G4 450 + Digi001 + Logic

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Greetings Listers,

I am beyond frustration, I have now reached exasperation - For those of you
who have been helping me thus far thankyou (lenny, q6, smiley, rye), for
those who are sick of peeon's like me who are stuck in the weeds - sorry for
what basicaly amounts to the rookie spam you're getting in your email boxes.

I have a G4 450/OS 9.1 with a Digi001 setup. I am trying to use Logic Audio
4.8 and have been having troubles with playback.

I started by recording some audio from an external source through the card -
this seemed to play back and work fine. Then, I imported into Logic some
loops I had exported from Reason (in 24bit). This is when things started
getting funky. The loops will not play back in the Arrange window, but WILL
play back in the editor window (the window I get when I double click the wave
form in the Arrange window). Now, the audio I recorded from my synth is
behaving the same way, and 16bit loops are behaving the same way also...

I have fiddled extensively with the output configuration, Audio Hardware
setup in Logic (set to Direct I/O for the 001), the Mac sound Control Panel,
and the Digidesign Control Panel, and been able to get Logic to play back
through the Digi001 card a few times in the last 5 days... After I get sound
coming out of my monitors though, I restart my Mac and I'm right back at
block one, no sound, all over again...

In the words of Charles Brown: "ARRRRRGH!"

I have had a fellow lister send me a Logic environment which he thought would
config the signal path properly by importing a supposedly proper audio layer.
This just gave me a message that read: "! Direct I/O: 17 Stereo audio track
and/or 9 stereo bus objects have been converted into a new format." HUH?

Something confusing to note:The few times when I did get Logic running and
playing back all tracks from the arrange window, The little CPU/Buffer usage
meter was registering level, then, when I play back an audio clip through
the editor window (which allways works), I do have sound, but no CPU level.
There is also no CPU usage level registering when I play from the arrange
window and hear nothing...

Anyone who uses a similar setup or knows anything about the finer points of
configing a system like this: PLEASE HELP MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE~

I am just about ready to scrap the Digi001 and get another audio interface,
which would set me back financialy, and thus, in time, something I don't need
right now, but such are the measures of desperation...

Thankyou for your time,

Grant B.

505-577-1030