It does not seem dependent at all on a specific instrument or plugin, because when I load a project with an instrument (that I've tried to disable) and a couple of samples i get huge CPU and even some HD spikes. It truly breaks my heart as I bought it new and my old intel mac is outperforming it atm. I'm praying it has something to do with Ventura for some reason.

 

If it is not just Midi instruments like you first posted, there were other people who had similar issues with new Apple Silicon machines. Some even complaining about brand new Mac Studio M1-3's. From what I remember, it was an issue in Logic only, and how it was making use of all the processing cores. I will look and see if I can find any examples of it.

 

I would go back to basics at this point, how did you configure your Logic and all that, what is really spiking, single core or all of cores?

Pretty much this.

 

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All cores are spiking, I put the settings like I had normally done in Logic. Would you first try Logic 11 and then upgrading to Sonoma if that doesn't work or vice versa?

 

Thank you. It's so strange

 

Not entirely. It could help to keep in mind that you are almost playing "mix and match" between versions of both Logic and your MacOS, and the Apple Silicon cpu and ARM architecture. There are going to be little issues just like the one you have now. When they created Logic 11, if they could have legally not supported old Intel machines; they would probably have made v11 entirely for M1 or newer machines and the most current versions of MacOS.

That's why I agreed with the guy saying to update to Sonoma. If you want, do some research and see if people with the same machine as you have problems with Sonoma; before updating your MacOS. Updating Logic to newest is faster than updating MacOS. I would probably live dangerously and update them both.

 

I would update to Logic 11 first for sure.

 

Latest versions of everything (Sonoma, Logic 11, plugins), ARM-native, if using large libraries have them on the internal ssd or get a Thunderbolt 4 SSD Enclosure + a good NVMe, you should get around 3.5 GB/s read/write, also Logic had some spikes when using Drum Machine Designer, keep in mind M2 is slower than M1 when it comes to ssd speed and use 48khz 256-512ms latency, and set the logic to 8 cores (or maximum) instead of 4 which you can see in the activity monitor

 

Okay, updated to Logic 11.1 and Sonoma and nothing changed. May switch back to 10.8 because now kontakt GUI is scrambled.

 

Thanks for the reply, I have everything on internal and switching from automatic core to 8 cores doesn't change the cpu usage unfortunately for me. Would switching from 44.1khz to 48khz do anything?

 

Really appreciate all the help you all have given me, but maybe I'll just have to wipe the whole computer and start from scratch and checking performance manually after each plugin is installed...

 

Wait Kontakt, it's old offender, taught they fixed it already...

 

Yeah, was all good before updating for some reason Maybe this would help me? https://www.thinkersnacks.com/as-pluginfo.html

 

Try unsetting 'Override instrument's preload size' in Kontakt's 'Memory' option, if that's enabled at the moment.

 

One thought came across my mind, maybe deleting all VST and VST3 versions of my plugins would help if the issue could be that they are for some bizarre reason running though them instead of their AU equivalents?

 

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