Thanks for the idea.
I’m about 51% full on the hard drive. So it may very well be some kind of memory allocation.
I’m trying to reinstall the whole library. If this doesn’t cut it, I’m gonna keep cleaning up a bit more. And if it’s still a no go, I’ll try a full Logic reinstall.
Thanks for your educated answer, as always.
You rock. Well…more accurately, you ambiant. But you get my drift!
Apple periodically adds random sounds, patches or updates an instrument within an individual pack which causes the badge to appear.
It drives me nuts but if you scroll all sounds you’ll catch something greyed out or with a badge beside it. Once reloaded the main badge will disappear.
Don’t know about MacOS, but there might be some memory allocation/install size things going on. I had 18GB free on my iPad but couldn’t install 12GB worth of instrument packs, and had to clear out another 5 GB just to make room for installation.
Thank you 
Actually, it just occurred to me - one of the reasons, casual or not, that Logic went rainbow spinner on me, was when I installed a few of Westwood’s plugs. Those are just MASSIVE in terms of sampled content, one of them clocking in at around 40GB or so. They ran quite slow in Kontakt as well.
Eventually, I just uninstalled them, since I didn’t use them much anyway. That, also, made things run a lot smoother.
Maybe just the sheer presence of such massive chunks of content in Logic, was an issue in itself.
I’m much the same way. It’s more about attempting to keep it simple so I can focus on what’s important versus what’s infinitely possible. And there’s a lot of possibilities in Logic Pro already built in.
The very few 3rd party plug-ins I do use don’t annoy me (or macOS) with iLok or PACE stuff. But that cuts out a huge list of allegedly amazing, “legendary” plug-ins. Oh well. I’m just a hobbyist anyway.
So I stick with Valhalla DSP effects, which I love and a soft synth or two which can also run standalone.
You know, I thought I’d love Valhalla, but somehow, they never attached to me. Whenever I asked around for a good reverb, the answer was like something and then Valhalla. It was the only recurring reply I got.
And yet, I ended up with Softube’s TARS-1, which I’ve literally heard no one recommend. And I use it on everything. Every channel. Even if it’s just to subtle, as in barely noticeable, effect. It’s like you got this lump in your back and it’s giving you a headache and someone gives you a massage and things just open up. That’s what Softube’s TARS-1 is to me.
Same. Valhalla reverbs do nothing for me. And the tars sounds great.
- Route MIDI internally using Internal MIDI In
Pouring one out for the environment. This might be the last reason I still opened it 
EDIT:
Ach! Pouring one out for AIFF while we’re at it.
WAV now default recording format
I might have to try it out, thanks for the suggestion. I have about 29 days left on my $5! 
I want to like Logic on the iPad more than I do. The interface requires a lot of user input and management – hiding and sliding elements, etc. Feels like a lot of work. In contrast, opening up Koala was instant fun. Either way though, I tend to lose interest in using the iPad for music because it just reminds me how much I like touching hardware even if the results are different.
But Bounce in Place and then shoving into Sample Alchemy, then bounding again, then into Quick Sampler, though? Amazingly fast. Would I use Logic on iPad as a separate instrument, though, in tandem with my laptop or m8? Not sure…
Yeah, Logic on iPad is great and yet it’s not. I think it’s the ultimate proof for me that is, that I just don’t want to use tablets for these kind of things. the iPad is more a pipe dream for the creative than an actual, useful tool. It’s not bad. It’s pretty good, even. But great, it is not.
I know, right? And the TARS having just one algorithm, is part of its strength. However you use it, it always sounds consistent right across the board.
Go Softube, I say.
I’ve felt the same thing since LP for iPad launched last year and yet never realized exactly what it was that annoyed me until I read your comment. Very well put.
I do have some massive plugins installed, some of which are betas. And more so, I have this huge template with everything ready to go. Although it only loads on a per need basis.
I’m still gonna keep investigating.
There may be a conflict with a particular plugin or something that needs to be fixed on my system.
I’ll update this post if I do find the culprit.
But reading through your recent posts, and based on my experience, I’m more and more leaning towards a minimal approach with less plugins.
Thanks for the ideas. That’s gonna keep me busy!
Thank you.
Nobody has said this yet here, but my initial feelings are that Logic Pro 11 is very underwhelming as a major version release. The new features strike me as being somewhat of a gimmick compared to what could have achieved by refreshing existing instruments and effects, providing quality of life fixes, and unifying GUIs. The main upside is that it’s free for existing users.
Well, deleting the Preferences file did it.
This one keeps getting corrupted every time there’s a huge update.
But thanks for the answers.
Helped me track down some files that needed to be gone anyways!
I think that’s fair. This definitely feels a lot more in line with the step releases we’ve seen once or twice a year rather than the big mess of updates when X was released checks watch… OMG eleven years ago! 
Part of that is Apple’s move to continuous-but-smaller releases more consistent with free updates. This opposed to big feature drops meant to entice users to pay for an upgrade.
Another part is just how Apple tends to get hung up on the 10th version of things and… kind of sit there for decades? They’ve finally starting moving on to numbers past 10, and something has to be the one to push it over to 11. So stem splitting, new distortion, 15Gb of session instruments, and A.I. features are as good as anything I guess?
But also, I’m sure there’s some keeping up with the Jones’s. Live’s at 12 now. Cubase is 13. Fruity Loops is, like, 20 or something? Even Digital Performer is 11. Logic needs to start pumping up that number!
Agile has entered the chat. 
Let’s review the comment and then have a retro over our review, park our learnings in a backlog and then keep going just the same until our KANBAN CAN’TBAN anymore… 🫡
I’ve been thinking the same thing. The first thing I did when I opened up Logic was open up Sculpture, see the same 2002-ass GUI, and sigh. There’s so much good stuff in Logic, but it’s aging like hot milk and they’re not doing much to fix that. If this is the biggest update we can expect for the next few years, I’m seriously considering the jump to Ableton.
Honestly, I doubt the Logic team even wanted to call it LP11 (Live Loops in 10.5 was bigger than anything here, by far), but since Apple is gearing up for an AI blitzkrieg next month, there must have been pressure from above to add some machine learning plugins, call it “AI,” and have another bullet point for the WWDC address.