Newbie with LOM Questions

I recently setup our new Intel xServe, mainly for file and print services. I have no problems using or connecting to the LOM processors with the Server Monitor App. But my question is which LOM port should I be using to connect with Server Monitor? I can connect to both at the same time, and both give the same info. Is there a better one to use?
Also, in Server Monitor it list the LOM processors IP in both the IP address and Name columns. I would like to be able to change so that it would list the servers name in the name column. Any ideas?
Thanks for any reply's in advance.

I can't answer No.1 but here are my views on 2 and 3.
2. That is true at the moment, there are no Mac viruses or other malware out in the wild. This may change in the future, but for now you are quite safe. If you intend to install Bootcamp and Windows, then you will in the windows environment be exposed to all the windows viruses, etc.
3. I very rarely shutdown my iMac, usually only if I go on holiday or need to reboot after a software install. I always use sleep even for longer than 8 hours.
Ian

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Apple newbie with dummy question

I have a question about my 3 day old Core Duo. I'm connecting just fine and love my machine, but before I go paying bills/banking/etc online, I want to make sure my connection is secure. I'm connecting wirelessly via a Lynksis WRT54G router. The very first time I turned this bad-boy on, it asked for a password to the network, but hasn't since. I'm afraid I may have "keychained" the password or opened the network to everyone or something. Is there a way to check? I chatted with an agent, and they said since it was a third party thing (Lynksis), they couldn't answer. All I want to make sure of, is that my connection is secure with either WPA/WEP. I don't even know what that means, I just know it makes it secure! Again - first time Apple user (unless you count my Dad's IIC when I was 8) - so please assume I'm a dummy when you reply!
Thanks,
Matt

Hello Matt
Goto your router's config at http://192.168.1.1 the default user is admin and the password is admin
goto the wireless tab then wireless security. Make sure your using WPA-PSK and NOT WEP.
WEP is easily cracked WPA is a lot more secure.
The first time you connect to a wireless network you do have the option to add the password to the keychain, this is normal and does not have any security problems.
To check to see if you had added your wirless network password to your keychain open up the keychain Access found in /Applications/Utilities
You can then see a list of all the keychain entries you may see your wireless network listed in there.

Complete Newbie with Organizing Question

Please understand that I'm a complete Neophyte at Mac, and iPhoto. Please respond accordingly.
I'm a Windows guy who has succumbed to the intrigue and mystery of the Mac. I've got the Intel Dual Core iMac with 250GB HDD and 1 GB RAM. I just got it less than a month ago, and I've managed to fill up the internal hard drive to the top. My largest HDD space is taken up by my photos. Before reading any documentation (Windows guys rarely read documentation) I "moved" my iPhoto Library from the "me" user directory/folder over to a "shared" directory/folder.
Long story short, I now have multiple copies of photos, and the calendars and books we were beginning to work on have lost their pointers to the appropriate pictures.
Here's the jist of my question. Can I just delete the entire iPhoto Library, and all the photos and then sort of start over from scratch? I still have all my originals on my PCs that are all home networked together.
My apologies for my ignorance, and also if this is covered somewhere else in the discussion forum. I'm just a bit frustrated, as well as a bit inpatient to get it all fixed. Any assistance will be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
Mike Macygin

Mike,
Delete your old library
Under your account, open iPhoto
A new library will be created
Import your photos
Close iPhoto
Do a "get info" on the external drive to make sure it is formated for a Mac.
If not, use Disk Utility, found in your Utilities folder to erase it and format it for a Mac. You can also partition the drive at this time. One partition you can use for your iPhoto Library folder and the other partition you can use for backups.
Here is an Apple kb on moving the library to an external
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=93037
Take a look at my last post in these threads that have to do with trying to share a library.
http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=2225214#2225214
http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=2201779#2201779

Newbe with a question

First, I would like to say Hello to all of the other forummers, as being a newbe.
And as a newbe, I offcourse have a question....
Will the new AMD 333fsb series processors run on my KT3 mainboard, after obviously flashing the bios?
Thanks in advance, David.
Config: MSI kt3 ultra, xp1800, geforce 2ti, 512mb apacer ddr2700, 7200rpm maxtor and chello cable connection.

