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Jaeson Merrill · Post by **Jaeson Merrill** » Sat Aug 21, 2004 4:29 am

how are you setting up key commands in samp????

are there macros in samp too?????

Kraznet · Post by **Kraznet** » Sat Aug 21, 2004 8:58 am

how are you setting up key commands in samp????

Hi Jaeson ,
You can access key commands (Shortcuts as they call them) under Options > Program Preferences . As far as I can tell they don't have macros in V7 , But i don't have macros in Logic either .

Kraznet

Kraznet · Post by **Kraznet** » Sat Aug 21, 2004 9:24 am

While I'm at it I found a couple of very cool features - Varipich and Change Play Direction .With varipitch you can literally slow down or speed up the track in real time just like varispeed on a tape machine

Pretty awesome to see that happening !! With Change Play Direction you just select it while the song is playing and it begins to play backwards !!

Kraznet

Sascha Franck · Post by **Sascha Franck** » Sat Aug 21, 2004 9:33 am

After reading all this and the info on Samplitude's site, I'm really awaiting the V8 demo all in curiosity.
A Melodyne thing integrated, all those time/pitch things and (hopefully) better MIDI functions than before - sounds pretty much cool to me.

Too bad there's no Mac versions though. My main job these days is teaching at the local music university and as we use PCs in the MediaLab but Macs in all our three studio rooms (at least as the main recording machines) I'd really like to use something x-platform.
It's allready bad enough not being able to transfer LogicPro files to LAW 5.5.1 anymore properly (their "export to 4.8 format" function is completely f**ked up) and nobody over here really wants to use Cubase either (at least not the producers we invite for workshops).
Some kickass x-platform program might eventually be the right step into a brighter future...

Kraznet · Post by **Kraznet** » Sat Aug 21, 2004 11:53 am

Too bad there's no Mac versions though

I can't see Magix ever developing for the Mac being as Emagic is owned by Apple and will always have the inside track (ironically they don't seem to be making the most of that connection at the moment ) .Even Adobe stopped developing Premier because of Final Cut .

Kraznet

Sascha Franck · Post by **Sascha Franck** » Sat Aug 21, 2004 4:08 pm

Kraznet wrote: I can't see Magix ever developing for the Mac being as Emagic is owned by Apple and will always have the inside track

Yeah sure - especially since there might be some old-time sentiments between the two companies. As you will know, Samplitude was distributed - almost like a subdivision thing - by Emagic. This only happened a pretty much short time before the Apple takeover...

(ironically they don't seem to be making the most of that connection at the moment )

Just don't tell me, I had a bunch of close-to-heart-attacks just recently when working with LogicPro.
Audio performance is piss poor (I'd say almost less than 30% than on the oldest audio PC I have, an Athlon 1GHz) and their all so shiny Core Audio integration isn't working that well either - the most "funny" thing being that Cubase SX is behaving WAY WAY better in both areas.
So much about developers working "close" to the core coders of the OS.

Still, I'd like to see something more than just Cubase (and perhaps Tracktion, which IMO is worth watching as well) being fully x-platform compatible.

Still making me sad that the most stable (from my experience at least), most x-platform compatible (until 5.5.1) and most elegant (from my opinion at least) sequencer for PC has come to such an end.

Kraznet · Post by **Kraznet** » Sat Aug 21, 2004 4:52 pm

Yeah sure - especially since there might be some old-time sentiments between the two companies. As you will know, Samplitude was distributed - almost like a subdivision thing - by Emagic. This only happened a pretty much short time before the Apple takeover...

I remember that time very well. I think people were hoping that the audio side of Samp would make it into Logic .Then oneday i got home and there were about 300 posts in my inbox from the LUG on that fateful day in July

Audio performance is piss poor (I'd say almost less than 30% than on the oldest audio PC I have, an Athlon 1GHz) and their all so shiny Core Audio integration isn't working that well either - the most "funny" thing being that Cubase SX is behaving WAY WAY better in both areas.

I read you original postings on the LUG . I can understand your dispair Sascha .

