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It works!!!!!!

I use one Extender with my X-Touch and am having the exact same experience as you. I’ve tried everything but to no avail. I launched the previous most recent Logic version from an archive to check, the extender works perfectly there. So it’s definitely a 10.8 issue. I have filed a report. I hope many people reports this so it gets fixed ASAP!

My system includes 2 UAD Apollo X8P interfaces and quite a few UAD plugs - all are working great for me on Sonoma, so Ventura should definitely be smooth sailing.

I may have found a bug in 10.8. I use both the X-Touch as well as the X-Touch Extender control surfaces. Prior to the update both units functioned as expected. After the update, the LCD Scribble Strips on the Extender unit are just black. If I turn the unit off and back on, they light up briefly during the startup but then go black. If I turn the unit on while Logic is not running, the LCD's illuminate as expected. Launch Logic, shooooo, off they go. All ofhter functionality of the extender is solid though, Mute, Solo, Select, Faders, all are working as they should, just nothing in the scribble strips. I say it "MAY" be a bug because I'm not that well versed with using control surfaces, so I'm thinking, perhaps, something might be wrong in the settings? After the update the order of the two units was backwards as well & I had to trash the CS Prefs and reinstall (worked like a charm). So maybe there's something else I'm missing? Any ideas?

My studio guitar rig consists of 8 amplifier heads in my control room and 4 speaker cabinets (in another part of the house) all connected to my KHE 8x4 Amp/Cab Selector switching unit. Very convenient for selecting amp and speaker combinations without having to crawl behind my amp wall and move cables. The downside, however, is that, while I often like to blend the sounds of two amplifiers together, multiple mics on each for an enhanced sound, this configuration only allows me to play through one amp at a time. A situation like this is a perfect candidate for reamping - record my DI signal, then record tracks of whatever amps/speakers I want for that 'take' - one at a time. An issue I'm running into, however, is in the slight latency that occurs in the roundtrip of my DI signal out to an amp/mic and back into my interface. For example - I run the DI signal out to one of my Marshalls and into a Splawn 4x12 cab with Celestion Greenback speakers. For a nice huge sound, I'd also like that amp to be running into my Vintage 30's loaded Bogner cabinet. I can't run them at the same time as one is 8 ohms, the other is 16 ohms. So if I can make a pass of each, that's just as good. The problem, however, is that after I've recorded the first pass (greenbacks), if I play that back, with the mics/tracks on the Bogner cab armed, I'm getting a very phasey sound. If I insert the I/O plugin on the DI track, ping it and then record it, the resulting track lines up perfectly so no problem there. The problem is when playing back the already recorded track, then arming the next track, I want to hear what the two sound like together without having to record a full pass to check it, or perhaps make some adjustments to the amp, which I need to hear in real time, before recording the second pass. With the phasing going on this just isn't possible. I thought perhaps if I inserted the Sample Delay plugin on the track onto which I'm recording the second pass (or the track stack inside of which are the separate tracks for the multiple mics) and set it to the latency shown in the I/O plugin (after ping) that would sort it out, but it doesn't (even if I set the latency offset in the I/O plugin to zero, & no matter how I set the Sample Delay, I cannot stop the phasing. So I can't accurately hear what the two will sound like together. Additionally, the value returned when I ping it is changing, sometimes 232 samples, sometimes as much as 450 samples. When nothing changes in the signal path, even when recording two takes, same DI source and the same amp - literally nothing changing. Does anyone have any idea what I can do so I can hear the playback of the first track while also hearing the sound coming through the mics for the second track?

Hi All, With my new band we like to record our gigs so we can listen, see what needs improvement and work accordingly. We use a Midas M32C as our mixer (soundguy controls via iPad). This is great as it records directly to a thumbdrive - simple to import & work on it. The problem is on every recording there are many 'spikes' - short random bursts of white noise at full amplitude. You can see them on the screen grab I'll include here. The only way I've found to get rid of these is to go through and, one by one, isolate them to their own regions and mute them. There are sometimes hundreds of these little spikes per set - making the simple task of splitting the files into individual song files to share a super long process, pretty much not worth it to do. Being at full amplitude, they're extremely loud blasts and ruins the listening experience, makes it hard to focus on what needs work. BTW - this does not happen in any file we record - for instance: that screen grab I posted was the file from set 1 (well, 45 minutes of it). I just loaded the set 2 file and there are ZERO of these. Anyone familiar with the M32 (or similar device) who has some insight on what might cause this? I've got the full Izotope music production suite (version 9) which includes a bunch of their RX tools but I haven't been able to find a way to get rid of these blasts. Are there any other tools that will help me with this, perhaps something built into Logic? Thanks in advance for your help.

