Hi Steve, I was wondering if you could do a tutorial on setting up and using multi-timbral plug-ins with logic. Thanks, David

Hi, Im having a little trouble with apple loops. When i installed logic studio i chose to install the apple loops on an external hard drive. This created two folders on the external drive called Apple Loops for Soundtrack Pro & Jam Packs. When i started Logic the Soundtrack Pro loops did not appear in the loop browser so i dragged the sub-folders in the Apple Loops for Soundtrack Pro folder from a finder window into the loop browser to index them. When the indexing process was finished the Soundtrack Pro loops sub-folders showed up under the Other section of the view menu in the loop browser. Should these not be in a separate section in the view menu like the Jam Packs are? I then deleted the index files and indexed all my loops again to see if this would fix the problem but now my Soundtrack Pro and Jam Pack loops show up under the Other section of the view menu. Can someone please tell me how i can fix it so that the Jam Packs and Soundtrack Pro loops appear in there own sections in the view menu of the loop browser? Also, is it possible to move the apple loops for GarageBand folder to an external hard drive and still have them show up in the GarageBand section of the view menu in the loop browser? Please help.

Thanks for your help Rounik. So when i move the loops to the external drive do i drag this folder over the loop browser to index them or do i drag the alias which i created in the default location? Any ideas on the first part of my original question?

Hi Christian, Thanks for writing back. I was hoping to find a way of doing this but still keep all the loops on an external drive. I tried using aliases of these folders and putting them in the locations you said, then drag them to the loop browser but it wont accept aliases. I don't have enough space on my Macintosh HD to keep the loops there but i would also like to have the loops sorted by loop pack in the view menu. When installing Logic Studio i chose to install all loops on an external drive and im pretty sure they were sorted by loop pack then, until i deleted the index files. Now i cant get them back in there original order.

Hi Steve, How about a tutorial on using the AUNetSend & AUNetReceive plug-ins. Also, how about one on setting up external synths in Audio Midi Setup. Thanks a lot, David

Hi, Can anyone tell me if there's a problem with auto input monitoring in Logic 8? It doesn't seem to make any difference having it switched on or off. Thanks.

Hi Rounik, Sorry i should have made my question clearer. Im talking about what the Logic manual says about auto input monitoring on pages 357 & 358. Im not sure what auto input monitoring does exactly because having it switched on or off makes no difference so i was wondering if this was a bug in Logic? I'v tried using it in the examples explained in the manual but it does not work as described. Im using an M-Audio FW410 audio interface. Thanks.

I don't think its the FW410 because I have the same problem on my MacBook using the Built In Audio. This is what the Logic manual says about auto input monitoring on page 357: "If Auto Input Monitoring is switched on, you will only hear the input signal during the actual recording - before and afterwards, you will hear the previously recorded audio on the track, while the sequencer is running. This helps you to judge punch in and punch out points when punch recording. If Auto Input Monitoring is switched off, you will always hear the input signal. Auto Input Monitoring, when switched on, also allows you to hear the input source when Logic Pro is stopped, making it easy to set levels." Lets say i have an audio recording on a track from bar 1 to bar 9 and i want to use Autopunch to record over bars 4 and 5. I turn on auto input monitoring, turn off software monitoring and press record. Instead of working as the manual says, i don't hear the input before, during or after the autopunch zone, although it is still recorded on these 2 bars. Before and after the autopunch zone i hear the previous recording but during the autopunch zone i hear nothing. If i turn auto input monitoring off i get the same result. It makes no difference having it turned on or off. If i turn on software monitoring and i press record i hear the input signal before, during and after the autopunch zone whether auto input monitoring is turned on or off. Maybe im not using it correctly, but it just doesn't seem to do anything. Thanks

Ok, thanks for your help Rounik, I just wanted to make sure i wasn't doing something wrong. Cheers

Thanks ALROBI, but its the same even when not using the FW410. I'v tried on three different computers using two different audio interfaces and the built in audio of each computer and i get the same issue. I decided a couple of weeks ago to read the Logic 8 manual from start to finish and there's actually a lot of stuff that doesn't work as described in the manual.