Help with recording audio

I am trying to record an Alesis Micron synth into Logic. I have both cables in audio out on the Micron and they are plugged into the two inputs on my Presonus Interface. Logic recognizes the interface and inputs but there is not sound when playing the synth or recording. I have record enable and monitoring on and I still cannot get any sound. The volume on my interface console is turned up as well The Micron works when plugged into an amp so it is not the problem. I am new to Logic so any help would really be appreciated.

You stated monitoring on, do you mean software monitoring in preferences if so thats cool. Now when you create new audio tracks select input monitoring along with your other settings or click on the i button on your previous tracks see if that works

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This is what I'm working with. Logic 9 to Saffire Pro 14 interface to Alesis ADAT 24.
I want to "record" audio to the adat. I want to have three tracks in a single song on the ADAT, lines 1,2,3. I have outputs 1,2,3 fromt the interface running to ADAT inputs 1,2,3.
In logic I have the tracks outputs set to mono 1,2,3. the ADAT is picking up all three tracks (all three meters are showing life). However, I am getting no sound out of output 3 (and therefore it is not recording into the ADAT) and I believe that 1 and 2 are coming in as stereo. Anybody know what I am doing wrong? I need this to run our tracks live for our show tomorrow and am having the worst luck!
(p.s. the interface only has four outputs.)

The Saffire comes with a software applet (setup program) doesn't it. Maybe you have to set up the 4 individual outs there, it may be set to send only stereo out.

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================ main =========
=============== / === \ ========
============= / ======= \ ======
=========== / ========== \ =====
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======== / ===== \ ==============
======= / ======= \ =============
====== / ========= \ ============
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welcome to world of java...
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Need help with Conditional Audio

Hello again! So early on into a course, after a couple intro slides, I have a sorting slide to direct users to other parts of a course (self-led learning in a way). However, I have an audio narration that plays on entry to that slide (not slide audio, it plays via advanced actions). I'm trying to figure out a way so that once they have viewed that slide once and heard that audio the first time, any time they get sent back to this sorting slide, they don't hear the audio again. How might this be done?
What I have already tried: I've tried two things, first I set up a variable called Sort_Audio. On exit of the slide previous, Sort_Audio would be assigned a value of 10. On entry to the sorting slide, an advanced action would check if Sort_Audio is equal to 10. If it is, it plays audio (and clears another variable that is unrelated, I just needed to do both things, so I combined them). I have On Exit from the sorting slide an advanced action that resets Sort_Audio to 0 so that when a user gets sent back to that sorting slide, it would theoretically not star the audio. Problem with this in the first place is for some reason it won't even play the audio the first time.
The other thing I tried was quite similar, but instead of assigning values to slides I tried cpInfoLastSlideViewed and equalled it to the name of the previous slide, as well as doing the same thing for cpInfoPreviousSlide. Neither seemed to work.
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The problem is resolved. Using TTS, the audio went onto the slide. I had not removed it from the slide audio so that the Advanced Action could work. Lieve, I got it to work by being extra careful to get each step correct and complete and assuring that the slide didn't have audio attached to it. Rod, I could not get the test project to work with audio attached to a smart shape. I believe it is because I am not controlling visibility of the smart shape--a logic test for another project and another day.
Here is what I finally got to work:
I created a project to get the procedure working before I put it into the big project. Here is a description of the test project.
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Ciao
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I need help how to record directly from camera through firewire while I also record Audio from my firewire soundcard.
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import java.io.IOException;
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import javax.sound.sampled.AudioFormat;
import javax.sound.sampled.AudioInputStream;
import javax.sound.sampled.AudioSystem;
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import javax.sound.sampled.LineUnavailableException;
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Help with recording measurement

Hi all,
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I'm trying to learn Logic after using Performer for years, and though the audio is fine, I just can't get the midi to work doing something really simple.
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goldensteve wrote:
I believe that I have followed your instructions, but I am seeing the same result: both midi sources trigger (and record) each other. Hmm.
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GT Player Express is a real-time standalone application allowing to use your computer at studio or on the stage as powerful guitar multi effect processor. It offers ReWire support, for connecting to ReWire applications such as Live or Reason. Track Recording support allows recording of the processed or clean sound. Recorded tracks are automatically added to the current playlist. GT Player is functional as a VST plug-in which can be used in all VST host applications such as Nuendo, Cubase, Live, DSP Quattro, Spark, etc. With Keyboard Transpose, MIDI notes can be triggered from your computer keyboard with transpose capability.
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The disk image with DVD Player worked flawlessly.
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Not to me now that you're providing more info.
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hi there,
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i recently went to an acoustic gig and recorded some songs from it using a sony ericsson phone. i have blue-toothed the files to my mac. there are a few songs on each recording are two things i would like to do with these files.
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Message was edited by: irav_86

You need to import your song to iTunes first.
Than open Garage Band and click on bottom Right button (View/ Hide media browser).
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