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Post by btreim on Sept 3, 2019 12:11:18 GMT -6
Hey y'all,
Long time no talk.
I have an old Mac 3,1 system on Snow Leopard based around Logic 8 and an OG 828. On that system I have a couple hundred half finished song ideas (send help) that I like to have access to just in case I find inspiration for the bridge 10 years after it was started. The issue is, that's about it's only purpose and any of my new work gets done on my laptop and Logic X. It's led me to have quite a fractured setup, files in different formats floating around, blah blah. Ideally I would be able to move software and hardware forward on the 3,1 system while maintaining the ability to open and work on these ancient sessions. Which of course are full of plugins that don't exist anymore.
Anyways, I've been wrestling with the best way to go about that and hoped someone had some insight.
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Post by popmann on Sept 3, 2019 13:46:07 GMT -6
As I've detailed before: session files are never a proper archive. They can be PART of it....in case, backup of a backup kinda thing....The reason I DON'T deal with that....is because everything I do is saved off as non proprietary timestamped audio tracks. So:re outdated plug ins--that's a problem with the session opening/recalling....NOT a problem for an artist creating. If it's an instrument plug in, it's printed as audio. If it's an audio plug in, mostly I don't care. Are you really thinking that there's a 32bit era EQ or compressor that's just better than your LPX machine has? Probably not if you think about it that way--it's that you don't want to redo it....then print it as a second audio track: VocalComp.AIF.....VocalComp_Plugs.AIF.
That said, I feel sure LPX will open your (v8) sessions--just trip all over the 32bit plug ins. So, render instruments as audio (like you should have anyway) on the LP8 machine....and do a "save as" with all plug ins removed. Move THAT the new machine and open it. that's the "fastest" way to move for you. You should still DO the non proprietary backups. I look at it like the deliverables are the raw tracks--which actually means with any edits that got made to them for content....the mixes....the masters. Those are the files I have for everything I've done. In my hybrid days, I also printed key hardware bits as the same audio tracks--so whether that's a reverb returns or a second file of say a bass run through my analog chain of sculpting....but, as a side note which may or may not apply for you--nearly every time I've pulled those up, I can better them with current tech/technique. So, I was doing it for the purpose of exact recall for clients--not sort of capturing the magical hardware.
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