I can't monitor audio from Record Enabled tracks
Here's a problem I've been having a lot with Logic X (every version thus far).
I create an Audio Track (let's say it's Audio Track 1 in my project) and select the appropriate inputs for this new track (let's say inputs 3+4 for a stereo track). I have a MIDI Track sending notes to a rack synth connected to inputs 3+4 on my interface. I Record Enable this new Audio Track 1 I've created and hit play. When I do this I can see the audio coming from my rack synth into my interface on the interface's meters, and I can see the audio coming into my new Audio Track 1 because the meters on the mixer channel show me the audio is getting to that Audio Track, but it's not being passed through to the Stereo Output so I can hear it. Is the Output on my Audio Track 1 set to Stereo Output? Yes. Let's say I change Audio Track 1's output to Bus 7 out of curiosity. Still no go. Just like with the Stereo Output, Bus 7's meters stay flat even though Audio Track 1's meters are jumpin'.
So now, out of curiosity, I enable Input Monitoring on my Audio Track 1 - still no audio passing out of the track while the track is playing, but I'm sure I can catch the tail of the audio I should be hearing from Audio Track 1 when I stop the Playhead. It's like something is stopping Audio Track 1 from passing along the audio it's clearly receiving while Logic is playing, but as soon as Logic stops playing that audio can pass through as it should to the track's set output . . . only there isn't much audio to pass when Logic isn't playing. To test this I put a long reverb on Audio Track 1, and sure enough, when I stop the playhead, suddenly audio is let out of Audio Track 1 and I can hear that long reverb tail in all its glory. And for the record I can see no difference in this behaviour whether Audio Track 1 is Soloed or not.
Now I disable the Record Enable on Audio Track 1 - leaving only the Input Monitoring enabled. Suddenly the audio passes from Audio Track 1 to the Stereo Output like it should, and I can hear it, but it's waaay out of sync - enough for a couple of my 16th note bass hits to play before the rest of the tracks start. So I try putting Logic into Low Latency mode - and now the audio from my Audio Track 1 is even more out of sync than before! How much? The entire amount of latency that the rest of the project is playing through.
Out of curiosity I decide to hit Record instead of Play. The audio coming into Audio Track 1 records perfectly in sync with the rest of the project as it should, but it still does not pass to the Stereo Output, (or anywhere else) so I can hear it while it's recording.
Once the audio is recorded, and I have an actual audio region in Audio Track 1, I can play and hear that audio region exactly as you'd expect I should be able to.
I've tried disabling and re-enabling Core Audio, disconnecting and reconnecting to my interface, quitting and restarting Logic . . . watching an hour of football . . . nothing seems to work.
I'm wasting a lot of time because I can't audition my sounds prior to recording them, and I can't just record them without first knowing what they're going to sound like with the rest of the track. I'm getting nothing done and it's killing me.
I've included an image here where I've soloed Audio Track 1. You can clearly see that it is Record Enabled, and that audio is hitting the track, but that there's nothing being passed to the Stereo Output. Another weird item of note that this image captures is that Inst 14 (CR78 Clav) also shows audio in it's meters at this time even though it is not soloed, and that audio is also not being passed onto the Stereo Output.
Any advice super eagerly appreciated.
Cheers,
James
3.4GHz i7 iMac | 32GB RAM | Yose 10.10.5 | Logic Pro X 10.2
