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Thanks everyone for confirming that “it’s not the same thing”. I’ll reapproach my process here!

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This is not live performance; all digital with EZBass and LogicX. And the peaks already line up *exactly* because each instance is playing the exact same MIDI notes. That’s why I originally tried sample delay, in case the problem was them being completely 100% exact performances (but that didn’t fix it).

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Ok, thanks for confirming. I’ll have to switch back and forth and check the different sections individually then.

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If your Mac has an Apple silicon CPU, there is an issue that if you resize the plug-in window in Logic, it stops receiving keyboard input until you close and reopen the window. I believe this has been fixed in macOS Sonoma 14.2.

This was the issue – and I’ve since upgraded my OS and things seem to be working. Thanks all!

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This is what I’m saying though – these responses are awesome and very appreciated for a question that isn’t present here. I could be chatting with Bob Rock and not Jord and it still wouldn’t matter. I wanted to know how to copy/paste grid hits/notes from one instance to the other, with context in case anybody wanted it. That’s it. That’s the question. Had the question been “How do I avoid doing what I’ve described doing and make things easier on myself” then we’d certainly be in a different thread. Thinking I need to hear any given thing or “be reached” based on assumptions is the insufferable (and mildly condescending) part, not that what you’re saying is BS or false or “not appropriate” or that so-and-so doesn’t have way more experience than me. For all anyone knows, I’m making neo-djent hillbilly jug music with Yoko Ono soundbites over the top and infinite delay on the master. I’m not coming for anybody’s Grammy, and if I want to be stupid with a fake mixing board for mad scientist reasons, then I’m not sure why anybody cares, or doesn’t wish to stay on topic.

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I’d just like to put this all to bed because things are way off-track for this thread: I don’t care about opinions, recommendations, and/or solutions that don’t relate to my original question. If I have questions or issues about another topic, I will post another thread for it. If my mixes don’t sound right, I will figure it out. Or I’ll give up. Or I’ll move on to something else. Or I’ll go eat a burrito and stare at a wall. I am literally a full-grown adult, I have been doing this as a hobby, for years, and if I want to do any stupid, incomprehensible, ill-advised, “inappropriate” thing with the 1’s and 0’s loaded onto my overpriced, electronic sounds-and-letters-and-pictures machine, then I will, I will likely know that it is such, and the reasons for me wanting to do it are my own.

I appreciate the help and advice and conversation, and of course anybody is free to say whatever they like, but man, y’all ain’t gotta be so insufferable about it.

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The largest issue isn’t necessarily the number of channels but how I want to control those channels. And using some of the same mics for different instruments (particularly the Amb Close and Far stereo pairs). For SD3 I like to set and forget – I don’t want to have to go back to that mixer if I want to adjust anything during mixing. So I route each of the mics through a dedicated mixer channel, set levels, and then output to Logic 1:1. And just to keep things organized in Logic, I do close mics out one SD3 instance and room mics out another, and once that’s all set I can use Logic for everything. If I didn’t use the same mics for different instruments it would be a little different story.

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This is true – but I like to keep my routing as simple as possible in SD3 and deal with the major routing in Logic. When mixing, if I want a little more or less of this or that, I want to control that in Logic rather than SD3. Just a workflow preference.

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Do you really need to have individual tracks for all those mics?

What is “need” in this context? Does Radiohead need a tambourine? Not trying to be glib but to ask if any given creative endeavor needs anything is quite subjective.

Logic only allows you to have 16 tracks to receive the output from a single vi?

As far as I know, yes. You get the instrument + 15 stereo channels to bring in SD3 mixer tracks.

I know of no producer/desk jockey that does independent tracking of the same room mics for separate kit pieces – why do that?

Because I like the sound of those particular mics for the different instruments? Is that ok?

Again trying to avoid being glib but I’m asking a specific question here for “who-cares-why”.

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This sounds pretty workable – I’ll investigate this.

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Logic only allows 16 total tracks for a single instrument insert, so 15 excluding SD3. This isn’t enough for me to capture all the mics I want to use simultaneously. For my current setup and kit, I have something like 20 individual channels from my SD3 kit which is more than Logic could handle from a single instance, so I split them. Additionally as an example, I use the same room mics for the snare as I do the toms, but I want to have independent tracking or each.

That is, of course, unless there’s something I’m missing about either SD3 or Logic.

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Hi, question almost 3 years later.

I’m finding that in addition to keyboard shortcut not working when I have the window open in Logic, but my keyboard simply doesn’t work. If I want to change the label on a mixer channel, I can’t. All my keystrokes go to Logic. I’ve tried the “Enable Keyboard Shortcuts in DAWs” toggle both ways, still no avail. It never did this before on my MacBook Air, I’ve upgraded to a Mac Pro and now all of a sudden I’m having these issues. What gives?

Thanks.

Operating system: macOS Monterey (12)

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Almost a year later… can anybody comment on this issue in Logic Pro? I’m using:

• SD3, v3.2.6 as a plugin on Logic
• Logic Pro X 10.7
• Monterey 12 on MacBook Pro

Essentially if I don’t touch my Logic interface for a minute or so, I get the “Audio Engine Inactive” warning, and only when I interact with Logic by pressing Play or something similar does it go away. It didn’t used to do this before (just started a couple weeks ago), and I’ve been using the same specs.

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Operating system: macOS Monterey (12)

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