Logic Pro X - System Overload, Processing Threads, Freeze Mode

[@JaredSmithTheIntern]

Gosh man, you just saved me probably a thousand dollars. I was ready to upgrade to a PC and learn a new DAW. Changing from 2 cores to 4 cores and enabling freezing on my tracks made all the difference in the world. Love your stuff man, you help newbies like me feel less and less incompetent. Thanks!

[@pouyapt]

Your tutorials are fantastic! It's really amazing to see how people like you share knowledge with others for free. I really appreciate your hard work.

[@dacripler1]

Out of all the videos I have listened to and seen, this has absolutely been the most informative and accurate video to date, thanks my friend

[@tyknight]

my man you are a guru for real been having this problem for two years on and off never understood why Googled everything apple forums didn't help much but lately have been coming to your channel for all my questions and you have answers for everythng thank you

[@DarrinYoxtheimer]

learning stuff from you all the time. even this long (2019) after you posted the video (2015) it is still helping me out. Thanks.

[@rollertide09]

This totally just change the way I record. I've been running Superior Drummer 3 and my session keeps crashing. When I freeze it, all my problems go away. Thank you so much!!!!

[@Chasegotgame]

Hey thanks dude!! This video was really helpful 4 me. I subscribed, and told a bunch of my music family about you as well. Please keep making these info video's. Sometimes it's the little things that we look over. That helps in a major way.Thanks again. Piece.

[@MarkSandersMusic]

Thank you. I have totally learned Logic from watching your videos.

[@stereosympathy]

Another tip, if you are seeing large cpu usage on one of your threads and you have a track with a lot of plugins on it you can move some of those plugins to a bus track to "even out" the processor distribution across multiple threads.

[@pandoramedia9700]

Thug

[@glenncarr4514]

Thanks so much for this amazing, amazing series of Logic Pro X tutorials. The package is enormous and your information is so helpful! It has saved us hours of hard slog. Cheers Mate from Glenn & Dave.

[@ItzTooSik]

Sound engineers are, without a doubt, the smartest people.

[@JohnMarler]

I cannot say how much I appreciated this video! Thank you!

[@bonnieheat_on]

Sir, you're a legend for making these videos. Thank you! :)

[@theandiller]

Can't say enough about your tutorials. Keep up that good work!

[@bearfrozenbones]

Thanks for teachin me about freeze brother! thats what i needed to move forward with my next album. You rock

[@BillsHomeStudio]

Just brilliant. All my questions answered in one video. Thank you

[@ricardofernandespt]

Thank you so so sooooo much!!! You can't imagine how long i have been searching for the access to the freeze function. I really thought that Logic had removed it.

[@kedavis]

Very good video. I never thought about cores/threads being available for the system.

[@c4itl1n]

I'm finding your videos so helpful...thanks for taking the time to do them 👏

[@tyrosgabi]

the best explanation. Now i have no problem with system owerload: Thank you!!!

[@gleannmhuire]

Thanks THGuy! You always manage to convey the info clearly. Thats a gift.

[@nye409]

Thanks a million, Josh. Solved a huge frustration for me!

[@LEDBOO]

Wow. Thank you for this tutorial. Never knew this. Keep them coming.

[@JonLeeSongs]

Clear, concise, helpful - as always. Many Thanks!

[@patrickfitzpatrick7245]

Great stuff! Been looking for that freeze function for way too long.. thanks!

[@tonylovesmusic111]

Also, thanks for freeze mode! Seriously a life saver

[@KASA852]

this was so useful. your videos are so good. once again thank you so much!

[@B3D5X]

I can't tell you just how much your videos have helped me understand mixing and mastering to make my own projects sound great. I thank you from the bottom of my heart.

[@curtismurphy4145]

even thought i increased the buffer size, the system overload warning is still consistantly popping up so i can't finish a track, what should i do?

[@MTG776]

Damn, This helped so much... I had no Idea about the 'Freeze' option... Thanks...

[@Axltd]

Hello, Im getting random audio stops, I'm not receiving the overload message, the audio just stops while recording or playback, I'm using a behringer x32 to record a 9 track drum session, any help is appreciated!

