You have to go to the Mac app store and update from there. Thats usually faster than waiting for a update notification.
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I didn’t realize that within the App Store I had to click on the icon for Logic Pro which then loads yet another screen, finally revealing the update button. Lame.
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Well whats super awesome and unlame @feedback is that you posted a problem and @krunchr provided a solution 2 minutes later! Not to mention 2 posts above your initial post @hyperstationjr also posted the solution. Go nauts!
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ChromaGlow’s nice. Another strong argument for just sticking with Logic plugs.
I’m sticking with Softube for now, their reverb is too good to pass up on. But if I’d go all native, I’d be comfortable with Logic’s options. Very comfortable.
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I might add, I’m exploring Beat Breaker again, from another angle now. I’m not applying it on beats, since I’m not doing any 
but it occurred to me, it treats audio much in the same way the Chase Bliss Blooper does (pinging you @papertiger I know you’re not a Logic user but still ), and boy does it deliver in that area. It’s like having a bunch of Chase Bliss looper effects fully editable. It can easy get out of hand, gotta keep it under control, but what it does to a loop is just glorious.
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Why wouldn’t you just use the Softube plugins you like in conjunction with Logic’s native plugins?
quite excited about the update just not fully convinced to go from monterey to sonoma just yet
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I don’t use many plugs at all, really, and those I do use, I just prefer Softube’s.
Softube for fx, Spitfire for instruments and SSL for mixing and mastering.
And that’s it.
Got them all on sale, so didn’t cost me much, really - which matters, considering they’re all quite pricey otherwise, except for Spitfire’s where I stick with Labs or Originals only.
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Just tried it now and it’s very, very impressive.
Cleanest drum extraction I’ve heard so far, and the separation of the stems is highly accurate.
On par with Izotope RX, and clearly far superior to the already useful open-source Demucs models available on github. I’ve never used RipX.
Logic keeps delivering the goods that I miss in Ableton, the two complement each other very well. Well worth the price.
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Dunno if anyone can answer this one.
But I’m rocking a M1 Pro chip with 2To (half full) and 32Go RAM, Logic library on the main drive.
But I’m having some long delays when loading any new Studio Session options - plugins or AI players.
It takes quite some time to load, even when changing presets. Unusual, to say the least. Even get the dreaded spinwheel most of the time.
Even got some « disk too slow » alerts.
Was wondering if anyone had this issue.
I might have to reinstall it all to see if it is fixable. Or upgrade the machine - although it is a capable machine. But thought I might ask here first.
Cheers!
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Here’s my test
Main:
Bass:
Drums:
Synth:
The drum extraction was probably the most successful
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Yes, I would agree with that – super clean drums in the tests I’ve done. In some pretty busy mixes too!
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I’ve sort of migrated over to Ableton for most of my work, but I was a Logic user for 20+ years so I always pay attention to how things change. It’s just an amazing platform and the fact that they continue to push things forwards with almost no added expense is amazing.
My favorite thing about Logic from a songwriting perspective is Drummer, so I’m always curious how that’s changing. It looks like they simplified the GUI quite a bit and done away with the XY grid in favor of a more simplified control set which is no great loss and seems to offer as much control imho. It doesn’t really seem too different to me so far from a Kits and sound perspective, but I continue to love how easy it is to get very real feel and nuance from it. I’d buy a plugin that did what it does for Ableton if it existed, but I’ve yet to find anything that feels as good or is as fluid and simple to use.
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Alien tech (Eurovision banger):
Sampling just entered another dimension.
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The stem extraction is amazing, and so easy to use. I love that it groups the stems and mutes the original. I also like that I can just drag them out and drop them into Ableton.
Looking forward to testing the session players. I sometimes use Apple Loops to get ideas for where to take a song next, and this should be like that, only way more flexible. A fun way to create unique samples too.
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It’s addictive as hell. I can’t get off it. Makes Logic a hell of a buy IMO. Been testing extensively for the last hour and I’ve seen some cases where it isn’t perfect - like had a failed separation of hihats from a synth track. But! You can also run a stem extraction again on a stem as expected and break it down further, and this did the trick. Really flexible.
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I’ve just been having a play with that. Super easy to use with the chord track, and yeah a cool way to generate ideas, create loops for chopping, or to add a little extra flavour to a part. The chord track makes it easy to experiment with variations to progressions too, in a very fluid way.
I’ve had this problem in general a few times with Logic, and I also run an M1 (on a Macbook Air).
In my case, while I wasn’t near a full disc, I was approaching the point where I’d say it was about one fifth left of space. I did a proper clean-up, it was due anyway, and after that the issue disappeared.
Not knowing how Logic operates with its file stuff, my middle aged male-guess was that it needed a lot of space for everything that’s going on for buffering and stuff, and that if you’re starting to run out of it, then it’ll slow down Logic, although not stop it from working.
My other guess was that I just happened to put stuff on a part of the drive that’s starting to fail, and that I’m on a countdown for an internal disc collapse.
I’m doing a lot of guesswork these days.
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Sure. I just meant it doesn’t have to be an either/or situation. You can run all your favorite Softube plugins and Spitfire libraries within Logic and use them in conjunction with all the native Logic plugins available.
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Very true
I’m a bit OCD-ish that way. I’m like all in or nothing. So all in on Logic’s stuff, or not at all.
This approach does not generally serve me well. In any aspects of life.
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