Connected remotely with a client preparing for an upcoming gig. Last month I had helped him work out why his MIDI faders were unable to control specific functions in Logic. This time the problem was the pitch bend wheel on his AKAI MPK249 controller wasn’t… Read More »Fixing the AKAI MPK249 Pitch Wheel When It Sends MIDI on the Wrong Channel
Visited my client in South East London who was having problems installing his Auto-Tune plugins. Antares and Plugin Boutique had replied to our tickets and confirmed their servers were now back online again we were able to register and install all his new plugins. Spent… Read More »Installing Antares Auto-Tune and Vocodist
Connected remotely to a client in Norfolk who was having trouble with the sample locations of the content for his Kontakt plugins on his Mac. Looked at his system and found the Kontakt library files were not in the shared folder but in his personal… Read More »Locating missing files in Kontakt
Connected remotely to a client who I had previously worked for in West London but is now living in Greece. He had transferred his studio equipment with him and had reassembled most of it. He had some questions about his new Steinberg UR22C interface and… Read More »Setting up Cubase and Steinberg UR22C
Connected remotely with a client in Spain who was having trouble integrating an analogue summing mixer into his Logic setup. Soloing tracks was not working and causing all the tracks to be muted. Identified that the problem was the audio track he was using as… Read More »Logic Pro solo function not working with an analogue summing mixer
Connected remotely to a client in Manchester to help with a Cubase setup. Before we were able to get to Cubase the client was having problems with his USB hubs disconnecting. I talked him through the process of testing the hubs in sequence and we… Read More »Diagnosing problems with USB hubs
Visited a client in North West London who I have been working with for a long time to help him prepare more tracks for his upcoming live show with a new band. We transferred songs created in Logic Pro X as both MIDI and audio… Read More »Transferring MIDI song files from Logic to an FA06 keyboard
Visited Central London to spend the day with my client who was having problems with his Yamaha FX550s. Looked at the routing within his studio and tried to work out why he was getting terrible noise and distortion problems with the signal chain of guitar/bass… Read More »Diagnosing noise problems with Yamaha FX550 effects box
On-site visit to my client in South East London. Helped him download and install Auto-Tune Pro X which he had bought from Plugin Boutique. We had problems with some of the licenses not being registered to his Plugin Boutique account and with connecting to the… Read More »Installing Antares Auto-Tune Pro X
Connected remotely with a client in North London who was having problems recording his bass and guitar in Logic through some vintage (1990s) Yamaha FX550 effects boxes. Diagnosed some issues, but noise problems were still remaining. After conversation with the client, we decided his setup… Read More »Diagnosing issues with noise in vintage effects boxes