[@GearGrinder1133]

Mine does it too. Very frustrating

[@Trashpanda_404]

I’m having issues after installing McAfee. But ONLY Logic. When I click open previous it doesn’t do anything. Once it opens, only one audio track, with one small loop, play head will start moving but the minute it hits that way it stops. Sounds plays, but it sounds like it takes a little while.

[@NatLifeSounds]

Anyone know why Logic can lags when I'm turning the MIDI keyboard to it?

[@Juliosandoli1]

Man I had to log into youtube to thank you for that ! You just got a new subscriber

[@eceera]

I have the newest iMac 4k and it lags every second in logic giving the error

[@strobixmusic7071]

ECE ERA do you have an i5 or i7 and a fusion drive or the ssd. Makes a huge difference

[@Aveno_music]

Thanks dude it was really helpful for me

[@ajiyahya]

now when i play the Session from Start nothing will be played (no sound). but if i stop and play it again then will be sound. Bounce the Session will not work too, empty file.. any idea?

[@danielbeebee]

Great video! Can you please make a tutorial showing us how to install plug-ins into Logic Pro X? Some I've found are easy and some more difficult. Also touch on your top 5 or top 10 including where we can purchase them from: Waves etc. I've learnt so much form your tutorials and watched every one. Keep 'em comin'!! :-)

[@Thevitamindealer]

For me this problem didn’t start happing till recently, didn’t change anything on my computer or the settings.. started new projects with a single instrument track and still overloading my cpu and hard drive.. seems like I need a new computer but it’s not in my budget..

[@D.r.e.w_D.r.e.w]

Thanks been looking for this type of help for a while

[@KeremPARLAKGUMUS-uc4xb]

what do you select for process buffer range multithreatining rewire behavior?

[@causticmedia3621]

When you freeze don't freeze logic native EXS24 or Alchemy as this will actually cause more over loads as logic try to draw on the sample in these plugs in real time ( This comes from the Logic support page via Apple) The primary tracks to freeze are those using thirde party plugins first. Some tracks that require realtime processing may have issue ( Side Chained ) so freeze mode selection is important there.

[@ApexTrailers]

Thanks for explaining everything so perfectly!

[@jehadelkady5098]

hi man this massage comes to me every time i use soundtoys or manbulator( Sample Rate 42,900 recognized. Check conflict between Logic Pro X and external device ) why i get this massage help please im hopeless

[@Vigickprecisplus]

can't you just bounce the midi file in place instead, or is it not the same thing as freezing it?

[@CDrain]

So I have an 8 core new imac 27 inch (72 GB Ram) - is it best to set it to 8 core max there? On my column in Logic audio preferences is up to 16 core and then automatically. thanx

[@sourcefor]

yeah would LOVE to see how you use outboard with Logic!!!Love your videos man!

[@MusicTechHelpGuy]

+sourcefor It's coming soon! I have a Manley Vari-Mu sitting here just waiting for me to pass some vocals through it! I have one pretty major video announcement this weekend to make before I do that. Outboard processing video will happen next week. Thanks!

[@sourcefor]

cool, i have a vary mu as well so it will be interesting to see how u use it!

[@449876]

Having a problem not sure you can help. I have a Macbook Pro M1 Max. Monterey 12.5.1 with 64 gig. My older projects when playing will stop the sound like a hesitation. It happens on every track. I've muted them, checked the midi and piano roll and don't see anything going wrong. I wanted to add some new instruments and revisit an older track. Even when I'm trying to record the new guitar part every few seconds there is a silence and then it picks back again. I'm totally baffled. Any idea on this?? Thanks in advance if you can!

[@iiceman14]

I have a playback problem with logic. When I'm playing through the file, and pause the playback in the middle of the file, it will sometimes pop. I've tried changing buffer ranges, doesn't work. I'm guessing its stopping on a non zero point crossing, but i don't know how to stop it. its just really annoying because i pause and playback a lot, thanks for reading

[@juanlab4803]

Hi,I have tried everything and cannot figure out why I have the "your disk is too slow/system overload" message. I record 10 seconds of sound (snapping fingers over the keyboard) with the built in mic without any plug in (specially without plugins for testing) and when I play the sample the system overloads after 3 or 4 seconds. I have an 2,9Ghz inter core 7 with 8gb Ram and 500Gb SSD (300gb free and only 10 programs installed, Mojave reinstalled 10 days ago). With those specs it should be enough for recording 10 seconds of finger snapping! in the CPU/HD I have 4 core threads which are almost free all the time and all of a sudden there is an explosion in activity and the system cracks. I have been digging for info for two weeks and I am turning crazy! any help would be appreciated ! thanks

