Mac Mini (2018) has problems with Logic Pro X

I am also preparing to purchase another (new) Mac Mini with Logic Pro X. I will be using an Mbox Pro3. I sure hope we hear back with good news regarding this issue. Thank You and Good Luck!

Do you think using a non 4K display would fix all of this? Like using just a 1080 screen?

Just tried a 1080 display. Made no difference at all. Same issues.

LOL that’s totally nuts coding on the part of the Apple guys then. Hahaha!

Ahhhhh that does make sense. Nonetheless it doesn’t remedy the spiking issue and uneven distribution of processing, but it does make sense.

I am thinking that the mini/Mojave might just be the perfect storm as well. Sadly this shouldn’t be so either. This machine should be an ideal solution for DAWs.

I'd look through the threads below and see if any of it sounds familiar....

There seems to be a larger issue that has to do with all T2 chip machines, regardless of model.

iMac Pro users have had audio issues for a year now, (interface is totally irrelevant). And, 2018 MacBook Pro users have had audio problems with both the built-in hardware and external audio interfaces. (Again, internal or external is irrelevant.)

Instead, the issue seems to be related to a universal bridgeOS problem affecting all T2 machines.

The consensus so far, (OUTSIDE of Apple), is that the chips may not necessarily have issues so much as Apple have not addressed bridgeOS issues that will continue to affect all T2 machines until they take the issue seriously.

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/macbook-pro-2018-speakers-crackling.2128234/page-51

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/do-you-have-any-issues-with-audio-on-the-mac-mini.2153841/page-2

1) Does the audio problem exist regardless of the project you’re running?

2) What, if any, virtual instruments/software instruments, are you running when the audio problems occur?

3) How much ram is installed in your 2014 MBP?

I just got rid of my brand new 2018 mac mini! Something was really wrong with this mac! Apparently they rushed it out to meet the release date!

It is not, by any means, a professional machine and therefore not suitable for professional work!

I took my losses (about 600€) and traded it in for a mac book pro 15", i7, 512GB monster! Now I'm back into business!

Shame on you Apple! Steve Jobs would have never allowed such poor products to see the light of day!

Ahhhh. It just so happens that I am running a very similar UA setup... Hmmmmmm. I have been pushing UA for official Mojave support btw, cause technically speaking they don't "officially" support Mojave yet, which is ridiculous btw. I wonder what audio hardware everyone else here is using...?

>• It's not possible to split a single thread across multiple cores, although a single core may run multiple threads at the same time. 

A single channel strip can only use one core, that means the instrument and all effects on that track can only use a single CPU core. However, several channel strips can use a single core.

• Multithreading pop-up menu: Determines whether multithreading is set for playback tracks only, or for playback and live tracks.

The Playback & Live Tracks setting distributes the load to different threads in cases where a Track Stack that contains multiple software instrument channel strips is selected, or when more than one audio track is recording. If the computer has enough cores and there are no other existing DSP demands on the computer, each live channel strip can be processed by a different core.  The Playback & Live Tracks option might place slightly more overall load on the system, so if you don’t have any high demand live tracks, Playback Tracks might be the better choice.

From:

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT205975

I spoke too soon. I am indeed having similar issues.