Logic 9's UI extremely laggy - any fixes?

Mark Lord wrote:

Overall, still feels like a whole box of sticky plasters - but the extra rubber bands are holding it together so far.

I think it's been that way since version 8. It amounts to the Logic programmers trying to keep up (or figure out) what the OS people are doing. Logic has always been a framework of patches, but it used to be much more solid and well thought out. Some of Logic's internals are very old and the recent OS's both demanding (resource wise) and unforgiving.

Still just as F'd up as it was before. Moved from 10.7.5 to 10.8.3. Wouldn't mind fishing that $20 out of the toilet right about now but oh well.....

Thank everything holy that 10.6.8 is actually a legitimate operating system, huge thanks to whoever made Apple's last REAL OS, looks like i'll be using it indefinitely!

Still no fix ? Waiting for Maverics and LogicX ?

Yep, no fix. And actually, since the ML updates although the lag is marginally better (it rarely does the minutes long lag it used to, but just as often does lag for around 5 to 10 seconds at a time) I have found a ton of other very odd bugs. For instance, yesterday I was working and during playback the playback line didn't move at all along the timeline. It looked as though nothing was playing, but I clearly heard playback. As well, I have a ton of edit bugs now during play. For example, if I'm playing through a song and click to place an edit during said playback it will place the cut someplace bizarre at a different point on the track. I hit stop, undo, and place the edit again without playback: works again. This is something that repeats over and over when it gets into that place. The solution is to restart Logic. I have been in constant communication with somebody very high up in the chain on the Logic team, but to be honest, at a certain point he just said they are working on it and hasn't offered anything new. He suggested that all these quirks could be part of the same bug. Apparently these bugs are rare and hard to recreate. I've suggested that I could buy a new SSD drive and reinstall Logic Pro. He said, don't do it, it's probably not the drive/installation and doesn't want me wasting my money. He suggests it could be memory, but I have very high quality memory and NONE of my other apps have these problems, just Logic Pro.

Been using it since 10.8.3 came out and yes, as everyone is saying - it's not fixed, but it's way way better - for me it's usable. Although it definitely feels like "mitigation technology" at work rather than an actual solution. I can identify with Fredo's comment about "odd" behaviour and sometimes I'll get some lag which Logic recovers from after about 5 secs or so. Unforuntately my own install of 10.6.8 had become very buggy so I've moved over to ML and 9.1.8 full time and, on the whole, it's ok. Though ML is as annoying as **** in many respects - like the STUPID cloud implementation for things like text edit and b&w icons, blah blah the list goes on. I should add I'm running 64bit now - don't have a lot of 32bit plugs left so AU Bridge only crashes about once a day - which is a big improvement.

I don't get the recommendation to buy a new hard drive, but whenever an app is having odd bugs that other users don't seem to be having, reinstalling the app is a possibility.

Hi

Further to this, there were definately some changes with OSX 10.8.4

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Really? Ok, well if you're using it I might update then 😀. Loath to update anything these days...

thanks for the heads up,

Mark

(I'm assuming you mean positive changes 😮)

I would definitely try 10.8.4, some people reported improvements with the lag, some not, but I don't remember seeing anyone have it get worse.

Anybody tested Mavericks Developer preview and Logic ? Is it any better ?

So......

Anybody try Logic X yet to see if this ridiculousness is fixed or not?

I've seen a couple separate tests saying that LPX is much more responsive and graphics in plugins are much smoother. Of course it's still possible that some people may have lag issues, but it's promising to hear.

Now, after 3? years this problem is gone. Thank god !) UI is increadebly responsive and fast, but now 32bit AU's is gone ))) Whatever. Dear Apple guys "thx" for your "attention", three fkn years with this unbelievable problem i will never forget )

It is true LPX is faster and more responsive here too under ML (mid 2010 mac pro 8-core, 10gig ram).

However there is stil GUI lag... for example, when you scroll through the mixer the top time & position meters stop and only carry on running once you have stopped scrolling in the mixer window.

I also picked up highly irritating lag in Melodyne and at one point the the plug would just hang or if you clicked a note it would just keep ringing out even after you have let go of it.

It's better but it's not yet there.... I am sincerely hoping and praying Mavericks makes LPX more like LP9 under SL.