Pro Station Audio

[Wilse]

Whoops - just noticed I'd posted this in 'Talk About':

Anyone here know anything about Pro Station Audio?

I'm stuck with the tutorial. I think the main reason I'm stuck is that
the layout in the version you download for MorphOS is different from
that in the tutorial, although it could possibly be the screen
resolution, which won't work at anything above 800 x 600.

Any help appreciated.

[Wilse]

Hi Framiga:

PSA requires at least a 1024 x 768 screen (8 bit is enough)

Yes, it says this in the readme but if I attempt to launch it at anything above 800 x 600, all I get is a black screen. AFAIK, this is a bug in MOS1.4 (although I could be wrong) which hopefully will be fixed for 1.5

Having said that, now that I think about it, I don't know if I tried 8 bit. I'll try that tonight.

AFAIK, the MOS Platinum Edition, has the same layout of the last PSA Titanium (the mixer needs more space that the Millenium version).

The tutorial was written for the 4.05 version but works even in the newest version.

Tell me what difficulties have you.

Well the layout is slightly different. If you look at this part of the tutorial:

Mixing A Session (link)

You can see the area marked "1", in red, has symbols for headphones, a speaker and a padlock. On my version, this part of the screen appears to only have a little green radio button, for switching the track on and off.

It could be purely cosmetic but I stopped there. :-)

If you understand Italian

Unfortunately not. (Well, apart from a couple of words)

i can mail you my review with the first step.

Thanks very much anyway.

Remember that PSA has a steep curve of learning.

:-) I'll wear my hiking boots!
I'm actually very impressed despite the limited use I've had of it.

-edit- have you contacted Maurizio Ciccione (Audiolabs)?

Not yet, no.

Thanks,

[Wilse]

@Framiga:

Thank you very much for your help - much appreciated.

Try to download this PSA tutorial fron Aminet (5,9 MB):

I'll do so tonight, when I get home from work.

-EDIT-
I've also been unable to download the plug ins but I'll worry about that later. :-)

Cheers! :pint:

[Wilse]

@Framiga:

Hi - I've downloaded the manual and Tutorial 2.
Cheers!

I managed to get through the problems in the first tutorial.
For instance, the plug ins were already there! D'oh!

The sticking point now is:

How do I change the screen resolution?
Now that I've saved the status, the programme opens without bringing
up the screen res. requester.
I can't find any reference to this in the settings menu or the manual.

Thanks again. You're help has been invaluable! :pint:
I'm off to try out tutorial two now.

[Wilse]

@Framiga:

Thanks, that brought the requester back up but i'm still getting a
black screen if I go above 800 x 600.
(I disabled, then re-enabled ULTRA_WGFX)

The plugin GUI's are very cool, I agree.

I'll try the tube preAmp too (although probably not tonight - it's
It's getting a bit late for the kind of racket I've been making :-D)

@Hooligan:

I'm on a Radeon 8500.
Anything over 800 x 600 - no worky. :-/

[Wilse]

@Framiga:

even at 8 bit?

Yes. The requester will no longer allow me to choose anything *other* than 8 bit, which is weird.
I'm sure it offered many more options before (8, 15, 16, 24).

Have you a tooltype named CGFX_DEPHT

No but I typed/added that line to the tooltypes and it did have a strange effect. Previously, when PSA loaded to a black screen, L-Amiga-M (well, L-windows key-M to be precise ;-)) would take me back to the ambient (wb) screen.
After typing CGFX_DEPHT, I can't get back and have to reboot.

-EDIT-
I also can't seem to re-load a previously saved project.
Neither Open Project, nor Open Session, seem to work.
:-?

[Wilse]

Hi,
sorry to drag this up again but I still can't re-open a previously
saved project/session (not sure what the distinction is there either).

I created a session called 'test', plopped some wavs in the timeline,
saved it, quit and reloaded PSA.
If I try to open it as a project, it appears to load but has nothing
in the timeline, etc - i.e. it loads an apparently empty project.

If I try to open it as a session, I get "Accessing sessions outside
their drawer is not allowed".

What am I doing wrong here?

Cheers,s

[Wilse]

@Framiga:

Just saw this - cheers.

Too late to try it tonight but will hopefully have time tomorrow.


-EDIT-
Got it now.

Thanks,

[Wilse]

@Framiga:

Thanks for all your help.

Tonight I managed to create a track, mix down and burn to CD with
MakeCD.
Only problem was with MakeCD.

Looks like I'm getting somewhere - yay! :pint:

[Wilse]

Dragged up again......

I've managed to construct a project using several tracks but now i
keep getting "***Application is meditating***", almost instantly,
every time I load the project.

I'm not expecting anyone to be able to solve this yet but I had to
vent - it's driving me nuts!

[Wilse]

Some good news at last!
(No, really!)

Anyone wishing to record directly to PSA, do the following:

Click "Information" in PSA Icon menu;
Click "New" under ToolTypes;
Type "IN_DRIVER=AHIin";
Click "Save".

Et voilá.

You can now record direct to the peggy.