Please Help XTC on Mac...

tekmus · Post by **tekmus** » Thu Jun 06, 2002 8:09 pm

I am a new Scope user, please bear with me.
1. Does XTC mode work for Mac, and Logic Audio 4.8.1? If so, will someone teach me how to get to it? I just can't figure it out.
2. WIll Pulsar be OS X compatible? ETA?

jupiter8 · Post by **jupiter8** » Thu Jun 06, 2002 10:17 pm

1. No. XTC does'nt work on mac.
2. Nobody knows. Can take a while.

Gregory · Post by **Gregory** » Fri Jun 07, 2002 7:32 am

If you read the 3.1a "read me" files carefully, Creamware stated that XTC and Logic 5.0 on Macintosh was not working properly and could crash. It probably meant they had XTC/Mac/Logic working in the Lab or beta or something but it wasn't released to the general public.

kimgr · Post by **kimgr** » Fri Jun 07, 2002 8:37 am

It doesn't say anywhere that Logic5 crashes on a Mac, just that it crashes in XTC mode when you add ESDi-16 or Poison...

Kim.

Gregory · Post by **Gregory** » Fri Jun 07, 2002 9:12 am

You are correct. This tip was in the middle of other Mac tips so I assumed it had something to do with Macintosh implementation. The XTC tip itself mentions nothing of Macintosh.

Post by **Guest** » Fri Jun 07, 2002 10:44 am

no XTC on mac

kimgr · Post by **kimgr** » Fri Jun 07, 2002 12:06 pm

Besides, in my not so humple opinion, Mac users are lucky that there's no XTC mode available...
You can sleep better, make more music and keep whatever hair you have on your head

Kim.

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subhuman · Post by **subhuman** » Fri Jun 07, 2002 1:16 pm

With Live Bar and a nice working 'OS mode' (the new default), the reasons to run XTC become less and less. In fact I never saw the "why" before- except to run in a similiar way as Tc's Powercore. Seems silly.

If you don't care about latency (the XTC method gives some), then why not just use ASIO sends from your sequencer, DSP effects in your Creamware environment, and return them back to an ASIO channel? You'd get latency just like XTC and could still work in your sequencer's mixer.

Personally I just use VST fx in Logic, and never adjust levels there, route it all out ASIO to the 4896 mixer, and apply further Creamware DSP fx there (and it's still realtime: the main benefit and POINT of using DSPs for me).

AudioIrony · Post by **AudioIrony** » Fri Jun 07, 2002 5:41 pm

subhuman,
I'd be interested in seeing your SFP setup (routings).. if you're in a sharing mood.
blgrace@optusnet.com.au

tekmus · Post by **tekmus** » Sat Jun 08, 2002 11:25 pm

Thanks for the discussion. Now I am getting constant crash at Mac restart, so I removed the Scope card, put in a MOTU pci 324, bought a new PC for Scope...