Im making a song but i am having trouble finding an instrument patch that sounds like a harp, since for all i know there’s not any harp instruments available on logic.

Surely this isn’t a feature we are expected to work with?

I create a new track I clearly select stereo, it comes out as mono.

What is going on?

Yes I can change audio track easy but I should not need to do that.

(This will seem like a simple question at first but I implore the mods and whoever else read this to think before removing the post/commenting negativity. You all have a wealth of knowledge and id like to pick your brains)

ELECTRONIC DRUM KIT PLUGIN CHAIN??

I mostly make EDM. I’m mostly novice, but I have an excellent grasp of music theory, and auditory theory as I am a music/linguistics major at university.

For the KICK, SNARE, HI HATS, TOMS, CONGA etc, etc.
Do you personally Gain stage all of them? Here is my current basic outline of my chain.

Gain
EQ
Enveloper
Compressor

THEN
Distortion, phat fx, etc etc

THEN
Modulation plugins.

Am I hurting my tracks by putting some sort of compressor on every part? In my head, im sharpening the edges and smoothing the curves

Im sick and tired of being prompted with "This project uses sounds that are not installed on your device." any time i misclick while browsing. Is there any way to remove or hide these undownloaded sounds?

I’ve decided on getting a Mac, either an IMac or Mac mini. I have watched numerous videos on logic and I like all it has to offer. So now I’m stuck on audio interface and midi keyboard. I’m gonna be recording guitar, bass, and vocals and using logic drummer/drums and keys via midi keyboard.

This is where I’m kinda stuck, I’ve narrowed down the audio interface to the Motu m2, the audient id4/id14 and the ssl 2 mk2. I don’t need any crazy features, just want good sound, low latency and something that works well with logic/mac.

For midi keyboard I got it narrowed down to the launchkey mk 4 and the mpk mini 4. Again nothing fancy needed, just want keys and pads and will probably just use logic plugins.

When you save a session in which you’ve created a Sampler instrument, you’ll obviously check “Sampler audio data” in the save dialog, and that’s fine. The problem is that if you also loaded your favorite piano, strings or organ from your Logic library in that same session, the project will save those samples too. You can quickly end up with ten copies of the same samples scattered across your computer.

Worse, sometimes you open an old session and Logic can’t find the original library where it expects it. It then asks you where you want to load those samples from and lists every location where they exist…

So I made a Quick Action to fix this. You scan one session, ten sessions, or your entire hard drive. “Clean Logic Sample” finds every Logic session (including Logic 6, 7, 8 and 9), analyzes its Samples folder and checks whether those samples exist in your library. If they match the library samples byte for byte, it lists them and lets you delete them. Once that’s done, Logic won’t find the samples in the session’s Samples folder and will load them straight from your library by default. I personally got rid of 68 GB of duplicate samples on my computer. The problem mostly comes from older versions of Logic, since file handling has been a bit “better” since Logic 11.

The other Quick Actions aren’t specific to Logic but are more general audio tools. Feel free to take a look; it’s my personal toolbox. (Find Mono, Find Key, Analyse Loudness, Normalize Peak etc..)

For those who don’t know what a Quick Action is: it’s a feature that plugs into macOS and lets you run an action with a simple right-click.

Installation is pretty simple: download the Quick Action you’re interested in, double-click the .workflow file, and you’re good to go.

Work on Mac Intel & Silicon with macOs 13 ventura or later

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Hi!

I'm having trouble with my workflow.

Every time I hit save (Cmd + S), Logic Pro freezes for 4 seconds. I've found out that it only happens in projects that contain pattern regions.

The project is only 104 MB and contains only one single stock Drum Kit track with a few Pattern Regions. No third-party plugins or FX.

What I discovered:

Converting the Pattern Region to MIDI does not help. The 4-second save lag stays, but if I copy the raw MIDI notes from inside the piano roll, delete the converted region entirely, and paste the notes into a completely fresh MIDI region, the lag disappears.

It seems like Logic's Step Sequencer attaches heavy metadata to the region container that causes this freeze. I want to use the Step Sequencer without this lag.

Is this a known database bug, and how do I fix it? And are there any workarounds?

I've got a M2 Macbook Pro 2023, and logic 12.4

Thanks in advance!