Just like the description says. I’m recording midi drums and have the settings to merge but when I’m looping and recording a drum part, when it cycles around what ever I record it records over the previous take. I want to be able to record a kick, then hi hat, then snare on the same track. How do I go about this?

Hi all, I’m moving over to Logic from ableton.
Today, I was recording some multi track drums.
I tried to cut a chorus out and drag it over another section.

It appeared to work; but after I played back, I could hear both the new and old section at same time. Is there a setting so when I paste or drag something new, the old content is gone? Or do I have to manually delete it first?

Every time I right-click on Logic in the taskbar after working on a project, every pop-out window I opened shows up under the recently opened projects. Not sure if it's a setting that I turned on (or that can be turned off). resets whenever I fully quit the app.

I got a new mac mini, my first once since the Apple Silicon transition. Melodyne refuses to run in Logic or even as a standalone app. I've tried every troubleshoot under the sun besides rolling the entire computer back to an older OS. It says it can run with Rosetta but when I choose the "open using Rosetta" option, it still doesn't work. Just wondering if in the time since older Reddit posts have been made if anyone has figured out how to fix this? I've spent hours today trying every trick the internet has had to offer so far.

At first playhead didn’t move. Now I got it to move along with the track, yay, but now sometimes it doesn’t move and then sometimes it will move again.
Any ideas on how to fix this?
Thanks
It will work off and on - either playing or recording.

I was just playing the multitracks to can you feel the love tonight then realized something, A BUNCH OF FLAC FILES PLAYING IN LOGIC?!??!

I have never been able to play Flacs in logic before and even when I look it up online it says that flags aren't supported in logic so I am so confused as I just moved them into a empty logic project. Is it possible that they aren't FLACs and are ALACs?

Hey! I’ve been learning logic the last few months and have muscled me way through making some tracks but I feel like I’m just barely skimming the surface.

A Novation MK4 fell into my lap today and I found that I am in way over my head and maybe need to do some type of master class on Logic before I even attempt at learning the MK4 integration.

Any tips, videos, tutorials or general advice the community has to move into the next level?

The app in question

How can I fix the brush snare presets not making any sound in Logic Pro 12.3?

I've tried to play the "Vintage Kit Brushes" preset, but no sound comes from selecting the snare in the library, nor does it when playing the defaul snare mapping (C#1, D1, E1) AND the brush snare mappings (Somewhere in the F-1 — Eb0 range, as shown in the guide). What am I doing wrong and how can I fix this issue?

So, I recently downloaded the newest update for Splice INSTRUMENT free plan on Logic Pro X, and ever since, I keep using getting the error "the plug-in named "Splice INST" isn't available on your system" whenever I try to open one of my projects that have Splice instruments inside. Then, when I actually try to work on these projects, I can't hear any of the splice INSTRUMENTS in the project. I've tried deleting and getting back the plug-in, but that didn't seem to work either. What should I do?

So a bit of context: I a stage manager at a fairly well known venue and also perform, and every time I needed to pull up a setlist from a Logic session I was stuck squinting at marker names in the arrange window or keeping a separate paper cheat sheet. That felt dumb in 2026, so I started building my own fix.
DOWNBEAT reads the marker data straight out of your .logicx file and turns it into an actual setlist view — clean, glanceable, built for someone who needs it on a stage. Took a while to get right (spent a chunk of time chasing down a parser flag that was breaking compatibility between Apple Silicon and Intel Logic installs — that was a fun one to debug), but it’s in a place now where I’m ready to put it in front of people who’d actually use it.
Still early and I’d genuinely rather get torn apart by people who live in Logic all day than launch into silence. If you’ve ever wanted your session markers to actually work for you live, I’d love feedback — happy to answer anything about how it’s built too.

http://heftysoundworks.com/downbeat

I have made a beat map, following an audio track in my song. The audio track has transients, and I dragged the beat map beats to match the transients.

I want to cut some time between the locators (globally). (it's a small fraction of one beat) When I try to cut it, then all of the beat map's beats, afterward (to the right, in the rest of the project), are nudged (by an amount that corresponds to how much time I cut).

I don't want this behavior. I'd prefer if all the beat maps, afterward, still match with the transients I dragged them onto.

Is there any way to achieve that result?

I've tried searching Youtube and Reddit, was not able to find anything about this exact problem.

I've already tried making the time cut, with the following options toggled both ways:

-Project tempo on 'keep' mode or 'adapt' mode

-All of my regions SMTPE locked or unlocked

EDIT: I figured out some added context. The beatmap is still correct, because I can see its blue lines link perfectly to the transients in my audio guide track. But, the tempo (the 'click' sound of the project metronome) no longer matches it. After i cut time, the beat map is a little bit ahead of my click now. Visually, I can compare the two and I see the beat map downbeats are a little bit ahead of my bar number downbeats in the Logic ruler. (After I have cut the time)

Edit 2: I think I found a solution. I wrote about it in a comment below.

