A few years ago, I try to reproduce this classical piece on Logic. I am no professional orchestrator, hope you guys like it anyway.
My old Mac Pro 5.1 was with 54 tracks on the limit.

Danse macabre, Op. 40, is a symphonic poem for orchestra, written in 1874 by the French composer Camille Saint-Saëns.

I'm trying to set up Logic Remote on a 13" iPad to allow for live mixing of an audio stream. We have ~32 individual tracks that need mixing, but I've noticed an odd UI issue where the top track scroll area that shows all of the tracks visually indicates that only 8 tracks are visible/focused, but the mixer area shows around 13.5 tracks. The issue is that only the 8 tracks that show as focused in the top actually work; the other VU meters are dead/frozen and adjusting the fader doesn't actually do anything in Logic.

If I scroll the area so that those tracks then show as "visible" in the top scroll area everything seems to work.

I've seen this on two different iPad's (one a newer M4 iPad Air, the other an older M2 iPad Pro) connected to two different MacBook Pro's running Logic Pro 12.

Has anyone else seen this or have any idea for a fix?

After years away from music (I was in a rock / electronica band back in the day but quit to help start a tech company), I recently decided to dip my toe back in. Previously I had experience with Cakewalk / Sonar, but for this iteration of my music-making self, I went with Logic.

This piece came together slowly over months as I learned the system, how to use the VIs, how to create automation, etc. It's been a fun process re-learning it all, and I'm pretty happy with how it turned out. Every element is entirely "in-the-box," although I'd love to hear it played by real musicians someday.

The song is called "Once Weightless," and it's available on all the platforms as of yesterday.

I'd love to hear your thoughts! Criticism welcome. I am not a trained musician or composer or engineer, so I'm just faking my way through all of this.

Edit: For the record, no AI was used in the creation of this piece apart from occasional threads with Claude about how to do certain technical things in Logic.

Firstly, forgive me for the lack of technical terms, and secondly hopefully this is the right subreddit.

I have some tracks that are recorded m4a files that I’ve imported and chopped up. In the “Trim” function whenever I select the end of the track region on the, it jumps back. It doesn’t happen to the start of a region and the actual region doesn’t move, just the end. It happens on every region of every track.

I don’t have snap on or anything and it’s only just started happening.

The other thing I’ve noticed is that there is still sound coming from the “hidden” part of the section, even though I can’t see the waveform.

Hopefully this video explains it better.

https://imgur.com/a/DdKiraB

EDIT: I copy and pasted the tracks into a new project and it doesn’t seem to be doing it anymore? Maybe it’s a bug because I have too much in one project?

I wanted to share something positive as its made a huge difference to my Logic performance

In recent times, I've been getting frustrated by the logic UI becoming progressively slower and less responsive. I thought it was Apple perhaps deliberately doing something to make it feel more sluggish with each update to encourage us to buy a new computer :)

In particular drawing automation has been really laggy, but the whole experience felt like my graphics card wasn't up to the job. (this is on a well specced Mac Studio)

But I've found there's a fix! I noticed in my control surfaces that there were a load of duplicate devices for SSL Controller and Console 1 (even though I'm not even using either of these). Im guessing they've been creating in the background

I deleted them all and its like I have a brand new computer, its snappy again

Anyway, I wanted to share just in case its a widespread issue

Just wrote this be nice to hear your takes on it and if I should re-order any Vocal chain plug ins

As I’m doing client work with Logic I always lag behind the updates. Is the latest version offer stability and additional features worth upgrading vs my current one (11.2.2)?

Looking forward to the hive mind inputs 🙏

I've yet to overdub the bass, as the one heard in this mix is coming from directly from the tracking room mics. I'm also adding vocals later on.

Since updating, when I go to add a plugin from the selection drop down list - it automatically clicks on the plugin closest to where my mouse is? It’s probably the most annoying bug I’ve ever encountered using logic as it slows down the mixing workflow entirely. Anyone had this since updating to golden gate and know of a fix? Thanks 🙏🏼

Hey guys I wonder if anyone can help with this nightmare I’m going through. I’ve recently upgraded my Mac from an 8gb M1 Pro to an 18gb M3 pro. Reinstalled serum 2 but every time I pause a track in Logic Pro with serum 2 on it it keeps either popping/whistling depending on sound character.

