Hey, Steve. I love the tutorial videos so far - great job! One thing I'd like to see in a future video, is a detailed explanation of Logic's Direction Mixer plug-in. Panning stereo tracks in Logic is something I've always struggled with. If you could also relate this to the way in which signals are sent to the bus objects, that would be cool. For example, using the Direction Mixer is the only way that I know of, to retain the stereo image in the bus itself. Thanks again. Rich

Hey, thats wonderful news, Steve. Thank you very much for adding this to the list. Rich.

You can count me in! I'd love to be able to use Logic exclusively. At the moment I find that I need Sibelius to do some of my arranging course work. I find Logic's score editor a bit frightening. I think that is because its based around MIDI, first and foremost. It just doesn't seam very user-friendly to me. Sibelius on the other hand, puts notation before MIDI, and that makes it ridiculously easy to write out music. Of course its a trade-off, and a completely reasonable one really. Horses for courses, isn't it?

Hey, Steve. I'd love to hear a quick explanation of the direction mixer if possible. Also, if there's a way to send stereo tracks to a reverb so that the reverb reflects the true stereo panning, I'd love to hear about that. Thank you for all your hard work on this series. Its been a joy to watch every month. Best wishes Rich

Another year with Steve... Absolutely. :) I trust Igor is exited at the prospect of a new TNT series?

One thing you could try, is creating a pattern with 24 steps, at a resolution of 1/16. This would give you a 1-bar phrase, which you could copy, loop, cut etc, as many times as needed. For 1/8 note triplets, try a pattern of 24 steps at 1/8. This would give you a 2-bar phrase. Again, you can copy this as needed. This is all based on being in 4/4 time. Just for reference purposes, triplet values in Logic use the following tick values. 1/64 note triplets: 40 1/32 note triplets: 80 1/16 note triplets: 160 1/8 note triplets: 320 1/4 note triplets: 640 1/2 note triplets: 1280 1/1 note triplets: 2560

[quote:28326]Logic allows you to keep various files associated with a project folder, so why not plug-in settings? Randall[/quote] Because its not really very practical, thats why. You can make use of the 'save as' feature within each plug-in, in order to 'keep' your plug-in settings.

Here's another vote for a score tutorial. Come on macpro - you guys can do it! :-)

Hey guys, I was thinking it might be nice if someone were to write a blog (perhaps even a mini series or even a full video tutorial) on using analog modelling plug-ins in DAWs. With all these console and tape emulations popping up nowadays, it would be great to get some insight from one who has knowledge in this area. For example, the blog/tutorial could cover things along the lines of: What exactly these plug-ins aim to do Correct gain-staging when working with these plug-ins (all this -18 business) :-) Signal chains - i.e., what order to put the plug-ins in (tape, console emu) Driving the plug-ins for saturation, distortion etc The application of such plug-ins - on every channel, on busses, and master etc I'm sure there are things I'm missing, but you get the idea. Coming from a completely digital background, I feel a bit overwhelmed by all this sort of stuff. Anyway, thanks for reading. Regards Rich

Hi Rounik, Thank you for your reply. Okay, so at the moment I do all my work with the Waves Platinum bundle. However, I was thinking about picking up some of their modelling plugs - perhaps the SSL series and the new MPX tape plug-in. Another one I've been looking at is the Slate VCC. I know that there are a lot of choices out there in this area, but I'm hoping that the general principles of any such tutorial would apply to the majority of these tools so that everyone can benefit. Regards Richie