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  1. Just realised this is very much like Pro Tools' 'Commit up to this insert' tool. Allows you to remove the old audio file from the main window, keeps everything clean. This + Realtime commit here would be perfect.
  2. There’s a feature specifically designed for this called ‘freezing’. Just google it. It keeps all the MIDI and effects in place but temporarily bounces the region to audio. Can be turned off / on per track. For the OP: I had similar problems back when I did my production on my MacBook. It seemed almost random at times. Check how warm your laptop is getting. Are you using a thunderbolt device? I found that my thunderbolt-enabled screen actually caused my laptop to heavily throttle performance - I think due to basically poor thermal design. The thunderbolt ports are right where the main MacBook radiator is so they’re very susceptible to temperature changes. I also see you’re using a JBL Charge as the audio device. That’s a Bluetooth speaker right...? Not exactly ideal. your MacBook’s audio device will be more powerful than the Bluetooth speaker and may give better performance. Try using the in-built audio device, and sending audio to the JBL using an actual cable (via the aux input on the charge 3). Dave
  3. Hi All, A few prongs on this idea: 1. New Destination for BIP - 2. New Mode Options. I've recently started experimenting in Logic with routing audio through external hardware. I've found the experience somewhat painful so far, and just generally speaking an unnecessarily large pain in the ass. Firstly via the I/O plugin, which makes it a pain to print, and secondly via direct bus routing, which is a pain due to latency issues. It's also unnecessarily complicated to record external synths via the external instrument plugin (i.e. my Moog Sub37 receiving MIDI from logic). Manually sending tracks to busses and then audio tracks for recording? That's so 2000-and-late I came up with the following workflow improvements quite literally in my sleep last night so see what you make of them. Rough Mockups included to help explain. New Track alternative Destination: Logic will bounce the selected audio regions directly to a track alternative (or as a new take in a comp folder perhaps if you don't like the original idea). There are a few details that would need to be worked out here. e.g. right now, if you create a new track alternative, it's an entirely new track for the entire length of the project. Ideally, Logic would create a new alternative *just* for the old selected region, move selected regions down, and then print the 'effected' regions in their place. This would be disabled in the case of a software instrument track. New mode options 1. Realtime Works just like File > Bounce > Project or Section with 'realtime' selected. Needed to use external hardware of course. e.g, Bouncing out content when using the external instrument plugin with a synth, or when running a track through an external rack unit *with the required latency compensation*. Just try bouncing a single track out through a latency-inducing hardware unit right now and see how many mouse-clicks you need. Just try. 2. Offline Same as per. Boring. 3. Print I/O. A variation on Realtime. Here, Logic will bounce-in-place only up until the active I/O plugins on the channel. Image of before/after included below. This avoids any duplication of processing when the bounce is finished, whilst allowing you to hear your full effect chain during recording for live moves. E.g. Feeding an external distortion unit with an EQed and Compressed signal, and then putting it through several other sound-changing software plugins on the hardware return. You want to hear how the distortion is playing with the plugins later-on in the chain, but you want to retain as much flexibility as possible. Therefore you bounce everything up to and including the I/O plugin. A huge potential benefit of this whole thing is that you can avoid these pesky latency pains. The latency ping is already built into the I/O plugin. No more will you have to manually line up audio from external hardware. No more will you only know what your 50/50 wet/dry hardware knob-performance is *really* going to sound like in the mix after you've corrected phase. Record Audio Direct to Track Alternative Basically what the 'bounce to track alternative' does, but built in as an actual record function. Tick the box, press the key combo, whatever, Logic will send the track's output directly to a temporary (fully hidden and internal) bus, which is written directly to the track alternative. This avoids feedback, keeps your project clean, and avoids making a whole bunch of mouse clicks on something that can be automated. If you like, leave a comment. Also feel free to send to Apple with a link to this forum page. I've done so myself. Cheers, Dave
  4. Thought I'd bring this thread back from the dead briefly as I've found a workaround for the crackling! If anyone is still looking, what you can do is host the AU plugin inside another plugin. For me, hosting Talkbox inside of Blue Cat's Patchwork plugin solves the issue (just feed the sidechain of BCP and it'll feed the sidechain of Talkbox). I suspect this means the problem is something to do with how the plugin communicates with Logic's audio engine. Letting another plugin handle that apparently sorts the problem. ____ Thanks Eric for the tips all those years ago by the way, I only got talkbox working at all after finding this thread! For anyone coming across this thread from now who is still confused about how to set up talkbox in a way that will work: 1. Make two tracks both with audio. 2. Insert the Talkbox plugin on one track, either is fine. Pick the one you want to actually output audio on, and mute the other. 3. In the Talkbox plugin, set the sidechain input to whatever the other track is (so if you put the plug on track 1, set the SC input to 2 (and vice versa)). 4. Toggle the 'Input Swap' if you don't have the correct signal. No panning required, and as of the later Logic versions no manual bussing is required either. Hope this helped. Dave
  5. Yup, it sure isn't an original idea - Justing hoping that means that maybe one day this will happen. Glad you agree David!
  6. Have you thought of simply setting up hot-corners and putting the display to sleep, or turning on a screensaver? Very quick and easy to do - Settings > Desktop & Screen Saver > Hot Corners (bottom right). That way you just put the mouse to the corner of the screen and the screen goes black until you move it again. Easy Peasy!
