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  1. You're overloading the Live Core. Try to select a different, non-DKD track, so the whole thing and all it's plugins isn't all loaded onto one core. Also - why so high a buffer? Or ARM, higher buffers are generally *less performant* than low ones. Drop it down to 64 samples, and see how you go.
  2. So, a bunch of people have made various tools over the years to made this easier, and none of them I've found quicker or easier than just using my regular text editor... I can't see anything in your utility that isn't quicker/easier for me in BBEdit, where I can nudge entries up and down, copy/move/shift multiple lines at once etc. But if it's a better method for you (or others) and you prefer doing it this way, great! 👍
  3. Yes, copying and learning from what your hear from other tracks is a great way to learn. I certainly did back when I was about 10 and got my first keyboard - I would copy synth melodies etc from songs I liked, then as I got better gear, starting working out chords, basslines, drum patterns and so on. I think it's pretty common when you're starting out learning music to copy and learn from music you like, as you try to understand how those things are put together. 👍
  4. Kontakt 7.9 is out with *official* Sonoma compatibility, but as reported earlier and by others, earlier versions seemed to work fine on Sonoma for everyone anyway.
  5. Not directly in Logic. You can program macros in things like Keyboard Maestro to do similar things though, to drive Logic's interface programmatically. And there is another tool optimised for remote controlling DAWs, but I forget it's name right now...
  6. Alchemy is a super complex synthesiser that supports multiple synthesis engines, including sample playback, granular synthesis, and more regular virtual analog style synthesis. Sample Alchemy is a cut-down version of Alchemy that isn't a synthesiser as such, it does sample playback only, and has a much optimised interface for letting you play with, and manipulate samples in a more intuitive way.
  7. My fan has turned on precisely *once*, when I was rendering out something that took a while. That's it. You wouldn't even know this MBP *has* a fan, until it really needs some cooling help... The Mx-series laptops right from the start have been incredible machines, all of them.
  8. I think the first thing to do is start to be able to identify what is competing for space, to then decide how to handle it. And by space, not just in terms of where something sits in the mix, but whether it's competing for *attention*, and from there, then you can get a feel for whether it's a mix issue, or an arrangement issue (you can fix some arrangement issues with the mix, of course, eg, dropping parts out or changing them up with processing or positioning etc) Think in terms of left-right (panning), up-down (frequency & volume), and back-front (frequency, volume and ambience). Should something be up front and in your face, or pushed to the background to give space for other things up front?.. etc. If you've got multiple things going on, where should the focus be? At any time, is one thing more important than others? If so, are you shining a light on what's important, and letting the other stuff give way? A good mix always keeps the important things in focus, but then often brings other details in and out for little moments and colour when the vocal is out of the way, for instance (using automation). You can do a *lot* with panning, EQ, volume and reverb wet/dry balance... You can also do some more advanced techniques like sidechaining parts so that, for instance, when the vocal comes in, it pulls some of the instruments that would otherwise compete in that space down a little, or on reverb so that when the vocal is present the reverb levels are low, but when the vocal stops the reverb swells back up a bit - there are lots of tools and techniques to learn, but it's important imo to start with the fundamentals and learning to build a good mix without a bunch of other stuff going on that you may not be totally in control of...
  9. How much CPU is the last CPU core specifically taking in this case? It sounds like you're overloading the Live Mode core.
  10. Do you guys break into fits of giggles every time you use Logic’s Lock SMPTE Position feature? 😝
  11. SMPTE is still a thing, you know..! 😉
  12. Yes, Apple even released a driver update for them so they even work on Apple silicon systems.
  13. I still use my AMT8 and SoundDiver (although not so much Logic 1.x/2.x on the ST, as I had to give up my LOG3 when I moved to LAP on the PC)... 👍 I'm not sure what the funny is around Notator's SMPTE window, though? Notator's timing, particularly with it's SMPTE interface UNITOR was widely known as being excellent...
  14. There's a preference setting for that: Settings -> General -> Accessibility -> Open Plugins in Controls view by default
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