[@naveendecomposer]

I am facing a particular error issue with one kontakt vst saying sample rate miss match how to sort dis out

[@marcsee4072]

Hi - a question. I started to have issues w logic. It cuts out on same spots even when I froze the tracks. The only change i did was focusrite 2i2 2gen swap for 18i20 2gen. Really painful. Even if I bounce the track it stops music at that spot. When it does the out puts are all hyped like music playing buy nothing is playing. Cheers

[@SteveFlatEarth]

I'm using a 2017 3.1GHz i7 MacBook Pro and having a problem where when I press command S and then play, I get the spinning ball for 20 seconds before it starts to play audio. I'm using 10.4.3 and OS X 10.14.6 Any ideas what could be causing this. I don't remember having this problem before.

[@mikeymislan-polilla3470]

I've been getting these messages lately, I have a "pro" mac, I've been using it for years with no problems , now all of a sudden on small sessions with just one midi track I get the overload message, the CPU meter doesn't even go all the half way and I still get it... no idea what to do

[@Djsanddy]

Great Video but what about the following preferences > audio > samples? buffer size? how to unfreeze tracks? Is there a way to freeze tracks without playing back (like flatten in Ableton?)

[@doorstepgems8256]

This video was REALLY helpful. Thank you!

[@02roblo]

So if I freeze me tracks, can I still hear them while I’m recording?????

[@karldowson72]

I’m having similar issues with this, pops and crackles whenever I am output monitoring (iMac late 2013, 2.9 ghz, 8gb RAM, 500gb SSD), I have tried multi threading, adjusting I/O, sample rate etc etc, the iMac is running on an SSD that only has the OS, logic and plug in files stored (about 480gb free) when I am running Logic Pro x I have over 6gb of ram free and still the same problem, I’ve changed the interface to a Focusrite Scarlet 2i2 2nd gen and still no solution. CPU is clipping real bad even when I only have one track open. Surely I can do it as my old MacBook used to handle several tracks and that is way less powerful! Please help! Thanks

[@DatSuKid]

Am I right in thinking tracks could be distributed (in either evenly grouped quantities, or differently sized groups due to some tracks being more complex than others) to each core? What's the max number of [hyper-threaded] cores you saw (or could see) Logic performing on? This video is like crack to a tech and audio nerd like me. Thank you for sharing your knowledge about the synergy of Logic with hardware.

[@willpowermusic]

Same thing with MainStage?

[@TheBetty8steeles]

when I right click on a track i dont find the snowflake, and i dont get any drop down menu to freeze tracks,,,,,,,, help im working with logic pro x 10.2.2

[@Rae066]

Hey guys I'm trying everything and still can't get it to play straight through. I adjusted the buffer size i think, and did what the video did not all at the Sametime though. Some please help i have a Mac book pro.

[@n1mbusmusic606]

if it gives me the option of up to 16. does that mean i have 16 cores? confused. THANK YOU FOR THIS GREAT VIDEO

[@LunaVexa]

You are a legend! Thank you so much for this

[@jooshead]

weird how in past months, ive never gotten this error, but starting last month its been popping up a alot, even when im running a 5 track project with default plugins in the tracks it still pops up.. its really annoying :/ any ideas? i'm running a 1.6ghz intel core i5 processor and 4 gigs of ram

[@fuckinzell]

If you can, get at least 8gigs of ram. And if you're not running on one, switch out your hard drive to an SSD like he mentioned in the vid. Put all your logic libraries on an external drive that way you're loading less off of the main hard drive.

[@jooshead]

thats a good idea, i'll look into that, thanks man

[@fuckinzell]

fasho dawg good luck.

[@jeffwatkins7224]

using a USB hub?

