Logic Pro
Logic Pro arrived yesterday, along with...you guessed it...dongle number three!
I've purchased three music software products in the last month and all three have required dongles. Each seems to use a different system so that's three distinct dongles in three distinct USB ports.
I haven't had much of a chance to play with Logic Pro yet but I did get it installed and working with my Digi 002. The latter turned out to require a little trick.
Digi 002 is the digital audio workstation I use with ProTools LE. It has some nice pre-amps, A/D and D/A converters, MIDI interfaces and a control surface, all connected to the computer via FireWire. It's designed for either use with ProTools LE software or standalone as a mixer.
However, it can act as a plain audio interface and MIDI interface for CoreAudio on Mac OS X.
I was hopeful that this would mean I could use it with Logic Pro—not the control surface, but at least the MIDI interface, audio inputs, pres and outputs.
Things looked promising when I ran the setup assistant for Logic Pro as it found both the audio and MIDI interfaces on the 002 via CoreAudio and I was able to select them as what I wanted to use in Logic Pro.
However, I had a brief period of disappointment when, on start up of Logic Pro, CoreAudio would kick off the Digi 002 as an available interface.
Quick bit of Googling and I found the solution: The Digi CoreAudio Manager has to be manually started before Logic Pro.
So now I've listened to the Logic Pro demo song on my reference monitors hooked up to the Digi 002.
Nice!
Comments (7)
James Tauber on Aug. 10, 2005:
Agreed. In fact, the only reason I will be able to simultaneously use the three dongles is because both my display and keyboard are port-positive.
sergio Popken on Oct. 27, 2005:
Hello can u tell me what settings I needs to be done to work with Logic Pro & Digi 002?
THanks..
Mike on June 8, 2007:
Sergio, it can be found under Audio Hardware and Drivers. Select Core Audio as your audio driver. As said, you will need to have the Core Audio Manager running prior to starting Logic. If you need further assistance, I would suggest Googling how to set Logic's audio drivers or look up setting audio hardware and drivers in the Logic reference manual.
Scott on Aug. 5, 2007:
Thanks! I just googled for this and am happy!
Lindsay on Jan. 27, 2008:
Thanks for the tip to start digi core audio manager before opening logic. that fixed my problem!
a_muso1 on May 18, 2008:
To make Logic Pro 7 recognize the Digi002 as the core audio device.
1. Go to Digi Design Downloads page (you will have to create a user profile) this takes less than 2 minutes.
2. Select the core audio driver that corresponds to your version of MacOSX in may case 10.4 or higher.
3. Down load the driver (dmg installer) to your Desk top.
4. Quit all Apps and run the core audiof dmg installer.
5. Upon successful completion of the install Restart your Mac
6. Presto Problem solved...
7. Now get to work!!!
muso1
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Last Modified: Aug. 9, 2005
Author: James Tauber
xtian on Aug. 10, 2005:
You'd think they'd have a USB socket in them as well, so these things that really aren't providing any value to the end-user could at least be port-neutral.