No? If I may ask, what negative effects will I see? As I understand it, the T2 processor handles the enc/dec duties, freeing the i9 to do whatever else it is tasked with. Not trying to be adversarial, I just wanna understand this completely. Thanks!

Hi all, I recently purchased a 2019 15" MacBook Pro with a 512GB SSD, 8 core i9 processor & 16gb RAM. I plan to do some recording with it, initially I'll be doing some recordings of my band. If I've got the template set up correctly it will be 25 tracks, all raw digital audio from out Midas M32 monitor console (pre all adjustments), no VMs or effects. I'm recording to a Samsung T1 1TB external drive via USB-C. I've done some optimizations such as removing all unused networking adapters, turning off auto sleep, firewall, etc. I've never used Filevault before on my Macs but since this one will be used mobile I turned it on upon initial setup of this MacBook. Given that this is a fairly beefy processor and that I'm recording to an external SSD my assumption is that leaving Filevault 2 on won't cause me any problems, but I'm not really an expert so I wanted to ask here as a lot of you are FAR more expert than I. Any info on additional optimizations, also, would be vastly appreciated. Thank you in advance for your help!!!!

A few nights ago I opened a track I've been working with for the last few weeks. Every time I'd go to add an audio track, be it a new Audio Track or a new Duplicate of an existing track or even track stack, Logic would immediately crash. Happened several times, I was a bit worried the project file might've become corrupt, so I grabbed an older version from my Time Machine backup, it opened and worked fine so....problem solved? A little while later I went to add a new track and BAM! Gone! Crashed again. So I kinda retraced my steps to try to figure out what was causing this & remembered I had been adding photos of guitar amp settings to individual tracks. So I, again, grabbed the earlier version from my TM backup, opened it and started adding pics, one at a time, then trying to add tracks. I finally figured out that the problem is with adding more than one photo to one track's notes. My eyes aren't great and photos in track notes are a bit smaller so I was taking pics close up of the knob settings so they're easy to see & would sometimes need two photos to get in both the EQ knobs and gain section knobs. This is reproducible, at least on my end, just add two or more photos to the notes of a single track then try to add a new audio track. I'm curious to know if this happens with anyone else's setup.

Lagerfeldt - your generosity with this stuff is amazing - thank you! A big yes on a video!

Not sure I'm totally understanding your question? Are you saying you're getting amp hum when running your guitar direct and using an amp sim such as Amplitube?

Fisher - I saw in your signature last night that you were on pb7 - was wondering how it was doing for you. I haven't done much but I'm really seeing no problems with it on my machine.

I installed PB7 tonight - did a quick test of LPX 10.3.2 with a project I finished a few months ago - I chose this one because there are between 50-60 audio tracks, a few with many plugins, nearly all with at least Slate's VTM (tape machine) and VMR (Mix Rack - multi plugs) and a several plugs on the 2 buss. All my Slate and Waves plugs validated, Slate plugs all seem to be functioning as designed, performance is GREAT - a bit better than under whichever version of Sierra was current in April when I completed this project. For shits and giggles I lowered my i/o buffer to 32 to see how my machine would handle it - opened the CPU meter, all meters were at or below 50%. Previously I had to have the buffer set to 128 to play smoothly with clicks, glitches, etc. So there definitely seems to be an improvement. I haven't tried a lot of stuff as this was just a quick run-through but so far so good.

Me too

For me the ability to switch to direct monitoring inside Logic is HUGE and will get used a lot, alongside the FX Send capability of the new software. I'm also pleased with the ability to now add an Element Series interface if I need more tracks and not have to sacrifice any sound quality. Very forward thinking Apogee. Bravo!