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Well, they didn't give us any news about the Chord Track. So, going by that example, I guess we'll see ARA again in somewhere between 0 and 8 years, considering it's already been almost four since it broke. 🙂 Personally, I'm hoping it'll be in the release notes of 11.

1. open a midi region 2. open the smart tempo editor and analyze it 3. select some of the smart tempo (beat?) markers 4. use the command "Set Average Tempo for Selection" expected result: the beat markers retain their normal handles for editing actual result: every handle except "move marker" disappears until you close the editor and reopen the editor, such as with the E keyboard shortcut.

Some other ideas: - Select an empty instrument track before pressing Play (because of Logic's ill-conceived Live Input system). - Are you doing a lot of bus or Track Stack processing? Sometimes this can put all your processing on a single core when there might be different ways to do it. - Do you happen to use Dropbox? I put everything Dropbox on a separate computer because it had a nasty habit of getting stuck while syncing and eating up processor power.

In case anyone runs into the same thing, here's a workaround I found until I figure out the intended way that Smart Tempo handles this: Create a new track pointing to the same instrument and copy any events I want to quantize (along with non-note events). Paste them at their original positions on the second track and mute them on the original. Now I can use the first track for matching the piano/click tempo to the singer with the Smart Tempo editor and the second track for quantizing individual passages.

This is usually the point when I switch to using Track Alternatives. They’re way easier to work with and get messed up less. The only problem is they have no swiping or selective upgrade system. But it’s not hard to manage them once you’ve already made most of your swipes. You can select all the take folders and use the keyboard shortcut for unpacking to Track Alternatives, press CTRL+ALT A to show them and see how it works.

I stand corrected since it sounds like that's what Michael was doing. Side note, I really wish they'd clean up the issues with that. Feels kinda cheesy that they just threw up a dialog box many years ago that says "Don't do this, it doesn't work right." I remember the last time I tested dragging from one project to another to see if it worked and I could see Logic place the regions in some seemingly arbitrary place before re-arranging the regions and tracks to reflect where they should be. There's clearly room for improvement.

Thank you very much for digging into that. That's a piece of a Comp. If you right click a Comp it gives you those options. What a Comp from one track is doing in the middle of my Takes for another is beyond me. Whatever bug I ran into, it had to do with Group Editing, Take Folders, and Comps. I recorded these takes in a long pass then turned on an Editing-only Group and comp'ed it. I have the Fade Tool, Marquee Tool, Quick Swipe and Take Editing click zones enabled. I comp'ed this in a single pass, collapsing/uncollapsing the Take Folder and swiping takes. When using Click Zones it can be easy to split with the Marquee tool unintentionally which I Undo. Those are the only commands I would use. I don't usually have a habit of performing Quick Swipe from the Comp Track itself (on a collapsed take folder) but that's a possibility too. Well, that's one of my favorite takes. Perhaps I can copy the tracks, flatten and merge the main set, and unpack the copies for safekeeping. After unpacking, if that Comp region is there, I'll delete the overlapping Comp region that doesn't belong. Thanks again for going through that. It gives me some potential clues for a bug to look out for next time I'm comping a Group. To tie back to the original thought of Import being crash prone, it looks like in this case it's because it's an "integrity check" of sorts where a mistake Logic made earlier won't import.

I’ve seen the OPs issue and I never open more than one project in Logic.

This sounds like a known bug. It’s kind of hard to search this forum but there are a few posts about it. I think it can be caused by a few things. Undoing operations that unpack new tracks is one of them I think. Also I saw a post a while back that speculated that New with Next MIDI Channel can have something to do with it too, perhaps if it’s undone. Ive seen this happen before, luckily only twice.

OK, test away. https://www.dropbox.com/t/3wirsO8XxNkTOGbN Open a new empty project and: 1. open all files browser. 2. select the test project 3. open it in the all files browser 4. select 1 and (1) - (6) 5. click the checkbox for Content 6. Add/Import with the button in the lower right 7. Click Yes for Importing Tempo Information After #7 Logic Pro always crashes for me. Those files were simply recorded in Cycle mode in a few takes, nothing fancy.

If it's not possible what purpose was disabling Core Audio and importing the Content meant to serve? I might be misunderstanding your and @oscwilde's suggested troubleshooting.

Tested this on two computers. One is an M1 Studio with macOS 13.6.1 and one is a M1 Air with 13.6.3. 1. open Logic 2. disable Core Audio in Preferences > Audio 3. Open a new empty project 4. Create a software instrument or audio track. Expected result: it creates a track actual result: An error is given that the user has exceeded 1000 tracks, even though there isn't a single track in the project yet.

Nope, same result. Can't nudge a single note without it forgetting all my Beat Marker edits.

I've noticed something odd when I'm using the Smart Tempo Editor on MIDI (I'm more used to it with Audio). It's probably me being new to it. When I move a single MIDI note in a region that's already been Smart Tempo analyzed and had its Beat Markers edited, all my Beat Marker editing and the Smart Tempo analysis disappears. I used Undo to recover it but I'm wondering how I'm supposed to proceed from here. For reference, I did the following: 1) Recorded piano (MIDI, virtual instrument) and vocal (audio). Did not use click or change tempo. On a test run, Free recording was completely out of sync with what we played so I opted to just leave the tempo at 120 and turn the click off. 2) SMPTE locked the vocal. I'm planning to match the piano MIDI to the vocal first and then see which tempo irregularities I want to keep and which I don't. 3) Analyzed the tempo of the MIDI region containing the piano performance. It's Variable and has some fluctuation to it. Mainly sticks between 122 and 127 bpm, then very gradually goes down to 105 or so during a long outro. 4) Edited the Beat Markers in the Smart Tempo Editor for the MIDI region while in ADAPT mode. 5) Got everything sounding good and the click follows along with the piano player and the vocal by extension. Now here's the rub: I want to move a few notes that were dragging in the piano performance. Quantize works, but if I want to nudge them to be a little "off the grid" that I created with Smart Tempo, all my Smart Tempo edits in the Editor go away and it says I need to Re-Analyze the region. Does that mean I have to be okay with all the Scaling and Moving of the Beat Markers disappearing if I want to Nudge a single note? Or am I doing something wrong and there's some Lock function I'm supposed to use? I guess as long as I created the Tempo curves with Adapt I can say goodbye to the Beat Markers and work relative to the new grid, but it just seems odd to lose all that editing.

Thanks for the suggestion. It's pretty bizarre how all the Convolution reverb plugins I've tried face plant when you try to point them to anything but their built in libraries. Waves IR-1 even makes it difficult to access its own built in library! Shame their IRs are so good (imo of course).