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version 10.7.4 is the version im using thanks!

Hi, yeah its the same as yours on my one. im not sure how to find out which version its is but its a very new version on a Mac that's a year old so probably the latest version or the version before last but yeah it comes up the same as yours

Hi, iv'e been having a bit of an issue when im editing drums at the moment. Im editing the old way by cutting,slipping and crossfading the audio files. for some reason when I zoom really far in the audio files aren't quite locking to the grid, and iv'e found that when 'flex and follow' is unchecked in the 'region' drop down then everything is fine and they lock to the grid lines. so anyway I basically highlight all the audio files and then uncheck flex and follow so I can go about editing with all files locking to there grid positions.... but then it just keeps coming back on and not locking again when I haven't requested 'flex and follow' to come back on. is there a way of disabling flex and follow or just turning it off all together so it doesn't keep coming back on all the time without me asking it to. thanks guys appreciate the help!!

also I know that there will probably be a small amount of artefacts no matter what but what's going on at the moment definitely isn't right like the whole drums track is washing around like crazy

Hi, I was just wondering if somebody could talk me through in simple steps how to time stretch multi track drums. When I time stretch usually I would just grab the audio file using the timstretch shortcut with right click and then extend it out to fit the new click time. Im trying to do that with 16 tracks of drums and get tonnes of artefacts, its unusable so I was just going to see if someone could guide me through what they would do. just to recap the situation in more detail, I have 16 tracks of audio (drums) and I want to change the bpm from 101 to 99 bpm. I know that is quite a small amount but that's what I need to do so if any can let me know I would really appreciate that. Thanks!!

Iv'e just had a look in the activity log and it does look like the memory pressure is very high and what could be causing these problems. il attach a pic. let me know what you think and also if you know how to reduce the pressure back to a good level I would appreciate that also. thanks for your help

im not sure if its ssd or hdd im at work at the mo so don't have it with me but will have a look later. but being that I still have over 50% space on the Macs drive this shouldn't be what's causing the lagging should it?

So as I said a minute ago its lagging worse now that I have flex switched off.... so if I create a slice through the drum tracks and select to edit it will choose 14 regions ha ha. doesn't seem like much to handle

1st set was the internal drive of the Mac (which is what I run projects from) and the second set of figures was for my external hardrive (1TB) which I only use to back up to. iv'e just switched off flex time and just trying to cut/slice/edit 14 Audio tracks and the leggings got even worse ha ha. I would've thought a brand new MacBook Pro could manage editing 14 audio tracks. the guy in the shop asked me what id be using it for and I said music production and he said this would be a great Mac for that.... but not being able to edit drums seems wrong and I think there must be something wrong. I used to edit drums on my MacBook from 2010 which had lower specs and nowhere near as much problems and it was 10 years old. so yeah not sure about this... feels like there is something hindering the performance apart from just the specs but don't know

thought a brand new MacBook would cope with anything like this with ease but as you say its the ram causing the problem

hey, ok that makes sense as basically all im using the Mac for at the moment is editing drums using the flex markers and there's like 14 audio tracks... hmm not sure what to do then is there any way round this?

Hey, it says the drive is HD 245gb (in the storage section) and its used up 118gb so there's a lot of space there by the looks of things. I don't run any projects from an external drive I just use them to back up and save projects. the drive is 1tb and iv only used like 100 gig or so

Hi, iv'e just recently brought a band new MacBook with 8gb memory, not sure exactly what the other specs are but it said m1 chip if that means anything. anyways iv only had it for 2 months and even after a month it started just being really slow on logic which was surprising. now its got to the point where its virtually unusable. it keeps freezing and lagging having to force quit all the time and a window comes up saying the Macs run out of application storage and to force quit some applications but there are no other applications running. I have no idea why the Mac is struggling but obviously something to do with that. its not handling logic well at all and is worse than my old 2010 Mac.... also iv'e increased the buffer to the max and also changed it to 'playback tracks' but still getting the same slow results. don't know if I need to return it or if there is some kind of fix for this but any help will be appreciated

hey David, thanks for that. il look into what you suggested more for sure... but failing that, the slicing will help cut down the work time loads so thanks appreciate it

Hi, im editing some drums at the moment and found the best way is to just use the old slip editing technique as I can't get any decent results using any of the flex stuff. the way I'm currently doing it is a bit random and I was just going to see if there are any better ways/shortcuts. what I'm doing is enabling 'slicing' but not actually using slicing. I'm just enabling slicing so it shows me where the transient lines are... I'm then just using slip editing to put the transient lines where I want them.... so what I would really like to be able to do is to get shown the transient lines.... then cut the transient lines (preferably snare and kick) into a load of slices... then to be able to snap them to the grid.... is there a more logical and quick way to do this.... even just being able to make the slices would save a lot of time but if I can then quantise the slices and then add the fades that would be best... thanks in advance for your help