LOGIC PRO - GOOD FOR CHILDREN - NOT SUITABLE FOR STUDIOS

I want to preface this by saying that I have been a supporter and avid user of Logic Pro X for about 10 years now and I believe it is the only DAW in which I can freely express myself as a producer and artist. So for that, thank you very much for creating this software.


Unfortunately however, I’m currently in the process of transferring all my mix and production sessions to Protools and have decided that Logic is no longer fit for me. The last few months have been nothing short of a nightmare. I’ve had to reset my whole computer, I’ve had to send paying clients home because their sessions won’t open or they crash frequently, I’ve had large Logic projects that I have worked on for months for paying clients get completely jumbled up where all regions have moved to different tracks and the worst of all, I would get crazy loud and deafening bursts of white noise randomly in a session yesterday which were so loud that it frightened my client, gave me ringing in the ears and damaged an expensive pair of headphones. For these reasons I believe Logic is no longer a fit tool for me.


Now I understand that logic (for some reason) can’t handle third party plugins, every time I’ve talked to the Logic tech support team on the phone they express that all my issues could be stemming from incompatible third party plugins and I also understand that this is not necessarily something Logic can control - If someone wants to download something off the internet that could be dangerous or incompatible, there’s not much Logic can do because obviously Logic are only responsible for the DAW and for the native plugins which work fine. What I well and truly can't understand is if Logic believe that their product should be used in serious recording studios around the world alongside programs like Protools then how haven't they sorted out bugs like those sudden deafening white noise bursts that I as well as many of my Logic user peers have experienced?


Obviously producers and engineers experiment with third party plugins - that's probably 95% of logic users! How haven't they worked out ways to combat crashes and freak outs etc - or at least how haven't they figured out a way to inform users that there's an error or incompatibility somewhere without the whole program shutting down or spouting out white noise?


And have you looked at the only remedy for these white noise bursts? You guessed it, another third party plugin called Ice9 which mutes the master if it detects a loud decibel reading - What an actual joke.


If logic knows that this particular issue has existed for people since Logic 9 and why don't they have a remedy for it or at least a native plugin to replicate what Ice9 does?


Can anybody explain why these white noise bursts occur?


I've lost money, energy and time to Logic for years and although i prefer it to any other DAW, the negatives unfortunately outweigh the positives - so cya logic!!


MacBook Pro 13″, macOS 10.14

Posted on Aug 11, 2023 3:59 PM

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Aug 12, 2023 12:35 PM in response to yianni48

Your first post was excellent. The issue? You're not talking to Apple here. Not the devs no one. Only us other users who feel your pain!!


Copy and paste your first post into the Logic Feedback form so they actually get it as it deserves to be read by someone close to or the actual dev team and that isn't going to happen on these forums.

Aug 12, 2023 5:57 AM in response to yoyoBen

Interesting! I mainly experienced it when moving or cutting regions…..either way though, nothing really ******** it to be honest….I’m sure there’s workarounds and reasons but at the end of the day this is very clearly a sign of a bug/session corruption and logic are 100% at fault for the white noise bursts.


Plenty of other DAWs inform users that plugins are incompatible without those white noise bursts or without demolishing sessions

Aug 12, 2023 6:00 AM in response to Pancenter

Ye it’s pretty crazy!

I believe that when you use a specific program/product, you’re inherently backing the company that makes it and I in no way back the attitude logic holds so if they’ve left such a big issue persist for so many years so I think Protools will be better for me.

……..who knows though it could be the same for all DAWs


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