Logic Express Mastering..

I make beats, and I'm wondering what settings to set the mixer strips for best quality sound for mastering. Please go into detail. Thanks.

if there is anything I can do to make my drum and guitar tracks sound a little more polished
This sounds more like a mixing problem than mastering. Mastering is intended to add the final sheen and any slight corrections to the complete track and if you're not happy with guitar and drums tracks I'd urge you to rethink your mix. If it's left to the mastering stage, corrections to guitar, for example, will adversely affect the vocals or other instrumentation.
IMO, the best mixes will require almost no mastering attention, except for volume matching, fades and slight corrections.

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Hi All,
A week ago I was trying to master a track I just finished. The options were there and read something like "final hip hop...", "final electronic...", etc. I recent deleted and reinstalled Garageband (GB) as I noticed all of my GB loops and templates were gone.
When I re-entered Logic Express and tried to master my track, I noticed all of the options were gone and replace with fewer, less appealing options such as, "Enhance Deepness", "Soft Enhancer", etc.
Does anyone have any idea what is causing this or +more importantly, how to fix it???+
Please let me know.
Thanks!!!

Thanks Fox. I'm gonna actually try to Time Machine it and see if that helps. Before I did so I just wanted to see if there was a check the box time option first...
Thanks again...

PLease help me with the best product to buy, Logic Express, which one?

Hi,
I have a macbook pro snow leopard 10.6.4 with garageband 09. I need a very simple to use editing and mastering program and wondered if the logic express would be best suited to my needs. If so, Then WHICH logic express is the easiest to learn that is compatible with my computer an with garageband 09?
I am not an engineer, so I need something user friendly, and self help along the way. Any suggestions on what to purchase would be great, and money IS a factor. If the logic express program would be best, does it have to be an '09 program?
So, What would be the best program for a beginner who needs good results? It seems with some of what i have read that some of these programs replace the garageband? I like garageband.
Help?!
Heidi995

I upgraded from GB to LE8 a few months ago and whilst there is a steeper learning curve it is much better, you won't regret it. If you're wanting to just do simple editing then LE 8 & 9 are pretty similar (i picked up LE8 very cheaply on ebay then decided to upgrade to 9 once I'd got my head around it to take advantage of flextime editing & the drum replacer). You'll find all the things you do in GB much easier, quicker, & more effective in Logic once you've learned how to use it. Both 8 or 9 are great for the relative lack of outlay, just depends how much money you want to spend is my advice.

Will Logic Express and Logic Pro X co-exist on my Mac?

I use Logic Express. If I buy Logic Pro X can I have both versions on my Mac? I assume I'll eventually move to the new version, but just incase I have issues?
thanks.

Mate, it will run absolutely fine... But like with most DAW's it will be hosting other plugins, so alot depends on what you have running at once. But an i5 w/8gb well probably take more than what you will throw at it if you're only just starting out - It's when you get into serious sound and mastering where you need high end processing power.
However, saying that you can bounce down realtime pluging into audio files so that free's your CPU up. Plus, in my experience Logic is very efficient as it disables plugins etc. when they're not producing sound.
Have you already got an audio interface?
The only issue you will have is screen size on a 13" MBP, i did post a get around to give you more resolution on here a while back, i will try and find it for you - Just incase you need more res. The Logic X interface is a little 'bigger' so tends to cram on a 13".
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Question of process after producing a song on logic express

Hi, so i've recorded a track using the produce preset in logic express. Now I don't know how to get it into the mastering preset for polishing and limiting using plugins. I'm not sure how to get from point a to point b. i've entered the preset and have tried to open my project but it always opens up in the produce preset only. How does one go from to producing to mastering in logic pro and also how do you apply compression and hard limiting to voals in mastering mode.
Thanks for your help in advance, the feed back would be useful.

Hi,
You will need to bounce an uncompressed stereo track of your Logic project. Then open a new logic project, from the template section choose the mastering preset and then bring in your stereo track. The Mastering suite can only be used on an audio track, not a Logic Project.
D

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I am using Logic Express 9. I brought some GarageBand files into Logic to mix. I then bounced the mix to an AIF file for mastering. Later I decided I didn't like the mix and decided to remix the song. I bounced the new mix to a new AIF file but the new AIF file still plays the old mix. I even trashed everything in Logic Express and went back to square 1 and started all over again. But every time I bounce to an AIF file it still plays the old mix. Why is this happening? How can I get it to recognize my new mix? Please help.
Thanks in advance.