I heard somewhere that the chipset will support it but I don't know if MSI will work to get this board to support it.

Potential Newbie with Synch Questions

Hi,
I am seriously considering purchasing a BB8120, but I have questions about how much information or data is synchronized when synchronizing with Outlook 2007. I would like to be able to synchronize my calendar and contacts, but can anyone please tell me HOW MUCH of each is synchronized? Is the synchronization true, in that when I look at my calendar on BB it will have the exact same information and features as my desktop, and when I look at my contacts on BB it will actually have name, phone, address, e-mail, etc?
Thanks!
Adelle

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A newbie with another question

Sorry for my ignorance, but I'm just in my first semester of programming. I'm confused as to what syntax is required when you use classes with a couple of methods inside? In one of my programs, our professor provided us with a file called Zipfstatistics.class and though he told us that the two methods are Slope(wordFrequency) and RSquared(wordFrequency), I can't seem to compile them properly. I've tried compiling them as text.Slope(wordFrequency) and text.RSquared(wordFrequency) respectively and both produce compiler errors. Does anyone have a solution to this problem?
Thanks again people.

Here is the code.
import java.awt.Font;
import java.awt.event.WindowAdapter;
import java.awt.event.WindowEvent;
import java.lang.reflect.Array;
import java.util.Random;
import java.util.regex.Pattern;
import javax.swing.Box;
import javax.swing.BoxLayout;
import javax.swing.JFrame;
import javax.swing.JScrollPane;
import javax.swing.JTable;
import javax.swing.JTextArea;
import javax.swing.table.DefaultTableModel;
* @author jobuck
public class WordFrequency {
 private JTextArea ta = null;
 private JFrame frame = null;
 private JScrollPane tableScrollpane = null;
 private JScrollPane resultScrollpane = null;
 private JTable table = null;
 private final int MAX_LENGTH = 12;
 private final int MAX_WORD = 1000;
 private final int WORD_PER_LINE = 25;
 private Random random = new Random();
 private final char WORD_SEPARATOR = ' ';
 private Pattern pattern = Pattern.compile("\\p{Alnum}");
 private TableModel tableModel = null;
 public WordFrequency() {
 tableModel = new TableModel();
 table = new JTable(tableModel);
 frame = new JFrame("Word Frequency");
 JTextArea result = tableModel.getTextAreaFrenquency();
 tableScrollpane = new JScrollPane(table);
 resultScrollpane = new JScrollPane(result);
 Box box = new Box(BoxLayout.Y_AXIS);
 box.add(resultScrollpane);
 box.add(tableScrollpane);
 frame.addWindowListener(new WindowAdapter() {
 public void windowClosing(WindowEvent evt) {
 System.exit(0);
 frame.getContentPane().add(box);
 frame.setSize(800, 400);
 frame.setVisible(true);
 public static void main(String[] args) {
 WordFrequency df = new WordFrequency();
 private class TableModel extends DefaultTableModel {
 //Even if we don't need to compute words, as we
 //only have interest on there length, let's do it anyway
 private final char[] validChars =
 'A', 'B', 'C', 'D', 'E', 'F', 'G', 'H',
 'I', 'J', 'K', 'L', 'M', 'N', 'O', 'P',
 'Q', 'R', 'S', 'T', 'U', 'V', 'W', 'X',
 'Y', 'Z', 'a', 'b', 'c', 'd', 'e', 'f',
 'g', 'h', 'i', 'j', 'k', 'l', 'm', 'n',
 'o', 'p', 'q', 'r', 's', 't', 'u', 'v',
 'w', 'x', 'y', 'z', '0', '1', '2', '3',
 '4', '5', '6', '7', '8', '9', ';', '.'
 private String[][] values =
 (String[][]) Array.newInstance(
 String.class,
 new int[] { MAX_WORD / WORD_PER_LINE + 1, WORD_PER_LINE });
 private int maxWordLength = 0;
 private int[] frequencyLength =
