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Re: [Logic_Cafe] Re: Echo/Spike at the End of Bounced .mp3's
2005-02-16 by GAmoore@aol.com
In a message dated 2/16/05 8:48:20 AM, msirt@... writes:
1) [Adjust start or end times in iTunes]: Not enough time to do this one-by-one in a
theatrical performance situation where cues need to be at one's fingertips (unless I'm
unaware of the ability for iTunes to save start & end times with each track of a playlist)
You can adjust the start and endtime of each song in Itunes. There are actually a number of songs with distracting intros and I have fine tuned the start point. Its entirely based on time, so I play it in itunes, watch the time then stop it at the point, then put that time into the start time - sometimes needing to adjust it a bit.
) [Bounce to AIFF's] Well, bye-bye HD space.
Goodbye harddisk space but hello to CD quality. I wouldn't use MP3s for any professional application. In fact, I can't stand to listen to them other than in my ipod. If you don't have enough disk space you should get another hard disk. I have had as many as three internal drives in my G4 and I think you can put 5 or 7 in the G5's... (and you can use external firewire ddrives with powerbooks.) I picked up a second 120gb hard disk for my G4 for $50 over a year ago at Fry's (in California). They have sales and rebates every other week it seems... $110 with $50 rebate.
I know, I can convert the AIFF's to mp3's in
iTunes, but wasn't Logic supposed to be the "all-audio-needs-addressed-within-a-single
app-solution
Logic is a sequencer which the later added audio to, then mp3, etc. It wasn't designed to be all things from the beginning. I usually bounce to MP3 or better AAC in itunes. I do this all the time : I bounce rough mixes of my songs to Audio, and put them in a folder. I later burn the contents of the folder to a CD to listen in the car. Then I go to Itunes and select that folder and choose menu item CONVERT TO AAC (or MP3 ... you can change this in the Itunes preferences).
3) Re: the nature of the echo: The echo does not seem to match the opening of the track,
but rather has characteristics of the audio last heard (end of track) - like a 'hiccup' of the
songs end (or maybe a 'burp') Perhaps it's still some sort of buffer problem, but not
related to cycling back to m 1.
What I do...(if I want it to be right)... I make my song starts about bar 5 ... lets say the sequences and audio go from bar 5 to 105. Then I will set the locators to 4 to 106. Bounce that to audio. Then open that audio and trim to 5 to 105. Open the audio file in the sample editor and inspect the start point, possibly sliding the selected audio a little. Then from the sample editor window SAVE SELECTION AS AUDIO FILE. And save that to a new location. Then delete the original bounce file. (Logic should offer an option to move deleted files to the trash rather than just killing them immediately with no undo).
It's comforting to hear that offline bouncing has recognized problems. I'll just try the
realtime approach on my next arrangement.
It generally works. But occasionally I hear glitches, and it seems once every 30 off-line bounces, I get a track that is empty....several minutes of silence.