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root_sashok wrote:

Reported three times. I think we should start a petition at change.org
Which post has the most summarized and informative description of the bug?
And we should attach two most clear videos with the bugs for ADC & PDC problems, I think.
Then post a link to all topics regarding Logic's ADC & PDC on all forums and maybe in the header of this site and forum?

This topic we're posting in is our most thorough, official bug report thread, that's the on e you should be linking to.

Petition is here: http://chng.it/bfczxYTh9g
We need to post it in any ADC / PDC-related thread at any Logic forum.

Edit: could it be added to forum header?

This is running a project to a halt right now. I can't sidechain Trackspacer on busses, the sidechain trigger is off tempo. I've been using LFO tool and drawing stuff in the last year or two, but Trackspacer has such a nice feel its become the tool of choice, it sounds better in the end, in considerably less time. And I can't use it on busses because Logic?

This is a pretty insane flaw. This thread is two years old. Not being able to sidechain makes Logic an unprofessional incomplete product.

Would this be related to this issue with plugin automation being off? viewtopic.php?f=1&t=137436

This still doesn't work for me either. I've ended up abandoning a lot of bus automation as a creative option, which is absolutely ridiculous.

Please keep reporting the bug to Apple!

So Logic 10.6.1 is out and there's still no fix for ADC / PDC. We need to push this forward by constantly reporting this bug and hope they fix it in 10.6.2. Please send reports and make your Logic friends do that too.

OK I found the solution for ADC bug: https://vimeo.com/489649693

root_sashok wrote:

OK I found the solution for ADC bug: https://vimeo.com/489649693

Great! Thanks for sharing. So I suppose that's it more of a workaround than a solution?

Yes, it's still weird but it's something. Let's hope for 10.6.2, we started reporting maybe a little too late for 10.6.1

Yes let's keep reporting! As JO'B says "Not being able to sidechain makes Logic an unprofessional incomplete product." I have the same problem as him trying to use Trackspacer

FWIW I've submitted a bug report that notes that I've taken my money elsewhere after finding this bug while demoing Logic Pro. It's as simple as that.

root_sashok wrote:

OK I found the solution for ADC bug: https://vimeo.com/489649693

Many thanks for sharing this! I've submitted yet another bug report. There's no way they don't know about this by now.

I'm sorry, I need to vent. This is getting extremely frustrating. Don't get me wrong I'm sure this is extremely hard to resolve and there must be backwards compatibility concerns but this is getting ridiculous.

I have tried changing my workflow but I am forever coming up against this issue and I'm struggling to Mix projects. Any advise on how you over come this or have changed your workflow?

I really hope this is addressed soon. For the first time ever I'm considering changing DAW

I'll submit the bug yet again.

What i found that immediately throw logic out of sync horribly:
Sending to a bus, from a summing stack (or from another aux) - that completely breaks PDC.
I found if i refrain from using a send from an aux/summing stack, logic generally behaves

Maybe this caused my trouble with sidechaining with Sculpture, too. I use an ES1 instrument track as a source for an "External" exciter in an instance of Sculpture on another instrument track. Sculpture is followed by Izotope's Neutron 3, which causes a lot of latency no matter whether latency compensation is switched on or off. I guess when latency compensation is switched off, I hear the delay of Neutron 3, while switching delay compensation on makes logic delay the ES1 instance, ignoring the fact this kind of "compensation" will feed a delayed signal into Sculpture... I then used the Voxengo Latency Delay plugin for the ES1 track (a helper that reports an adjustable latency to the host), which seems to work for me, but obviously this is just a workaround.

seewest wrote:

I'm sorry, I need to vent. This is getting extremely frustrating. Don't get me wrong I'm sure this is extremely hard to resolve and there must be backwards compatibility concerns but this is getting ridiculous.

I have tried changing my workflow but I am forever coming up against this issue and I'm struggling to Mix projects. Any advise on how you over come this or have changed your workflow?

I really hope this is addressed soon. For the first time ever I'm considering changing DAW

I'll submit the bug yet again.

Can relate. I bit the bullet and have switched to Reaper. After 5 years and counting (that's how long this bug is around and not fixed) it was enough.
The learning curve is steep and it's painful to leave a DAW that I've mastered so well to go to one that I'm an absolute beginner in. Having said that: the PDC bug is simply too much. Often I could "fix" the results of the bug in the audio domain (after bouncing), but since the timing of elements in a song are all related, the fix usually wasn't a fix anymore and I simply let the offish timing stand. In Reaper I'm in control over timing again.

I'm slowly learning Ableton. The last thing I want to do is switch DAWs but this issue makes Logic a dinosaur from another era that isn't up to the job anymore. Parallel processing and more intricate bussing have become integral to getting a great sound by modern standards and Logic simply isn't up to the task anymore. Apple really sucks for this one.

Finally had enough of Apple’s Logic with broken side-chain compensation. We’ve all waited far too long for this fix, so today I decided to make the big switch to Live 11. I really hope this bug gets quashed for all Logic users who rely on plugin- side-chain compensation in their work. If it ever does, who knows, perhaps I might come back to Logic again one day.

Can't say Live 11 is a good alternative despite these bugs. mixing on it is... hard.

Reaper seems to be what mix engineers prefer. A lot of Protools users have jumped ship to Reaper since they changed their business model.

Producers/artists, especially leaning electronic, seem to prefer Ableton. Some great mixes coming out of Ableton though, I haven't dove in enough to have an opinion yet.

Logic is great for the entire process. I really don't want to switch. Still mind boggling you can't bus to various parallel processes and bus back to one channel, without automation and sidechain timing going random on you. Sometimes the whole session breaks, I'll bus one time too many and the timing of the entire session is off, sounds like a middle school band. Take the offending bus back off and it goes back to working correctly.