Hi, assign a new name to your new bouce, like "project1.aiff" instead that "project.aiff",
Then rename if you want to call it as the past bounce. cheers

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I'm thinking of getting Logic Express, and upgrading to Studio later if I like it. I know that one of the big features of Logic Studio over Express is the much larger studio library. I have a good collection of soft synths/instruments (Native Instruments Battery 3, Massive, Absynth, Reaktor, and FM8) already. I was thinking about getting NI's sampler, Kontakt, but with Logic Express and Studio on the market for such good prices, I'm thinking of getting Logic (and thus EXS24) instead.
I was playing with Logic Express at the nearby Apple Retail Store and was quite impressed with what I saw available for UltraBeat and EXS24. But then I realized that Logic Studio was installed on the same machine and I was probably getting the full studio library, which made it hard to compare the differences between Express and Studio (in this particular aspect).
I haven't been able to find any details on the general size of the ESX library in Express. In the Studio pages, it says "The Studio Sound Library includes an enormous collection of 1300 pristine-sounding EXS sampled instruments."
Does anyone know how the Express library compares? I'm not looking for a huge sample library right now, but I can't find any specs at all. The Instruments pane on Apple's Logic Express page only says that EXS is a sampler, but nothing about the library. Are you satisfied with what's included in LE8? Are there enough instruments for real use, or does it feel annoyingly limited like some other 'Lite' / 'Express' packages?
Thanks,
J.Shell

Hi,
The EXS24 library has to be larger in Pro simply because the samples they use in the online demo don't exist in Express 8. Express 8 has the same library as Express 7 but Express 8 has the full EXS24 sampler and not just the player. Since you're clearly a big synth user though I should tell you that the EXS24 library in Express does include a large collection of analog and digital synth samples. The only synth you get with Pro 8 that doesn't also come with E 8 is sculpture but that's one **** of a synth! Pro also has the Vintage instruments (B3, rhodes, clav) and the aforementioned Jam Packs. However You already have a huge sound arsenal in the native instruments stuff so you may not need the Pro extras. Probably the main thing you will have to decide is whether or not you need the film sinc, live performance, and surround sound capabilities of Pro. Pro also has a few more pluggins most of which are related to surround sound or mastering and its cd burning options are more advanced.
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How do you arrange instruments in logic express?

Hi,
I am new to Logic Express 9. I have created an 8 bar song and I want to make it longer and arrange my track so I can remove and add sounds as the song goes along. For example Remove a piano at bar 4 and have a guitar playing at bar 8. How can I do this?
Thanks

Did you assign the delay on the vocal track's "Insert" button? If so, this could be the reason your vocals sound jumbled. You can always lower the "wet" signal in the delay itself, but I find that the following method works best when using reverb and/or delay:
1. From the Arrange window, select/click the vocal track you want to use delay on.
2. Looking at your track on the left hand side of the screen, right below "Sends," hold-click on the button and select Bus>Bus 1(or whichever one you want)
3. An "Aux" track will appear right next to your vocal track.
4. Load either delay or reverb on the inserts and choose the appropriate setting. I prefer using either Stereo or Tape delay since they have better options to work with.
5. On your vocal track, on your "Sends," you can turn up the volume right next to it, which controls how much of your vocal track you want to send to the aux to get that reverb/delay. Start with -10 db and work your way from there. You should notice a difference by then. You can also control the fader from the Aux as well.
As far as fadeouts are concerned, I haven't really figured that out. I normally fade out when I use a separate mastering suite, but you can also fade out manually using the Automation method on the Master fader.
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How to create an ABAP Query with OR logical expression in the select-where

Hi,
In trying to create an ABAP query with parameters. So it will select data where fields are equal to the parameters entered. The default logical expression is SELECT.. WHERE... AND.. However I want to have an OR logical expression instead of AND.. how can I attain this??
Please help me on this.. Points will be rewarded.
Thanks a lot.
Regards,
Question Man

