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I don't know what is happening in your specific case. I'm saying though that just because the progress bar says "Channel EQ" and doesn't progress further, doesn't mean Logic is hanging on it's own code - that really doesn't happen in my experience. Leaving aside corrupt projects, it's 95% of the time third-party plugin problems. There was an iLok issue a couple of years back that could be fixed in the way you describe for specific reasons (I won't go into this in detail here), but unless you're running old iLok code, that's probably not the case here. In the case of Fabfilter, these have a reputation of being pretty solid, but the environment software is running in is a wild card - I see in your case, you're running a patched macOS on presumably an otherwise unsupported hardware machine (which is the point of patching it), so it's difficult to say what's going on. It could even be something hardware related like RAM issues. But if you feel that the FF plugin (or other ones) is unreliable on your system, you might want to connect with support, they might have some ideas.

Softube VCA Compressor Presets from the dbx-style compressor plugin. Softube VCA Compressor.zip Instructions: Once unpacked, Copy the "Factory" folder to ~/Library/Audio/Presets/Softube/VCA Compressor/ (that's the Library folder in your home directory) Index to this thread by Type / Manufacturer / Plugin: Third-party Patches Index

Softube Tape Echoes Presets from the analog saturation processor plugin. Softube Tape Echoes.zip Instructions: Once unpacked, Copy the "Factory" folder to ~/Library/Audio/Presets/Softube/Tape Echoes/ (that's the Library folder in your home directory) Index to this thread by Type / Manufacturer / Plugin: Third-party Patches Index

Softube Harmonics Presets from the analog saturation processor plugin. Softube Harmonics.zip Instructions: Once unpacked, Copy the "Factory" folder to ~/Library/Audio/Presets/Softube/Harmonics Analog Saturation Processor/ (that's the Library folder in your home directory) Index to this thread by Type / Manufacturer / Plugin: Third-party Patches Index

Softube Drawmer S73 Presets from the master bus processor plugin. Drawmer S73.zip Instructions: Once unpacked, Copy the "Factory" folder to ~/Library/Audio/Presets/Softube/Drawmer S73/ (that's the Library folder in your home directory) Index to this thread by Type / Manufacturer / Plugin: Third-party Patches Index

Softube Tape Presets from the tape emulation plugin. Softube Tape.zip Instructions: Once unpacked, Copy the "Factory" folder to ~/Library/Audio/Presets/Softube/Tape/ (that's the Library folder in your home directory) Index to this thread by Type / Manufacturer / Plugin: Third-party Patches Index

Softube Wasted Space Presets from the lo-fi reverb plugin. Softube Wasted Space.zip Instructions: Once unpacked, Copy the "Factory" folder to ~/Library/Audio/Presets/Softube/Wasted Space/ (that's the Library folder in your home directory) Index to this thread by Type / Manufacturer / Plugin: Third-party Patches Index

Softube FET Compressor Mk II Presets from the 1176 compressor emulation plugin. Softube FET Compressor.zip Instructions: Once unpacked, Copy the "Factory" folder to ~/Library/Audio/Presets/Softube/FET Compressor Mk II/ (that's the Library folder in your home directory) Index to this thread by Type / Manufacturer / Plugin: Third-party Patches Index

Softube British Class A Presets from the Neve channel strip emulation plugin. Softube British Class A.zip Instructions: Once unpacked, Copy the "Factory" folder to ~/Library/Audio/Presets/Softube/British Class A/ (that's the Library folder in your home directory) Index to this thread by Type / Manufacturer / Plugin: Third-party Patches Index

Softube Model 84 Presets from the Roland Juno 106 emulation plugin. Softube Model 84.zip Instructions: Once unpacked, Copy the "Factory" folder to ~/Library/Audio/Presets/Softube/Model 84 Polyphonic Synthesizer/ (that's the Library folder in your home directory) Index to this thread by Type / Manufacturer / Plugin: Third-party Patches Index

Also, make sure you don't have a stuck shift-key or other modifier or something... 😉

They are in: /Library/Application Support/Garageband/Instrument Library/Track Settings/

Applications can create virtual MIDI ports to send/receive MIDI for their own purposes, and they are only active while that app is running (unlike a driver or class-compliant MIDI device, which can be active all the time the computer is running or the device is connected etc). Logic creates it's virtual MIDI ports in this way.

It also sounds like a latency issue to me. The meter is reading at the correct time the track Is sending signal through the channel, but by the time the mix is coming out of the main output channel, with various plugins on it, you *hear* it later than it is because of plugin-induced latency, so the audio is out of sync with the meter on the track. Try going into Low Latency Mode, or removing all your master bus plugins and see if it affects the display behaviour.

Your playhead has disappeared because this is drawn with Metal, and your Mac does not support Metal, or the later macOS versions you are running (which all require Metal), and you've patched these macOS versions to run on unsupported hardware. Unfortunately, you won't be able to use Logic correctly on these systems without Metal. Other parts of Logic will also crash without a Metal-capable machine.