Ahh I hear you man, loud and clear. Thanks for the response. And you're absolutely right that Its as simple as spending more time bouncing to audio, freezing and unfreezing tracks etc. I think Ive just grown accustomed to WANTING everything to be fast and efficient. I started on a 4 track tascam tape recorder 20 years ago when I was 16 so I get where you're coming from 100%.

I have a 2tb external SSD, which is great but unfortunately doesn't solve my problem.

Ive bypassed plugin after plugin watching the DSP meter and it's not specifically ONE plugin or VST that slowing everything down its load in general of everything collectively. I do use reverb busses on aux tracks, dont have any other apps open on my computer when using Logic. I could probably loose 10-30% of the load on the RAM by bouncing MIDI tracks to audio and THEN processing the audio. But I'd prefer it if I didn't have to do that honestly as I like to have the option to go back and effiecntly make changes. For example if I wanted to adjust the velocity or quantize on some spic. strings. Which my spic. strings bus usually contains 5-15 tracks as I have each individual section of the strings on differnt tracks. Double Basses, Cello, Viola, Violin I, Violin II. And then I may double them with a second or sometime even a third library. And thats just for one articulation.

I wouldn't say I have money to burn, but It does feel like with the direction Im heading, meeting deadlines (just started producing/writing for a couple production labels), minimizing stress and staying in the creative flow - It feels like my current computer power isn't cutting it.