 (int[]) Array.newInstance(int.class, new int[] { MAX_LENGTH + 1 });
 public TableModel() {
 generateText();
 private void generateText() {
 int col = 0;
 int row = 0;
 int wordLength = 0;
 char wordChar;
 for (int i = 0; i < MAX_WORD; i++) {
 StringBuffer text = new StringBuffer();
 wordLength = random.nextInt(MAX_LENGTH + 1);
 for (int j = 0; j < wordLength; j++) {
 wordChar =
 (char) validChars[random.nextInt(validChars.length)];
 text.append(wordChar);
 row = i % WORD_PER_LINE;
 col = (i > 0 && row == 0) ? col + 1 : col;
 values[col][row] = text.toString();
 frequencyLength[wordLength] += 1;
 maxWordLength =
 (maxWordLength < frequencyLength[wordLength])
 ? frequencyLength[wordLength]
 : maxWordLength;
 for (int i = 0; i < MAX_LENGTH + 1; i++)
 System.out.println(
 "frequency(" + i + ") : " + frequencyLength);
 private String getResult() {
 int[] frequency = getFrequency();
 StringBuffer frequencyGraph = new StringBuffer();
 System.out.println("getMaxWordLength()=" + getMaxWordLength());
 boolean isDC = false; //Just show the shape, removing
 boolean exit = false; //Just show the shape
 int dc = 0;
 for (int i = getMaxWordLength();(i >= 0) & !exit; i--) {
 exit = true;
 //Vertical axis
 //TODO: adapt to frequency length to avoid banana axis
 frequencyGraph.append("\n"+i+" + ");
 for (int j = 0; j < MAX_LENGTH + 1; j++) {
 isDC = (frequency[j] >= i);
 exit &= isDC;
 frequencyGraph.append((!isDC) ? " " : " * ");
 dc = (exit)?i:0;
 frequencyGraph.append("\n");
 String space = "";
 //Space starting the x axis
 for (int i = 0;i<String.valueOf(dc).length()+3;i++)
 space+=" ";
 frequencyGraph.append(space.substring(2));
 //Horizontal axis
 for (int j = 0; j < MAX_LENGTH + 1; j++) {
 frequencyGraph.append("+++");
 frequencyGraph.append("++");
 //Frequency
 frequencyGraph.append("\n");
 for (int j = 0; j < MAX_LENGTH + 1; j++) {
 frequencyGraph.append( (j==0)?space +" " + j + " ": ((j<10)?" " + j + " ": " "+j) );
 return frequencyGraph.toString();
 public JTextArea getTextAreaFrenquency() {
 JTextArea ta = new JTextArea(getResult());
 ta.setFont(new Font("Monospaced",Font.PLAIN,10));
 return ta;
 private int getMaxWordLength() {
 return maxWordLength;
 public String[][] getValues() {
 return values;
 public int[] getFrequency() {
 return frequencyLength;
 public int getRowCount() {
 return MAX_WORD / WORD_PER_LINE + 1;
 public int getColumnCount() {
 return WORD_PER_LINE;
 public String getColumnName(int column) {
 return column + "";
 public boolean isCellEditable(int rowIndex, int columnIndex) {
 return true;
 public Object getValueAt(int row, int column) {
 return values[row][column];
 public void setValueAt(Object value, int row, int column) {
 values[row][column] = (String) value;

Newbe with iWeb question

Hello all new here and no computer expert by all means so please bare with me.
Trying to create a web page for a for a friend
What i would like to do is have a bio section for crew members. What would be the best way to do this??????
I would like to have one heading that says (The Crew) and then sub headings with each persons bio.
The only way i see how to do this is to create multiple (about me's) this would be fine but i would like them all under one heading.
Thanks for you help

Rather than use a template you can start with a Blank page in whatever theme you are using.
Drag photos onto the page from the Finder or iPhoto and resize then to suit.
Insert text boxes for headings, sub headings and content. Make sure you use a web safe font.....
http://www.iwebformusicians.com/WebMusic/FontsandColors.htm
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This topic has been moved to Graphics Cards.
https://forum-en.msi.com/index.php?topic=252068.0

