Hello, we're having the same issue over here. All playback of existing audio and instrument tracks ceases to play for about 1 second after punching in.
The only audio that can be heard during this 1 second gap is the monitored audio from a microphone on the selected track, but from UAD's Console since we use that for software monitoring. Software monitoring within Logic is turned off. After this 1 second gap, all audio continues to playback normally. The playhead continues smoothly during this 1 second gap. MIDI instruments do not have to "catch" after this 1 second gap, which is extremely strange to me. It's like all software instruments and audio tracks are playing back normally, but a momentary mute is occurring on all tracks.
I've tried assigning hotkeys for the various record modes, like "Record Toggle." This doesn't fix the issue unfortunately. The behavior is the same regardless if cycle is on or off. It doesn't matter if Auto Input Monitoring is turned on or off.
This is occurring on both a Mac Studio and Macbook Pro, so I'm assuming this is a setting somewhere that I'm missing.
There is a single fix for this so far, but unfortunately, it isn't acceptable. By record arming the track manually, it eliminates this issue. However, we are unable to hear recorded audio during playback, since the track is record armed. Obviously de-activating the record arm on this track will fix this, but it's too clunky of a workflow.
I believe there is an issue with the process of record arming a track, if the track is not manually armed. "If no track is Record-enabled, when you press record, the selected track is automatically Record-enabled." This seems to be the issue that is causing the delay. If there is a way to hear recorded audio on a track that is record armed, that would fix this issue. Thank you for the help!