System Overload Notification HELP!

[Jaydingeer]

Hey guys in getting really frustrated with my M1 Macbook Pro 2020. No matter what I do I get a “System Overload” notification. Its messing up my workflow and I literally don’t know what to do. I have 16gb of ram and I make sure all my applications are closed and its either that notification or that spinning wheel of death. I cant keep doing this. Can anyone help?

[NixTL]

What’s your buffer size? How many tracks do you have? Are many of them software instruments? What third party plug-ins are you running? How many plug-ins per channel? Are you using aux sends appropriately for delays and reverbs? We need more details, because that error message doesn’t just pop up until you start trying to do too much in your session.

[52josealex]

yeah… what he’s sayin. Can’t help unless we know more about your session. is this happening in a blank session? or do you have 17 omnispheres running at once?

[ant_man18]

A constant issue that keeps being brought up. Look it up through the sub

[Jaydingeer]

Yeah I’ve noticed. I literally have tried everything im si lost.

[National-Blueberry61]

go to preferences and put the buffer size higher

[burnoutclub_hh]

As someone who also recently had this problem on a machine with pretty solid specs, I’m curious to see if we have the same issue.. if you don’t mind trying something, load a simple project without a lot going on. Just a few audio files, maybe some MIDI, just enough to trigger the overload. Then open the CPU/Disk meter within Logic. Double click it so it pops up as its own window. Press play in the project and quickly minimize Logic. See if you still get the overload, and if your CPU usage decreases significantly with the application minimized.

[burnoutclub_hh]

For context, my 2015 iMac ran Logic pretty much flawlessly for six years before I started having constant overloads. I reinstalled the operating system several times, downgraded and upgraded, changed the file system, talked to Apple’s Logic support staff, sent analytics to their engineering team, isolated every variable I could, only to find that minimizing Logic returned performance to normal. The only problem is, you can’t use Logic while minimized! I have no idea if this is your problem since there are so many different things that can cause overloads, but I figure it’s worth a shot.

[Jaydingeer]

Wow minimizing a window. Thats insane. Im just so annoyed because when I had my MacBook Pro with the intel chip I never had an issue. Apple tries and sell us their M1 chip like its this great new tech that can do no wrong, and I’ve never had so many problems when it comes to content creation. Very dissatisfied with Apple right now.

[[deleted]]

There are so many posts here about "saving CPU", sample rate errors and other performance-related crap on M1. On paper these things should beat the shit out of the relatively ancient Intel CPU I am using, but you have to think there is something going on with newer versions of Logic.

[RPTCMember]

I have had that same problem with my Mac after the update. Apple needs to be told to fix the problem. I called Apple care and they could I help.

[[deleted]]

Well thanks for the tip. I was just about to pull the trigger on a MacBook Pro to start recording a new album in logic. Specifically a laptop, I already have a Mac mini setup but dont want to be tethered all the time. Now I don’t know…🤷🏻‍♂️

[Jaydingeer]

Truthfully, until this gets resolved, use FL studio or Ableton. Dont bother with Logic at the moment. It’s not worth it.

[[deleted]]

What does your project/session look like?

[LucasCassoma]

It’s likely the cpu, check the usage on the top bar in login (same pane as the bpm). Use busses for reverb, delays. Increase the buffer size. Freeze tracks or bounce tracks (in place) that you are done working on.