This is interesting, I believe I found what is an ASCII->Unicode file converter for OSX. It is a command-line tool, so you would need to know how to use terminal.
Go to this page and take a look:
http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsi&id=TECkitDownloads
The installer is:
TECkit version 2.2.1 for Mac OS X
Jonathan Kew, 2006-09-19
Download "TECkitinstaller2.2.1.tar.gz
I downloaded it and installed it, the command to launch it is:
/usr/local/bin/txtconv
which returns an instruction page. This looks like a document converter, not a filename converter.
I don't have any non-english files here so I can't test it, but maybe someone who knows more about command tools can help you more, like the UNIX forum on these boards.
PS:
I did tun the command on a test file like this:
/usr/local/bin/txtconv -i ~/testIN.txt -o ~/testOUT.txt
and it did create a new output file but no translated characters. If you would send a few files to my email address I'll mess with it for you.
See my profile for that address.

Newbie with easy question

I have a Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS and want to hook up my Sony Handycam DCR-TRV260.
It appears the ieee394 on the Sound Blaster is a 6 pin.
Is that correct?

Does anyone know what cable I need (or if one is available) to go directly from my camera to the Sound Blaster?

I think the Sony i Link cable goes to a 4 pin ieee394 .. but I am not sure.

Thanks for your help.



I hope you are connecting to the Guest network, that's the reason whenever you open up the internet explorer it prompts you for the login information. make sure you are not connected to the Guest network.

Apple Airport newbie with some questions before purchasing - please help...

Hello all,
Please excuse my ignorance but despite looking through the relevant online manual I wish to check a couple of things before I purchase the Aiport Express (and then possibly regret it).
I have a Windows XP laptop which connects to the internet through a wi-fi connection (access to the physical router is not available me) and I want to be able to play iTunes on my laptop through my hi-fi (wirelessly).
Am I correct in thinking the Aiport Express will do this for me? If so is any extra equipment besides the necessary hi-fi to Airport express cable required?
The Airport Express doesn't need to physically connect to the router does it? Or it doesn't need to become the router providing the wi-fi does it?
How does 'AirTunes' factor into the setup and what is better about e.g. Aiport Extreme and why would you ever need an Airport card?
I have no desire for using the Airport equipment as a router or home hub for printing etc. but just streaming iTunes to my hi-fi.
Any help/clarification would be most appreciated. Many thanks in advance,
Daniel

djsuk43, Welcome to the discussion area!
Am I correct in thinking the Aiport Express will do this for me?
Yes
The Airport Express doesn't need to physically connect to the router does it? Or it doesn't need to become the router providing the wi-fi does it?
No and no.
How does 'AirTunes' factor into the setup...
It is simply the term Apple uses for streaming music via iTunes through the AirPort Express (AX).
...what is better about e.g. Aiport Extreme...
The AirPort Extreme base station (AEBS) does not have an audio out port therefore you can't use it to stream music.
The AEBS however does support Ethernet clients, multiple USB printer and multiple USB hard drives.
...and why would you ever need an Airport card?
If you have an older Mac without built-in wireless you would add the appropriate AirPort card to give it wireless ability.

Brand Newb with a Question

I have my background image on a stage, and all I want to do
is have a cut out smaller image of a figure floating around on the
background. However, when I import the figure from PS it has it's
annoying white background attached, even when I paste to a new
transparent BG document in PS. How do I get the figure ONLY into
the stage/background area?
Thank you for your help.
Crick

Export the file from PS as a transparent PNG file. Once
imported in Flash the BG will be transparent. OK, try it ASAP
;)

My MacBook Pro Hard Drive recently gave me the gray folder with the question mark of death. Even as

