Mac Studio with Logic Pro X - Latency and glitch issues

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Hey I have found something that somewhat works!

1. Go to FINDER - GO - COMPUTER- MAC HD- LIBRARY - AUDIO - PLUGINS - COMPONENTS....
2. Create a new folder on Desktop Called "Plugins" and move all plugins to that folder OUT Of components.
3. Move ONE plugin BACK to components at a time - test logic - test your issues - test that plugin. IF all good, QUIT logic, Reopen, and load the next one.

YES _ this is time consuming - but so far I have found that NATIVE INSTRUMENTS although it "WORKS" is slowing EVERYTHING down... highly disappointing of course.

Hope this can help someone...

I am having similar issues. New Mac Studio M1 Max 64gb etc... was working fine when i first got it in early May,

I was able to record several tracks without issues until recently. Now i have latency issues opening projects, and the main issue i have is playback where the head keeps jumping to the start of the recording randomly. No system overload messages just random jump back to start.

Weirdly though - i was recording through superior drummer from my roland td-30 fine until last weekend when the roland was no longer recognised as an external midi device - I had to install the roland driver. This was working fine about a month ago or so.

looking at what's been installed since working and odd behaviour i see the following - i can't help think one of these is to blame for this change in performance etc.

Apple - come on - sort this out - i'm sure like I have, other customers here have purchased the Studio in an attempt to eliminate performance woes.

I can't comment on the performance activity on studio vs logic thread meters as i haven't done that level of investigation.

I also heavily invested in a new Mac Studio with 64gb of Ram, 2TB, and Logic Pro is running worse than on my old iMac from 2013. It’s very frustrating. I can’t even run 4 audio tracks on buffer-size 256 before the system overloads.

I really hope it can be fixed, and that it’s just some settings I need to adjust. Cause it takes forever with the delivery of a new Mac Studio

have anyone found a solution yet?

all the best

JJ

Hi ian, I also have 128GB Max1 Ultra.. EXTREMELY slow... when I "undo" something in Logic I get the beach ball for up to 2minutes - of course "undoing" ideas is a constant... so my work flow is VERY slow... Does anyone know how to contact Logic Support? I wrote to them, but they don't get back to you! They just "take on board" what you say.. This is upsetting for such a large investment and of course, my expectations were high.

I think I found a solution:

Before you open Logic Pro X:

• Right click on the Logic icon in finder
• Press “Info”
• Click the box “Open with Rosetta”

My Mac Studio performs at 25% of the cpu now.

(I also run with 8 core in audio preferences)

hope this helps

all the best

JJ

My bet is the top offenders of cpu % load is

• mds (spotlight), seen as high as 3-400%, especially on a cold boot
• photoanalysisd, as high as 100-200%
• videoencoder/decoder, 50-100
• window server, 30-50
• Logic , 15-40

This happens on my system after a initial cold boot in morning. This “clean up” boot up process can take 5-20 mins depending on your system. Variables an be the number of external disks attached, and if your currently connected to the internet or not.

Starting Logic should stop these processes or at least suspend or “nice” the offending processes which are consuming cpu resources.

Especially when recording any takes.

One thing that Borks initial performance is Spotlight Indexing.

Has your Mac completed it initial indexing?

If you have installed software that wastes computer resources on a regular basis, such as speeder-uppers, Cleaner-uppers/Removers, Optimizers, Virus Scanners, third-party file Sync-ers such as DropBox, OneDrive, or GoogleDrive, or a VPN that you installed yourself, it will do busywork at previously-impossible speeds Unlike older computers this Mac it is not throttled very much by disk speed.

Wow to both of your issues

DOA and I also use both Logic and protool and lots of plugins and absolutely have no issues

have you tried to completely remove the software and install it and create new project instead of using your old ones

hope that works

I have spent nearly a month tweaking settings left and right - I literally just finished 67 takes in logic because of this bs crack pop and other audio glitches and STILL don't have a usable take. I don't know what to do - didn't have this issue with my MacMini I am considering returning this useless unit its a M1 Max Pro with 64GB of RAM and I am facing the same issues - crazy spikes with nothing even going on - just sitting idle in logic. Just so **** frustrating.