Let's talk about Logic Pro for a bit

When I started my music production journey 2 years ago, I started with GarageBand. on my iPhone. When I felt like I was ready for a little more horsepower, I purchased FL Studio. Spent a lot of money on it too.

That turned out to be the biggest waste of money I ever spent - constant crashing, glitching, losing files, and honestly its ok if you wanna be a bedroom trap beat maker as a kid, but I still needed something stronger. more dependable. more... Apple.

See, the reason I purchased FL was because I tried a demo of Logic Pro X and was terrified of it. I just had no clue what I was doing, and logic, well, logic is not the most intuitive software out there.

But I finally did it, probably a little over a year ago, and I never looked back. Ok I looked back once at FL, and it was still a joke. Once I got into a bit of a flow with Logic..... I still sucked. self teaching with no YouTube videos, only reading and trial and error, takes a bit. I am still learning what are probably some first semester tidbits, but I am finally starting to see a picture with all of these puzzle pieces.

I was terrible, but Logic was STRONG. it at least had my back, it never crashed, never did anything wonky, it was the most reliable thing in my life, and this was on a 2015 iMac in 2023.... Since then, I have grown stronger as a producer and engineer, learned things that make it better on both my brain, and on logic and my CPU.

LOGIC, however, went and developed ADHD AND Asperger's over the past 6 months and has gotten to the point where I can hardly complete a song without throwing my hands up and threatening to turn my Mac Studio M1 into - inappropriate things for large gay men, lets leave it there.

I can't get 20 seconds into recording with ONE virtual instrument, and having only ONE VST loaded at all, no plugins active, it stops my recordings by bar 14, I can't dare have any section play on a cycle, without LP hitting the meth pipe too hard and CONSTANTLY jerking the playhead back to the beginning of the cycle. I get the "application not responding" beachball of death and have to force quit, ONE VSt loaded spikes CPU usage to "system overload" messages at least 5 times per session, as well shard drive spikes here lately too. I have a 2022 Mac Studio M! max or whatever its called, and I run one 2 channel interface and one midi keyboard into it for logic. activity monitor shows nothing much in cpu land, save for AU hosting sometimes using 99 or more percent of cpu, and logic itself climbing. into the mid 40's itself, but that is not constant. I have an external 2tb ssd in a pretty quick little enclosure, a modest little speaker set consisting of 2 little desktop speakers and am 8" sub going into the earphone jack, hardwired to 1gbps internet, and sometimes my phone charger. I recently wiped the whole thing and started over, putting all of my Music stuff on the External drive, I even put almost all of my plugins on the external, so as not to rim tickle the storage limit. O/S is current, im good about dusting the Mac Studio, im using a crappy little tv as a monitor so I know this not pulling too much power or workload, bering a 720p 32' Walmart pos.

im way more frustrated at this than I ever thought id be at a computer, but I paid a lot of money for the Mac and then for logic and hav put in a metric crap ton of hours learning its nooks and crannies, - is this problem specific to me, is anyone else having this issue/these issues? I can adjust buffer length and I/o assignments until im blue in the face, nothing I know to do or can find online is any help. anyone have a bit of iSight they can spray on me? I'd really appreciate a solution that doesn't involve me going "office space" on my 2500 dollar computer with a golf club.