Logic Pro not playing sound. Sick of this problem!

[oqtheprod]

So I open Logic and it just doesn't play sound. This problem has been occuring for months now. I used to be able to fix it sometimes by changing the input/output device settings in Audio preferences back and forth between system setting and built-in but even that is not working anymore. Sound on my computer will be playing fine when I'm on youtube/FL/any other app but Logic just wants to ruin my life. I have tried uninstalling and installing Logic and that didnt work. Please do not tell me to uninstall and install the whole sound library because I am sure that won't do anything either and it is ridiculous I would even have to do that. Any recommendations before I switch to FL for good? I've been using Logic for 3+ years and custom made my 808 on here SMH

[fuzzfilth]

Please give at least some info about your computer, OS, Logic version, audio interface, etc. For all we know, you might as well be launching Logic 1.7 from floppy on an ATARI Falcon.

[David Nahmani]

One test to run is to switch your Logic audio preference output to the built-in output of your Mac, and see if that works as expected?

[Atlas007]

Have you tried launching Logic from newly created user account?

[analogika]

What interface are you using?

Do you have any tools like SoundFlower or Audio Hijack installed?

[oqtheprod]

12 hours ago, fuzzfilth said:

Please give at least some info about your computer, OS, Logic version, audio interface, etc. For all we know, you might as well be launching Logic 1.7 from floppy on an ATARI Falcon.

Macbook Air 13 inch 2017. macOS Montery 12.3.1 (latest), Logic version 10.7.4. I dont use an audio interface as I do not record vocals or live instruments

[oqtheprod]

3 hours ago, analogika said:

What interface are you using?

Do you have any tools like SoundFlower or Audio Hijack installed?

None

[triplets]

On 5/9/2022 at 6:29 PM, oqtheprod said:

So I open Logic and it just doesn't play sound.

Is Software Monitoring selected in Logic's Audio preferences?

[oqtheprod]

5 hours ago, triplets said:

Is Software Monitoring selected in Logic's Audio preferences?

Yes

[David Nahmani]

@oqtheprod have you tried the test I suggested?

[alex1fly]

On 5/10/2022 at 3:29 AM, oqtheprod said:

I used to be able to fix it sometimes by changing the input/output device settings in Audio preferences 

This is exactly what you need to do, every time you launch the software. You have to change it in the DAW's Audio preferences. Not to talk down but this shouldn't work "sometimes", it should set it correctly every time. I bounce between several DAWs and playback in Mac OS and for each one I have to select what I want whether it's my audio interface or my built-in speakers. Screenshot of your Logic audio preferences would help. Are you using headphones plugged into your Mac, speakers plugged in to an USB audio interface, something else?

HOWEVER. I will acknowledge that there are spirits in some DAWs. Cubase, for example, neeeeeever worked for me. Never. So many problems that nobody else seemed to have. And there's only so much time you can spend troubleshooting when you could be making music in whatever DAW.

[analogika]

1 hour ago, alex1fly said:

This is exactly what you need to do, every time you launch the software. You have to change it in the DAW's Audio preferences.

You have to select the audio interface every time you open Logic? The last interface used is saved as part of the Logic project. Whenever I open a project and don't have the expected interface connected, Logic complains. 

Since the sample rate is also saved as part of the Logic project, opening that should immediately set the interface sample rate, as well. 

If you have to manually select the interface in Logic every time, I'd think there's something wrong, unless you're constantly switching environments and/or interfaces. 

[alex1fly]

7 minutes ago, analogika said:

If you have to manually select the interface in Logic every time, I'd think there's something wrong, unless you're constantly switching environments and/or interfaces. 

I don't know. I just do it by default every time I open a DAW. Sometimes preferences are saved, sometimes not. But then I do switch interfaces and DAWs frequently on the same computer. 

[David Nahmani]

8 minutes ago, analogika said:

If you have to manually select the interface in Logic every time, I'd think there's something wrong, unless you're constantly switching environments and/or interfaces. 

Correct, if you want to keep using the same interface in Logic then you select it once and it will stay selected every time you launch Logic. 

[enossified]

If your symptom is you can see activity on the meters but no audio comes out, this is my only real beef with Logic. I always turn on my interface and my controller before I launch Logic and even then sometimes I get no sound. So I close Logic, cycle power on the interface and relaunch. That usually clears it. If it doesn't, as suggested above, I switch to the internal speakers which I can't recall ever not working, then choose my interface again. 

I also have learned to first check that I hadn't previously muted all system audio with the F10 key while running another app. 

[analogika]

On 5/13/2022 at 4:08 PM, enossified said:

If your symptom is you can see activity on the meters but no audio comes out, this is my only real beef with Logic. I always turn on my interface and my controller before I launch Logic and even then sometimes I get no sound. So I close Logic, cycle power on the interface and relaunch. That usually clears it. If it doesn't, as suggested above, I switch to the internal speakers which I can't recall ever not working, then choose my interface again. 

I also have learned to first check that I hadn't previously muted all system audio with the F10 key while running another app. 

My intuition says that sounds like a poorly written audio interface driver… I am not a developer, though.  

[David Nahmani]

On 5/10/2022 at 9:13 PM, oqtheprod said:

None

I wonder if this was in response to Audio Hijack or the interface question: are you using an audio interface or the Mac's built-in output? 

[enossified]

2 hours ago, analogika said:

My intuition says that sounds like a poorly written audio interface driver… I am not a developer, though.  

I've seen this with two different audio interfaces, one was Firewire and the other USB. The USB interface is class compliant. 

I see I overlooked something in an earlier post. The OP wrote he is not using an audio interface, that means he is using Built In Audio. I've never had problems with that.

So I have nothing more to add to this thread.