oxband Posted December 11, 2018 Share Posted December 11, 2018 I am applying Compression to a track. I know it's working cause I can hear the difference when I turn it on and off. However, the meters inside the effect arent moving at all. Any idea what's wrong? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shivermetimbers Posted December 11, 2018 Share Posted December 11, 2018 I am applying Compression to a track. I know it's working cause I can hear the difference when I turn it on and off. However, the meters inside the effect arent moving at all. Any idea what's wrong? What compressor? What meters? Did you do a test bounce ( BIP ) and compare? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
des99 Posted December 11, 2018 Share Posted December 11, 2018 Sounds like you have no gain reduction going on - try turning the threshold down, and maybe increase the ratio. You may also need to reduce the attack and release if necessary. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oxband Posted December 11, 2018 Author Share Posted December 11, 2018 It's working. I can hear the difference when I turn it on and off. It's just not showing up in the meters. If I open it up in a separate window, it looks like it's doing nothing but I can hear it is Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eriksimon Posted December 11, 2018 Share Posted December 11, 2018 It's an unpredictable bug. It happens to me from time to time (once ever fifty times?) too. What you can try is: 1. save your current setting as a preset 2. uninstantiate the compressor 3 save & 4. close the project 5. reopen the project 6. reinsert the compressor and 7. choose the preset and the the meters might work again. Simply quitting and restarting Logc may also do it. As I said, it is an unpredictable bug. I think it is graphical, because, as you said, the compressor is still working when this happens. It is very annoying, and impossible to predictably recreate, therefore not possible to file a repeatable bug-scenario report thingie. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Nahmani Posted December 11, 2018 Share Posted December 11, 2018 I am applying Compression to a track. I know it's working cause I can hear the difference when I turn it on and off. However, the meters inside the effect arent moving at all. Any idea what's wrong? None of the meters? No input meters, no output meters, nothing? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oxband Posted December 11, 2018 Author Share Posted December 11, 2018 Correct. None of the meters in the effect are showing me anything but it is DEFINITELY working Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eriksimon Posted December 11, 2018 Share Posted December 11, 2018 Yep. I can again confirm that this does sometimes happen. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oxband Posted December 11, 2018 Author Share Posted December 11, 2018 SO weird Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oxband Posted December 18, 2018 Author Share Posted December 18, 2018 So, i actually figured something out: if the Compressor is after my iZoptope effects in the chain, it doesnt work well. However, if it comes before the iZoptope effects, then it works normally. any idea what that might indicate or how i can solve it so I can place it after the iZotope effects and have the meters work? Again, the problem isnt that Compressor isnt working. It's that the meters arent showing. I wonder if maybe it cant keep up with iZoptope or something so it just doesnt show. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
des99 Posted December 18, 2018 Share Posted December 18, 2018 Which "iZotope effects"? It's much more helpful if you can provide *actual details* that people can check. What plugins cause this, is it all of them, or do some of them work ok? Mono or stereo channels? What software versions you are running etc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oxband Posted December 18, 2018 Author Share Posted December 18, 2018 Good point. I'm running Logic 10.4.2 It's happening on mono tracks. The effects are Izotope 6 De-Ess and De-Plosive. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
des99 Posted December 18, 2018 Share Posted December 18, 2018 (edited) It's happening on mono tracks. But it's not happening on stereo tracks? And only those two iZotope plugins cause this behaviour? Edited December 18, 2018 by des99 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oxband Posted December 18, 2018 Author Share Posted December 18, 2018 I only had it on mono tracks...but I just checked...and it is happening on stereo too. Also...it happens whether the de-ess is in spectral mode or voice mode AND if i disable the iZoptope effects, it stops and i can see levels in compressor again Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
des99 Posted December 18, 2018 Share Posted December 18, 2018 The effects are Izotope 6 De-Ess and De-Plosive. Ok, you mean iZotope RX 6. It works fine here. I can't reproduce any problems with the compressor not working or it's graphics not working after those RX 6 plugins. Make sure you haven't done something like enabled "Output ess only" as in these modes these plugins will only output parts of the audio that you have targetted them for processing (which might be nothing at all). Are you hearing *audio* on that channel when the compressor meters are not working (double-check, you're sure what you are *hearing* is *that* channel, and not some other routing...?) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
des99 Posted December 18, 2018 Share Posted December 18, 2018 Also, when the RX plugin is bypassed, and you're playing audio through it, and you can see the compressor meters move - when you enable the RX plugin, do the compressor meters slowly return to zero, or do they just freeze in place where they are? If the meters return to zero, the compressor is working, you're just not feeding any audio into it, and it's not a display/graphics problem with the meters. Also, in "Graph" mode, not Meter mode, does the compressor graph display continue scrolling to the left when the RX plugin is active? If the meters just freeze in place, then that sounds like a more serious bug or compatibility issue. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oxband Posted December 18, 2018 Author Share Posted December 18, 2018 So, it actually works fine if I enable the plugins while it's running AND then after I start and stop, it keeps working fine. Graph mode works the same as meter mode (Thanks for all this assistance....) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
omar17166 Posted April 21, 2019 Share Posted April 21, 2019 (The problem is very obvious here. I just have one audio (guitar) track with a compressor on it. The meter does not work at all. The effects are clearly heard but the meter (or graph) is dead. This is the case during listening, recording and playback. It seems to be a bug. **) ** I'd probably take it back.. The level was too low. Although I don't see why the effects are noticeable in audio but not visually. Can be deceiving. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Nahmani Posted April 21, 2019 Share Posted April 21, 2019 To anyone having this problem, please attach your Logic file to your post so that one of us can test your project on our machine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eriksimon Posted April 22, 2019 Share Posted April 22, 2019 The problem is that it can show up in a project and then clear up again in the same project. I still haven't found any predictability to this glitch. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
triplets Posted April 22, 2019 Share Posted April 22, 2019 Correct. None of the meters in the effect are showing me anything but it is DEFINITELY working Can you post a screenshot of the plugin on that channel? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stemount Posted August 5, 2021 Share Posted August 5, 2021 So, I'm on M1 Logic Pro and I guess I've ran into a similar thing. I had changed my projects sample rate in the first hour on working on a session just for live bussing (a quick hack) Then I selected 192kHz sample rate in project settings and then back to 44.1, 48kHz, 96kHz, anything above would not register in the compressors. I'm guessing the bug is mostly to do with oversampling for 192kHz does not apply and the metering is therefore not registering the input? Other things I did do was: 1. took out one of the output devices in my Aggregate Device, restarted it, still broke, opened project file again and when I wanted to demo the behaviour it .......just started working. I think Apple is monitoring this forum and cleverly hot fixing our Logic Pro sessions Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scottypages Posted October 28, 2021 Share Posted October 28, 2021 I am experiencing the same thing on all my files and have never had this problem before. The compressor is definitely working because I can hear the effects when enabled and the tiny line on the mixer shows signs of life but there is no movement at all in the compressor window. Can anyone help? Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shapiro Posted July 27, 2022 Share Posted July 27, 2022 Got this same dead meter bug going on with a Drummer Percussion track, so not a chain I've set up myself, therefore no 3rd party plugs, never had this before. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dlaid Posted April 10, 2023 Share Posted April 10, 2023 I have the same issues with various plugins. Example...my Shadow hills mastering compressors vu needles will not move until I grab the plugin and move its position on screen, as I am moving it the meters spring to life. When I stop moving it and continue to hold the mouse button it works as it should. When I release the mouse button vu stops moving. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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