  7. Hi, As the title suggests, what I'd really like to see is stackception i.e. stacks within stacks. Currently you can only do one summing stack, and then place that summing stack inside a folder. What would be great is if we could have a summing stacks for, say, Snare T&B, Kick in/out, Overhead L/R etc then have those all lead to a summing stack for overall drums. You can do this manually right now of course, just by routing to buses, but it'd be nice to be able to do it with a few clicks. It would visually look a lot neater, and would speed up certain workflows significantly! What do you think?
  8. Three years on, bump again. Is this *properly* solved yet? Lots of patches I'm looking to do this for are summing stacks already, with their own inserts, so I can't add the sends to a summing stack again. I also often would be sum-stacking multiple channels I've recalled via this method, so I don't want them to be each coming in as stacks already.
  9. Seeing people using Cakewalk and having that tasty Melodyne integration made me super jealous... And then I read that Logic was bringing in ARA support, I nearly pooped. Of course after that it was revealed that actually it still won't work properly with Melodyne until later.... Such an emotional rollercoaster
  10. Main thing that's missing from Flex Pitch as far as I'm concerned is the lack of the ability to correct incorrect detections. Flex Pitch sometimes does extreeeeeeemely dumb stuff with the audio, sometimes doesn't detect pitches where there clearly are some, sometimes introduces insane artefacts for an apparent reason, and is also just generally buggy as hell in my experience (Just try cutting up audio that's been flex pitched). Melodyne > Flex Pitch, but I often find myself using Flex Pitch when it works because I can't be bothered with bouncing back as others have said. Can't wait for proper ARA integration in Logic, like Cakewalk has had all this time. Little tip: Melodyne is great for creating beat maps.
  11. triplets that link is giving me a guitar, not a headphone amplifier! Maybe this is what Triplets intended to share, but you can do what I do: Behringer make a decent super cheap headphone splitter amp, £20. Four stereo outputs. Individual volume control. Boom. https://www.gear4music.com/PA-DJ-and-Lighting/Behringer-MicroAMP-HA400-Headphone-Amplifier/6M0?origin=product-ads&utm_campaign=PLA+Shop+-+Behringer&utm_medium=vertical_search&network=google&adgroup=1+-+Product+Level+-+Behringer&merchant_id=1279443&product_id=8568d1&product_country=GB&product_partition_id=111957472159&gclid=Cj0KCQjwv-DaBRCcARIsAI9sba8fdXpkjaUlg4N3kwV1r-CCxqDVhkDCpr9TqsSuhLahOVncpM0nqVgaAst7EALw_wcB
  12. David I wish I had your dedication :') Glad I could help buddy. Happy Mixing. Never said it was better, I said that it wasn't shite and that Pro Tools isn't better. If you're getting burned by it then ya just need to follow the advice above. Logic is the only medication I'll ever need my friend
  13. SOLVED IT-ish (it's another pain in the ass solution) Need help with getting to the finish line. Okay bear with me on this. You can't use busses, but what you can do is use an inter-app audio tool. 1) Using Loopback (from the same people as soundflower I believe) I set the output of an external, standalone instance of Addictive Keys to Inputs 1/2 on Logic. 2) In Logic, I create an empty MIDI channel, arm the audio track, select the midi track, and hit record. 3) I have to spend ages cleaning up the not-synced MIDI in Logic. SmartTempo detects the tempo of the audio coming from the external instance of AK (because as far as it's concerned it's just an audio input like any other), but then the MIDI is not synced to that recording. So, I have the MIDI and the audio in Logic, with the tempo synced to the audio, but I now have to manually sync up the MIDI to the audio by looking at the waveforms. Not exactly ideal! (See screenshot below). So, I'm sort of half-way there. Any ideas to get the full distance? I've tried it with and without 'Maintain Time Position of All Regions' checked.
  14. Hi Guys, thanks for your replies. David, yes I have tried this (should have edited my post to reflect that, apologies), to no avail. I couldn't get it to work. I THINK this is something to do with the fact that it only works on single audio files. See screenshot below: I've just spent some time digging into this (^^^) and here are my findings: Smart tempo stops working as soon as you have audio running through a bus. To confirm, Smart Tempo does work for me if I use a single audio track and snap my fingers in front of the mic. The moment you send anything through a bus it stops working. This of course, unfortunately, means that I can't simultaneously record the sound coming from my plugin and have it do smart tempo on that. Once the MIDI is inputted, smart tempo is no longer relevant also as the MIDI has 'locked in' the tempo for that section. _________ Also thank you Volovicg, I did try this solution also in my initial internet-trawling. It didn't work very well at all for my intentions here, specifically for deliberate 'slowing down' rather than just natural human drifting. If you try it with a freely-played piano improvisation you'll see what I mean. I also found it unbelievably cumbersome trying to correct the incorrectly-detected beats... but maybe that's just unavoidable with the current state. ______ I have in the past fetching a beatmap from Melodyne, but again that is something that is cumbersome and not at all friendly to the creative flow... so really hoping one day we can just do this from MIDI input.
  15. Thanks David! I realised after I posted my question that it would only show up once that first one had been approved anyway hah, silly me. Excited to get involved in a forum I've been lurking on for years.
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