r/Logic_Studio

I am learning to produce and have been using logic for a while but can not for the life of me figure out drum programming. I struggle to find kits I like or samples to build my own. I’ll put a great little track together and start working on drums and it kills everything. Can anyone provide any tips or tricks please

Yesterday I updated (only updates, no new instruments or sound pack/loops were installed) my Logic Pro CS 12 library. Looks like roughly 90GB went missing. My whole library is around 90GB, so it seems like Logic installed it twice.

I searched the disk manually (used daisy disk) and could not find anything.

For context: before the update I had 670GB free, after 580GB.

It’s strange that just updating existing content would need this much ADDITIONAL space.

Any ideas?

I'm using Logic version 12.2 and MacOS version Tahoe 26.3.1.

I've always had the same process to make the beat duck out a little bit during vocals.

I change the output of every vocal track to Bus 1 and then I put a Compressor on the instrumental and Sidechain it to Bus 1.

In the track I'm working on now, I did everything I normally do and there is no option for Bus 1 on the Sidechain menu in the Compressor.

The only options I see are each individual audio track and Input 1 & Input 2.

Hi everyone, I am kinda bored with Apple’s built in amps and pedals. Now I am looking for free plugins I can download.
I am interested in metal and doom metal distortions.
Do you have any suggestions?

Good morning,

I'm very happy with Bitwig Studio. Because I can save everything as Devices, Presets etc..
So the Instrument and FX Chain is saved in one Track Preset.

Sometimes I'm missing Logic, because it has many creative Plugins and loops. Also Alchemy is one of the best Instruments.

Can you tell me how you would save a Instrument including the Effect chain?
Is this possible in Logic?

Otherwise I'm also playing with the idea to connect logic with Bitwig to record some Alchemy Synth Tracks in Bitwig.

Thanks a lot :)

Anyone got thoughts on this lil' feller?

So I keep making songs, and thus far 3 of them have been corrupted and reverted to the original stage and idk if I should keep using logic if it keeps fucking my shit up like that. What is your experience?

P.S. yes everything is up to date and i have a macbook pro

I want to share the story of how I created this app :)
I’m a musician and producer who writes music for TV, shows, and trailers, and I’ve always been frustrated by how long it takes to render stems in Logic Pro. Why should I have to render a single track in 40-50m, but an album with 10 tracks takes a whole day?! Multiply that by different formats, mix versions, master buses… it’s just a pain.

Sometime early this year, I thought, - Why don’t I just write a simple tool that will do this for me? So I sat down and built it in three days. It works, I’m happy with itit would’ve been enough for me.
But my friends started asking about it, and asking about how during rendering someone mixes up versions, someone needs wet/dry separately, someone needs a notification so they don’t forget that the render is finished. And I thought, okay, I’ll add a couple more features, make it work for everyone.
“A couple of features” turned into 4 months of full-fledged solo development.

The main problem is that Logic Pro has no open API for this. No documentation, no “here’s how to work with our mixer” files. Nothing.
There were weeks when I just sat there debating why something worked in one project but not in another.

But I saw it through to the end. Now I have a working app for bouncing stems called EasyBounce, and it can:
- Render stems, mixes, and groups—all in a queue, with no manual work
- Wet/dry pass for FX channels, sidechain, Master Off/On
- Automatic file naming with smart autocomplete
- Session history—you can replay a previous bounce with a single click
- Notification when a bounce is complete.
And a whole bunch of little things that just save time

And the best part is there’s still a list of features I want to add, and it’s going to be a really cool app!
Everything is already working; we’ll just keep developing it in the future.

I’m truly grateful to this community. Many ideas for features came from posts here, from comments, and from conversations. So until the end of May, I’m offering a 20% discount REDDIT20 as my way of thanking those who share their experiences and struggles, because that’s exactly what helped me understand what people really need.
If you have any questions, I’d be happy to answer them. And if you have suggestions for what else to add, please write, I seriously read everything 🙏

Here is website with app: Here is website with app: https://www.easyoneaudio.com/
You can see more video on my YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDiKzztUXA4

When I have everything set up and want to hear myself through a microphone or guitar it just can't. It still records audio perfectly but it's hard to record when I can't hear what I'm playing or singing. I click on the "Input monitor" button on the track but nothing comes out. I've checked my audio settings on Mac and on Logic and everything's in check but sound will refuse to go through. If anyone had this problem please tell me what I'm doing wrong thank you
(Interface: M-Audio Air 192 4)

Logic Pro: Version 10.7.6 macOS: version 15.7.4

I have about 15 buses at the end of my project template before the premaster fader. All these buses have a send to a separate reverb and delay fx bus. Sometimes for larger orchestral scoring there will be 4 or 5 fx send buses.

Is there a way to still use cmnd E (export selected tracks as audio) and batch print all the stem buses with their respective reverb, delay and other FX sends on them?

Is there a way to reroute this without creating an fx bus for every stem bus? (Which would crush my CPU...)

I have tried to look for solutions online but to no avail....

I need to gain a better understanding of tempo adjust and related topics in logic. Can someone help?

I had a rock-ish band recording and wanted to replace the drums with MIDI drums. I exported the stems to logic and replaced the drums with MIDI drums… worked beautifully… made some other edits.

So, the results are good. But I just don’t understand how this all works. For example, sometimes if I move some audio around… whoa! The tempo gets crazy and I am hitting undo ha… Logic is adjusting the tempo very slightly based on the live band and doing a good job… but what if I want to lock it all into one tempo…? It seems like Logic does not like that… maybe better to export pieces and put it in Ableton or something?

I guess I just do not understand what is truly going on even though, the results work so far

EDIT: just for clarification, in this particular instances the stems from the band playing came from another DAW

I have two piano emulators on Logic Pro X, both have the same exact plug in effects. I want to move all of those plug in effects onto an auxiliary track and then send them to said aux track so that Im not using un-necessary power on my laptop by having identical stacks. But when I do this, they dont sound the same than when they are just on the piano (Im aware of send percentage). Why is this and is there a way of me being able to change it? My signal chain is; EQ, Reverb, Flanger, Reverb, Compression, EQ, Chorus and Compression. Logic Version 10.7.4. MacOs 15.3.2