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Only 6 years late. lol!! I've been tracking into a session without any issue, then suddenly encountered inexplicable and overpowering latency while tracking guitar. It sounded like a tape delay, so at first I thought it was the delay pedal. Lol!! • Input Monitoring in Logic was off. • I/O buffer size made no difference at all. • Having the target audio channel in Logic muted made no difference either. It turns out, all I needed to do was activate *Low-latency Mode* in Logic. The delay was being caused by plugins in the Aux effects channels. To identify the specific plugin, (this was a duplicate of my main session, created for tracking only, so there was no fear of wrecking anything), I began removing plugins from the Aux effects channels and it turned out to be the Waves SoundShifter Pitch plugin. Even disabling it made no difference. Only by removing the plugin or by activating Low Latency Mode was I able to stop the slapback from Logic. Odd because I had tracked into this session before without any latency. Go figure. Low Latency Mode is your friend, because even with Apollo, Logic can and will flam. There was still a very slight phase/latency issue with the remaining plugins, so I took them all out, but that's something to watch for.

Thanks much for your response! Sorry I only just saw your reply. Cheers!

Hello, I'm late to Logic X and this thread, but just found that in the Mixer window menu (at the top right): View > un-check "Autoscroll to Selection". This will provide independent viewing and selection of tracks in the Arrange and Mixer windows. You all probably found that ages ago, but in case any newbies straggle in...

Hello, I'm using an older system, Logic Pro 9.1.8 (64-bit) on Mountain Lion, Mac Desktop Cheese Grater, Mid 2010 (MacPro 5,1), SSD system drive, 32 Gb RAM, dual Intel 6-core Xeon (12 cores), Sessions and audio are on internal SATA drives. I had removed all unused audio and done a Copy/Convert of all files in this session, to a new, uniquely named Audio File folder. But when I opened the session file (or one of the backup session files), it's loading audio from other folders, and loading sequential regions from the beginning of the original audio file, and loading THE ENTIRE FILE from the beginning of each region. It's not doing that for all tracks, so it seems random. A properly loaded series of regions in that session. A series of regions that loaded the entire audio file from the beginning of each region. Does anyone know how to control how Logic recognizes audio files? My take-home is that it is probably mandatory, when copy/converting, to merge the track regions first. lol! But is there any way to force Logic to find audio in specific places (or HIDE AUDIO so that it won't load), and to restore recognition of each distinct region at its proper SMPTE location in the original audio? Thanks!! ADDITIONAL QUESTION FOR BONUS POINTS: This session has only about 20 audio tracks, but it does have 51 Aux channels in use (which averages to 2.55 Aux channels per instrument – hardly overkill, it seems to me How on earth do people manage 32-48 channel sessions (or more) in higher sample rates? Is it the routing that's killing the computer processors?

A comprehensive answer from Apple: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2851

Logic does play SMF but not automatically. You need the instrument called the "GM Device", which resides on the MIDI page in the Environment. You can route it to Quicktime in the Environment by creating an Internal > Apple Quicktime instrument. Click-drag the connection out from the GM Device into Quicktime, accept the re-routing dialog box message, then designate the tracks in the arrange window to use that device. For drums you need channel 10.

Apple should be doing MUCH more to support hardware synth users. Folding a librarian/editor into Logic's toolkit couldn't be so difficult. Emagic created the application (SoundDiver) 10 years ago. I've used every Mac DAW there is: the defunct Opcode Vision performed MIDI scanning of hardware MIDI devices which automatically loaded the patch names. Digital Performer comes with patch name documents included. Apple Logic offers no help at all for accessing patch names, and for Roland modules or expansion boards, it's a manual job. When a fully-expanded device contains over 1000 patches, that's a major hassle. Apple has discontinued SoundDiver, one of the only Macintosh patch editor-librarians. Which is a tragedy, since it easily captures every patch name directly from the synth, even the User customized patches. The manuals for Roland's SRJV-80 expansion boards are scanned from old paper documents, the text isn't selectable or copyable. So it's down to manual typing for Roland users. And then you still have to manually tweak the MSB & LSB settings for the multi-instrument in Logic's Environment. Moderators: Trying to make frustrated users feel dumb or lazy isn't going to endear you to those who know the real story. Defending Apple's shear laziness on this issue is ignoring the white elephant in the room.