Still making me sad that the most stable (from my experience at least), most x-platform compatible (until 5.5.1) and most elegant (from my opinion at least) sequencer for PC has come to such an end.

Yes it still stands up very well against the others even now . The ironic thing was that i switched from the Mac in 1999

However I think I could get a session done in Samplitude even now , having spent quite alot of time with the demo . The only question mark is how long it would take me to get up to a speed comparable to working with Logic .

Kraznet

Sascha Franck · Post by **Sascha Franck** » Sat Aug 21, 2004 6:14 pm

Kraznet wrote: However I think I could get a session done in Samplitude even now , having spent quite alot of time with the demo . The only question mark is how long it would take me to get up to a speed comparable to working with Logic .

You know, I think anybody being familiar with sequencers could get a session done in any of them after some days of spending some time with them.

I can (at least more or less) easily work in Cubase SX, I could even get some rather complexed things done...
But yes, just as you said, working speed will not be the same.
And then, for me it's not even only about working speed. Logic to me feels like an instrument rather than like I tool I can manage my ways around in.
Call me crazy, but it feels somewhat "organic" to work in Logic.
I never had any such a feeling in Cubase (which I have been using from V1/Atari until 3.5/PC).

However, I need to buy a Mac anyways (for reasons allready mentioned), but I'd be happy if there was a) an up to date sequencer for Windows that I'd like to work with and b) preferably something that was x-platform.
Well, we don't stop dreamin, do we?

Kraznet · Post by **Kraznet** » Sat Aug 21, 2004 6:49 pm

Logic to me feels like an instrument rather than like I tool I can manage my ways around in.
Call me crazy, but it feels somewhat "organic" to work in Logic.

That's not crazy at all. In fact that's exactly how I feel when working with Logic. Very much like playing an instrument . All the controls are in familiar places and optimized for my particualar working perferences . I always have likened it to a custom car. You assemble it the way you want it so it becomes very personalized . I've always appreciated that kind of flexibility . I have made no firm decision yet and will be intrigued as to what Logic V7 will be like .With my present setup (Logic and DFH Superior especially ) along with Gigastudio on a separate PC , I can do more than I ever could have imagined was possible.I have a friend who was still doing great stuff with MusicX on an Amiga until 2 years ago

Until I introduced him to Logic that was

Kraznet

h4nc0 · Post by **h4nc0** » Fri Sep 17, 2004 1:51 am

oh no! another mourn-for-Logic thread. Count me in!

Kraznet · Post by **Kraznet** » Fri Sep 17, 2004 10:14 am

It's a bit like being friends with 2 identical twins and you've always prefered one to the other but suddenly she decides your friendship isn't important any more and you are only left with the memories of the great times in the past.Meanwhile her sister and moved abroad and you can only enter that country if you conform to their ideals and have a certain amound of money.Meanwhile her sisters photo remains on the mantlepiece...Ok not a perfect analogy but I enjoyed typing it

Kraznet

simonhans73 · Post by **simonhans73** » Mon Sep 20, 2004 12:59 pm

Hey

I cant make vsi and midi record work at all in Samplitude.

Does anybody know of a webpage that could help me.??

It will not record midi ..and sometime I cant get sound out of my vsti!

Jaeson Merrill · Post by **Jaeson Merrill** » Mon Sep 20, 2004 9:21 pm

search this post to see how.. if its not working then, tell me what went wrong..

simonhans73 · Post by **simonhans73** » Mon Sep 20, 2004 9:43 pm

Hi I didnt found the solution in the post

I can get sound out of the vsti. But when I hit record....there is no sound from the vsti....and after that there is no sound from the vsti.

theN I can turn on and off an on my keybord and then there will come sound again....its very wired...

..maybe it my midi driver?...or is it surposed to be like that??

Kraznet · Post by **Kraznet** » Mon Sep 20, 2004 10:06 pm

Simon try

http://support.magix.net/boards/samplitude_newcomer/ and also

SEKD newsgroup at news.sekd.de

Kraznet

Any Samplitude users, here?