Logic Pro X Importing Audio issues

As you can see from the posts in that discussion and others, these are well known issues.

Update to Catalina is not recommended to anyone using audio applications.

Your best option: Rollback to a previous Macos version.

I agree with you not using online converters, not saying it isn't useful but I just don't give 100% trust to it.

I also updated my Logic Pro X to 10.4.8, I can import mp3 format again with no problems.

Thanks brother!

Had this issue where audio that plays fine skips all the way through when importing.

Don't know if this will always fix but i had trouble with a voice recording of some drums and solved it by converting the file into AIFF. Played perfectly after that

10.4.7 has fixed this issue for me now

I think that convert to aiff is a good way to avoid this reeeeally annoying issue (I mean 230$ software plus 3000$ hardware is such an investment for that amount of mistakes...)

I had the same problem.

All you have to do is to convert .mp3 audio file to .wav audio file and import as a .wav file.

The only workaround I've found thus far (in my limited attempts) is to use https://phonicmind.com/ & download their .stem.stem.mp4 option & then import that. It locks the audio files. However, I'm not sure if it's exactly what I'd hoped for. Definitely pretty frustrated Apple hasn't continued to support Logic as a product.

You are pretty much the first using Catalina and Logic, so you're the single expert in the room.

All third party plugin developers have asked their users to wait for updates of their software since Catalina changes so much under the hood.

Logic itself is not officially ready for Catalina, so bugs and incompatibilities are to be expected.

Why did you upgrade to Catalina ?

Apple has to fix lots of things, many more than they care to admit (as if they'd ever admit anything, but that's another matter).

Logic is substantially unstable since 10.4.5, when they changed many things under the hood to support their new Macs. Lots and lots of random, unrepeatable crashes when performing mundane tasks, like clicking anywhere - crash, rubber band select - crash, in the middle of a bounce - crash, etc.. Same in 10.4.6. Same in 10.4.7 where I had the first crash within minutes. The common factor is that the crash always happens in the SeqTimer thread (whatever that is), according to the crash reports.

Back to 10.4.4 which is stable. Rock solid stable. Go figure. Is that Apple's way to tell me that they're only going to code for me if I buy a new $$$ Mac ? Rhetorical question, I know.

You're not alone.

I've just gone to my work machine which was updated yesterday only to find we can't do any audio work because every file we import to the stage sounds like it is skipping all the way through.

How exactly has this been possible, it's the same company! Sure, different teams, but how can you have your two core software (because Final Cut is also broke) fail on a platform release?

Apple really has stalled on quality in the last 5 years

I'd heard there was a recent Catalina update, does that fix the problems?

avangelist wrote:

How exactly has this been possible, it's the same company! Sure, different teams, but how can you have your two core software (because Final Cut is also broke) fail on a platform release?

Apple really has stalled on quality in the last 5 years

Yep, the worst predictions for Logic are becoming true, it's no longer a professional platform. Apple will never update it, just adding feature to an already old design. I'll stick with 10.4.4 on Sierra, fast, efficient and snappy running on a SSD. Even Logic 10.3.3 on El Capitan is good performer. I'd like to think different but Apple uses it's software to sell hardware, they are a hardware company. Their money is made by selling phones, watches, iPads & computers. The sotware is to support and encourage sales. Still enjoy Logic's workflow and still my favorite DAW but it's professional use has been dropping yearly.

This is so incredibly frustrating. I did the update because I was so tired of being reminded every day. I figured it's been so long that I had ignored the notifications I thought it would be safe to do, and sure enough...garbage! I have been experiencing issues for a long time, including when I upgraded my Maschine software, the sampler stopped working. I haven't been able to sample any audio from the inputs since. Logic's issues are that many plugins have now quit, or are not even recognizable. Every export I do reacts in a different way. Podcasts application opens automatically when exporting audio to iTunes. After which, you need to close Logic down so that you can run a search to find your song, then you must open the song to have it open in iTunes which is another story of disaster in its own. Very annoying!

Long story short, DO NOT UPDATE TO CATALINA IF YOU ARE USING LOGIC!

MacMoronno wrote:

This is so incredibly frustrating. I did the update because I was so tired of being reminded every day.

Long story short, DO NOT UPDATE TO CATALINA IF YOU ARE USING LOGIC!

Can't you turn OFF auto-updates, that's the first move I make with MAC or PC, every auto update in every application and OS is set to off. Create a stable system then use it, update only when you absolutely need a feature "required" for what you're doing.

I'm also using Logic Pro X 10.4.4 on Catalina. Majority of my plugins (some Izotope, some Waves, and Arturia) worked perfectly fine in Catalina. My biggest issue right now is that I can't seem to import samples with a bit depth greater than 24. Anything lower is find, but anything greater just crashes Logic Pro X.

Also noticed that bouncing mp3s is impossible. I can bounce WAV files now.

Anybody facing this issue too?