latency in monitoring

I'm having the same issue. I recorded a keyboard take - 2 channels, on an apogee duet. The start of the project is fine. Half way through I recorded another take after a 3 second break and I cannot get these regions to start playback. I have to exit the project and reload it. If I do any recording the same happens. It takes 2 1/4 bars before the audio starts playing. I can move the playhead along the region and it will take a few seconds for the audio to start playing - less than the beginning of the region. Very annoying. I have tried latency settings and restarted, etc.

Im in the middle of a project with tight timelines. Please help!

I found the answer to my problem. I had a full drum set comped with about 8 takes accross 8 tracks. Once I merged and flattened the comps the audio played back fine and on time. I did notice Logic loading up tracks into memory a few times when I made changes in the project. since flattening the comps I havent seen that appear. Also my Logic Pro X memory consumption in Activity Monitor went down from 1.2 GB to 1 GB - not sure if that is the problem, but I;m working fine now. Phew.

Novice2011 wrote:

Hi

a very annoying thing has just occurred when recording audio in logic pro x...

at first i thought it was "latency" but the recording of the audio is unaffected... it records everything in time ....

and plays back perfectly in time...

Have you added a "latency inducing plugin" to either the master bus or one of the track inserts.

Mastering plugins cause latency as does multiband compression.

Make sure your Preferences/Audio/ I/O buffer is 128 or less.

Remember, the lower the I/O buffer the harder the computer has to work. It's always a balancing act between low latency and CPU usage.

I have no master plugins on at all. I had ez drummer but replaced that with real drums and deleted the track. I do only have 8 Gb of RAM on my MacBook - since OSX mavericks the memory usage has increased. Time to upgrade my ram and gift the 8Gb to my wife since her MacBook has slowed after mavericks.

Thanks so much for the fast reply. Very much appreciated.

Yes, from helping a friend upgrade to Mavericks I can now safely say performance is lacking.

That said, are you sure you don't have any latency inducing plugins on a bus or any track insert?