My MacBook Pro Hard Drive recently gave me the gray folder with the question mark of death. Even as a Mac Newbie/Novice, I successfully installed a new hard drive and the OS (10.6.8) software from my installation discs. I have, however, lost the ability to play video using the spacebar and I have no idea on the steps necessary to correct this seemingly simple technical blip. .Here's my system overview:Model Name: MacBook Pro Model Identifier: MacBookPro6,2 Processor Name: Intel Core i5 Processor Speed: 2.4 GHz Number Of Processors: 1 Total Number Of Cores: 2 L2 Cache (per core): 256 KB L3 Cache: 3 MB Memory: 4 GB Processor Interconnect Speed: 4.8 GT/s.
I am using the Premiere Pro CS5 NLE (with the 5.0.4 updates), and I have tried to reinstall the software (which is actually the Production Premium package) several times, but I still cannot use the spacebar (or any method) to play any of my imported videos.
PLEASE HELP in any way you can!
Prior to having to replace my hard drive, my software was working just fine. No problems at all. But now, it seems that I can't get it to play whatever type of file I import.
Again, I am a newbie to the Mac, so any and all correctional/repair assistance needs to be expalined as if I were a child : )
I would hate to try to revert to considering the sophmoric Final Cut Pro X editing software package, but I've got to do something to be able to get back to my editing activities.
zionhall
[email protected]

Jorge242 wrote:
@FatMac the internet recovery doesnt work. It goes into recovery mode and then when i try to reinstall it cant find a disk to install it to. So what would be a good choice to take now?
Recovery Mode presents you with, among other things, Disk Utility. When you open that, if the internal shows up at all, first try to "Repair DIsk." If that doesn't work but if the "Media" line is present, try to format and partition it with a GUID partition table (understand that you will be erasing the contents of your internal). Then try to reinstall the OS. If that doesn't work, and since your Retina MBP didn't come with a DVD drive or DVDs, you'll need to try a hardware test using these instructions from Apple (short version: shut down, press the power button and hold down the "D" key). If none of those things work, let's hope you either have AppleCare or your warranty has some life left because the SSD in your rMBP is proprietary and expensive. You'll need to bring it to an Apple Genius for evaluation.

Branching with random questions

Captivate newbie here...
I am trying to create a Jeopardy-style quiz in Captivate 3
using random questions which are contained in separate pools for
each question category. The game board is on slide 2 and it has 20
transparent buttons with "jump to slide" actions, each of which
points to a random question slide. The random questions slides have
a Submit button and a Back button, which I intend to cause a
backward jump to the game board. The branching tree view shows one
navigation arrow (black) from slide 2 to each question slide, and
each question slide shows "Jump to slide 2" actions for both
success and failure.
I had hoped that the jump back to the gameboard would be
automatic after the user answers the question, but it isn't. The
Back button on each slide must be used to get back to the
gameboard, but sometimes it takes the user back to previous slides,
with their already-answered questions, and the user must hit the
back button many times to get back to the gameboard.
I used the downloadable sample Jeopardy game from this site
as inspiration, but it's not really a quiz. In it, the user does
not enter an answer; instead, the answer is presented via a
rollover.
So I guess the question is, can you use navigation with
random question slides?

Hi ImagineerBill and welcome to our community
As you have seen, Captivate isn't too keen on allowing
Question slides to be presented in any order. I know this probably
sounds contrary to how random question slides work. But please hear
me out.
Captivate normally moves from slide to slide in a linear
manner. This introduces a problem if you desire to branch backward
in a quiz.
The answer to your actual question of "Can you branch from
Random Questions" is that you can. But you need to consider how the
branching will work and how it may affect scoring.
We see a similar issue erupt when you wish to have a common
slide with many links that may be launched. Often, the person is
desiring that as the original slide is returned to, the visited
slide is somehow marked as having been visited. And as you have
seen, this is exactly how the Jeopardy style game works. It works
by exploiting a bug/feature/callit what you want with Captivate.
This is the feature of a slide retaining the moused over state when
you have a rollover on it that is combined with a Click Box object.
Because the slide is presenting the rollover as if you were still
mousing over it, it indicates the destination has been visited.
To be honest, I'm not sure a solution exists for what you are
seeking. Unless you might construct the random slides as a series
that must be answered in a specific order, but presenting random
questions until you exhaust the pool.
Cheers... Rick

