Logic Pro System Overload Fix 

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This video has solved (vastly improved) my frustrating older Mac speed problems. Thanks a million.

Thanks for those suggestions! Also, when a midi track is selected during playback, Logic is typing up resources for the "just in case" you need them for that track during playback. Away to reduce cpu load further is to add a blank audio track and simply have it selected during playback and the cpu meters will drop even further. Sometimes pretty dramatically. Also, Logic will share the session load across multiple processing threads but it still does not have the ability to split the plugin load of a track across multiple threads. This means that if you have a stack of heavy cpu plugins on a track, your session could have one of those processing threads max out and stop the session playback due to cpu overload. If that happens, you will need to move those plugins to aux tracks and bus the track signal to them instead so the cpu load can be shared across the main and aux tracks instead.

OMG half way through this vid and you've already solved my issues! You the man!

Thanks so much…I’ve had this problem for years. Finally got it figured out.

George, thank you for your clear and to the point video. #appreciated!

Thank you very much changing the buffer settings and freezing the software tracks did the job

Excellent solutions to common problems with multitrack sessions. Thanks for sharing preferences settings that help solving many problems.

Great tips! Thank you! I prefer bounce in place to freezing tracks, though. When I freeze tracks, I tend to get this weird popping noise when I start the tracks from the beginning. Also, it's annoying to have to wait for Logic to freeze and unfreeze stuff while I'm working. I prefer to bounce the tracks in place, and then if I need to make changes I can just unmute the original track, make the changes, and re-bounce it. PS - I love your logo! It's a fist made of piano keys. Awesome!

Thank you man! Great tips. I learned about the threads option.

Great tutorial! Huge help

Excellent info! Thank you for this!

brother, this is so helpful, helping learn more about Logic, ty!

Thanks George. A good, concise, helpful video…Brillant content. Thanks for helping so much

This was very helpful. Thanks !

Hi George. This video was very informative and helpful. Thank you very much. 🙂

watch the video in 1.5 speed setting

Very helpful - thanks 👍🏻

Thank you, this was a big help.

Excellent tutorial and much thanks.

I’m at work but I’m sure this is going to work when I get home very straightforward video good stuff

Good information, thank you!

Nice one man, Thanks!

Thanks for the suggestions

I learned a lot in this video, thanks 🙏

Great help George thank you so much

Thanks! Your help is much appreciated : )

Appreciate it, George!✨

Thanks for your wonderful video, I will be giving these a go very soon.

Thanks a lot for that! real valuable video!

Sweet! Thanks!

Well done on a great channel , thank you !

Thank u . Saved me alot

Thanks to the knowledge you shared, I was able to solve my problem very effectively.. Thank you very much.

Thanks for the info.

Thank you for your advice now I got it figured out. I subscribe your channel now. 👍

hey.... great help!! Thanks!

Thank you!

Nice video, 📹 simple and very informative.

(Regarding the situation at 1:25) The "custom" bar doesn't apply the same in this video as it does for other people. The custom bar is your own personalized / customized LCD display panel i.e. not everyone has customized it to display performance meter. Click on the arrow as demonstrated in the video, then instead of clicking on "custom" go to the "customize control bar and display..." located a few rows below the custom option. Here you have on/off boxes for multiple display settings. In the last row of the third column you can check the "performance meter CPU/HD" and select "save as default". Your custom bar is now displaying the performance meter as it is in the video.

this was fixed welldone George very helpful 😁😁😁😁😁😁 thanks a lot freezing is the answer

Thank you. Excellent channel! Anyone else having this problem since Native Access updated Kontakt to 7.6.1?

Finally my dreaded system overload is gone! Thank you so much for your step by step guide. 10 stars ✨

Thank you for your help！

Thank you bro.

hey, I used to study Logic with you at Vancouver Community College 2018. You're a really cool teacher and like the Doors. Thanks for everything!

Thanks bro!

Thanks George!

Thanks George. I like your videos! Sometimes Logic just frustrates me so much that I want to change DAW's. I'm still hangin on though.

