Apple Logic Pro 8 TDM - Manual (Page 13)

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Tips and Tricks
This section provides tips and tricks that may be handy when using Logic Pro with
TDM hardware.
Importing Projects Produced With Other Hardware
If you simply want to use the native processing capabilities of Logic Pro, start Logic Pro
using Core Audio—with the Digidesign Core Audio driver activated.
You will be asked if you’d like an automatic conversion if the project was created on a
non Core Audio system, provided that the Universal Track Mode setting is the same on
both systems.
Be aware of problems with incompatible plug-ins and/or settings, as mentioned above.
If you want to do more advanced work on this project, with the addition of TDM plug-
ins and instruments, you need to load the project into a DAE/DTDM system.
To load a project that originated on a Core Audio system into a DAE/DTDM system:
1 Deactivate DAE and ensure that DTDM is active.
2 Ensure that the Universal Track Mode setting is the same for both Core Audio (on the
project’s origin system) and DTDM on your system.
3 Open the project. You will be asked if you’d like it automatically converted to DTDM.
Logic Pro 8 loads the project into a DTDM environment, and checks if there is a channel
strip available for every channel of your hardware. If not, a suitable number of channel
strips are automatically created. This facility means that whenever you change the
hardware in a given computer, or move project data to another computer (with
different hardware), the channel strips will change as well—while maintaining their EQ,
effect, and send settings.
Should the plug-ins used by the project be different on the two computers, unavailable
plug-ins are grayed out in the Insert slots of the appropriate channels. You will need to
manually insert/replace these plug-ins with plug-ins that are available for use on the
target computer.
4 When the converted project has loaded, reactivate DAE.
Note: You need to reopen Logic Pro after activating the DAE.
5 Relaunch Logic Pro and open the converted project.
All DTDM track outputs are routed to one of the ESB outputs.
6 Create the required DAE aux channel strips.
7 Choose the desired ESB outputs in the Input slot(s) of the aux channel strip(s).