I'm on an 8-core with 16 Gigs of RAM. Logic was reliable until 10.8.n. Since some (not sure) point, recenty, it's been getting increasingly unusable.
I've got to think there are designers, prop support people at the company who are following and reviewing these posts. i have open cases for garbage type on certain sections (i.e., mail) the iCloud, iTunes Match craziness (error 4002) and it's kind of troubling. Frankly, I'm mortified for Apple.
Back to this issue... Is anyone getting the KB "space bar" lag / delay on another key? on a USB keybaord? At times when there are no plugins open on the desktop - on the main display or a second display? Do you use Waves plugins? Version 9? Is this problem more likely to happen, or does it happen exclusively with certain plug-ins?
I began to notice this "lag, delay, in the play / pause transport a few months ago, and at first I thought / felt it was connected to USB, keyboard, mouse, track ball, etc. I thought maybe the control surafce area.
It only happens (to me) when I open a plug-in and then try to stop-rewind in order to hear the changes I've made. I'll have ot wait for the "tape" to stop. I'll click a few tiems and then relaize it's not going to happen, and best to wait. And then it stops, sometimes the locator line goes to the beginnng of the track. Without touching a control in a plug-in it has not happened. I wondered if it was Waves V9 (anyone?) I dont use too many of Logic's plugins, but I can't think of an occrence where it happened with the channel EQ open- although it may have. Same with Space Designer, Locig's reverb or delay. I don't remember if it does.
I have used Superior Drummer, and not sure if it ever happened while playing in that virtual instrument, or maybe the ES or another Logic instrument. Anyone?
But now there are other crazier problems, and every time I open up a session, I'm finding bizarre changes that iI cannot determie how or why they've happeend.
I can look for or start another thread - about behaviour that for is MUCH MORE TROUBLING. But I'll ask here 'cause I'm curious. Has anyone else experinced the following...
Tracks that contain audio clips or regions, or ven tracks, that were imported in any number of ways from the media pull down, the finder, the bin, (WAVE, CAF, AIF) that used to play back - as other regions do, but are now silent. They can played in the Finder. They are silent in the browser though, as well as the Sample editor.
Dragging them from the original track to a new track allows them to playback. I had to make a separate tracks for a reverse cymbal crash alone. I have one song in which I had to create new tracks four times. One is drum fills, while the rest of the loops play fine. It's crasy!
I have seen Aux busses (sends / returns) become reassigned from a buss to an input. For no reason. I now need to check every session I open to check the aux return channels.
I have even seen an audio track on which there is no Channel Inspector on its left side. Intead it "says" it's being "Controlled by Track 19" which happens to be a MIDI track. A new track createed, dragging the contents to it, with the Automation data, works. But Why??
These types of behaviours are all happening on more than one song / Logic 9 session file. Actually I have a radii spot in which I reuse the music bad (going back several years) in which certain guitar tracks go away and I have to move parts, create new tracks, even MIDI or audio drum tracks, individual clips / regions where audio didappears. No mutes. They appear normal. and all "play" in the Finder.
I also use Cubase. There were some rough periods with 6 and 6.5 - audio dropouts, system resources, VST quirks, but 7 is stable. Unfortunately for me I have six songs I started a while back, I'm almost finished working with, mixing and I'm stuck.
To summarize, I've seen Logic 9 go from ok to difficut to virtually unusable in the last year. By the way, this is 10.8.2 OS. For commerical use it's a joke. I made the Final Cut change, and it's gotten better. It's not fully professional but I'm in an area where my clients won't pay for real TV spots, and i'm having fun and affordable- or I'd go back in to the city where the ost houses are dying. Not sure what Logic X will be, and I'm sure I'll break down and give it a try. But Logic 9 is not working in the way it was. I produced two albums using it, a flm score and countless spots and soundtracks. I could not do that today. And could not imagine starting a new project in Logic 9.
Can it be plugons? OS X 10.8.2? USB? Anyone? Sorry for long windedness.
