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Thank you so much, Eriksimon! It's been so long since I've used Logic that I have forgotten the basics! I found the sucker hiding on one of Logic's secret busses it sets up with some of its FX. I'd forgotten I went in and spiced that one up. Thanks for that info, Ploki. One day I'll be forced to "upgrade" and this info will come in handy and help anyone else that is having this same problem on a more current version of Logic. This is a bit off topic, but I really got seduced by the beauty and great native plugins of Logic while working on this project, so I decided to start watching a beginner's tutorial just to remind me where everything is and maybe do a project or two in it now and then. But then I reopened it after downgrading my Waves AUs because some of the newer v9 versions don't like Yosemite, but my hardware does. Turns out Logic doesn't like most of the AUs I just reinstalled. I did this all for one plugin, really. But it reminded me of why Logic drove me nuts and what made me fall in love with REAPER. It took it forever to scan those AUs, and it gives me no clue as to why it doesn't like them. Just "can't open". They work fine in REAPER and every other DAW. For the love of music, can someone please tell me why Logic has to be so opaque? It only likes 13 out of about 400 and it tells me nothing about why it doesn't like them. Luckily, I only use a few and it likes the most important one. The rest are going bye-bye as soon as I get my UAD Apollo gear and plugins next month. So, turns out my rekindled love of Logic may yet survive. It still feels so clunky compared to REAPER, which is totally customized so I can do everything I do often with a key command or mouse click, so I doubt it's gonna be anything more than a glorified interface to the sound libraries after I trudge through this project. Still, I'm gonna give it a shot. It's good to be comfortable in more than one DAW, but they all just feel so limiting after using REAPER! Thank you both for you quick replies. That was a huge help!

None of the searches I've run on this have dealt with my issue, so I'm hoping someone here can help. My Logic skills are rusty, since I stopped using it when I discovered REAPER about 3 years ago, but now I've got to work on a old Logic project and every time I load it I get this warning: "the plugin RX is not available on your system". I'm running Logic Pro X 10.2.4 on Yosemite. (And, no, I don't want to "upgrade"—I'd run Snow Leopard if I could.) I'm sure that I may have put an older version of an RX plugin on a track at some point, but I've gone through every track, and there are no RX plugins anywhere that I can see. Nor is there anything indicating that an active plugin isn't working. (Nothing red, no warning symbols, etc.) It doesn't even tell me which RX plugin it thinks is missing or which track it thinks it's supposed to be on. I probably had RX 5 when I last used Logic, and now I'm at 7, but I just had to put all my 6 AUs back because that version of Logic doesn't seem to like RX 7 AUs and I thought maybe that would shut it up. I don't even have the 5 installer around any more. Is there any way I can stop it from looking for this plugin?

That was it! You made me start thinking of what I had running that might interfere with it. I run Flavours2 to help make the interface look a little bit more like it used to before Ive's made it a really bad combo of Google design and Windows Vista with out-of-the-box colors. That was the problem. I can just flip it off when I'm in Logic, because Ive's hasn't pissed all over that yet. It still is pretty beautiful. Thank you! Problem solved.

Steve H, you're a hero. This was driving me nuts trying to get iZotope RX Dialog De-noise plugin to Learn a noise pattern. I know this is an 8 year old thread, but I'm glad it's still alive. Also, you got me started checking all my Project Setting (just working on an pre-existing project, so didn't set them up myself), and I found where to set the Tuner to a 436 Hz A. Awesome. Makes a huge difference, especially when tuning to work with cymatics. A 440 Hz A based tuning creates chaotic, scattered messes, but 436 Hz makes gorgeous geometric patterns. Totally off topic, I know. In the interest of helping David keep things tidy, I'll post any questions I may have about how to best shift everything -16 cent to get the desired tuning from 440 Hz projects.

No matter what file I'm working with, the project name does not show up in the title bar. I can save a copy of a file, open the copy, create a brand new one, whatever. I've tried all the obvious things to get it to show up, and it's always the same. Icon, but no title. Can Command+click where the title should be and get the normal drop-down menu with the project title and path, but that's the only way I can see the project title. It has been this way ever since installing, so it's not related to any plugins I've added, and no other applications on my system exhibit the same behavior. Very mysterious.

Hi everyone. Just wanna thank the awesome experts here for their rapid response to my n00b questions. This one has me stumped, and I'm hoping someone has a simple, obvious solution that I'm overlooking. No matter what file I'm working with, the project name does not show up in the title bar. I can see the icon, and if I Command+click the area where the name should be, it will show the name and path, just like in any app. But unless I do that, there is nothing there but the icon, as you can see in the attached image. The closest thing to an answer that I could find here or anywhere was a problem with template names showing up there next to the project name, which was solved by going to File>Alternatives>Edit Alternatives and getting rid of the template file there. I looked there, and my project file is listed there and checked (otherwise, I'm sure I'd be having much worse problems). There was nothing else there that looked like it would solve this problem, and searching the internet, manual, and all the viewing options and menu items I could think of revealed nothing. Anyone have any ideas? It is quite disturbing to not be able to look up and know which version of a file I'm working with, since I'm working on multiple versions of the same file with the only difference being the plugins I'm testing. It would be a great help if I could look up and confirm I'm in the right file before I start reconfiguring all the plugins. This seems like buggy behavior to me, but perhaps a genius here has a solution. Thanks in advance! You guys are awesome.