[@jeffwatkins7224]

i just found a weird fix - I had my Nexus USB going thru a USB hub and when I plugged it in direct I didn't get the overload issue... If you're using a USB hub try not using it, or reducing USB inputs when you don't need them

[@SUMITMAITRAmusic]

Thanks a million for your videos... I think they are of great help. Super LIKE

[@benbeazley2974]

Love the tutorials, best place online for Logic help... And so i have a question which I'm hoping someone can shed some light on. I have a 32GB RAM, 4.1GHz Intel chip Mac running Monterey. When I play back a track i'm working on (10 tracks of Midi, approx 5 Audio, pre mix stage so few plugins) I'm getting the 4 far right Threads on the Performance near 100% but the 8 on the left barely above 15% = Overload warming. Any ideas how I can get those Processing Threads more even? (i have done all suggested in this video) thanks

[@Weston_Guidero]

how do I unfreeze to get the midi track back? I have an audio file of my drums that were MIDI and can't seem to unfreeze them.

[@sbmelt]

Fantastic video. Super helpful.

[@_JohnnySav]

How do you open the CPU/HD meter that is floating on the screen.

[@MusicTechHelpGuy]

+Chase “KidSynth” McWilliams If you view the "Custom" display at the top, the CPU/HD meter will show up as part of the transport bar. You double-click on it to pull it up.

[@_JohnnySav]

+MusicTechHelpGuy I'm going to try it later thanks!

[@elyamzon]

How did you figure out all these? You are amazing and thanks for sharing your knowledge.

[@Powhart]

Is it normal that my CPU is almost hitting the limit when I only have a NI Battery 4 opened in my session? I have a end of 2013 iMac with Fusion Drive, 3,2 GHz i5 and 16GB of RAM

[@MITTEL.PUNKT_13]

MTHG is so great. Thank you sir

[@garymartin3310]

What happens when you freeze audio files?

[@MusicTechHelpGuy]

Depending on the mode you choose, it will render all of the effects on the track into a new audio file, so none of the plugins have to be processed in real time.

[@dantepl1237]

Im running into a problem where every time i try to save my project i get a continuous spinning wheel. Any advice?

[@kingcheflos602]

🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾 life saver!!! Thank you

[@AndrewThiriot]

Great Video.

[@dreamersparadise8379]

Thanks for the video! I am having this issue as described, but it is with very minimal processing. One to two software instruments and a delay plugin. I have tried buffer size, closing all other programs, and other typical fixes. Any tips or heard of anything like this?

[@burningwatermusic]

I'm running Macbook Mid 2010 500 GB; 8 RAM; Intel Duo Core. Logic Pro X 10.2.4. How do I upgrade to more cores to stop the bogging down issue?.Thanks.

[@MusicTechHelpGuy]

+Larry Contreras Cores are actually a hardware thing, so you'd have to upgrade the CPU to get more cores, however that not possibly in a MacBook Pro. You'd just need to upgrade your computer eventually.

[@mphasis1983]

do you think an i7 quad core would have any issues with logic x?

[@burningwatermusic]

i7 quad core would have no problems whatsoever!

[@mphasis1983]

thanks for your reply. you dont understand how pleased i am to hear that :) ive been getting so paranoid about spending so much money on a new imac i7 and it still not having enough power. i wish you luck with finding a better computer for yourself also :)

[@akaki4195]

Very very helpful 🙏🙏🙏

[@theddrums2083]

Awesome help thank you. Freeze mode will help allot. Damn guitar plugins hogging up all my cpu.

[@brennankauffman4752]

Would a 3.6 -4.2 ghz quad core 7th gen i7 imac 21in with 16 fb of ram have this issue if I’m working with large projects

[@hughshikarii]

@MusicTechHelpGuy My MacBook pro is high spec but gets very upset running Ozone 8 but the message actually talks about audio/midi synchronisation errors. Do you know why this might be?

[@ankitanand2448]

Which ssd should we get to store logic library?? With hdd , it really takes alot of time to load any instrument before playing?? Please help me with it

[@MusicTechHelpGuy]

Any SSD works. I like samsung, I've used them on a bunch of projects and different computers. I've never had one fail.

[@ankitanand2448]

Can you please specifically mention which samsung ssd model do you use to store additional content of logic pro x. I tried using sony hdd but it takes around 15 to 30 sec to load an instrument before i can play it and when it comes to loading a project, it takes around 4 to 5 min for a simple project to open. If possible can you make a separate video on this coz alot of people run out of storage after using logic ad don't want to compromise on speed with an external disk.?

