Logic Pro X audio cuts out on playback, bounce, recording after upgrade to Sonoma

This is unacceptable Apple. Just bought a brand new Mac Studio and it's completely worthless to use for Logic Pro. I play my tracks and every couple of seconds the audio is cutting out. This should of never passed the QA process.

Having the same exact issue! I was on the phone and shared my screen for 1.5hrs with "experts" over at Apple as I recreated the audio drop multiple times. It cuts into Apple Music and YouTube when there's audio playing at the same time as Logic. As soon as Logic's audio cuts out, those others do at the same time.

There seems to be a CoreAudio issue that lies within Logic Pro in Sonoma (if you're reading this and haven't upgraded yet, DON'T). I'm hoping developers send that update out very soon! My backup DAW (Prx Txxx's) has been a life saver at the moment which is odd because I initially left them 2yrs ago to come to Logic full-time.

Best of luck everyone.

Specs: M1 Pro MBP 16GB

It’s most definitely the pitch correction plug-in. I bounced down each instrument & vocal into WAV files, then created a new session. I slowly started adding stock plug-ins from the original session & BINGO…soon as pitch correction was added, corrupted session even after removing the plug-in. @Apple needs to really an update to fix that IMMEDIATELY.

UPDATE: Worked with AppleCare Pro Apps team to find the issue. Turns out it was the Waves plugin suite. When I transferred everything from my iMac Pro to my Mac Studio, I was going through all the various plugin installers as you have to do to reauthorize, update, etc... I had v14 of several plugins on Waves and didn't realize I had updated those to v15 in this process simply by going through the prompts quickly in Waves Central. v15 plugins are a paid upgrade, so it effectively installed these as demo versions, which ducks audio every 10 seconds or so. This ALSO caused issues with other plugins on the same track or master bus, so it looked like all my 3rd party plugins were having issues but really, it was just that they didn't play well with Waves plugins in demo mode. Once I paid the subscription fee to Waves (annoying....), it resolved all playback issues in Logic Pro and CPU overload issues in Pro Tools.

Sucks, but now I have a working machine again. So at least there's that.

Hey- this was very helpful- having the same issue with Ozone and it was driving me CRAZY. Guess I need to update to the newest Ozone (eye roll). THANKS!

I have had the Logic 'click' dropout problem since 17 years and it has never been fixed.

With me, it appears in more complex projects with many plugins enabled. When one of those particular plugins is disabled, it clicks again and audio continues. Enabling the plugin makes the audio drop out again. This happens on any track, any instrument.

Copying the plugin settings, deleting the plugin, and then inserting the same plugin and pasting the settings alleviates the bug for a short while.

It seems to be an audio signal routing problem. It is incredible that this has not been fixed in almost two decades.

But, hey, we have the much demanded artificial intelligence stem splitter now.

Im having the same issue with Waaayyyy less Tracks and Plugins going. Im on a MacBook Pro M1. 1024 buffer size, Apollo Twin Interface. It even does it when there is no interface and Im away from my studio set up just playing back through my headphones.

I have the same issue. After unmuting a cluster of frozen tracks, the audio just cut out for no reason during playback after approximately a tenth of a second of sound. I tried restarting Logic but even rebooting my MacBook Pro hasn't resolved the issue. I'm not sure what else to try. I'm running Sonoma but this happened before on the previous MacOS too.

I'm experiencing the same issue - it's very frustrating. The audio in my project (and on YouTube) completely cuts out during playback, and I have to pause and play for it to resume. My initial thought was that the problem was linked to the recent Sonoma update, as that's when I first noticed the playback issues. So it's somewhat reassuring to hear that others are experiencing this after the update as well.

Hopefully, Apple can address this soon and release an update for Logic, as it's currently impossible to record or playback anything in this state. Like OP, I tried bouncing the project to see if it would help, but surprisingly, it still cuts out with a loud "click".

I'll keep an eye on this thread in the hopes of finding a fix/more information - thanks.

I also just bought a new Mac Studio and having the same issue. I did not have the same issue on my old iMac Pro. Both machines are running macOS 15.0.1. My project only has 13 tracks and I'm not using that many plugins. This was a piece of cake for the iMac Pro, but not so with the Mac Studio.

This Mac Studio was supposed to be a (VERY EXPENSIVE) upgrade and I feel completely robbed.

This was Ozone for me too. I think because I purchased it through Splice and my Splice app wasn't opened. It's having a weird authorization issue.

I'm having the same problem. However, I only have 15 tracks. When I playback the audio in session, the sound cuts out after a few seconds. The platform keeps playing and I see sound coming through the master and individual channels, but no sound coming through my monitors.

If I try to go to youtube, spotify, or Beatport for example to hear anything with sound -- I can't hear it. I have to go back to logic, pause and replay the session, and pause it before the sound cuts out again. Then it opens up all audio to the system.

This is madness.

A link to another forum, where you are allowed and invited to upload impacted projects.

https://www.logicprohelp.com/forums/topic/151018-audio-cutting-out-very-weird-issue-in-a-logic-project/?do=findComment&comment=878151