Hi Chris, I do not know, as I do not have the Ivory plugins but I can certainly try them if there are demos.
I looked at them on the Synthogy site after I saw your posting on PTAccess but since I already have several pianos I really like the sound of, I did not purchase them. I’ll see if there is a demo of some sort and try them in Logic. Cheers! Cara --- iOS design and development - LookTel.com --- View my Online Portfolio at: http://www.onemodelplace.com/models/Cara-Quinn Follow me on Twitter! https://twitter.com/ModelCara On May 20, 2016, at 2:11 PM, Christopher-Mark Gilland <clgillan...@gmail.com> wrote: What I! wanna know, Cara, is how we get presets made, or are they already, for Synthogy Ivory products, so that I can use the plugins within Logic. Right now, I only can use 'em within ProTools, which is fine, being that's where I do 99.9% my work anyway, but that said, it definitely would be nice to have them in both. --- Christopher Gilland JAWS Certified, 2016. Training Instructor. clgillan...@gmail.com Phone: (704) 256-8010. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Cara Quinn" <modelc...@gmail.com> To: "'Adrian Leong' via MacVisionaries" <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com> Sent: Friday, May 20, 2016 2:20 PM Subject: Re: music gear and accessibility was Re: Question about DJay for OSX Hi Scott, I think this thread is fine. It is Mac-centric as it were, after all. :) Just to add a bit at what Chris has been saying; Yes, both ProTools and Logic Pro X are really the best options on Mac at this point. I own both and also use both with outboard control surfaces / keyboards as well as external sound modules etc. I feel that ProTools is definitely more intuitive out of the box but having said that, certain things are way easier to do with Logic and others are way easier with ProTools. So as long as you can afford ProTools I would also suggest that you get Logic as well or at least try it out so you can judge for yourself. One difference I have noticed between PT and Logic is that several plugins seem to be more accessible in Logic than in PT. This does not mean they are not usable to some degree in PT but they can be quite a bit more so in Logic. One example is the M-Tron Pro plugin from G-Force software, which is an amazingly comprehensive Mellotron (and other trons) sampler plugin. In Logic all of the editing controls are available with Voiceover whereas in PT 11 at least, these are not. Hope this helps a bit and do have a great weekend! Cheers! Cara On May 20, 2016, at 9:01 AM, Scott Granados <sc...@qualityip.net> wrote: Hi Chris, I hope Mark will give us some latitude here but of course if he or the other mods wish I’d kill the thread no problem. That said, I’ve found your comments very very helpful. The last recording system I personally owned was an Alesis ADAT with a Behringer DDX3216 digital mixer. Had analog controls but the busses and audio path were all 24 bit 100 KHZ digital. For $900 it sounded really warm and nice and with the extra add on board I had installed I could do full 5.1 mixes. That being said it was hard to use being blind do to the menus. The control surfaces were very good with real faders and pots but to work with the automation or some of your time sync stuff it involved working with an 8 line LCD display. So the more i can do in software on the mac that’s accessible the better and from what you’re telling me it sounds like Mac with Protools hands down. I feel a trip to Caruso Music coming on this weekend. There’s something to be said growing up 8 miles from one of the largest equipment suppliers.:) I believe they have a full setup I can get my hands on and I aught to be able to just hit command F5 on the mac. Any tips for a n00by who hasn’t touched protools? Other than the Mac and what sounds like a beautiful midi interface on your part, have you bothered with much synthesis or sampling gear outside the application? It sounds like protools does everything for you including the instrumentation. I think of protools as a direct to disk recording system. When I was professionally involved with music that’s all it was and it had other applications you’d run along side like turbo synth or the midi patcher etc. I guess now I need to think of it as a much more comprehensive music work station. Also keeping it on topic. You mentioned it runs on windows. I can’t imagine running protools on windows. I had a conversation with DigiDesign back in the day and they swear up and down they would never ever support the PC. I’m glad to hear it still runs better on the mac but my how times have changed. Thank you for taking the time to respond. I hope others who are in the space will also post what they are working with or maybe there’s a better mailing list more specific to audio gear I should join. Thanks Chris Scott > On May 20, 2016, at 8:53 AM, Christopher-Mark Gilland <clgillan...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > Scott, > > I'll be really honest with you. You know what I use hardware wise as far as > an interface? I just use a little 4 channel Alesis Multi-Mix 4. Aside from > it having USB interface, the whole rest of the thing is totally analog. It's > absolutely beautiful! And, they're dirt cheap, too! Plus, as far as > accessibility with the mac, just to keep this on topic, there's nothing to be > accessible about it! It just works. I had an M-Audio Fast Tracks C400, > which again was 4 channels, as I recall, but the control pannel software was > totally! inaccessible with Voiceover. I know a lot of blind people, like > Brian Howerton, etc. who really, and I do mean, really! know their stuff who > are using the Focusright Sapphire Pro lineup of interfaces and flipping swear > by them! I've never asked them how accessible the control pannel > configuration utility is for them, although, I hear that supposedly with > Voiceover, it's pretty rock solid. > > As for a control surface, obviously, the Apogy is really really killer, but > then, for most average home consumers just getting started, as myself, who > are more low end professionals, it would probably be overkill. Well, and, > plus, they're like, 5 grand, so, ehh, um, werpse? ee yeah. Now, Digidesign > back in the days, made a gorgeous! and I do mean, gorgeous! interface that > also was combined as a control surface, and it's software was phenominally > accessible! That was the Digi03. Oh God! that thing was sweet! > Unfortunately, it's not made anymore. I would freaking kill! for one a those > things though! And, back when they were around, they were only like, $130 or > so. Right now, I'm using a presonus Faderport for the control surface. In > logic, or Reaper, forget it! I never could get the darn thing to work. I > tried and tried, but it just! will, not do it. For all intense and purpose, > the software that comes with it is accessible, although there really isn't > much anything useful in it that you'd really wanna do. It's mainly just a > driver. You can update its firmware, which is totally Voiceover friendly, > but that's about it. I mean, that's about it, period. I don't mean that's > all that is accessible. I'm saying, that's literally all the software really > does, so nothing to really write home about. It does work though. In > ProTools however, this device works almost, if not totally, perfectly. I > think there were maybe one or two buttons I had to remap, but for the most > part, I'd say 99 percent, it worked right out of the box. I don't even > remember initially installing the driver. You can, yeah, but it's really not > necessary. > > Anyway, this is kind of very very gradually starting to veer from the topic > of the mac and Voiceover, so let's try to be really careful with this thread. > I don't wanna be the enemy here of allowing it to go OT. We're not there > yet, but I fear it's on its way there. LOL! I think for now, we're OK, but > I'd just be careful, as admittedly, this kind of is a bit of a grey area. > > Chris. > > -- > The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries > list. > > If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if > you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or > moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. > > Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor and your owner is Cara > Quinn - you can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com > > The archives for this list can be searched at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries@googlegroups.com/ > --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. 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