[@Thecorporatethiefbeats]

Well done great video thanks for the help

[@dodgeengland1472]

To avoid this just don’t add effects on the the main channel fader, bus the signal to an aux where u can control each effect on a separate fader. This won’t overload the system

[@lily.d0raa]

You are amazing

[@tonylovesmusic111]

Hello, I was wondering if you know of any way to boost your processing with some kind of external device? My macbook has a solid state hard drive and I bought it brand new less than a year ago yet it still seems to have issues running many plugins in logic. I don't know much about computers in general but specs are 8gb memory, 2.7GHZ Intel Core i5. Is this not good enough to perform very well? It overloads frequently

[@riversideproductionztv]

Thanks for sharing some useful information!

[@LucasHeaton]

you now have another subscriber

[@arthurazoubel5344]

I've got to a situation here: Mac Pro with 2.5 Ghz dual core, 16Gb RAM and a SSD just installed today. Overload messages still popping up when using 18 tracks with VMR (Slate) on pretty much every track, some Waves plugins, and stock ones from Logic too. I really did everything I could to avoid this issue, but it seems that was all in vain. Buffer size is at 1024, processing threads in "automatic", process buffer range is set to "Large" and there's no MIDI tracks in the session. The only thing that really works after all that is when I choose "Playback tracks" instead of "Playback and Live Tracks" for Multithreading, but I don't know for sure what this does with my session. Any advice?

[@arthurazoubel5344]

And just to make it clearer, I'm just mixing at this point!

[@cameronbeyer7687]

Arthur Azoubel you're issue must be that dual core CPU at that low clock speed.

[@arthurazoubel5344]

Cameron Beyer yes, after all I realized that too! Guess that the only configuration that really works well on every situation is a quad core processor. What about choosing an i7 instead of an i5? Would that make a big difference?

[@cameronbeyer7687]

Arthur Azoubel yeah that would help, I'd look into hackentoshing. A far better. bang for your buck

[@garrettnorvell]

Regarding the "Live Tracks" scroll to bottom of: support.apple.com/en-us/HT201838 the gist: have a NON-midi track selected when playing back/mixing can help. (o:

[@saimonrom]

Thank you for tutorial my friend! God bless you

[@CookieMurderer123]

to improve performance of CPU , what is best to Update RAM or SSD first ?

[@MusicTechHelpGuy]

Neither will improve the performance of your CPU, only upgrading your CPU will do that; however, I understand what you're saying. Upgrading to an SSD will give you the most noticeable performance boost, because it will be able to access files from the drive much faster. Upgrading your RAM will allow you to use more simultaneous plug-ins and virtual instruments. Both will improve session performance, but for different reasons. If you have at least 4-8GB of RAM, I'd go with the SSD upgrade first.

[@CookieMurderer123]

4 gb :) Ram

[@accretiondrumbass6102]

great info fella KUDOS to you

[@elyamzon]

Thanks for the tutorial. Back in the day when I use Sonar, there’s an “Archive” track. That archived track is not processed. Is there a similar feature in Logic Pro?

[@stevenbatke2475]

Anyone here have the freeze function mute their tracks for some strange reason?

[@Danstreettssssss]

I'm running a MacBook pro with 8gb RAM. My logic pro session won't even play! I've got in total 54 tracks not including auxileries etc. I've tried freezing all the software instrument tracks, increasing the buffer range to its maximum whilst also using all four cores....still nothing seems to be working. Has anybody got an tips at all? Cheers

[@Tony_A_441]

Dan Streeter what year MBP are u running?

[@folkstudiokashmir6236]

thnx for the information and help blessings dear

[@good4sound]

I give up. I have done everything. I upgraded my Mac to a 2013 Mac Pro (trash can) with 8 cores 64 Gb ram, I got a UA thunderbolt interface, I froze tracks, I turned tracks off, I played with different buffer sizes, I closed all other apps, I turned on 64 but processing, I turned off everything that isn’t being used. And my system still plays for a few seconds and overloads. The only thing I didn’t do is get a new hard drive. But from what I can see, it’s the CPU that is overloading. Any ideas? Anyone?