Strange problem with Logic on Mountain Lion

This helped me. When opening graphically intensive plugins (Channel EQ) being a good example . . . either hide your arrange area or set up a screenset so that plugins do not float on top of your arrange area. Not ideal, but it has worked for me, until Apple fix this . . .

Yes, same issue here, even on the new hotness of a Retina MBP i7 2.6 quad with 16gb ram... What actually REALLY annoys me is that I cannot simply downgrade to Snow Leopard with this model. I got THIS machine to run logic on, now it's all rather useless with this truly grating problem.

Usually it is a Channel EQ but other plugins such as things like Native Instruments Massive and Ohmforce Ohmicide also trigger it (Ohmicide also has a spectrum analyzer)

Apple, judging from how many other threads I've seen about this, time for you to man up a bit and fix this, as it looks like this has been going on since a graphical rewrite in Lion?

Another great thread with tons of people affected by the issue.

http://www.logicprohelp.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=78028&start=40

Hello,

I bought a Retina Macbook Pro, I installed Logic Pro 9 on Mountain Lion and everytime I put an EQ on a channel, Logic Pro stops operating during 10s and sometimes during 30/40seconds.

That's very a hassle ...

yes definitely. Its useless in this way, considering how many Channel EQs i do use.

Since we do not have the option to downgrade to Snow Leopard (as far as what I have read online, we cannot), we are at the mercy of Apple's Logic team, whoever of this skeleton crew may be left anyway.

I find it sad that Apple are ingnoring basic fixes in Logic ( I mean the last PPC version of Logic is still stuck with some major EXS24 load problems even though a lot of studios and composers I know are still using G5's ) I wouldn't touch Mountain Lion at present.

They seem to forget that if it wasn't for the musicians and graphic designers loyalty to their products they would have basically gone under in the 90's.

Personally I'm interested but also dreading to see what's coming in Logic Pro X. Are they going to go for the super fancy Garageband overhaul or will it be relevant to professional needs here?

Time will tell I guess.

I'm just apphauled that it hasn't been fixed already. Poor form really.

"They seem to forget that if it wasn't for the musicians and graphic designers loyalty to their products they would have basically gone under in the 90's."

100% right. for a company thats now supposedly the most profitable in the world it can afford to do some work that people need them to do.

The frustrating (and odd) thing is that this issue also happens in Snow Leopard.

I recently did a clean install of 10.6 on the studio iMac, put nothing else on it apart from Logic (DVD version) and tested out a project with a few tracks of audio and instances of Channel EQ. Exactly the same lag and lack of transport control occurred.

So, for people to constantly refer to it as being only related to Lion or Mountain Lion (and then berating users who have upgraded their OS) is confusing, annoying and - in terms of helping to convince Apple to sort it out - counterproductive. That said, it possibly also complicates matters tenfold..

In Snow Leopard this may be a different issue, because it doesn't seem to happen to everyone. Neither my MBP i5 nor my Mac Pro Quad (orig 2006 model) is affected by using Channel Analyzers (Both of which are Snow Leopard)... Only my Mountain Lion MBPr.

Its actually quite funny to think about how much money was spent only to wait for something they should have very well caught before sending it out the door, whatever it is.

I've an iMac 2009 with snow leopard and Logic worked perfectly, that's very frustrating to have a new device made for "pro" and have this kind of problem.

I've a little tip that worked for me, when you open your EQ, don't put the analyser.

Yes, this works for the Channel Eq, BUT other 3rd party plugins like Ohmicide by Ohmforce you cannot turn it off 😉

It seems to affect any plugin using analysis. This is most likely a problem with how Mountain Lion draws graphics. If it wasn't broke, they shouldnt have gone and messed with it ... good example.

Oh boy, want to really see this problem get a heated response? to the effect of Apple banning one guy "hypnotik" for trying to help by providing a google spreadsheet for users to fill in to help apple pinpoint the cause for the problem!!

Well, since Apple is censoring him, here are basically the same posts he as made to another forum.

http://www.logicprohelp.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=25&t=78028&start=420#p456896

You be the judge as to if he should have been censored.

Well, you said it.. "Google" spreadsheet, makers of the dreaded Android operating system. 😉

I am having the exact same issue and would really appreciate Apple's urgent attention in getting this fixed ASAP.

This sound like part of a wider issue people are having - have a look at the thread below:

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3226612?answerId=19444083022#19444083022&ac_cid=tw123456#19444083

seantyas wrote:

banning one guy "hypnotik" for trying to help...

That's not why they banned him. I don't know which of his posts you saw before they were deleted, but he went way beyond what any forum would consider acceptable. At first he was just complaining about the issue but later on it almost seemed like he was trying to get himself banned.

"You be the judge" doesn't really apply without seeing all the things he posted that resulted in the banning.