here's a breakdown of my new song to show you a bit of my process and how each layer compliments each other, lmk thoughts!

Thoughts on this one? I've been using Logic Pro X for year and a half. I'm still learning, so i'd like to hear ur opinions!

apple “isn’t listening” to you because you’re a tad insufferable.

that’s it. that’s the whole post.

My MacBook is up to date, but it is taking 10-15 minutes just to turn on lately (it will suddenly stop responding), and when in it’s either overloading with the smallest amount of plugins being used, and I’ve bounced the plug in heavy tracks that were done.

4 times in the last few days has straight up just fully crash.

Any suggestions? I’m purging unused stuff on my laptop to keep up, but I’m nearly about to switch to abelton.

Edit should mention I’m on Sonoma 14.5

Straight up complaint. I'm not a computer person, so I'm sure there is just something innate that I'm doing that is destroying my experience with Logic Pro. I've been operating it for three years now and I used to use Soundforge and Acid back in the day. I'm only saying this because I finished more songs when all I had was a tascam. I have some really great parts, don't get me wrong, but it seems like it just starts crashing and not reading things correctly just about at every song's 80% mark. I have an Apple M2 24 memory laptop from 2022. I paid this much so I wouldn't have these problems. It seems I have to be a computer expert to run this stuff effectively. I spend more time just trying to get my files to open and work correctly than I do writing anymore. I can't use my libraries because there's not enough storage on my computer. I move everything to the iCloud and the computer doesn't care, it still says only 8gb available (after spending 5 hours carefully deleting 90 GB of projects and unused stuff and making sure I wasn't deleting anything important). I've also hit the "empty trash button" four times only to go back and see it's all still there. I move my Roland Cloud to an external SSD, now my Roland Cloud instruments don't want to work half the time.

I'm going to take it to a service person. Maybe there's something I'm doing in the actual file that is causing extra stuff to linger. I often notice that when I'm loading up my projects I see all these files (and plug-ins) scroll by as it loads (including mp3's of reference tracks I'm not even using anymore that are nowhere visible in my project). My projects get up to a gig fast and usually at 9 gb by the time I'm trying to do ear candy and detail work.

I feel a little better now.

It looks pretty and it's easy to use (until it stops working).

https://www.instagram.com/reel/Cx_AKQyLiP4/?igshid=NzZhOTFlYzFmZQ==

okay heres the deal,

made a shitload of fucking mega hits on logic 9, on an imac i had from 2006 to 2010. Upgraded my imac last year....bought the new logic X freshy fucking fresh...so then i try and open up some BANGERs from the old logic 9 with logic X and it says it cannot do this for me. not a big deal, im a fucking boss...or so i thought.

i thought i would outsmart those apple fucks and just reinstall my logic 9, open my projects files in fucking logic 9, when i need to bust out my old baby makers...and use logic X for the new/future panty droppers...but FUCKML... after i went through the fucking HOURS to install the OLD logic fucking 9 on my freshy fresh brand new imac...THE MOTHER FUCKER SAYS IT WONT OPEN IN YOSEMITE

LIKE A BITCH

FUCK YOU APPLE FUCK FUCK FUCK YOU

THIS IS BITCH SHIT

WTF YOU SHIT ON YOUR BOYS (and girls) FOR

IVE BEEN USING YOUR SHIT SINCE LOGIC FUCKING 6 APPLE

NOW YOU MAKE ME LOOK LIKE A FUCKING BITCH NEXT TO THE PROTOOLS FUCKS

fuck.

I love using Logic because of it's interface and nice shortcuts. But ever since I started using it I was experiencing nasty bugs all over the place. Like my drums won't play, using the Q-Sampler made Logic crash, applying channel strip presets will delete the track instead of loading instruments etc.
What's up with that? Is anyone else struggling with the same problems?

So unless I’m missing something (I’ve tried everything and turned on and off every limiter and compressor everywhere in the project) this mastering assistant will compress the fuck out of certain parts like where a kick or 808 hits hard and it literally sounds like someone’s just turning up and down all the volume faders on all your separate tracks up and down at random intervals throughout your song. It’s fucking terrible. It makes it worse. It makes you have to literally work triple time trying to figure out what to do in order to make the master assistant work properly. Literally the FUCKING OPPOSITE of what it’s supposed to do. A/B reference with/without mastering turned on if I played it for all of you and asked which one was the mastered final mix, not ONE OF YOU would choose the one with logic’s mastering on it. Fuck outta here

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please enjoy

Does anyone have any tips to make Logic Pro operate a little more like Ableton live?

