Automation not latency compensated

I remember having this problem with early versions of Logic, but it seems to have returned recently (Logic 10.4.4) I will write some automation on an audio track and it does not match up with the audio. So I'll automate the volume of a plugin to match exactly with the change in section on a song, but when I play it back, the volume goes up a beat before the change. Can anyone think what I might be doing wrong here? Delay compensation is set to All and software monitoring is off.

Thanks for any help.

Unfortunately it's a well known issue:

 

Automation and PDC is just broken (still in Logic Pro 10.6)

Thanks for letting me know. I'm having problems getting my head around how the Logic dev team could not have fixed this.

Thanks for letting me know. I'm having problems getting my head around how the Logic dev team could not have fixed this.

I hear you and I, too, sometimes wonder how some critical bugs or some obvious missing features haven't been fixed/implemented in Logic by now. But here's what I see:

 

Let's say that Logic's bug list has 2,791 bugs. Out of those 2,791 bugs, only 3% are deemed critical and urgent to fix by quite a few Logic users. That's 84 bugs that should be fixed urgently. Out of those 84 bugs, the Logic teams can fix only 21. The next Logic version comes out with 21 bugs fixed, and 13 new bugs created in part by the bug fixes, in part by the addition of new features that don't work perfectly, or that break some existing functionality. That leaves us with 76 reasons for Logic users to wonder how the Logic dev team could not have fixed the one bug they're suffering from the most and that to them seems the one most important thing to fix.

 

All numbers in this post are 100% imaginary and just guesstimates based on my life dealing with Logic bugs and Logic users for the past 23 years (that last number is real and accurate).

Thanks for letting me know. I'm having problems getting my head around how the Logic dev team could not have fixed this.

Let's say that Logic's bug list has 2,791 bugs. Out of those 2,791 bugs, only 3% are deemed critical and urgent to fix by quite a few Logic users. That's 84 bugs that should be fixed urgently. Out of those 84 bugs, the Logic teams can fix only 21.

Yes I'm sure you're right about this. I'm also a Pro Tools user and unlike Logic, it's automation is very accurate, what you see is what you hear. But Pro Tools has it's own set of bugs which are just a annoying. For example in Pro Tools at random, delay compensation sometimes just breaks and tracks go out of time with each other. Sometimes it's subtle enough that you just get phasing or flamming on the snare, you hit stop and play and it lines up again. That undermines your trust in the whole Pro Tools engine, because you never know when that might be happening on some small level without you noticing. It's arguably a worse bug than Logic's out of time automation.

 

But given Apple's vast fortune, I wish they'd don't give the Logic team more resources.

i really wish they would fix this!! just finished a project where automation fade outs needed to be very exact and I just couldn't do it in Logic. Had to move into PT for accuracy. I hope this issue is at the top of their priority for the next release.