmoore@... escribió:

> I am wondering if I get a G5 if I can ditch my audio board. I have an 
> Apogee Rosetta external Analog-digital converter which I think I can 
> send it in via the optical input, then the G5 has stereo outputs for 
> monitoring. Is that right?
> Yes, should work fine.

I'm using a ISA430 pre with the digital option straight into my G5 via 
the optical input. Pretty handy as you don't have to deal with drivers 
and all that. Latency is about the same as with any other card. I 
usually monitor everything through the G5, but sometimes I also plug 
the pre straight into the mixer to better control the volume for 
monitoring and zero latency.

As for the DA, I recommended a friend of mine the Presonus Central 
Station. Lots of routing options, you can hook up a remote controller 
and the best thing is that it gets rid of the ground noise of the G5 as 
it is connected via optical wire. I want to buy one, but... not enough 
money yet :)

Best regards,

Juande
www.cambiodeplanes.com

On Jan 30, 2005, at 8:13 AM, GAmoore@... wrote:

>
>  In a message dated 1/29/05 2:14:57 PM, yahoogroups@... 
> writes:
>
>
>
> it gets rid of the ground noise of the G5 as
>  it is connected via optical wire.
>
>
>
>  whats this? you can't use the optical in, without ground noise? Is 
> that constant or occasional?
>

He is saying it *gets rid* of the ground noise you get if you use the 
analog output.

I have presonus central station too.

I like its feature set and its sound.  I am not too sold on Presonus's 
quality control though.

When this thing first came there was no connected on the end of the 
power supply that connected the power supply to the unit (why oh why 
not just properly shield it and put the fucking thing inside the case 
anyway.....?).  The are pretty easy to pop out if you touch them the 
wrong way.  The when the faders were zeroed the knobs were pointing 
every which way when it came out of the box (no big deal to pull them 
off and put them on correctly but *why didn't they do that at the 
factory*?)  What is worst is I have had a problem with an intermittent 
failure of the left side in the cue circuit and the thing is still only 
2 months old.  My one last complaint is that the headphone amps are 
wimpy and I simply cannot get enough juice out of them to use them for 
a loud session.

I also borrowed a Presonus Digimax from a friend and it is kind of the 
same story.  It sounds great and has a decent feature set but he had 
only used the unit about twice and already the input of the #1 channel 
was broken in such a way that the gain was always on about 1100 no 
matter what you did.  So basically only 7 of it's channels worked.

Like I say I think their products are OK but their quality control 
sucks big time.