Hi Bhupal, Shanthi, and Saipriya,
Thanks for your replies. But that didn't answer my question.
Bhupal,
You cannot just replace AND with OR in an ABAP QUERY. ABAP QUERY is a self generated SAP code. You'll just declare the tables, input parameters and output fields to be displayed and it will create a SAP standard code. If you'll try to change the code and replace the AND with OR in the SAP standard code, the system will require you to enter access key/object key for that particular query.
Shanthi,
Yes, that is exactly what need to have. I need to retireve DATA whenever one of the conditions was satisfied.
Saipriya,
Like what I have said, this is a standard SAP code so we can't do your suggestion.
I have already tried to insert a code in the ABAP query (there's a part there wherein you can have extra code) but that didn't work. Can anybody help me on this.
Thanks a lot.
Points will be rewarded.
Regards,
Question Man

Dynamic Logical Expressions in ABAP: IF (lt_cond)...

is it possible to have a dynamically constructured logical expression?
I have a condition I need to use in an IF, but I want to avoid hard-coding, so I dynamicallybuild it.
for a simple example:
CONCATENATE ITAB-f1
 'EQ'
 varValue
 INTO lt_cond SEPARATED BY SPACE.
IF (lt_cond).
WRITE:/ 'Success'.
ENDIF.
Is it possible to do this?
NL