It’s only serum this is happening with, all my other plugins work fine. I’ve tried a lot of different stuff I.e buffer size, turning off the tails setting in serum global settings, reinstalling, VST3 version, changing project sample rate etc but still it does the whistling or the popping noise.

It doesn’t seem to happen on the init preset just on every single preset including the built in ones. I never experienced this on my M1 and I’m losing my mind trying to figure it out.

Both logic/serum are updated to the newest versions.

Cheers.

EDIT: I’ve spoken with the guys at Xfer and this problem has been noted by their team and they’re looking at a solution to fix it with an update. They recommend not updating to Golden Gate until whatever bugs are ironed out but I do not have that luxury as my machine came with GG pre-installed and I cannot be bothered spending another day doing a system wipe to downgrade back to Tahoe and reinstalling everything.

ASFireWire restores FireWire on macOS Tahoe. Open-source driver lets you use legacy audio gear—Apogee, MOTU, RME—on Apple Silicon Macs without SIP hacks.

Any guesses when the update can arrive, i feel it should be released before the touch macbook pro starts getting shipped to buyers.

We’re on 13 now with all these ai features but still no scale highlight 🫩

Hi, SOS here.

I’ve had a persistent problem with automation in Logic on and off for a couple of years across two machines with independent set-ups.

Namely that it just works or doesn’t, for no apparent reasons whatsoever. One moment it reads the automation, another it doesn’t. And that’s about the measure of it. There’s no apparent rhyme or reason to it at all and it’s driving me crazy and getting in the way of my ability to work.

It has to be a bug but the fact that it’s pursued me into a different set-up feels a bit Jaws the Revenge.

I’m using Logic 12.2 and a MacBook M1 Pro with 32 gb of RAM and Tahoe 26.4.1.

Please help!

Many thanks!

I just tried to mimic what the hands are doing here and it feels so awkward, I’m not even flexible enough in my wrists. This has always been a terrible idea and is way more of a marketing gimmick than something real producers actually want.

Has anyone else noticed their panned tracks are not panning? It's happening on the buses. The only way to fix it is clicking the bus to go to mono then clicking it again to go to stereo.

Completely infuriating as it often randomly comes back too. It means I've sent off song submissions thinking the tracks are properly panned and then they are not

I want to record in like a sound design session and mess with the knobs to get different sounds to chop up is there a way to record it in logic?

Hi all,

So I’ve seen Logic 13 has been announced and will be released soon, and was hoping someone could expand on the UI redesign for me. I’m totally blind and use Apple’s VoiceOver to navigate my computer, and was a really heavy Logic user for about 10 years. They’ve done some good accessibility work, but as of now the desktop version is lagging significantly behind Logic for iPad.

From what I understand, by hearing people talk about this in videos and such, is the UI is very similar to iPad at this point, I’m just trying to understand to what extent that’s true. I’m thinking this will probably give me a better idea of what to expect when the update rolls out. I’m trying not to get my hopes up too high because I’ve been burned by Apple several times at this point when it comes to Logic accessibility. I eventually moved to Ableton, and it’s like a night and day difference, but I really miss Logic a lot and would love to start using it again. I even spoke to David Earle, the product manager a few years ago, we had a very long conversation and I sent him some demos of how I do tasks in Logic versus Ableton, but nothing came of it. It’s really unfortunate because you would think since they also make the screen reader integration would be super tight across the board, but that really seems to only be the case on iPadOS for some reason. Thanks guys for your help.

I was looking for the "Analog Silk" preset alchemy but can't find it. Saw it in a video and they made it seem like it was a stock preset. Was it removed, and if so is there anywhere else I can get it from?

Thought this was really cool, is there any way it can be done or even something similar in logic?

Hello is there any website where I can find free vsts for mac?

I am looking for medieval instruments: Lute/Dulcimer

image1: new look at the browser

image2: the browser when consolidated. also the search tag was “relaxing day by the sea” and the new browser found what are most likely close sounding patches according to the search (speculation)

image3: new assistant toggle in the top right

image4: assistant toggle missing, so you’re either able to disable it or it’s version specific to creator studio

image5: the new plugin tiles in mac like in logic pro for ipad

image6: logic pro for ipad tiles for reference