This is a great tutorial. I realize this is an 8 year old thread but I thought I'd toss out some kudos anyway. It's exactly how I would have done it. Unfortunately, that method doesn't seem to work in Logic Pro X with Summing Stack Tracks. It seems you now have to use the Gate and select the "Duck" mode. For instance, the project I was working on had two Summing Track Stacks—one with all of the background music and sound effects and one with the voice over tracks. It was a movie trailer, so in order to get the mix right, I needed just a bit of ducking on all the background effects so the VO cut through well. I tried using a compressor with the bus for the VO Track Stack for the side chain. It did not work. I have no idea why. It should have. Every other DAW I've ever worked with would have done it fine. But, in Logic Pro X, no joy. However, I set up the Gate on the Background Track Stack (no extra bus needed) and selected the bus for the VO Track Stack, selected the "Duck" option, and viola! Instant joy. For the record, I also tried the old Ducker, which you can still get by holding down the Option key when you click to add the plugin then go to Legacy. It didn't work either. So, from what I can tell, if you want to duck more than one track at a time, you now have to use the Duck option in the Gate plugin, then select the side chain you want. No need for an extra bus anymore.

Okay, I converted automation from track to region, added "dummy" automation to the stubborn lanes, deleted automation from selected tracks, then deleted orphaned automation from selected tracks. The lanes were still there. However, when I closed them using the little "x" button, they did not come back! I don't know how much of that process was necessary. I think either the converting from track to region or adding new automation might be extraneous, but I'm not sure which. If I had to guess, I'd say it's the converting. Whatever the case, it works, and it would not before. Thanks for the leads, and I hope this helps someone else if they end up with this weirdness.

Thanks for the quick reply and the tips on the weirdness and what you did to fix it. I'll mess with this other file and if I find any useful pattern, I'll post it back here. By the number of people viewing this thread, I don't think I'm the only one encountering this. Sorry about not specifying 10.2.4. Laziness and exasperation are to blame. I'm thinking the weirdness might have something to do with it being a Garageband conversion, which is also true of this other file that's giving me the same grief. i noticed you've got a dead MacBook Pro running Snow Leopard. PM me about it. I'm looking for something that can run Snow Leopard. It was my favorite OS of all time. Nothing would make me happier than to use that for my real work. Maybe we can work something out.

Thank you so much! I'm running 10.2.4. I wonder if that's what made the difference in the file size. It could be your undo settings, or just getting rid of the automation lanes. None of that seems to explain it. Maybe a combo of all three. A couple of questions. How did you get rid of the extra automation lanes? That is not the file I am working on right now, so I need to be able to repeat what you did. That was just the smallest file I could find. The one I'm working with has up to 7 unneeded automation lanes that will not go away with the processes described in this post. Also, what specifically do you mean by weirdness? I didn't create it. I just did the VO work and someone else threw it together in Garageband, but the mix/mastering is so bad that I'm going to have to go back and fix it at some point because I need to use it as part of a demo collection. It was worse before. I cleaned it up some. Are you talking about the automation weirdness in some of the tracks, or just how it's set up? Any specifics would be really appreciated, since I'm gonna have to deal with that one at some point too. I'm wondering if we are seeing the same things, and if they have something to with it coming from Garageband. Could it also have anything to do with you not having all the plugins? (To be fair, I read the copy in one take as soon as it came off the printer, and he through it together in about 20 minutes. It was just for a spoof, so it didn't really matter, but soon I'd like to make it usable.) Thanks in advance for any insight you can share. I'm tempted to just bring it into REAPER and start from scratch because it does everything so much more efficiently, but Logic has some great presets he used that made the VO sound really good. It's just been so long since I've used Logic that everything is a learning experience again, which is partly why I'm doing it. Good to be proficient in more than one DAW. It's just that after I started working with REAPER, everything was so much quicker and customizable that I never went back to Cubase, ProTools or Logic for anything until now. Thanks again! The mods on this forum are all awesome.

Having this same issue with 10.2. It is ultra annoying because it really gets in the way of things. Anyone found a resolution for this in the last 2 years? And yes, I did the delete all automation, then delete orphaned automation tracks steps to no avail. I also made sure to get rid of all screensets but the one, and it is not locked. This is an older, small project with nothing saved in the package, so it's small. If someone could figure this out, you'd be a hero! FoodIncTrailerFix.logicx.zip

Thanks! You're awesome! I've been using REAPER for a while now, and just working on this one project in Logic again feels like swimming in mud! A lot has changed, granted, but I've been tempted to pull all the audio files into REAPER and start the editing over because everything is just so much less efficient. It's been fun to see what's changed, and some of the presets are very enticing. I've entertained switching back because of some of them, but then I'll go to do some simple thing and there are 5 steps to do what REAPER can do in a second. I can't thank you enough. I'd looked everywhere and couldn't find a thing on it—not in the manual, not in search engines, nowhere. But you're awesome. Now, if I could just figure out how to get rid of these annoying automation subtracts from which I've deleted all automation … I'll explore a bit more, then maybe start another thread if I can't find a way. It kinda blows my mind how abstruse Logic can be with such simple things, and there are no proper answers. I'm so thrilled to have found this site for when I get really stuck. Thank you mucho!

Okay, I may be blind, but I don't see a music note to the right of my ruler. I'm running 10.2. Perhaps this has changed. I did find a "Secondary Ruler" option under the View button to the left of the ruler, but all this does is place an hrs/mins/secs bar on top of the regular ruler. I'm recording audiobooks, so I need my main ruler to be set to time, not beats and measures, for purposes of snapping, selecting regions, etc.. Does anyone know how to change the main ruler to time? This image I'm attaching is all I have in my ruler area. I'm trying to place it inline, and it isn't showing up in the preview, so I hope it shows up when I post. Thank you in advance for your help!