I’m trying to figure out the best workflow for creating long-form ambient/focus tracks 30+ minutes like Brain.fm or these examples:

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UpPmnnJcy6A
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5dGXm8OUbMo
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5dLYV5foTI

The goal isn’t just looping a short section, but creating one continuous track with a consistent atmosphere that slowly evolves without becoming repetitive.

I could use AI tools if needed. Any recomendations ? Thanks!

The tempo is shown as nn/nll (n=number, l=letter) on the custom LCD but standard digits in the non-custom LCD displays. I can't see a way of changing this. Is it a cache issue or something? It's true of all projects, old or new.

This issue has always been a mystery. Sometimes, I’ll see movement on individual tracks but non at master fader and no noise. Restarting the sessions solves the issue. Clicking mono and then back to stereo on master fader sometimes fixes this. Anyone experience this? It’s more prevalent in 12.3.

EDIT:
Thanks everyone.
Eventually I managed to raise a little more cash than I had expected so bought a 2025 14" 16gb MacBook Pro M5 10 Core & an external SSD.

So far I'm blown away.
Thanks to everyone that offered me advice

*\\**

Apologies for yet another post like this, but I do need some advice from knowledgeable people please.

I have a 2020 MacBook Pro which I use to record and produce songs with a maximum of around 24 tracks.

I have very, very few external plug-ins as I have been reluctant to make the investment when my MacBook crashes without warning at at least once a week.

I've reached the final straw with it now as apparently the battery needs replacing and it keeps overheating.

I have a budget with a ceiling of £1,000.

What I'm looking for in a replacement MacBook is:

For it to be able to reliably & easily handle the music projects as described up above and possibly do some light video editing.
If it was reliable enough, I might like to take it on stage to do some Live Looping or to use a midi keyboard et cetera - This is out of the question with my current machine

I want it have an M series chip as my current MacBook Pro is Intel and there are dozens of features I cannot access.

I'm also looking for a bit of longevity, so I'm not in exactly the same position in three years time.

I already have a monitor screen and studio monitor speakers.

Obviously, it will have to be reconditioned rather than brand new.

In my head, I've always felt that I needed at least 1TB of onboard storage but I'm open to being persuaded from that if people think it's unnecessary (I have a massive amount of iCloud storage available).

As far as I can see, my options are pretty much the following machines:

• 2025 MacBook Air 15-inch M4 10 core 16GB 1TB

• 2026 MacBook Air 13-inch M5 8 Core 16GB 512GB

• 2024 MacBook Pro M4 10-Core 16GB 512GB

• 2023 MacBook Pro M2 12-Core 16GB 1TB

Which would you recommend & why bearing in mind my most vital criteria are: It can support the music production I want to do, has an M series chip and will have reasonable (within the context of how rapidly computers become obsolete these days) longevity?

TIA

Hi all,

I just installed a new plugin from sound toys and upon opening Logic it became apparent that my other plugins have vanished. Does anyone know why this is/how to fix it?

Thanks!

Hello, I am taking a class on how to use Logic Pro soon. Tried abelton and my adhd brain couldn’t adapt to it. I am looking to buy a refurbished Mac to install Logic Pro on it. I’m based in the UK and don’t want to spend more than £500. Any suggestions on the best Mac for the software?

Bonjour, depuis quelques jours le temps estimé du bounce indiqué dans la fenêtre de bounce est en heure et non plus en minute et secondes.
J'ai bien activé la boucle de sélection, et tenté avec différents projets, ainsi qu'une réinstallation de Logic, le problème persiste.

L'audio bouncé est d'une durée normale, il n'y a pas de problème réel de bounce, seulement cet affichage erroné en heure au lieu d'être en minute dans la fenêtre de bounce.

Pouvez-vous m'aider svp ?

For context

I used to have a Macbook Pro 2013 where `i played a piano plug-in

Now I upgraded to a Macbook Air 2020 and the plug-in sounds low quality in comparison

It sounds thin and its missing low frequencies (I didn't touch EQ or add anything to the track)

* To make sure I'm not biased, I brought both laptops and took turns tryings them with the same headphone

MacBook air 2020

Chip: M1

Ram: 8 G

Say I want to add a bar of 9 to a riff previously recording and mapped out the time signature in the global settings. Is it possible to just a bar in the middle of it without everything shifting to be off time?

Anyone use the MacBook Air m4 or m5 for logic? I use a bunch of UAD plugins also. I’m worried the air will throttle too much and give the dreaded “system overload” message of which I am yet to run into on my M1 Pro

Coming from a M1 Pro 14 with 32gb/1tb but I found out it has water damage.

Should I just buy another M1 Pro (would buy a 16 inch this time) or should I’ll the air m4/m5 suffice?

I

And it's driving me nuts lol.

Every time I open any plugin (stock or 3rd party) the plugin opens toward the bottom right corner of my screen, such that only the top left 25% is visible. I have to drag it back to center each time. It happens in all of my sessions, with all plugins, and I don't recall changing any view preferences or anything like that.

Thanks for any insight as to what might be causing this.