Logic Pro & M3 Pro Issues

[Papanate]

I have a Macbook Pro M3 Pro with 18gb Ram and 35% of a 1TB harddrive being used - after I open a Logic Project - 22 tracks and busses about 8 plugins being used - everytime I go to adjust a plugin or do something to a track I get a Spinning Beach Ball for 1 to 5 seconds - on my 2016 MacBook Pro 2.9GHz quad-core Intel Core i7, with 16 GB ram this never happened - I would run 60 tracks with plugins (maybe freezing about 10) and no Spinning Ball - this is extremely frustrating considering the M3 Pro is supposed to be faster by a good amount than the Intel is - I have maximized my audio settings - everything is maximized for Logic just like my Intel MacBook Pro was - does anyone know why its doing what it does?

 

[MajorFubar]

Totally guessing here because I haven't had the issue with my less-powerful M1, but maybe some of your plugins are not optimised for Apple Silicon and are running via Rosetta.

(Did they really sell an 18GB M3 Macbook Pro? I suspect that's a typo. Not that it matters in context.)

 

[Papanate]

Totally guessing here because I haven't had the issue with my less-powerful M1, but maybe some of your plugins are not optimised for Apple Silicon and are running via Rosetta.

(Did they really sell an 18GB M3 Macbook Pro? I suspect that's a typo. Not that it matters in context.)

Everything is running native for Apple Silicon - and yes the basic M3 Pro came with 18GB - which is frustrating because my Intel MacBook Pro came with 16gb.

 

[MajorFubar]

Everything is running native for Apple Silicon - and yes the basic M3 Pro came with 18GB - which is frustrating because my Intel MacBook Pro came with 16gb.

18GB>16GB

If you mean 8GB, then that might be your problem.

 

[Papanate]

18GB>16GB

If you mean 8GB, then that might be your problem.

No it’s 18 GB - that was the baseline Spec for the 2023 MacBook Pro M3 Pro.

Anyways I have success - I got Pluginfo from the App store - it search and fines all the plugins - then shows all the relevant information inlcuding Publisher, Architectures , Versions etc…it also shows the path - you can right click and reveal in Finder -

I had about 8 plugins that were showing Intel 32 bit - I haven’t run them in 6 years - but they were still loading apparently - So I deleted them off - Voila’ my Mac is running like it should.

I also deleted my AudioUnits Cache out of the Library - and Logic rescanned my Plugins.

 

[Avatar74]

18GB>16GB

If you mean 8GB, then that might be your problem.

2023 MacBook Pro M3 Pro came with 18GB RAM. It is an odd configuration, but he is correct.

 

[Avatar74]

No it’s 18 GB - that was the baseline Spec for the 2023 MacBook Pro M3 Pro.

Anyways I have success - I got Pluginfo from the App store - it search and fines all the plugins - then shows all the relevant information inlcuding Publisher, Architectures , Versions etc…it also shows the path - you can right click and reveal in Finder -

I had about 8 plugins that were showing Intel 32 bit - I haven’t run them in 6 years - but they were still loading apparently - So I deleted them off - Voila’ my Mac is running like it should.

I also deleted my AudioUnits Cache out of the Library - and Logic rescanned my Plugins.

Good deal! I recently got an M4 and I'm still in the process of migrating all my Logic Pro add ons.

Every time I move Logic to a new machine, I test out the base configuration before adding stuff in. And watch out for some plugin vendors like iZotope who were slow to provide Apple Silicon support at the beginning (not an issue now).

 

[Papanate]

Good deal! I recently got an M4 and I'm still in the process of migrating all my Logic Pro add ons.

Every time I move Logic to a new machine, I test out the base configuration before adding stuff in. And watch out for some plugin vendors like iZotope who were slow to provide Apple Silicon support at the beginning (not an issue now).

I have Waves, Izotope, Pulsar etc….the 32 bit plugins were odd - there were a couple of Waves that were hanging on still - and some crap from Acustica Audio (I Dislike the company and there products).