Newbie color management question

hi folks
using cs4. just finished a cmyk job on a new press. colors on the final print job were pretty faithful to what i saw on my monitor when doing the design, with a few exceptions that i'd like to tweak if possible. i'm new to color management, so looking for some pointers.
according to my research, the right thing to do is to request a colorsync or icm or icc profile from my press. i did...but my press was slightly confused and sent me a bunch of .icc files and i don't know which one to load. the press people are great people and it's a good press, but i got the feeling that they weren't asked this question a lot. so i ended up using u.s. web coated (swop) v2 as a profile, which is what they ultimately recommended.
so if i can't get an icc profile from my press, the other approach according to my research is to wing it and adjust the color profile on my own so that what i see on my monitor matches the printed output. in other words, i take the printed output and hold it up to my screen and manually adjust the color profile settings. i believe this is done in photoshop under edit-->assign profile and/or edit-->color settings, and then sync the color management for all applications using the bridge. or maybe this can be done in indesign? i'm asking the question on this forum because of the great responses i've gotten here.
i don't want to screw things up and i'm a newbie with this, so... any advice out there? my basic situation is that the colors were reasonably faithful but there was a very curious thing where a c=0,m=0,y=35,k=15 color looked very green on the printed page even though it was a mellow looking yellow on my monitor. i want to try to adjust that.
thanks.........

Do you have a colorimeter and monitor profiling software? That's the place to start any color managed workflow. You also need a reasonably good monitor that CAN be calibrated. If the monitor isn't accurately showing you the colors, then nothing you do is going to matter.
Matching the monitor to the print is an old technique that works only when you have a closed loop where all work is output on the same press under the same conditions. The purpose of using device independent editing spaces, such as Adobe RGB, is that in theory any properly calibrated monitor will display the image the same, and you can convert to any known output space at the time of output.
Terms like mellow looking yellow are pretty subjective, so I don't know what you were expecting, but I wouldn't expect 35y, 15k to be very bright, nor very yellow. While I wouldn't describe the color as green on my monitor, it certainly doesn't resemble a banana, and next to a brighter yellow one might call it greenish by comparison. It's really a light yellowish gray,I think.
I'm putting up a comparison here to see what it looks like, but colors won't be accurate in a browser.

Newbie with a Motif ES8 - optimum setup with a minimalistic approach?

hi,
I'm trying to decide on the optimum setup with a minimalistic approach!
I a newbie with the Motif ES8 and am at cross roads deciding on the type of computer setup for my VST.
PC + Cubase vs. MAC + Logic Pro or Logic Pro Express?
With MAC, how far do I need to go;i.e. MACBook Pro a must?
how many USB ports (types 400 vs 800), etc?
With Logic Pro, is Express going to be sufficient for a full soup to nuts recording and mastering given that this is for a home studio setup though with an idealist running it?
I'm a one woman show and so don't need too many inputs/outputs. I'd be recording a track at a time and my songs take up less than 16 tracks.
I would really appreciate any and all responses.
Roya
macbook pro Mac OS X (10.4.7)

