kneethercute Posted March 28, 2022 Share Posted March 28, 2022 Hi, I am currently working on a relatively new project but I keep experiencing frequent system overloads during playback to the point where I can't really get anything productive done with the project. It's not a very big project at the moment, just 16 tracks, and other projects of 75+ tracks are running just fine. I have maxed out my I/O buffer, process buffer range is large, I have frozen most of my MIDI tracks and all other applications are closed. Any advice in order to fix this issue? I've also heard that working off of an external hard-drive could help, but I'm not sure about how to actually go about doing that. Thanks in advance for the help! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
des99 Posted March 28, 2022 Share Posted March 28, 2022 What is Logic's performance meter telling you about your resource usage? Are you maxing out a single CPU core? Or just running out of CPU room generally? Or maybe it's the disk meter that's telling you the problem is with disk throughput... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kneethercute Posted March 28, 2022 Author Share Posted March 28, 2022 It's typically 1-2 cores that are maxing out while cores 3-4 are less than 25%. Disk meter stays under 25% as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atlas007 Posted March 28, 2022 Share Posted March 28, 2022 How many plugins? Which ones? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kneethercute Posted March 28, 2022 Author Share Posted March 28, 2022 I'd guess around 30 plugins total, just basic EQs, compression and reverbs stuff like that, nothing really too beefy I don't think. And as I said earlier I have a lot of tracks frozen so the actual active plugin total is around 10 right now Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dmitch57 Posted March 28, 2022 Share Posted March 28, 2022 Sometimes just leaving a software instrument track selected ends up using a lot of cycles, since it's "live" and processing audio even if there is no MIDI input and you're not recording. Are you ensuring that a low-load track is selected when you're playing? Sometimes I create a "dummy" track for the master fader just for this purpose; I select that track when I want to minimize CPU usage. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
des99 Posted March 28, 2022 Share Posted March 28, 2022 Yes, if you're pegging a core, then make sure you don't have an instrument track selected (see dmitch's comment above), and if you have tracks with a lot of heavy plugins on, try to split that plugin load across multiple channels, as this way Logic can distribute that load better across the available cores. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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