Audio Instrument Playback

I am getting traction in inputting and playing back sounds in LE and hopefully breaking thorough the pain barrier.
When I record an electic guitar using an audio instrument with the guitar sound inserted it sounds great when playing it in from the keybaord on the G5 speakers. When I press play from transport to hear the creation it comes back with the right notes in a stocatto fashion. Any ideas?
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Kind of hard to help you without further specifics.
Which plugin instrument? There are some that don't work well with Logic. How did you load it (stereo or multi output)?
Do instrument tracks work with Logic instruments but not 3rd party?
Dual 2.5Ghz 2004; 2.5GB RAM Mac OS X (10.4.8)

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Who's gonna fix this problem? Audio instruments don't play from downbeat.

Time to raise awareness, I think, on another serious Logic problem -- that Logic can't play back notes from audio plugs if playback starts from a downbeat.
Over the past three days I've been working on a highly complex string arrangement, creating within Logic both a mockup and the score. During these few days I would estimate that at least 20% of my time was wasted as I wrestled with Logic's inability to play back audio instruments when starting Logic from the start of a measure.
The plugs I was using were GPO and EXS-24, both exhibiting the same errant behavior.
The situation here is an embarrassment for Apple, the Logic team, and me, the end user.
Why?
Well, during the course of my writing and mocking up this arrangement, the producer would call from time to time asking me to play him various sections over the phone. And when doing so, I'd always start playback a fraction of a beat before the downbeat (the only known way to get Logic to actually play the upcoming downbeat notes). After a while of this kind of playback it started to annoy him greatly.
When he asked whythehell I couldn't just start playback from THE TOP of a section, I had to explain to him that Logic has a bug where it can't play back notes from a downbeat. After he stopped laughing, he commented that he couldn't understand why "a guy like me" was using such a POS program. I won't repeat the rest of his reply here in public, but suffice it to say that despite the arrangement I was writing (which he LOVED), I was professionally embarrassed because my tools showed up as highly shabby in front of this very well-known producer.
As I said, the only known workaround is to start playback from before the downbeat, i.e., an 1/8 note or so ahead, and having to contantly use the mouse (or type in values) for my left locator to play back the song from various sections proved to be ab-so-lute-ly excruciating over the course of three pressure-filled days.
And... it's not like an 1/8 note before the down beat was always the correct amount needed to get Logic to play back the downbeat notes. So each and every setting of the left locator proved to be AN EXPERIMENT! This meant that playback of various sections would not always commence properly, forcing me to re-adjust the left locator and see what happened...
This problem is over a year old in Logic 7. I'm still on 7.1.1, but from what I've read here this situation remains a problem in the latest version of the software as well.
So... who's going to fix this problem? And when?

Sorry not to have been more help iS.
I hadn't really noticed it before, and not to imply that you were wrong, but you're right.
I guess I've always had a pre-roll and no reason to get upset with it, but now you've bought my attention to it, it's really going to Richard me off! (sorry to all Richards out there).
As for the RAM - Vienna Instr (VI) is very greedy requiring almost all my RAM just for the Strings and WWds. This gets better as you start optimizing each instrument, but early stages can leave you with just 2-300 Mb and a very sluggish response. This means instruments fail to enter and the lines go astray.
I'm getting used to it now, and tend to bounce tracks to audio once I know they're ready, even after optimizing (cleans up the production too) but I want to feed my machine RAM and it's virtually satiated already.
Time for an upgrade and 16 glorious Gb to gorge on. (UHMMMMMmmmmmm - Maybe there's a market for renting out RAM if not a computer.)
As for the EXS and only six audio instruments - can't really explain that, though by your own account (and others) it falls within the known failings of the EXS itself as well as Logic. The concern that comes to mind is that Apple seem poor at responding to such complaints and requests to fix things - look at the undo removing time and key signatures issue, and I've spoken to people about other issues too found in the scoring window, and nothing.
How do we, the voiced users, get such things actually mended?
And on that joyful thought, I shall depart until tomorrow.
Fair ye well - and thanks for your help.

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I have recorded a regular guitar (regular audio)
I have recorded an audio instrument (midi hybrid plugs)
but the icons like grand piano ..which are midi ? I can't figure out how to get sound out or record. what am I doing wrong ? I don't see any rec. enable...and without going to the environment which i am still confused about..whats the easiest wasy to get using those midi instruments?

It's a 2nd cord which goes out of the MIDI interface into your synth-so you can sequence in Logic using your synth's sounds. If you just record and then playback to the synth it will sound just like what you played.
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Are you using an external audio controller or the line-in and headphone jacks on the side of your computer? You shouldn't have an issue using headphones when you're recording through the line-in but you may want to make sure you have monitoring on and it's going to the right place.
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