thanks for the detailed response PK
so, the extra USB port on the HD would facilitate a
hub type interface i.e. once you hook up another\
device to the HD via USB, you're really hooked up to
the computer.. right? and so, if I get a powered USB
Hub, this wouldn't really matter.. correct?
For the most part, you have to be careful hooking
too many devices up to a computer WHEN you are trying
to do some sound work. When they say a computer
can do ABC we sometimes think that should include D.
As for the sound interface, I already have an
Audiophile that has midi in/out, firewire to
computer, RCA jack for i/o. I know its not the high
end stuff but I hope to do a stepwise upgrade here if
at all possible..
That actually might work, if it supports at least
16 bit 44.1 khz that is the lowest you want to go.
Ideally it should be 24 bit to take advantage of Logics
24bit environment. You might be able to run the ES8
straight into those RCA jacks if they are SPDIF and your
keyboard has the same on the back.
There are a bunch of people on Motifator discussion
groups that warn against Apple's lack of support for
Logic. Not sure if the concern is only regarding the
combination of Yamaha (Motif) and Apple (Logic).
I went and read that thread, here are some of my thoughts
on some of this.
Can't comment on MAC, but a dear friend of mine who is an audio engineer said >he had walked away from Logic after Apple bought them out. "Straight downhill" >I think is how he put it.
Many windows users just hate Apple and their products.
I think much of it is ignorance. They will say
Macs are junk but when I ask them why
they never have an answer or say something
that is false. It sounds like this "professional"
did not even wait to see that Logic did get better.
Apple charges 200.00 for support of it's Professional
applications. You really do not need it since there are
so many experienced Logic users here that I never had
a question go unanswered. I've noticed on those forums
the same small group of people do most of the problem
solving. I am not overly impressed with Yamaha's support.
I had my questions about my keyboard answered quicker
by those forums. So I guess both companies need work
in this area. Frankly, for recording, I think the Motif
and Logic are a Killer combination. Both have steep
learning curves but once you get up to speed I think
the results speak for themselves. The main difference
in my opinion is that the Motif is the ultimate
performance tool and Logic is the ultimate studio toolshop.
After having a Motif for over a month, I am convinced
it has a steeper learning curve than Logic take for instance
that thread on getting your keyboard to record it's own
audio output. The list of things to do each time is as long
as my arm. In case you did not read it here it is.
First thing – STORE your MIX setup and SAVE the Song to SmartMedia (or USB mass storage device) before resampling it so you have a backup. You would create a mix to balance the instruments the way you like them.
* Select a target track, then press the [INTEGRATED SAMPLING] button.
Setup the parameters for resampling:
* Press [F1] DEST
* Select a TRACK and [KEYBANK] (note) into which you will record the resampled data. You can target either an empty track or the track on which you are going to play (if you are going to play along). If all tracks are full, don't worry, you can still resample anyway.
* Press [F2] SOURCE. Set the source parameters as follows:
- Type = Sample - with this type the Integrated Sampling Sequencer will not create any NOTE-ON data in your sequencer, it will just simply add a new sample waveform to the waveform list
- Source = Resample
- Mono/Stereo = Stereo
- Next = OFF
- Frequency = 44.1k
* Press [F6] REC This will place the sampling sequencer in Standby mode. Set the TrggrMode paramter to Manual
* Press Start on the sequencer and check your levels. If too low set the REC GAIN higher +6bB or +12dB, if the level is to high (clipping- you will see a lightning bolt) lower the GAIN to -6dB or -12dB. When you have checked the levels, press STOP and return to the top of the SONG.
* Press F6 REC to start the Resample, Press [>] (play) to begin recording the resample. The Motif ES will draw the wave as it samples.
* When the song is over press [F6] STOP. The Motif ES will take a few moments to gather the data.
To create the .wav file:
* Press [FILE]
* Press [F1] CONFIG
* Press [SF1] CURRENT
* If you will be saving the resampled song to a SmartMedia Card set the Current parameter to CARD. To save to a USB device, set this parameter to USB
* Press [F2] SAVE
* Set the data TYPE field to WAV
* Cursor down and Name the wave
* (If desired, navigate to the subdirectory where you want to save the *.wav file.)
* Press [ENTER]
* The ES will ask you which TRACK and NOTE to save as a wave file. Enter the values you selected as the sample destination in the procedure above.
* Press and hold the AUDITION button to make sure your sample is there.
* Press [ENTER] and the Motif ES will export the sample as a .wav to your SmartMedia card or USB device.
Once you have configured Logic which are takes about
3 minutes (and only has to be done once)
and set up the keyboard which takes 30 seconds.
(this has to be done once for each session)
you plug your keyboard into your audio interface then
Hit Record
that is the whole list, two words.
Once it is in Logic, you have many way to edit it
and process if needed. The midi is much
easier to manipulate and there are more
ways than the ES has keys. Plus you can add to the
sounds with the internal instruments which are
as sophisticated and as high quality as the ES.
Then if your happy with it you can create MP3's
and burn Red book compliant CD's for
commercial duplication.
It really is a complete setup.
But at any rate I'm going to do some more research on
another scenario, i.e. what about MAC and Cubase? As
you may know Yamaha just acquired Cubase..
I dont think I would be the best to comment on that.
Maybe ask one of the Gurus on the unofficial
website for Cubase, The Cubinator.
Sorry, I just couldn't resist.
you've been very helpful - thanks again
cheers,
Roya
Cheers!
P.S. I agree with Dave, If you have a Macbook
Pro you dont need another computer. If you
wanta desktop whatever reasons I understand
Oh and btw, what's QWERTY?
They are the first 6 keys (top row/left to right)
on your computer keyboard

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