Yosemite and Logic Pro X

None of that should have affected the recording delay, in fact nothing "should" affect preferences unless you manually change it.

If anything I think it's probably related to Logic's preferences somehow being corrupted, and while it may not be directly Yosemite related it could be related to the installation of Yosemite or any of the recent operating systems, like I said, it's been reported several times over the past few months.

That makes sense to me.

Pancenter wrote:

None of that should have affected the recording delay, in fact nothing "should" affect preferences unless you manually change it.

If anything I think it's probably related to Logic's preferences somehow being corrupted, and while it may not be directly Yosemite related it could be related to the installation of Yosemite or any of the recent operating systems, like I said, it's been reported several times over the past few months.

I'm a music producer (as probably many of Logic Pro X users are) and I use the sampler a lot and load in different samples. Ever since I've updated to Yosemite, whenever I open back up a new project, it disorganizes all of my sampler instruments and completely ruins the project. It also alters my EQ settings for the different tracks. Running Logic Pro X 10.0.7. Any suggestions would help

The only realistic bit of advice to give at this time is .....

Roll back, using your backups.. to the previous configuration of OS X and LPX that worked for you....

...and wait until whatever fixes are needed... are tested and released...

Note:

Latest OS X & Logic Pro Compatibility Information

Tha Art Of Sound, it may be a stupid question, but how can I know which Time Machine backup is the last one made under Maverick (so to use it for a roll back?). I mean, I don't remember the exact ill-fated day I updated to Yosemite 😉 Thank you!

Dave,

First of all using TM to create 'roll back' backups isn't the best idea... TM is good for incremental backups and single or multiple file retrievals but for full backups and restores it's best to use a Hard Drive clone program such as Carbon Copy Cloner or my personal choice SuperDuper! to make a cloned image.

http://www.shirt-pocket.com/SuperDuper/SuperDuperDescription.html

You will see why later on in this post.....

However, if a TM backup all is what we have to work with then we will just have to make the most of it 🙂

When you use the TM Recovery method.. (Restart your Mac and press CMD + R upon Startup) You can chose restore from TM Backup and in the window that opens to show your various backups it not only shows the date and time.. but also the OS X version at the time of that backup....

Make sure you have made a manual separate backup of any personal files/projects/photos etc to an external drive of some kind.. that you have created since that particular backup you are restoring from.. prior to doing the actual recovery otherwise you will lose those files forever... as they will be wiped out by the restore process.

Note: After recovery.... you may find you must for example.. re-register some of your 3rd party plugins.. or even reinstall them.. as TM does not fully and perfectly restore all files/settings... hence the suggestion in the future... to make a Clone backup instead of a TM one... before upgrading OS X or Logic for that matter... as a cloned backup is like an exact mirror image of the system disk and therefore when you restore using that you get a perfect outcome without any missing files or settings that need to be recreated or reinstalled.

TM does a okay job and so it's good to have at least that form of backup if nothing else is available... but be ready to do some extra work to get everything back up and running afterwards... Nothing terrible.. just extra work.

Cheers..

Nigel

Just to chime in an agreement on SuperDuper, you do have to make the time to do it, but knowing you have an exact clone of a perfectly working system makes for a very peaceful nights sleep. As long as installed on the same system it was cloned from nothing needs to be re-registered, no muss, no fuss.

Nigel this may be a little off topic but still Mac/Music related.

My daughter has a 13" MacBook Pro running 10.6.8.

She is an electronic muso, who these days tours quite a bit.

But she doesn't have a great backup system in place.

Ideally she needs 2 MacBookPros with one a mirror of the other, but that is another topic..

If she does a Super Duper clone on an external HD how would she copy that to the drive in her MacBook if needed ?

For a start, as it is 10.6.8, I assume there is no recovery boot option.

She would have to boot from the system DVD which came with it.

Here comes the question....is it possible to choose a copy/install from the SuperDuper clone to the main HD while booting from a system disk?

regards

Murray

Hi Murray,

SuperDuper (SD) doesn't have use the recovery partition....

So.. what you do is install SD on your system drive and then follow the instructions.. It's really simple and straightforward.. It simply makes a cloned copy to an external HD and then you can boot from the ext drive / cloned image and restore back to your system drive....

You don't have to use the system disk.....

Try it out and you will see what i mean..... 🙂

Ok thanks for the heads up Nigel.

As soon as I get hold of my daughter's MacBookPro I will put SuperDuper on it.

Katie doesn't live at home so getting hold of it isn't as easy as it might seem 🙂

regards

Murray

Nigel thank you for your suggestions. Fortunately the downgrade to Maverick went smooth. Unfortunately my problems are still there! I really don't know what to think, since one month ago I didn't have this kind of problems... The CPU meter is always full, and I managed not to freeze all the tracks by largely increasing the I/O buffer size up to 512 samples (when the interface's producer says to set it at 64 samples...). But some sample libraries don't work as they did. I think I'll try a complete reset of the machine...

Hi Nigel

Ok, got Super Duper, now have an external HD bootable clone of my daughter's MacBookPro HD.

Just so I know what may be coming next one day, let's say she wanted to reinstall from the clone.

Which drive would you select in the top left side drop down menu in Super Duper, the HD in the MacBook or the external HD ?

And I guess that answer will answer which you select in the top right side drop down.

Is it, select the original MacBook drive in top left, external bootable drive with clone in top right, then select Restore as the operation ?

Hope that makes sense 🙂

cheers

Murray

Hi Murray,

Check out pages 5 onwards...... and then pages 27 onwards of the User Guide.....

It explains the different ways to create and then restore to/from a full clone backup there....

I use the bootable 'clone' method... creating a full clone backup to an external hard drive and then I restore from that.....

Nowadays you can use any external FW/USB3 or TBolt drive to do this...

The User Guide is linked to from the SuperDuper! installer DMG...

Hope this helps...

Ok will do thanks Nigel.

I haven't read the SD manual yet 🙂

I have certainly created a bootable clone because I could see it I System Startup preferences.

My daughter already has it all back as she leaves on another tour in a day or so.

I suggested that she try connecting her new bootable drive with the clone to her band mates MacBookPro and test booting up from the new drive.

At least that offers a pretty quick fix if she has a meltdown on her MacBook just before or during a gig.

Just grab another MacBook and she can run from the bootable drive.

Thanks again.

regards

FYI I got her a LaCie 1TB Rugged drive which has FW and USB3/2 options so the FW boot is a nice tip, thanks.

regards