I am trying to use the macro to check an IF (cond).
cond is a dynamically constructed condition.
The bold part of my code way below is my problem area.
I'm having no trouble getting COND constructed. But I am having trouble between my macro and the processing as my error always tells me I'm calling my macro without 2 actual parameters. Or when I DEFINE my macro with &1 instead of &1 &2, I get 'incorrect logical expression'.
I've read all the documentation I can find on this, but i still cannot figure out why my macro is not processing.
Code is lengthy, but if you can, please help.
I'm anticipating the output to be 'FAILURE' at this point. I just want the condition COND to be processed.
data: tabfield(20) type c,
 orcheck type I,
 cond type string.
DATA: BEGIN OF ITAB_NOTIDX OCCURS 0,
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 VALUE LIKE ZDOLTARC03-VALUE,
 STRUCTURE LIKE ZDOLTARC02-STRUCTURE,
 AOBJ LIKE ZDOLTARC02-A_OBJ,
 END OF ITAB_NOTIDX.
DATA: BEGIN OF ITAB_AOBJ OCCURS 0,
 AOBJ LIKE ZDOLTARC02-A_OBJ,
 END OF ITAB_AOBJ.
DATA: ITAB_AOBJF LIKE ITAB_AOBJ.
DATA: ITAB_NOTIDXF LIKE ITAB_NOTIDX.
DATA: varAOBJ LIKE ZDOLTARC02-A_OBJ.
ITAB_NOTIDXF-FIELD = 'LIFNR'.
ITAB_NOTIDXF-VALUE = '123'.
ITAB_NOTIDXF-STRUCTURE = 'BKPF'.
ITAB_NOTIDXF-AOBJ = 'FI_DOCUMNT'.
APPEND ITAB_NOTIDXF TO ITAB_NOTIDX.
ITAB_NOTIDXF-FIELD = 'LIFNR'.
ITAB_NOTIDXF-VALUE = 'ABC'.
ITAB_NOTIDXF-STRUCTURE = 'BKPF'.
ITAB_NOTIDXF-AOBJ = 'FI_DOCUMNT'.
APPEND ITAB_NOTIDXF TO ITAB_NOTIDX.
ITAB_NOTIDXF-FIELD = 'LIFNR'.
ITAB_NOTIDXF-VALUE = '001'.
ITAB_NOTIDXF-STRUCTURE = 'BKPF'.
ITAB_NOTIDXF-AOBJ = 'FI_DOCUMNT'.
APPEND ITAB_NOTIDXF TO ITAB_NOTIDX.
ITAB_NOTIDXF-FIELD = 'SAKNR'.
ITAB_NOTIDXF-VALUE = '111'.
ITAB_NOTIDXF-STRUCTURE = 'BSEG'.
ITAB_NOTIDXF-AOBJ = 'FI_DOCUMNT'.
APPEND ITAB_NOTIDXF TO ITAB_NOTIDX.
ITAB_NOTIDXF-FIELD = 'SAKNR'.
ITAB_NOTIDXF-VALUE = '222'.
ITAB_NOTIDXF-STRUCTURE = 'BSEG'.
ITAB_NOTIDXF-AOBJ = 'FI_DOCUMNT'.
APPEND ITAB_NOTIDXF TO ITAB_NOTIDX.
ITAB_NOTIDXF-FIELD = 'KUNNR'.
ITAB_NOTIDXF-VALUE = 'CCC'.
ITAB_NOTIDXF-STRUCTURE = 'BSEG'.
ITAB_NOTIDXF-AOBJ = 'FI_DOCUMNT'.
APPEND ITAB_NOTIDXF TO ITAB_NOTIDX.
ITAB_NOTIDXF-FIELD = 'KUNNR'.
ITAB_NOTIDXF-VALUE = 'DDD'.
ITAB_NOTIDXF-STRUCTURE = 'BSEG'.
ITAB_NOTIDXF-AOBJ = 'FI_DOCUMNT'.
APPEND ITAB_NOTIDXF TO ITAB_NOTIDX.
LOOP AT ITAB_NOTIDX.
WRITE:/ ITAB_NOTIDX-FIELD, ITAB_NOTIDX-VALUE, ITAB_NOTIDX-STRUCTURE, ITAB_NOTIDX-AOBJ.
ENDLOOP.
DATA: VARFIELDNAME LIKE ZDOLTARC02-FIELD.
CONCATENATE cond
 INTO Cond.
SORT ITAB_NOTIDX BY AOBJ FIELD.
varFieldName = Itab_NOTIDX-FIELD.
ORCHECK = 0.
ITAB_AOBJF = 'FI_DOCUMNT'.
APPEND ITAB_AOBJF TO ITAB_AOBJ.
LOOP AT ITAB_AOBJ.
 MOVE ITAB_AOBJ-AOBJ TO varAOBJ.
 WRITE:/ varAOBJ.
 LOOP AT ITAB_NOTIDX WHERE AOBJ EQ varAOBJ.
 WRITE:/ 'LOOP TEST'.
 IF ITAB_NOTIDX-FIELD EQ varFieldName.
 WRITE:/ VARFIELDNAME.
 IF ORCHECK <> 0.
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 'OR'
 INTO cond SEPARATED BY SPACE.
 ENDIF.
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 ITAB_NOTIDX-FIELD
 INTO tabfield.
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 tabfield
 'EQ'
 '''' ITAB_NOTIDX-value ''''
 INTO cond SEPARATED BY SPACE.
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 ELSE.
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 WRITE:/ '2', VARFIELDNAME.
 CLEAR TABFIELD.
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 CONCATENATE ITAB_NOTIDX-STRUCTURE
 varFieldName
 INTO TABFIELD.
 CONCATENATE cond
 'AND'
 TABFIELD
 'EQ'
 '''' ITAB_NOTIDX-VALUE ''''
 INTO cond SEPARATED BY SPACE.
 ORCHECK = ORCHECK + 1.
 ENDIF.
 ENDLOOP.
ENDLOOP.
CONCATENATE COND
 INTO COND.
write:/ COND. "constructed properly
DEFINE my_dynamic_check.
if &1, &2.
write:/ 'Success'.
else.
write:/ 'Failed'.
endif.
END-OF-DEFINITION.
my_dynamic_check (cond).

Logical expression( = , =, , ) in read statement

Hi All,
Is it possible to use the logical expressions like (<= , >=, <, >) in the read statement?

While you can only use "=" with the READ statement, you can use the READ statement to position the cursor at the first record you want and then use the LOOP with your operators to get only those records you want (assuming standard tables that have been correctly sorted). This can be very efficient.
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Help! Logic Express 8 does not work on my Mac Pro with OS 10.5.1

Hello, I hope somebody around here is able to help me.
I have got a new Mac Pro with one Quad core processor since yesterday and it works fine except for Logic Express 8 (version 8.0.1). Whenever I start Logic the program crashes as soon as "Core Audio initialisieren" is shown in the display. I have tried to reinstall the program, deleted it completely and installed it again. It is always the same.
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Tetleyted

Thanks for the reply. took a look but the directory structure as follows: HD/Library/Audio/Apple Loops/User Loops (Apple doesn't exist. I have a feeling that garageband and Logic Express hasn't completed the install. I have tried to re-run it but the same thing happened - no loops. Any suggestions welcomed.

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