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  1. In the context of Prem Nath's needs, of course you're right. I was wondering if it wasn't being extrapolated off the context .
  2. With all due respect, honestly, David, are you telling people that they can base hardware purchase decisions on your running Logic Pro 10.6x "with no problem at all" on a "MacBook Air 1.3 GHz i5 — MacOS X 11.0.1 — 4 GB RAM"? Is that what people should expect? That may be true in some situations, but overall I must be missing something, because when I'm using Logic with wavetable synths and sample libraries with multiple instruments, each of them with multiple articulations, the session is often using well over 32 GB and it would be impossible with 4GB of RAM, unless you're constantly swapping to disk, or bouncing every track as you go. Neither of those scenarios make for a nice workflow. And we've all seen a moderately complex project easily overload a 4 core i7 running at 3 to 4 Ghz, or a dual Xeon 12 core 3.47 Ghz system. Members here have often despaired of this situation, and begged for solutions. Has Logic 10.6 on Big Sur somehow advanced so far as to completely change all that?
  3. Those of us running on Classic Mac Pro towers only need to wait for the update fashion to loop around, like skinny ties, back to Intel chips, or at least to "revolutionary" PowerPC chips Oh, and yes you CAN shoehorn Catalina into a Classic Mac Pro. But this hard sell update pressure is getting annoying. .
  4. The danger of slipping with the mouse and unknowingly changing something in a track is serious. It increases with the number of tracks in a big project. And if you're a bit spastic . It sure makes sense to keep tracks locked. BUT being able to examine tracks and click/play notes in the piano roll, without changing them, is essential. There's no need for being constantly reminded a track is locked, especially if you're not changing anything. The popup constantly requires clicking OK and it's a total disruptor. Is there any way to disable this warning altogether? Only keep it for when you're really trying to modify something? Are there any other protection mechanisms? like auto-locking after some time-out? or when you move focus off a given track? Thanks!
  5. Has anyone managed to use Auto-Sampler to simplify sampling an external acoustic instrument, say a guitar? Of course you can't trigger the guitar notes w/ MIDI, but might it prompt "now play a G2 note at mid velocity"? Or could you sequentially play and record the notes in order on a track and feed the recording to Auto-Sampler? If not, is there any (other) sampling assistance for that in Logic 10.5.1 ? Thanks!
  6. Thank you, @facej, that's very helpful, I didn't know about macOS smart folders. Now if we can figure out how to eliminate dupes, things like that. Is the finder window the best display space for you? Are there any other scriptable objects we could use?
  7. Thank you. My question is still how most people manage their projects. Is your approach all we have? The find thing is helpful. Does anybody have any scripts to "touch" parent folders to propagate last modified dates? It would seem that having a reverse chronological sort is SO fundamental. As in open Logic, open your projects' top level folder and see the most recently worked on projects right there on top. No? Any other tricks?
  8. So, @paul88, did making (how much) space on your startup drive solve the problem? If not, how much RAM do you have? What is your machine type, CPU speed, disk type(s), peripherals, MIDI/Audio interface? What network connections? to the Internet?
  9. How do y'all organize/find projects by date? This is simple stuff? I keep each project in "folder" mode, in its own folder and subfolders. I want sorting by date to work, so when I update say the .logicx file in a project subfolder, I'd expect the project's parent folder's Date Modified or Last Accessed to change. That would make sorting/finding by date very easy. I think that's how I did it for Cubase on Windows NTFS. I think. With macOS and Logic the parent folder's date doesn't change, so puling up say the last 3 sketches I'm working on isn't obvious. What am I missing here? Is there some setting or script that will make modification dates propagate up X levels in the finder tree? How else are people organizing and finding their last modified projects ? Thanks!
  10. No, it's not plugins. And although it's most noticeable with Logic, it shows up in other Mojave functionality too. I believe it's at the root of many "Mojave sluggish" complaints. I had to put a network analyzer on-line to watch the packet flow. So far what I've traced it to is DNS (Domain Name Service) requests. A point to point connection between two computers, with no router, is often set up with the Gateway and the DNS address in the network definition being cross-specified as that of the "peer" machine. Mojave sends out DNS queries on Port 53 that aren't answered and it waits. This causes the delays. No idea why High Sierra handles this better. If you have an Internet connection, DNS queries get answered by the routers, hence no lag. If you're off the Internet, the solution that's working so far is to keep the DNS field blank on any LAN machines on the port that they connect over. For local (LAN) file sharing and Network MIDI there are plenty of other local name resolution protocols that work automatically instead, like Bonjour and SMB, so DNS is unnecessary. With DNS unspecified, everything's fine and snappy again. Logic boots up fast, no beachballs. .
  11. On Mojave Logic 10.4.8 exhibits the same problem as 10.5.1 if there's a point to point network connection to the PC. Although file sharing and Network MIDI work fine, Logic takes several minutes to start up, beachBall and huge lag on leftmost menu. Leaving the MacPro and the PC exactly as before, and with the mac network set up the same, booted up into High Sierra. Logic 10.4.8 then works fine. Fast startup, no lag or beachballs. Both file sharing and Network Midi work fine. This looks like a Mojave + Logic issue. Anywhere I can get some expert help on this? One more possibility: a third party plug-in - although I have the same ones on the HiSierra and Mojave boot drives. Will check tomorrow. .
  12. On the studio computers, I don't want ANY connection to The Swamp. I just don't buy the whole "connected for your benefit" story. No dongles either. So, anyway, the mystery of this issue revolves around Mojave wanting an internet connection, but why it worked with High Sierra I don't yet understand. I'm still trying to find a stable workaround that will just work. For now a dead-end router on the other Eth port does the trick. I think some other people with a sluggish Mojave may have a similar problem. I need that point to point to the Windows machine for files sharing, and especially so I can use my Tascam FW-1884 that has no Mac 64 bit driver, but for the PC it does. Apple also took out the control surface definition from Logic. My Tascam FW-1884 has been working as a control surface using an old FW-1884.bundle from Logic 1.04 or so, that I've pasted into every successive Logic version. And Network Midi to the PC brings the Tascam over to the mac on a port (arbitrarily) named Xeon5008. Tell Logic there's a Tascam FW-1884 on Xeon5008, and the faders snap to attention. Wheee! So the hell i'm going to do without that! .
  13. Oh yes, all projects, thank you @Triplets, and worse. Logic can take several minutes to start up. After that it runs OK, just don't expect a prompt response to anything in that first menu. I've narrowed it down after spending most of the day eliminating Audio Interfaces, project types, location of the Library and countless other things. It's a network issue. It seems Apple is moving ever further into the expectation that EVERYBODY is connected 24x7 to that great pit o' time drains: the Internet. They probably test their software while TikTok'ing over the Apple LAN. But if the DAW machine is connected to a point to point local network connection that doesn't "get out there", Logic keeps trying to reach God knows what, during startup and when you click on the first menu, and offers beachballs in consolation until it times out. The screen can be frozen, while the project plays on. I don't yet understand the exact mechanism, functionally it's a bug. I don't want the studio machines on the web, but I use a local Gigabit LAN connection to a Windows PC for file sharing, and for Network MIDI to operate my beloved Tascam FW1884 that's plugged into the PC. The exact same setup wasn't a problem with Logic 10.4.8 under High Sierra. I found a workaround, which is to connect the macPro's second Ethernet port to a router that isn't reaching the Internet either, and to give it higher priority in the service order. No idea why, but this solves the issue for Logic. Mojave seems snappier all around too.
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