Created New Track. Does Not Record. What Am I Not Doing?

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Created New Track. Does Not Record. What Am I Not Doing?

I'm a Logic Pro illiterate. I had to create a new track, something I haven't done in a long time. When I plug in my Apogee Maestro 2, and the R appears I press it, but it doesn't record. There is no blue background, over which one sees those black recording lines. How do I get this newly created track to record my voice? I do voice-overs only. No music. Thank you very much for any help.

Posted on Jan 4, 2014 10:04 AM

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Answer 1

judysings

Community Specialist

Jan 6, 2014 11:05 AM in response to Peter Reznikoff

Hi Peter,

Happy New Year, and welcome to the Support Communities!

It sounds like you need to set up your Apogee Maestro as the recording input on your computer.

The article below will show you how to do that:

Mac Basics: Connecting a home stereo, iPod, iPad, musical instruments, or speakers

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2508

Attaching an audio interface

Using a third-party audio interface allows you to easily and quickly record yourself singing or playing a musical instrument on your Mac, and allows you to output your Mac's audio to professional speakers even if they use different connection types than your Mac has.

If you want to record instruments on your Mac, USB or FireWire audio interface devices are the easiest and fastest way to get started! A variety of third-party audio interfaces are available to connect your musical gear (which uses connections such as XLR, 1/4 inch phono, RCA jacks, S/PDIF or MIDI) to your Mac.

A number of third-party companies produce Mac-compatible audio interface devices that allow you to quickly and easily record yourself, including Alesis, Apogee Digital, Digidesign, Roland, MOTU, PreSonus.

Once you've selected a third-party audio interface device, install any drivers (if needed) and then connect it to your Mac.

Follow the setup instructions that came with your audio interface device and install the software drivers first, as necessary.

If you have a USB audio interface, connect it to a USB port on your computer, using the cable that came with your device. If you have a FireWire audio interface, attach it to your computer's FireWire port, using the appropriate FireWire cable.

Turn on your audio interface and connect its accompanying power supply, if needed.

To make your Mac use the audio interface as its audio input or output, choose System Preferences from theApple () menu.

From the View menu, choose Sound. This opens the Sound preferences pane.

Click the Inputtab.

Choose your audio interface in the list to select it for use. Note: If you don't see your interface in the list, be sure that you've installed the correct driver.

Click the Outputtab.

Choose your audio interface in the list to select it for use.

This article will walk you through the process of recording your voice in Logic Pro X:

Logic Pro X: Record sound from a microphone or an electric instrument

http://support.apple.com/kb/PH12964

I hope this information helps ....

Have a great day!

- Judy

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Answer 2

Jan 6, 2014 11:36 AM in response to judysings

Judysings:

I really, really, really, appreciate the detail answer. You should be awarded a gold Apple. I finally figured out everything and with a little help from YouTube videos. It's been about three years since I had to set up a recording track; I forgot the steps. Refreshed myself with the steps. Apogee was always input. That wasn't the problem. The fix to recording and getting that blue strip with the black sound waves was: I forgot to press the record button on the left side strip at the bottom. Completely forgot about that! BUT, BUT.......I have another question that maybe you can answer. Under preferences>audio, the buffer is set for 128. I do Voices Overs, only. Is that number correct. Quite frankly I don't know buffering a voice track does for sound quality.

Thanks again for the info, which I will save for future use.

Best,

Peter Reznikoff

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