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Thanks for that reply!

Hey everyone, Just upgraded to a new MacBook (was on a 2011 iMac prior) and now when I insert most Waves plug ins (haven't tested them all), Logic will go into spinning beach ball. The interface will freeze but the track will continue to fully play in the background. After some time, I might get lucky and can close the plug in UI, and then things go back to normal, other times I have to force quit. It doesn't seem to be a performance issue because I could open these plug ins without issue on my old iMac. Also, when checking activity monitor, everything seems fine. I ran the waves central updates, but the issue persists. Anyone have any thoughts on this? Thanks!

Hi David, I am asking this here because it directly relates to the original question. I'm uploading stems to Abbey Road for online mixing. My song has 26 mono tracks and 10 stereo tracks. When I use the option to 'Include Volume/Pan Automation', the resulting exported files are ALL Stereo. This doesn't appear to be the case when the option is unchecked, but then my fader adjustments are not applied. Am I missing something? Should I set the Stereo Out to Mono and export the mono tracks separately? On a related note - I ended up bouncing my first song without the 'Include V/P/A" option and the files were mono and stereo accordingly (but fader adjustments don't apply) - BUT when I uploaded them to Abbey Road, they ALL showed up as Stereo! So I emailed support and opened a ticket. Here is their reply: "...the WAV header reports the channel information in the wrong location, so it defaults to stereo. I have noticed this issue with files from Cubase or Logic Pro in the past. It would be useful to find out what DAW was used to create the WAV files. To get around this issue, we have used a program like dbPoweramp and performed a “conversion” to WAV (same source, same channels, same bitrate) and it writes the WAV header correctly. This should get the customer going. " Love to hear what you make of this also! Thanks again!

Exact answer I was looking for. The option isn't labeled clearly. Thanks as well, David!

This method worked great. Although I was looking for an audio file export that included all the efffedts, etc., this actually provides me a bit more flexibility in the end. Didn’t know about this feature. Cheers to you!

Awesome! Have not ever tried this feature! Will try it out and report back later. Thanks so much!!

Hey everyone! Been so long since I've posted, please excuse this potentially easy question... but I'm rusty with Logic, just getting back into it after a year. I have a track that I'm working on and when I created it at my home studio, I used Logic midi drums. This track has live vocals, live guitar and live bass. All recorded at my home studio. I then exported all the tracks as audio files, created another project, and took this project to a local studio to record live drums. I did this because in the original track I am using a lot of Waves plug ins that the local studio did not have and I wanted to drummer to be able to hear the song with all the guitar effects, etc. (as the song is intended to sound). So, I've got all the drums recorded and we have a pretty solid mix of the drums (fixed up with some Flextime and some effects) and it's sounding really great. But now I would like to export the live drums from that session and put them back into my original session for a few final adjustments. My attempt so far to import the drum tracks leave me with a mix of the drums that sounds like complete garbage! I'm not sure where I went wrong! I have attached a screen shot of the session I am exporting from. Should I zero out (0db) all of the drum tracks? Should I zero db the master track? Any other suggestions for this process? I've also got all the drums routed to a bus... maybe that's the problem? Thanks so much! https://imgur.com/a/CUro0Hd

Thanks, Eric. This seems to have solved it. (Although I need to walk away for an hour because my ears are playing tricks on me now!) Did I turn this off accidentally?

Hi gang, Long time since I've posted but here goes... Been working on a song, got the whole song done, guitars, bass, keys, logic drums... OK. Even recorded a scratch vocal. All the audio was recorded in and plays back fine, everything sounds great. Today I go to do final vocals and no matter what I try when I play back the vocals they sound like I was singing everything a beat late. I'm using a Duet 2 and I'm aware of latency, etc. but I haven't changed ANYTHING in my set up that I'm aware of, but I have tried some things today "just to see" what I could see. • Tried lowering the I/O Buffer size to 64 and it sounds exactly the same. I normally have it at 256 or 512 when recording. • Tried doing it the Apogee recommended way (which sometimes I do normally), where in Apogee Maestro 2 > Output > Outputs are set to Mixer. • Even tried doing vocals with headphones off, with volume coming through the speakers, just to rule out the issue wasn't "me being off" - I know this song like the back of my hand, can sing it in my sleep - but I wanted to rule it out anyway. • Recording delay in Logic has always been set at zero The issue continues to persist. The vocal recordings I'm doing play back late, like I'm way off singing all of the parts late! It's driving me bonkers! Help! Thanks, everyone. El Cap 10.11.6 iMac Mid 2011, 2.7ghz i5, 8GB Logic 10.3.2

Thanks for your reply though, David. It is a very workable solution!

That's actually an interesting solution and this can be super helpful as I could mute the kick/snare of drummer and just use the high hats for the more human feel. But what I'm really hoping for is being able to tell Drummer to look at a MIDI region and play it, but play it very human and natural the way Drummer does. I understand that a slight change of the x/y can alter Drummer's performance, however, it's still something I'd like to do Mainly just the kick and snare though lol

I'm loving Drummer and I'm aware of the "Follow" feature, but what I'd really like Drummer to do is follow the kick and snare of a midi region I made. Is there any way to do this or any tips or tricks to get me really, really close? As I type this, I wonder, "what if I bounced to audio...". I didn't try that yet... hmmm Anyway, any tips or suggestions? Thanks guys

Thought I would come back to report my finding. Hope I explain this well enough. I'm using Kontakt as 8 stereo/ 8 mono It appears that Kontakt treats mono channels 1-8 as something else. But I'm not 100% sure what that is but it appears that it treats them as a channel of the stereo tracks. Referring to my original post... what I have done beyond that is create and addition 8 mono channels in Kontakt. I noticed that on the mixer section of Kontakt, the channels have output numbers at the bottom. I also noticed that when I click the (+) button on the Kontakt channel in Logic that at the top of the channel strip, the first mono channel reads Kont 5 17 (which means Kontakt 5 channel 17). So I go into Kontakt, find channel 17 in the mixer and at the top of the Kontakt channel it says mono 9. I then assign the kick drum to mono 9, snare to 10, etc. Boom. Seems to do the trick. If anybody else has any ideas, or a better way, please let me know. Thanks!

After more interwebbing I found a thread on the NI forums suggesting that sometimes you have to restart Logic a few times and then it just works. I'll have to experiment with that (because I didn't try that yet). But if you want to link your file, that could be cool too. Thanks!

Hi guys, I'm using Logic Pro X and I'm a new Kontakt user, trying to get the Abbey Road drums to route to individual channels. I've got experience doing this in the EXS, no problem, but as I said I'm new to Kontakt. I've read through this thread: http://www.logicprohelp.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=81260&start=20 and watched this video: