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  1. @des99, Thanks so much for this insight. Really helpful! Any SSD favourite picks / recommendations?
  2. Hi Des99 and all, Circling back here as this issue has reared its head again. When I posted the problem a few months back I had 16GB of RAM. I took advice and upgraded to 32GB of RAM but this pesky issue keeps happening on large projects and it's SOOOO frustrating. More spec details are below APPLE SSD SM0128G: Capacity: 121.33 GB (121,332,826,112 bytes) Model: APPLE SSD SM0128G Revision: BXW1PA0 Native Command Queuing: Yes Queue Depth: 32 Removable Media: No Detachable Drive: No BSD Name: disk0 Medium Type: Solid State TRIM Support: Yes Bay Name: SSD Partition Map Type: GPT (GUID Partition Table) SMART status: Verified Question: Am I right in saying this is an SSD fusion drive? Should I be thinking of buying an external SSD, and if so, what minimum spec should i be looking for? It's been mentioned that an SSD with 1TB and a transfer rate of 560MB per second will sort all my problems. Also should I be connecting it with my iMac via USB C or Thunderbolt? And finally - should I be running the whole Logic project off this external drive - i.e. the song file itself, along with all the associated audio files? Or Logic song on the iMac, but accessing the associated audio files off the external SSD? Thanks for any help here, would dearly love to sort this issue once and for all 😉 DoH
  3. Thanks. No, I didn't need to freeze any tracks ever on any other project. It may be an issue of having to read this partyicular project's files from a different location, who knows. Anyhow thanks a lot for all the input!
  4. Hi des99, Normally i'd agree with you but if you were right, all other projects - most of which have way more data plugz / audio files in them than this particular one - would also have problems, even more serious. But they all run absolutely fine despite them being off the same drive....
  5. Hi guys thanks for the suggestions and questions. @des99, it's a fusion drive 16GB memory installed. And@zplane, tried all that re buffer / threads, 32 bit summing early on, but no dice. Update - I had to get the project done, so I froze as many tracks as I could (even though none had a single plugin on them!) and managed to get some workflow, unfreezing those I needed to process. This will remain a mystery - never seen anything like it before or since . Thanks again everyone, DoH
  6. Great points! Thanks Polaroid. As to the second one, the files are on the main iMac drive so it's not an SSD issue. Re the first, I wenmt out for a couple of hours, came back, still the same.
  7. Hey Atlas, Thanks for the quick reply. I take your point - except that other projects these last two years - some of which have just as many audio files AND loads of open plugins / busses etc, with CPU intensive reverbs and delays etc - have worked absolutely perfectly, with all 4 threads humming nicely?
  8. Hi Guys Running an iMac with spec as below Model Name: iMac, Quad-Core Intel Core i7, 4 GHz, Total Number of Cores: 4, L3 cache 8MB. Recently upgraded from Mojave to Big Sur. Haven't had any issues with cores/ thread etc for years now. And yet when I imported 60 audio file stems from a project into Logic just now, the track can't play for more than 5 seconds before crashing. The CPU cores are not even registering as being used significantly- yet the I/O disk is maxed out to the very top the whole time. (See screenshots 1 and 2) Not a single plugin in sight, by the way - just dry tracks. No busses, no processing, nada. Just audio files. To be clear - I know all about the buffer size / audio prefs issues and have tried them all. I've rebooted several times, I've even tried different projects - with way more plugins, and similar amounts of audio files - and the threads are all divided beautifully amongst themselves, with the I/O disk not even registering, except on hitting 'start' or 'stop'. And all those other projects work perfectly. (Also see screenshot 3) Also all other apps are closed and I've reset preferences so that's not the issue. As I said, it only happoens with this project and these 60 audio files. i've also tried importing the files into new projects and still the same issue. Totally mystified with this one. Ideas? Thanks! DoH
  9. Hi, they are licensed, Waves simply doesn't allow them to play on more than one Mac is all. The v9 versus v10 and v11 issue is also a tiresome issue, some play on the iMac and not on the MBpro.
  10. Thanks des99, But the thing is I do want to be able to hear the audio! I could do the uninstall on Waves but I'd like to be able to quickly open projects on the fly on either Mac without all that hassle each time. Surely there's a way apart from the Shift+Control + open Logic, or am I grasping?
  11. Folks, Am in urgent need of help. I have an iMac with hundreds of 3rd Party Plugz installed - eg Waves, iZotope, Soundtoys etc. I need to take some Logic projects with me on business on my second computer, a 2018 MacBook Pro. But when I try and open the project file in Login on the MBPro, the Waves plugins won't load - I get a popup saying 'Scan licence' for Waves API 550 (or any other of the 221 Waves plugins I've got. And so when I press 'Skip' , I go to the next plugin - and have to go through ALL 221 of them individually! Opening a project takes 15 minutes of clicking each time, a total nightmare. Why Waves haven't introduced a 'Skip All' single button to open is utterly beyond me. I've heard that opening Logic in safe mode - clicking Shift+control+Login X icon, is supposed to open projects without 3rd Party plugins. But this does NOT work, I've tried it 30 times now. I even tried Control+shift+Logic X icon, And other combinations - including clicking on the Login icon in the Applications folder. Nothing doing. No luck! Any ideas, maestros?? Thanks
  12. des99 - you are a star! Thanks tons What I did - Selected the Omnisphere track and went to track parameters in Logic. Set the Channel to 1 instead of All. Sorted! Have a great day, DOH
  13. Hey des99, thanks for the reply! Ok you asked a good question. I use Omnisphere a lot, and it's the Omnisphere sounds that aren't triggering. All other software instruments are playing. Again, I've restarted the iMac several times and nothing seems to change...
  14. Thanks...It's on Channel 1...Still the same issue. As I scroll down the instrument list and play the very same note each time, about half play a sound, and half don't. The ones that don't trigger sounds, still have midi incoming signals on the logic display, so I know the Oxygen is still talking to Logic successfully....
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