Recently Upgraded to Mac Studio, Performance in Logic Currently Very Disappointing
I'm coming from a quad-core i7 with 32GB of RAM from around 2016. While it served me well, it was certainly reaching it's limitations, and I was pondering an upgrade. Unfortunately it mostly died before then, though I was able to salvage the files on an external drive.
I was very excited upgrading to a 64GB unified memory, 10-Core, M1 Max Chip Mac Studio. I've read the M1 Max is incredible, and combined with doubling the memory I had it sounded like an excellent solution to my problems. I went through the painstaking process of re-downloading all my plug-ins because of M1 compatibility and updates. (side note, I use 2 external hard drives but mostly for storage. I have everything installed and running of the internal drive). When I finally got around to opening the project file(s) with the overwhelming majority of the plug-ins working, it seemed to slow/fail at the same points (and more) as my old computer, citing a "sample rate" error, and looking at it, the CPU bar is maxed.
This seems ridiculous, as every Apple rep I talked to tried to say I didn't need to buy the 64GB unified memory version because of "how far memory tech has come since my last computer, and how much of an upgrade the M1 chip is". But then the performance is almost worse than my 32GB i7 4-core that had been almost left on/running since 2016. I do use many effects plug-ins, and many instrument plug-ins and some Audio, but really thought that a computer with twice the specifications and over 7 years of technological advancement would be able to handle where.
Now, it is an old project file from a fairly old OS (I want to say Sierra 10.12) and older version of Logic, but after it loads it mentions that it should be alright. I'm utilizing a Komplete Audio 2 Audio Interface, if that changes/helps anything. Is there any way of optimizing the Mac or Logic Pro so that I don't run into these issues? Please don't suggest freezing or bouncing to audio, as the reason I spent so much on the upgrade was to be able to work freely without having to do that. Which, I know every computer will have it's limitations but this should be able to massively exceed it's predecessor on the same project files.
Possibly related other issues I'm having are: Start-up time was over 15 minutes last time I turned it on from off. I read somewhere that may have to do with old files/software that the M1 was having issues with or something. But if that's causing issues maybe it's causing further strain on the computers performance?
Also, every time I open Logic it scans ~240 plug-ins, the majority of which seemingly get validated, except for 12 or 13 that don't. It showed ~430 after I reset the component cache, but after opening Logic once it goes back to the consistent ~240. This is an issue I'd really like resolved because of inconvenience but, if it's unrelated, first and foremost I need to fix the performance first.
I really hope there's some answers/solutions because I am currently massively disappointed after spending several hours setting this up thinking it'll be so much better just to run into the same issues.
Thank you so much for your time and help,
- Z
Mac Studio, macOS 12.6