FallicoMusic Posted January 5, 2019 Share Posted January 5, 2019 Hello Everyone, this is my first post so I apologize if it is not in the right forum location. I searched around but did not see an answer for this. I recently bought a new Mac mini and it is running 10.14.1 with the most current version of Logic Pro, 10.4.3. I took all my music files from my old MacBook Pro and put them on an external SSD with a USB-C connection to the Mac mini. I opened a project file, hit play, and immediately something was wrong. Random tracks at random times will be cutting in and out. It is not my speakers or headphones. This is happened to audio tracks and midi tracks with plugins such as Alchemy and Serum. I have seen a lot of people say to keep your samples on an external if your hard drive isn't that big. I moved the project file directly onto the Mac mini but it still did nothing to fix the issue. When the tracks are cutting in and out I do not see the green light turning off on the respective tracks. They stay turned on the whole time. Any help is more than appreciated! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atlas007 Posted January 8, 2019 Share Posted January 8, 2019 What are your Mac Mini's specs? What about the CPU / HD load meters? Do you have Low Latency mode enabled? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FallicoMusic Posted January 9, 2019 Author Share Posted January 9, 2019 Processor: 32 GHz Intel Core i7 Memory: 32 GB 2667 MHz DDR4 CPU meter is no more than 15%-30% used depending on where in the song. I have 12 threads activated. HD meter is not registering anything other than jump to 15% when I hit play and then falls down. Buffer Size is 1024 Process Buffer Range is Large. I noticed this is not happening on all projects so I am wondering if maybe the ones affected became corrupted somehow. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FallicoMusic Posted January 9, 2019 Author Share Posted January 9, 2019 Also just bounced to audio and the sound cuts are present in that as well Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atlas007 Posted January 9, 2019 Share Posted January 9, 2019 Other softwares/apps/services running in the background? Any drivers, plugins needing to be updated? How big are the affected projects? How many tracks, plugins? What about automations? Perhaps posting a screen capture of your mixer could help assess... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FallicoMusic Posted January 15, 2019 Author Share Posted January 15, 2019 Nothing running in the background. Everything is up to date. Updated to OSX 10.14.2 as well. The size of this project is 133 MB. 45 tracks with most of them being audio tracks. Using serum and alchemy on draft modes (lowest setting). Barely any automation. Just a few tracks and the ones that have it is just to make a simple rise in reverb during the buildups. I have attached pictures Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FallicoMusic Posted January 15, 2019 Author Share Posted January 15, 2019 Just updated Logic to 10.4.4 and the issue persists. It is not only on this one song Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FallicoMusic Posted January 18, 2019 Author Share Posted January 18, 2019 Bumping for visibility Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
billscores Posted January 26, 2019 Share Posted January 26, 2019 Sorry to hear this, Bro. Looks like I've got the same exact computer as you. Same specs. No issues here. What's your audio interface? I'm running an Apollo x8 via TB3. I'm also using separate external TB3 drives for my sessions and samples. Are these 96K sessions perhaps? I don't use Serum, or Alchemy, but from what I can see that session should run like butter at 128 or 256 buffer. 1024 is nuts for that. FYI: In the first couple weeks of use, my Mac mini was running 'coreSpeech' in the background. Discovered this in Activity monitor -- it was an absolute CPU crusher, found a thread about it, and got it to disable by Turing Siri on/and off then rebooting. I'd check to see if that's going on. Wish I could be of more help. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FallicoMusic Posted April 3, 2019 Author Share Posted April 3, 2019 Bump for visibility. This happens with any audio interface or just out of the internal speakers. The sound on tracks randomly stops but the music keeps playing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AaronFeeney Posted April 2, 2020 Share Posted April 2, 2020 Did this ever get sorted? I'm having this exact problem and it's driving me insane! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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