I'm on the ship right now, but I'll be home tomorrow and I'll do it then. Thanks.

I notice something that I think is unique, but don't quite understand. Follow me for a second. Heres the scenerio. Lets say the track you're working on is peaking at -0.5dB or something. The Input Scale knob on the Adaptive Limiter is at 0.0dB, and Output Ceiling knob is at 0.0dB. The middle knob on the adaptive limiter is the gain knob with a range from 0 to 12dB. As you raise the dB on the gain knob, the margin meters on the right get less negative, so I thought. Let's say the gain knob is at 3dB. The margin meter might read -2.4dB. Then when the gain knob is at 6dB, the margin meter might read -0.5dB. I do know that with this scenerio, when the gain knob is at 8.0dB, the margin meter reads 0.0dB. However, the gain knob goes up to 12.0dB, so when it is at 12.0db, strangely enough, the margin meter somehow gets more negative and reads at -0.8dB. Why is that? You can obviously tell by looking at the master fader that the output ceiling has been lowered to a reading of -0.8dB when it is still set to 0.0dB on the Adaptive Limiter. If you want to recreate this scenerio, please remember that when you take the gain knob past 8dB, remember to click the number on top of the margin meters on the right to reset them, because the number has gotten more negative. If someone can explain this crazy thing, please do.

I don't understand either. I could help you, but you need to be more specific, or just explain to me what these descret channels are.

I'm to do live recording of our music group. When I push record, it shows that the time remaining to record is 134 minutes. That's not long enough. How can I change that setting in Logic Pro 9 so that I can record for longer periods of time without having to stop and start recording?

Well, I chopped a sample on the arrange page, dragged it onto the ediotr page for the exs24, created a group and all of that stuff. When you go into the exs24, you can open up any sample that's been imported into it's own sample editor window. The problem is when I edited the region lenth or try to loop part of the sample, the settings are not sticking, meaning that after I preview my edits in the sample editor, when I press on my midi controller, it sounds like nothing was edited. I'm looking at what I justed edited in the sample editor, so that window is still open while I'm triggering the sample from my midi controller, and still sounds like I never edited anything. I can edit the sample in the sample editor, close the sample editor window, when I open that window back up by selecting that particular sample in the exs24, nothing was saved, therefor nothing has changed. Why are my changes not effecting the sampler instrument? I should not even have to save what my edits are, which I tried anyway. After I make my edits, my midi controller should be able to trigger it, but it's not.

I'm running logic 9.0. I was running 9.02, but that and 9.01 don't load the exs24 samples correctly. I'm using snow leopard, the latest update of course which I think is 10.6.2 or something. Loading the samples are fine. If I save each individual chop as it's own audio file, that means there is no room for adjustments afterwards, which makes no sense to me.

I was having issues loading samples into 9.01 and 9.02. That's why I went back to 9.0. I can easily chop up a sample into different regions and load those regions into the EXS. The problem I have is if I realize that want to adjust one of the regions startpoints, by opening up it's own sample editor window from within the EXS, it will not let me adjust the start and stop points. It seems that you can only do it if you save those regions as it's own individual audio file before loading it into the exs. I guess because all of the chopped up regions share the same audio file. I hate that because it's very limiting because even if you create audio files from sliced regions and then put them into the exs, if you realize that your starting point of one of your audio files was started too late, then you can't adjust it to start earlier because all that audio information before that starting point does not exist anymore in that audio file because it was chopped off when you converted that region into an audio file. That sucks! Unless you know of a way around that, because editing sliced loop mistakes will be more time consuming than it has to be. It doesn't even have to be a mistake, you just want to experiment by adjusting the start and stop points with having to take the time to go outside the exs onto the arange page, open up that region again, adjust the start and stop points and load it back into the exs again.

I guess I can do that. I wish I didn't have to. Thanks for the advice.

Man!! I'm sick and tired of having to reinstall Logic 9.0 because 9.01 and 9.02 ws crap. Both of those updates were not loading my samples into the exs24 correctly. Now with 9.1, there's a bigger issue. I use a lot of groove templates that I customly made myself to make just about all of my music at some level. When I click on the quantized arrows, they don't show up in the menu. Instead their is empty space where they use to be. You can actually select the empty space, but when you do, no name shows up in the quative window as expected and it doesn't effect the midi region you've selected. When you go to where you have your groove templates located on your project and make a groove template to add them, when you click on the quantize arrows, it shows that the names of them are added after the empty space where they should be. Sometimes a couple of them are added in the correct space. To top that off, when you anylize your custome groove templates in the list window to begin with, they are all hosed up. Even when I open up old projects with my groove templates, they are messed up and all the other visible issue show up in those old projects. I would not trust the midi functions fully on this update. Now I gotta install Logic 9.0 again!

I'm never going to update Logic 9 again. I always end up waisting my time. I never had any problems with 9.0, as far as how I make music. I'm now waiting for the next disc. This will take at least an hour. Another day waisted.