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  1. I think Eric is right. Looking at the SSL buss comp, it has a knob to select a frequency for the side chain and that happens internally within the compressor. No need to do what you are attempting that I know of.
  2. He said he did a time machine transfer, so no it's not a clean install. His signature also lists 10.9 as his OS.
  3. This looks like a good guide on doing a fresh install. http://osxdaily.com/2015/10/01/clean-install-os-x-el-capitan-mac/ Be sure to back up your documents or anything else not on an external drive as you will be wiping the drive clean. The reason I recommend this is you seem to be having very strange problems that aren't being experienced by other people. This was the case when I was getting the audio glitches caused by the Artist Mix control surface. I even sent my converters back to Apogee before I was able to identify the real problem. So you wipe your hard drive and load OS X, then load logic, then get your interface up and running. At this point you should be able to open your project that is having problems and try it out. Any non-Logic plugins you are using obviously won't be available for the session since you haven't loaded them but that is what you want. Try the session with just Logic and your interface installed. If the problem is still there after this, you know your interface is the problem. If it works, then load up one new thing, whether plugins or some other midi interface you use. Whatever it is, do it one at a time and they try out your session until the problem appears again, whatever you loaded last is very likely the problem. Like I mentioned before, I was using a new logic project which is why I didn't find the Artist Mix to be an issue until the second time I did the fresh install, this time I used a large project to test and it started happening as soon as I loaded the Artist Mix. Got rid of that thing and it's been smooth sailing since. Just be sure you are following all the steps and back up properly. Your signature shows you are using 10.9 so if I were you, I would load up El Capitan first before doing a fresh install just in case that resolves the problem.
  4. Why not just do a fresh install? It's not that big of a deal and if you do it step by step, meaning you load one thing at a time and try it out for a bit, you can identify the problem. I had an Artist Mix control surface that was causing intermittent audio glitches. I had to reinstall my system twice before I identified it as the problem and that was because when I was doing my testing, adding one thing at a time, I was using a new session, so be sure to use a session you are having problems with for your testing as you re-install. And why are you still using 10.9? The OS X updates are free and El Capitan has been performing really well. At this point doing a clean install is the best way forward IMO.
  5. You're welcome Tony! If you are staying in the box for mixing, the stereo out is where you would put the buss compressor. Definitely keep reading up on it, there are a number of different approaches and they all achieve different results. One of the things I like about music production is how different people have different preferences and how those preferences all add up to so many different sounding productions. Try everything you can for sure. You can do aux compression on the mix and then blend it with the unprocessed mix, all I would advise is to do that from the start of your mix too. Compression will alter a mix for sure no matter what approach you use. Not quite sure the best way to route that but I'm sure there is a way. I actually haven't used the wet/dry in the inspector But I do use plug in and analog compressors with a mix knob and it can be really cool. Although for mix buss use, I prefer just the full compressed signal as opposed to a mix of it and the dry signal.
  6. There are different approaches to buss compression. The simplest being a compressor on your two buss, compressing everything. Some use different compressors for different groups of instruments and then sum those bussed into a stereo. Using it as an aux could work and I'm sure some folks do that or use a compressor with a mix control. For myself I use a stereo linked compressor on my mix buss but it should be set up and running when you start your mix, so the whole time it's affecting your decisions. It's not something you put on after your mix is how you like it, that would land it more in the mastering realm. The point of buss compression is to have the compressor reacting to your mix as you mix it. It will help your mix generally in good ways as the compressor is reacting to all the different instruments yet reducing the gain on everything, some call this "gluing the mix" or something similar. Personally I set up instruments with their own eq and compression if they need it, try to avoid doing things out of habit or because you think you should. Use the bypass button on anything you add constantly to make sure it's helping, also gain the output properly so it matches the unaffected signal, louder things always sound better and it can trick you into applying affects that make the sound worse. As far as setting go, it's up to your ears but generally I have a slow attack setting and a lower ratio. The release is really program dependent as everything is but I haven't found fast attack settings to really gel well on a mix buss. Hope that helps.
  7. That's good. So it sounds like he is running off the system drive. Which being on 500g might be filling up fast, especially with a project 2 hours and 45 mins long. Wes, do you have an external drive you could move your project to and try it then?
  8. "My Logic folder is in Dropbox so it's always backed up. Would this be the problem?" Are you saying you are recoding and working from a project running on dropbox, as opposed to your internal drive or more preferred an external audio drive? If so that would definitely be a problem. If you are recording to your internal drive that the OS and programs are on that could be a problem as well.
  9. Logic is fantastic for mixing. My engineer friends who use PT have commented a number of times on how nice Logic handles many things. I've yet to see anything PT does that I feel I'm missing out on. The only disadvantage I can think of is if you want to be able to mix PT sessions but if I'm hired to mix only, I request the audio files anyway.
  10. Sorry I missed your reply Redbaron. All are analog, my I/O in mixing all runs through AD16x and DA16x, clocked to the symphony. Thank you for the run down on that! It seems I have found the issue, it's when the computer goes to sleep, which I have set at three hours but I forgot to shut off last light and just loaded up a session and pinged, it was off again. I tried unchecking and applying core audio in preferences but that didn't do the trick. It took a shut down of the computer and symphony to get back to normal. Now I know. Thanks for the help folks.
  11. It was the 49-52 range when I booted up. I'll update if it occurs again and I find a consistent resolution.
  12. I'll check that this evening. I mentioned the hard disk as it seems to eliminate the possibility of some software issue since it's a clean, stripped down install.
  13. Thanks for the replies everyone. I'm using just EQ and Compressors for the I/O, no reverbs or effects. Using a PCI-e card with the symphony. It was like this even before I added the DA/AD16xs, so just the symphony and the modules in the chassis going right to the PCI-e card. That should eliminate the DA/AD16xs as a culprit. Is a negative number even possible, like the -7 I get? Maybe I should leave them at the +49-52 range once I get it to ping there. I'm 90% sure I don't notice a change in ping value from the 49-52 range even if I change the i/o buffer, does that seem weird? Last night I didn't see it change but it was a consistent session until we stopped, so not the normal situation where I see the change. I'll check again this evening and report back, It's not a huge deal to re-ping but I'm just concerned I forget and if this is not supposed to be happening it would be nice to resolve it. Would the PCI slot in the computer I use make a difference? Can hardware cause any latency, even a sample or two that might explain the 49-52 range? The ping function seems really straight ahead, as in it's not requesting the apogee stuff to report anything, it's just calculating the time it takes to ping back right? So if that is right, it means the apogee is actually changing to be more or less quick the in the I/O, as opposed to reporting bad information. Last week I loaded a SSD for my system drive, started from scratch so the system drive is really fresh and bare bones as far as software goes at the moment. It was doing this before the new hard drive.
  14. Restarted it and unplugged replugged all the digital cables, it didn't change this time. Hopefully it stays put. If it happens again, I'll try what you said in that other thread. "What you can test next time is to go into Preferences > Audio > Devices. Uncheck the Audio Engine box and apply. Re-check it and apply and that should take care of it." Would you say that this issue is definitely not supposed to be happening?
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