Logic Pro X Keeps Crashing Even with New, Upgraded Computer

[Sean Kane]

 

My Logic Pro X keeps crashing. I used to have a late 2016 iMac with 32g ram and intel quad core processor. I bought a new Mac mini with 12 core CPU; 32gig unified memory, and the crashes are just as frequent as my old computer. Here is the translated report I keep getting. ANY insight would be greatly appreciated (e.g. do I need a new computer with more CPU (M2 Ultra), and or more unified memory? Or is there something else I can do to prevent this. My external plugins are Melodyne, EZ Drummer and Isotope, but I have disabled them and the same issue persists. Thank you very much in advance.

 

Process: Logic Pro X [1191]

Path: /Applications/Logic Pro X.app/Contents/MacOS/Logic Pro X

Identifier: com.apple.logic10

Version: 10.7.9 (5830)

Build Info: MALogic-5830000000000000~3 (1A73)

App Item ID: 634148309

App External ID: 857501258

Code Type: ARM-64 (Native)

Parent Process: launchd [1]

User ID: 501

 

Date/Time: 2023-09-10 15:32:47.4028 -0700

OS Version: macOS 13.5.2 (22G91)

Report Version: 12

Anonymous UUID: D343AAEF-D4AF-DE2E-E226-01B659199AD0

 

Sleep/Wake UUID: FCCA4C1A-0BCC-431D-9643-B3E1BF8FCBFE

 

Time Awake Since Boot: 2100 seconds

Time Since Wake: 937 seconds

 

System Integrity Protection: enabled

 

Crashed Thread: 0 Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread

 

Exception Type: EXC_CRASH (SIGABRT)

Exception Codes: 0x0000000000000000, 0x0000000000000000

 

Termination Reason: Namespace SIGNAL, Code 6 Abort trap: 6

Terminating Process: Logic Pro X [1191]

 

[des99]

You cut off the crash report before the important thread was displayed - it's this one:

Crashed Thread: 0

...so we can't see what Logic might have been doing at the time of the crash. What were you doing at the time of the crash?

Have you tried all the regular troubleshooting approaches? (eg trashing your prefs, running Logic in a different user account, running in Rosetta mode and so on).

 

Edited September 10, 2023 by des99

[Sean Kane]

Thanks. I really appreciate the insight. I have conducted all the "standard" troubleshooting protocols on Apple's website (e.g. trashing prefs, all the way through reinstalling Logic). Except, I (1) have not run logic in Rosetta mode; and (2) I have not run it using a different user account. I will try those. Here is the portion of the crash report immediately after the initial portion I included in my original report. Any further help will be GREATLY appreciated.

 

 

Crashed Thread:        0  Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread

 

Exception Type:        EXC_CRASH (SIGABRT)

Exception Codes:       0x0000000000000000, 0x0000000000000000

 

Termination Reason:    Namespace SIGNAL, Code 6 Abort trap: 6

Terminating Process:   Logic Pro X [1191]

 

Application Specific Information:

abort() called

 

 

