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[Bear-Faced Cow]

It has more to do with enhanced security measures in Catalina than anything else, that is affecting software installs and upgrades. One developer I know alluded to file vault being enabled, but it may be part of a bigger solution. I’ll see what else I can find out.

jord

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Jordan L. Chilcott

Web Site: https://jordanchilcottmusic.com/

[Bear-Faced Cow]

I never make major decisions on home stereo speakers due to their hyped nature. If anything, I would compare the mix against a reference track on my main monitors since I can hear everything I need to there. 

Like I said in the other thread, it may help a few mix decisions to mix at a lower volume. If it sounds good low, it will sound good loud.

jord

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Jordan L. Chilcott

Web Site: https://jordanchilcottmusic.com/

[Bear-Faced Cow]

I’m not attempting to beat up on you for using headphones. All I am really getting at is that you may be mixing in them a little too loud, thus experiencing the Fletcher-Munson curve (our ears act as compressors beyond a certain threshold). There are many people I know, myself being one of them at one time, that believe that loud music has to be mixed loud, which is not only false, but dangerous.

That being said, I do a lot of my mix work on headphones, main due to the fact that I have become more of a night owl during this lockdown. I will record guitars through my amp though, since it doesn’t bother my wife like the mixing does. She can’t stand the repetitive nature of mixing. However, I do listen to my mixes on a set of monitors as well as some consumer grade computer speakers, to make sure that the mix translates well to each of them. Once I am done, I will listen to it on my iPhone speaker as well as my laptop speakers to ensure that bass guitar is heard and the make sure that the hi-mids are not at cringing levels. After that, I give it the road test. Road factor is important because the music has to be able to cut through that. I’ll gladly make adjustments if it doesn’t survive that test. Only when it passes all of those tests, will I release it.

It’s just my opinion however… that and a two-dollars are worth a coffee and a doughnut.

jord

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Jordan L. Chilcott

Web Site: https://jordanchilcottmusic.com/

[Bear-Faced Cow]

Another thing that just occurred to me:

Do you have FileVault enabled? There has been issues with other software updates in which FileVault was causing issues.

jord

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Jordan L. Chilcott

Web Site: https://jordanchilcottmusic.com/

[Bear-Faced Cow]

I like the beat of the song, but the mix sounds unbalanced. I think the bass is a little too overbearing and the vocals are a little too far forward in the mix, however. The beat winds up getting lost as a result. It’s somewhat characteristic of mixing with your headphones loud.

jord

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Jordan L. Chilcott

Web Site: https://jordanchilcottmusic.com/

[Bear-Faced Cow]

Is it crashing on a new project or an existing one? It could range from a bad project to a corrupt preference or a permissions issue.

You also might want to ZIP the crash log and post it so the devs can have a look.

I’m not seeing any issues with Logic and SD3 either. Then again, I’m also running Mojave for now.

jord

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Jordan L. Chilcott

Web Site: https://jordanchilcottmusic.com/

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[Bear-Faced Cow]

Pending that, I have more “brute force” methods to check, but would require going into the Terminal.

Let us know what you find.

jord

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Jordan L. Chilcott

Web Site: https://jordanchilcottmusic.com/

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[Bear-Faced Cow]

You would want to use Disk Utility to repair permissions. Best to reboot your Mac into Recovery Mode (hold cmd-R) and do this as it may uncover other issues. Updating Logic may have only been a catalyst.

jord

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Jordan L. Chilcott

Web Site: https://jordanchilcottmusic.com/

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[Bear-Faced Cow]

Is it a single preset or all of them? Most of the plug-in issues with Logic have been tied to Catalina, and you’re showing to be on Mojave. I have been using SD3 with 10.5 and haven’t had any issues loading presets, user or factory.

You may want to check your project and/or preferences. It may also be a permissions issue, so check that as well.

Apple doesn’t force updates, BTW. You have Automatically Update checked in your app store app prefs.

jord

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Jordan L. Chilcott

Web Site: https://jordanchilcottmusic.com/

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[Bear-Faced Cow]

Looking at Steinberg’s site, Cubase SE is on the unsupported list and hasn’t been updated in a while. I’m also willing to bet that it was one of those that came pre-packaged with a hardware device to get you going, and if it was, they usually don’t support VSTs outside of what comes with it.

jord

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Jordan L. Chilcott

Web Site: https://jordanchilcottmusic.com/

[Bear-Faced Cow]

That’s weird. Different beat totally or same beat different instruments?

I have not experienced this type of behaviour here.

jord

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Jordan L. Chilcott

Web Site: https://jordanchilcottmusic.com/

[Bear-Faced Cow]

Karsten Tölle wrote:

Your comments are so offensive, outrageous, irrelevant and even DEFENSIVE it’s almost laughable! Well… that reminds me of the saying “a hit dog barks”! Are you just a naive Toontrack fanboy or are you in any way business related to this company? I think each participant of this forum should form his/her own opinion based on your comments here 😉
Anyway… I’m out and making some music as you pretentiously suggested. Life is too short to bother with trolls!

Go look in the mirror… there’s your troll. In fact, you were everything you typed, and you’ve proven that you don’t really have an argument but would rather go on the attack to believe you can bully someone down to prove your point.

But for your information, I happen to be a software developer who knows what it takes to put out any software. I also know that all software has bugs no matter and some bugs are just not priority while more serious bugs take a greater amount of time to undo, and adding more people to the problem is never the solution.

So, coming online and bellyaching and trolling is not going to get problems solved.

jord

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Jordan L. Chilcott

Web Site: https://jordanchilcottmusic.com/

[Bear-Faced Cow]

Are you using any different mapping in your preset/project?

What is being played back into SD3 from SO4? You can find this out in SD3’s MIDI monitor.

jord

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Jordan L. Chilcott

Web Site: https://jordanchilcottmusic.com/

[Bear-Faced Cow]

Thanks for the very self-entitled remarks. I hate to break the bad news to you but you’re going to be finding yourself working around all software, regardless of what you think. And yes, it is cosmetic in the PM, and not functional. It does not affect your library installation or the playability of SD3, nor does it really hamper the over users experience in any damaging way. You’re just bugged by it because you have to look at it. Nothing more.

Just because they aren’t outputting software to your timeline, that is no indication that they are either uncaring, or incompetent. The fact that they took care of some major install bugs in the last round shows quite the opposite. And considering that they have had numerous releases since launch, is more of an indication that they are paying attention.

Perhaps, go make some music rather than complain in your first three posts.

jord

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Jordan L. Chilcott

Web Site: https://jordanchilcottmusic.com/

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[Bear-Faced Cow]

So far I see two potential issues:

1. Your drum MIDI technically starts at Bar 8 (your controller information in the region might be ignored on export) and your tempo marker is at Bar 1. Hence no beginning tempo marker in your export.
2. Your change in tempo is a ramp. Logic handles ramped changes in tempo internally. As a MIDI export the only way it can interpret that ramp is with a series of tempo changes, which explains John’s screenshots. Thus, there will be a very rough resolution to your tempo changes, and you will hear it in your drum parts. If you want to smooth it you, you will have to do some work in SD3’s tempo map, by recreating the ramp manually if you want your tempo change in SD3 to be just as smooth. At least your ramp appears to be linear. You would have a harder time if you had used a more logarithmic ramp in Logic.

jord

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Jordan L. Chilcott

Web Site: https://jordanchilcottmusic.com/

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