I am a Berklee student and I have a class to learn how to use Logic Pro. I have ample experience with live.

My problem is, it’s seems like the workflow in Logic is complete crap compared to live. I like the instruments anc synthesizers but I really hate the autoloop function, curso tools function, and the program just seems so cluttered and it’s extremely frustrating to work with.

I HAVE to do this class and use this daw as its part of the curriculum.

Can anyone recommend settings to make it less painful? Thanks!

Does anyone use APM FOR MUSIC PRODUCTION if yes what's your experience?

Hi everyone, I'm a 14-year-old music producer from Japan. Recently, I've been studying chord progressions and scales, but I've started wondering: is it really okay to break the 'rules' of music theory?

Sometimes I feel like a progression sounds great, even if it technically breaks the traditional rules I've learned. I’m curious to hear your thoughts—do you follow the rules strictly, or do you prioritize what sounds best to your ears? Any advice for a beginner trying to develop their own style?

Quick update, Logic is working well at the moment, with no major issues - my SSL plugins have stopped working but that's because I have cancelled the subscription so was to be expected.

Has anyone noticed that Apple took out the “3rd party plugins” part off the Logic Pro for iPad site?

https://www.apple.com/logic-pro-for-ipad/

It used to show up under “Play on with pro plug‑ins” and spoke about having FabFilter and other 3rd party plugins by name.

After downloading and using Logic Pro for iPad, I’m disappointed I don’t see anything on the App Store or in-app regarding 3rd party plugins.

One of the sample projects included just has a limiter on Stereo Out…does Apple really think I’ll be able to make my mix so perfect it’ll only need a limiter to master? 💁‍♂️

Metering is VERY good with 1st party Logic plugins but Insight 2 offers that little bit I need. Neutron 4 does 60% of the mixing for me. Ozone 10 basically does 80% of the mastering for me. Kickstart 2 ducks my synths with precision (and below certain frequency bands), am I now supposed to sidechain my kick to a compressor to get the same result? The whole point of these plugins is to make our workflows faster.

This looks more like GarageBand Pro, not Logic Pro. I’m not necessarily a pro, but I’ve used Logic Pro for 10 years…it does not feel very Pro at all.

I will give Apple credit and say they did a great job making the UI work with a touchscreen without deviating too much from the desktop version. It’d be just good enough if there were 3rd party plugins.

At the end of the day, it’s not a bad V1 but lack of 3rd party plugin support means there’s no way I’ll practically use this in the wild. I have an iPad Pro with an M1 chip and most of the plugins I use on my Mac don’t require Rosetta (they work natively). Selfishly, I’d at least like to see plugins work on iPads with M1 and M2 chips…

New apple silicon, 7 years using Logic Pro, 5 years of updates, 40 minutes later I am still hearing ringing in my ears because I wanted to master a track in app. The issue of audio glitching in Logic Pro needs to be addressed and apple clearly won't listen unless it hurts their pockets. I've been googling this for a while and it seems these complaints go back almost a decade. People mention adaptive limiter as a fix but that is no excuse and no guarantee. The damage was done via APPLE'S PROGRAM. There is no failsafe (we would all rather the audio stop) and I have never had this happen on another DAW. It feels like my ears are bleeding. I am already looking into a class action suit so upvote or leave a comment if you have had this issue. I KNOW I am not the only one, hearing damage is irreversible and unacceptable.

EDIT: leave a comment or upvote if you have had similar trouble, thanks

I miss the days of early Logic 10.1, with the dark, sleek, metallic look. And I hate the new flat Ableton-aping greyness of modern Logic 10.

That's all.

ETA - Seeing is believing: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZya0QGWPcs0

Sorry if not allowed, I'm looking for collaborators not customers. I think its way past due time to propose an alternative to the JUCE/PACE/iLok model. Anyway its all in the readme - free to contribute, fork, commercialize, whatever you want within the MIT licensing (permissive, including commercial works) framework. See it all here: https://github.com/Symbia-Labs/ruse

Musicians. Describe the effect you hear in your head, and your personal agent like Claude or ChatGPT turns it into a plugin you can load in Logic or any other Audio Unit or CLAP host, with no code to write.

Sound designers. Build the exact processor a sound needs from tested DSP blocks, on anything from mono to 64 channels for surround and immersive work.

Commercial plugin developers. Ship closed-source CLAP and Audio Unit plugins in memory-safe Rust with no licence fees, and have every build validated automatically, including Apple's auval.

Where I really need help:

1. testing and feedback

2. DSP block suggestions (bare minimum included to start)

3. Community contributions, word of mouth, reviews, other sharing (if you mean it)

Thank you so much!