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Hi all, I just passed the 101 course at my university and I was wondering how long it usually takes for the certificate to come through.. Any ideas? Cheers!

Did that as well.

OK I deleted my prefs file. Still not working and now I have discovered that when I bounce down some audio it won't let me because of insufficient privileges and yet my account is the admin account! This is weird.

I have no idea where my Logic prefs are - could you point me in the right direction? Also I have three crashed validations... I am trying to remove them somehow. I didn't install them recently, though. Audio tracks can be created without error, it's just Software Instruments that appear to be the problem - the crashed plug-ins are Software Instruments. 3rd party.

Hi and thank you for the reply. The RAM appears alright in the system settings and I don't seem to be having any trouble with other applications. I reinstalled Logic last night, thinking it might be a case of starting again, but I am still having the same error. Any more ideas?

Hi, I'm not sure why, but all of a sudden when I create a software instrument track in either a new or existing project, Logic tells me that it has crashed and I get the box with the quit button appear. Any ideas why this might be happening, or do I need to supply more information?

Aha! My apologies to anyone who reads this - I should have looked first! Thanks again for the info.

Thanks a lot. My Logic Studio box isn't easy to get to at the moment so I appreciate you finding out for me!

Hi I am running Logic Studio on my MacBook Pro and will be getting an iMac very soon. I would like to run Logic Studio on both my Macs and I am wondering if I am legally allowed to do this. With Logic 7 it was a case of which machine had the dongle inserted, but as LP8 does not have the dongle does this mean I need to buy another licence? I know that Propellerhead Software allow users to run Reason on 2 computers maximum but I'm not too sure on Logic. Does anyone know? TIA.

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I read a great article about an engineer called Tom Elmhirst who worked on some Amy Winehouse tracks on her latest album. He mentioned her voice having 'hard' frequencies present, which he EQ'd out at pretty exact points, using a very narrow Q. As a singer myself, this interested me because I sometimes find myself thinking that my voice has these 'hard' frequencies which might be a little hard to take for the listener. By the way, I am not comparing myself to Amy Winehouse, who has one of the most amazing voices I have ever heard! Then I was on a flight listening to my REM on my iPod. If you listen to Everybody Hurts, their most famous track, you hear what might be described as 'hard' frequencies in Stipe's voice. I would take the term 'hard', to mean piercing and therefore a little hard (no pun intended!) on the listener. So maybe some surgical EQ is what's needed to take out the harshness and warm things up by taking the cold out? Also from personal experience I can say that the distance from the mic has to be dynamic rather than constant. I would definitely agree that an approximate distance from the mic is what is needed to start with, but you can't say 6", or 12" or 10" etc because it depends on the singer. Does the singer have a powerful voice? No? Then closer is better, but not too close obviously. If the singer has a voice like Little Richard (!), then you'd better keep that dude further away! Or maybe use a dynamic mic rather than a condenser...? Mick Jagger uses a dynamic mic, so does Bono... SM58 as far as I know. Anyway I'm rambling now, but I hope I've helped a little. Lastly, what you've got on the Logic channel strip, does it really matter? What I mean is, because they're inserts and don't actually effect the signal as opposed to hardware... am I right? Oh one more tip, always send the vocalist some reverb, it helps a lot!

Hey thanks man I'll try it! Sorry about the rant, it was sorta OTT but I was on the el vino tinto! Anyway thanks again!

I still have that recorded on Sky+ actually. I've seen it loads. Very cool. Love the part where they construct the Dr Who soundtrack with tape loops. Awesome.

Do you think it might have been removed to steer people towards the inclusion of Soundtrack Pro? I can't think why else they would make life so difficult!

Hi all, Just had a lecture where the lecturer was using Logic 7 with a floating movie window. At the bottom of the window is where all the time information is displayed, but when I fired up Logic 8, this information is nowhere to be found. I tried video options etc but haven't been able to find out how to display the information in the floating movie window. Is this possible? Or is there a totally new method in LP8? The alternative is very fiddly! Hope someone can help!