One solution makes more difference….. One empty audio track and select that when starting play no more heavy spike on one core. Problems solved. While playing you can leave the empty track of course.

Thank you

Thank youu!!!

Thanks friend u just help me God Bless

thank you

Thank you sooo much for the tips! How does freezing differ from bouncing to audio?

More useful than most Logic videos. thanks. This used to be called "bounce in place" right?

i had no idea the cpu meter popped out, dang lol. do you ever use low latency mode? i'm on a macbook and it's been very useful when i am doing e drums or i have a huge file.

thx bro freezing track help a lot, cya.

Thanks for a great video! I have entered my sixth decade in this life and need to be tutored in the senior tempo!

I listened to this video some months ago, and it solved my issues for quite some time, but now even with my settings maxed, I seem to be getting the same message again, more and more frequently. I admit, my Mac is quite old, and I now use it only for music, but have lots of storage used from music already- and for the processing threads, I only have 4, not 16- are these considerations alone, enough to slow down my Mac this much? I have buffer size to 1024 and range to large, threads to automatic or 4 (only have 4). The message used to only appear on big projects with lots of tracks, audio, midi, etc., but now even when I’m in a new project with 4-6 tracks, and little to no plugins, my computer struggles to play. Do I just need a new computer, or more processing threads / better hardware? I have a Macbook Pro 12 with Intel Core i5 processor, 8gb memory.

also some 3rd party plugins will spike the threads ,even on a mac studio , right now spaced out by Baby audio is a spiky one

Great ideas. Still having issues (can't freeze since I'm creating the track and don't have the full song done yet). :(

Hi Georges I am new using Logic Pro X I am using Kontakt 7 in the track when I add the freezer bottom not show in the track if I add an audio track it show?. Thank you for your videos and support I have subscribed.

Are intel macs at a noticeable disadvantage compared to m2 macs? I noticed apple saying that logic would be optimized for m2, and I didn’t have any speed or latency issues until recently after the optimized logic for m2

Sir whenever I open my vst's there's always a detuning problem so can you please help me regarding this

hi Georges, thanks for sharing. please help, i got notify while i'm playing my midi drum on logic pro. : " Error while trying to synchronize Audio and MIDI. Sample rate 41.307 recognized."

Great advice,but on my older iMac the processing threads option is just 2,4 automatic only,why is this and does it actually make a difference to my System Overload problem?

How about advice for those using real instruments either miced or plugged directly into the computer, in combination with the digital instruments logic offers?

no problems ever until i tried waves plugins, disk overload even after uninstall. any suggestions please. -music by PREXENTS #prexents

Just a query, when you go into the processing threads my highest value is 8, whilst your 16 why that? and thank you

I prefer bounce in place and hiding/muting the the plugin or instrumental track in case the instrument is incompatible for some strange reason....last time my battery plugin was only doing stereo and everything mono would be automatically removed. meaning I'd have to remember the name of the sample used and reload it in every session.

Great job Apple, your hardware, your OS and App and issues like this... brilliant... after all the years with advances in technology... this should not be an issue.... Microsoft is not much better... the results of corporate greed...

What is the difference between the on/off tracks and freeze tracks? When I turn tracks off from Logic says it helps with resources, but the plugins are still on in the rack, so I’m not sure.

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is there a way I set 1024 buffer size and go recording with autotune without an delay in it? You know what I mean. I learned till yet, that I have to set it to the smallest amount, like 32, to record with plugins and without a delay, but is it really the only one way?

Is this issue related to RAM or something else? I'm no expert on computers so just wondering if doubling my RAM is going to help with this?

im getting sample rate issues when im at the max processing threads, when i go to only 2 it works. Anyone know why?

Thank you my friend, this was heaven sent 🙏🏽

Is it the interface or the MacBook with the issue ?

What if I only have 4 threads

None of this worked 😭😭😭

Sounds like swedish pop

None of this worked. I’m sick to FUCKING death of getting system overload ever nanosecond. Logic and Apple absolutely suck.

Thank you