Thread 0 Crashed::  Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread

0   libsystem_kernel.dylib               0x182620764 __pthread_kill + 8

1   libsystem_pthread.dylib              0x182657c28 pthread_kill + 288

2   libsystem_c.dylib                    0x182565ae8 abort + 180

3   libsystem_malloc.dylib               0x182486e28 malloc_vreport + 908

4   libsystem_malloc.dylib               0x18248a6e8 malloc_report + 64

5   libsystem_malloc.dylib               0x182496f20 find_zone_and_free + 308

6   libvDSP.dylib                        0x18d1ab654 0x18d181000 + 173652

7   libvDSP.dylib                        0x18d182b2c vDSP_destroy_fftsetup + 44

8   MADSP                                0x10b2f9624 CLibFFT::~CLibFFT() + 40

9   MADSP                                0x10b45f4b8 CImpulseResponse::~CImpulseResponse() + 72

10  MADSP                                0x10afa72c4 CFFTFilter::~CFFTFilter() + 68

11  MADSP                                0x10afa8588 CFFTFilterInt::~CFFTFilterInt() + 48

12  MADSP                                0x10afa7cd0 CFFTFilterInt::~CFFTFilterInt() + 12

13  MADSP                                0x10afff254 CLinearPhaseCrossover::~CLinearPhaseCrossover() + 88

14  MADSP                                0x10b06ae38 CMonoMaker::~CMonoMaker() + 88

15  MADSP                                0x10b06a1fc CMonoMaker::~CMonoMaker() + 12

16  MADSP                                0x10b23e8c8 CChromaVerbFX::~CChromaVerbFX() + 96

17  MADSP                                0x10b23cf98 CChromaVerbFX::~CChromaVerbFX() + 12

18  MADSP                                0x10b623404 CChromaVerbShell::~CChromaVerbShell() + 124

19  MAAudioEngine                        0x1097000ac MDPlugSteffan::~MDPlugSteffan() + 68

20  MAAudioEngine                        0x1096fc570 MDPlugSteffan::~MDPlugSteffan() + 12

21  MAAudioEngine                        0x1096b1178 MD::DisposePlug(CPlugIn*) + 644

22  Logic Pro X                          0x104efe27c 0x104c10000 + 3072636

23  Logic Pro X                          0x104da8540 0x104c10000 + 1672512

24  Logic Pro X                          0x104dab884 0x104c10000 + 1685636

25  Logic Pro X                          0x104daa770 0x104c10000 + 1681264

26  Logic Pro X                          0x104da997c 0x104c10000 + 1677692

27  Logic Pro X                          0x104eca608 0x104c10000 + 2860552

28  Logic Pro X                          0x105404c70 0x104c10000 + 8342640

29  Logic Pro X                          0x104fd6260 0x104c10000 + 3957344

30  Logic Pro X                          0x105ee1ebc 0x104c10000 + 19734204

31  Logic Pro X                          0x10553d080 0x104c10000 + 9621632

32  Foundation                           0x1836e6438 __NSFireTimer + 104

33  CoreFoundation                       0x1827503c8 __CFRUNLOOP_IS_CALLING_OUT_TO_A_TIMER_CALLBACK_FUNCTION__ + 32

34  CoreFoundation                       0x182750070 __CFRunLoopDoTimer + 940

35  CoreFoundation                       0x18274fbc8 __CFRunLoopDoTimers + 356

36  CoreFoundation                       0x182735348 __CFRunLoopRun + 1852

37  CoreFoundation                       0x1827344b8 CFRunLoopRunSpecific + 612

38  HIToolbox                            0x18bf86df0 RunCurrentEventLoopInMode + 292

39  HIToolbox                            0x18bf86c2c ReceiveNextEventCommon + 648

40  HIToolbox                            0x18bf86984 _BlockUntilNextEventMatchingListInModeWithFilter + 76

41  AppKit                               0x18595b97c _DPSNextEvent + 636

42  AppKit                               0x18595ab18 -[NSApplication(NSEvent) _nextEventMatchingEventMask:untilDate:inMode:dequeue:] + 716

43  Logic Pro X                          0x105eec1bc 0x104c10000 + 19775932

44  AppKit                               0x18594ef7c -[NSApplication run] + 464

45  AppKit                               0x1859263cc NSApplicationMain + 880

46  Logic Pro X                          0x1054e28bc 0x104c10000 + 9251004

47  dyld                                 0x1822fff28 start + 2236

 

[Sean Kane]

So I began running Logic in Rosetta mode and that appeared to help. But when I reenabled Izotope, Logic is crashing as it is shutting down. It appears to shut down fine, and then like a minute later says "Logic Pro X Quit Unexpectedly". This is the same thing my prior 2016 iMac was doing when it started crashing (subsequently my 2016 iMac went on to crash, and have lots of system overloads during projects as well, which is why I replaced it with the Mac mini I am running now).  I am monitoring my CPU and memory when using Logic and both appear to be fine (never rising about 30% or so, and on my old computer it never really rose above 60%). I would think it is an issue with the 3rd party plugins, but when I check the plugin manager, it says all of them are "successfully validated"). Below is the beginning of the crash report. Again, any help or insight would be GREATLY appreciated.

 

 

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Translated Report (Full Report Below)

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Process:               Logic Pro X [2532]

Path:                  /Applications/Logic Pro X.app/Contents/MacOS/Logic Pro X

Identifier:            com.apple.logic10

Version:               10.7.9 (5830)

Build Info:            MALogic-5830000000000000~3 (1A73)

App Item ID:           634148309

App External ID:       857501258

Code Type:             X86-64 (Translated)

Parent Process:        launchd [1]

User ID:               501

 

Date/Time:             2023-09-10 21:12:35.7111 -0700

OS Version:            macOS 13.5.2 (22G91)

Report Version:        12

Anonymous UUID:        D343AAEF-D4AF-DE2E-E226-01B659199AD0

 

 

Time Awake Since Boot: 12000 seconds

 

System Integrity Protection: enabled

 

Crashed Thread:        0  Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread

 

Exception Type:        EXC_CRASH (SIGABRT)

Exception Codes:       0x0000000000000000, 0x0000000000000000

 

Termination Reason:    Namespace SIGNAL, Code 6 Abort trap: 6

Terminating Process:   Logic Pro X [2532]

 

Application Specific Information:

abort() called

 

 

Kernel Triage:

VM - (arg = 0x0) pmap_enter retried due to resource shortage

VM - (arg = 0x0) pmap_enter retried due to resource shortage

VM - (arg = 0x0) pmap_enter retried due to resource shortage

VM - (arg = 0x0) pmap_enter retried due to resource shortage

VM - (arg = 0x0) pmap_enter retried due to resource shortage

 

Edited September 11, 2023 by Sean Kane

[triplets]

12 hours ago, Sean Kane said:

But when I reenabled Izotope, Logic is crashing as it is shutting down.

Did you check Izotope for updates?

[scg]

Quote

I would think it is an issue with the 3rd party plugins, but when I check the plugin manager, it says all of them are "successfully validated").

Unfortunately, validation (probably) doesn't guarantee that no crashes or other issues will occur. So it seems possible you could still be encountering an issue with a third-party plugin.

[sunbrother]

Did you ever figure out which plugin was causing this? I'm working with a dense project file right now and one of the plugins is doing this. Crashing on quit, lots of "MADSP" mentions in the log, etc. Also, it mostly seems to happen if I quit from the project rather than close the project, wait, and quit.

Edited January 18 by sunbrother

[des99]

Do you use Logic’s Tuner?

[sunbrother]

2 minutes ago, des99 said:

Do you use Logic’s Tuner?

Yes.

[des99]

Try removing it. Your crashes on exit should go away.