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Fascinating... many thanks for the best explained answer I think I've ever received on a forum! You're a gem. I find it especially interesting that what I interpreted as the expected behavior is actually the bug. I'd like to think that I could have figured out the difference in extrapolating events in Hyper Draw vs. creating events in the list. Unfortunately it's hard to find the solution while RTFM if you don't know the exact terms to search for!

With @Des99's caveat that every mix will require different things, you can absolutely find a default chain that works for you. Every professional engineer has a default starting point because in the professional realm, speed is king. One really common and quite effective chain is 1073 --> 1176 (attack on 3, release on 7) --> Fairchild 660 (time constant 3) *or* CL1B with similar med fast attack slow release. This chain can be sort of replicated with stock plugs, or at least the compressors.

Hi all, I'm experiencing an intermittent issue where MIDI CC information is either generating linear connections or stair-step connections between event points. I've recorded a little screen grab of the issue for a better explanation.

The OP was asking about using a motorized fader bank (like the Icon Platform M+, which I also use) to control MIDI CC data bidirectionally. Essentially being able to assign, say, 8 different CC controls to your 8 faders, and have them follow written automation and be able to use touch mode, etc. like in this video where it is accomplished in Reaper:

Is there still no elegant way to accomplish this?

I understand, and I'm certainly not trying to shut you down in any way. It's a reasonable suggestion if not for the fact that it's only happened twice in 7-10 days. That's just an impossible amount of downtime for an experiment when I've got projects piling up. Obviously I'll be diving into any tests imaginable if this keeps happening... but the dream is for someone to come along and say "hey I know what that is" and solve it haha. In the mean time, I was able to reduce CPU overloading by changing a couple settings. So at least there's that!

I appreciate the brainstorming. I'm not sure what copying the project and working on it at 48k will do... I have to deliver to mastering at 96k and I don't know of any way to preserve any work I do in the 48k project. I wish there was a way to mix by proxy like you can do in FCPX with video files... anyone know how to set something like that up?

I know the title seems ignorant or insane, but twice now I have experienced a glitch where Logic suddenly begins outputting some kind of digital oscillating noise from every channel that exceeds the number of digits the dB meter can display (photo attached). Naturally, this clips at the converter and is massively loud (thank god for the protection circuitry on my KH120's). This has never happened before, it's not a result of accidental bus routing feedback. This is the first time I have ever experienced anything like this, and have been using the same hardware/software setup for years. Logic -> Sonarworks -> RME UFX. The only thing that's new is that I'm mixing a project in 96k for the first time, and it's throwing a lot of CPU maxed errors. Possibly related? I don't know. I'm completely at a loss at what to do here, and terrified for my hearing and my equipment if this keeps happening. Any help would be appreciated.

Here's a new one I've never seen before... I recently started a new mixing project and populated all the tracks, set up simple bus routing etc. and started the mix. Two of the busses I set up will allow plugins on them, and those plugins will pass signal properly, but the bypass 'power icon' in the top L corner is a darker grey than normal and none of the features within the plugin window will change when you operate them with the mouse. Drag that same plugin to a different bus or track, and it works fine. Alter the settings dramatically on that track, drag it back to the original bus, and the sound is altered accordingly but all the editing ability turns off again! Regardless of mono/stereo, plugin manufacturer, sample rate. I quit and restart the computer, no dice. This is my first project in 96k, but as I said it seems independent of sample rate, and all the plugins I'm using are capable of operating in 96k. Any thoughts?

I use a Behringer X-Touch Compact as a control surface in my humble mixing studio, which I have used every day since I got it in November. There are colored bars to the left of the track header that show you which fader bank is being displayed on the control surface. I have never paid too much attention to this feature, but suddenly, in the middle of a mixing project that previously behaved normally, it started showing me 8 grey bars on the active fader bank and 25(!?) blue inactive tracks, as if I had 25 other faders connected (33 total). I've attached an image of the track headers for those more visually inclined. Under normal operation, it banks by 8 as I have 8 faders connected. Pressing the bank right button would turn fader 1 into track 9, then 17, etc. as it pages forward in banks of 8. Now it's banking by 33, so a bank right turns fader 1 into fader 34, skipping those 25 blue tracks. I've looked in every conceivable settings menu, deleted the control surface and re-installed it, updated the firmware in the X Touch, updated Logic to 10.4. So far nothing has changed. I also opened old projects where the banking worked correctly, and it no longer does, so it seems to be a global issue, and not related to project settings. Thoughts?

I think I explained it best in the last sentence of the OP, a log where I can easily see if there were any recording errors over a very long period of time. I do location recording, and recently discovered one of my live show recordings had a series of glitches in them, but just a few over hours of recorded material. People were suggesting ASIO had an easy way to monitor these events, and trace down exactly what happened and when... I was hoping for the "mac equivalent" to this error log. The system.log seems promising but it appears to be monitoring everything, not just audio and I'm not sure how to filter for this information. RME has a great window in their Totalmix software... if you're unfamiliar it's just an audio interface software mixer that has standalone recording features. In the recording window it logs any errors in the recording and monitors the media capacity/cpu load. SUPER handy feature, that only works in standalone mode. I would love to find something along these lines for recordings made in Logic. Hope that helps!

I was on another forum asking about testing for errors and dropouts in an audio rig, and people were mentioning ASIO error logs like it was an obvious thing. Well... not for this lifelong Mac user!! Is there an Apple equivalent for ASIO error logs in LPX? Something that lists any issues during a recording, so you don't have to hunt down the one moment there's a digital glitch or dropout in 12 hours of multitrack recording?

Hey all, this is one of those problems that's so bad, it prevents me from being able to work at all, and this is how I pay rent!!! I've been using logic for many years now, and in all those years, I've primarily set up my rig to use external MIDI tracks to control hardware keyboards and synthesizers. I also do a lot of orchestrating in the box with VI's. Recently, Logic has started messing with the parameters on my external MIDI devices when I stop and sometimes play tracks, screwing up sounds I've created, and forcing me to power cycle devices just to get sounds back when I can't determine what parameters have changed. On one device I was able to see one change that must have come over CC29, but I don't know how to monitor what signals Logic is sending out. I hadn't updated in a long time when this started happening, although now I'm on 10.3.1 hoping the update would fix the problem somehow. In fact, I haven't changed any hardware, updated my OS, or changed my recording procedures in any way I can recall. I had recently installed OSC Bridge, which was the first thing I assumed could be causing the problem, but it's happened a bunch while Bridge is not open. I have installed new Kontakt instruments, though I don't know why that would affect anything. Any helpful ideas will be highly appreciated!

Hi all, it seems this question has been asked before but perhaps not answered? I am an arranger and send out every project I work on for further tracking and mixing. My clients aren't always tech savvy, don't always use the same DAW, and don't like OMF files. So I am forced to bounce each track individually because I don't know of a way to export all tracks as audio files while retaining Aux FX and automation.

Bump. Same question here.