HELLO EVERYONE, I know I saw this before on here but how do I stop my CPU meter from entering into the red. I cant remember what tutorials explain how to do this. THANKS.....

Hi Logic Guy, In the Logic 101 course you'll find info on raising the I/O Buffer Size in Preferences > Audio... which will increase latency but be kinder on your CPU. Other advice is to make sure you're not using more plug-ins than you need. e.g. run one instance of a multi Omnisphere... and not 8 instances... or if you're applying the same reverb to multiple tracks, place one of these on an Aux and send to this Aux from all tracks. Hope this helps, R

If you have certain tracks selected that have high demand plugins, (eg. Omnispere with a separate convolution reverb and high quality EQ and compression) you will have issues. Even if that Omnisphere track has a convolution reverb on a send, you will still have issues. I even create a dummy empty audio track and always make sure that it's selected for playback. This always solves the issue of CPU spikes for me. I have an 8 core Mac and still have CPU spikes if I leave certain high demand channels selected at playback.

Great tip on the empty audio dummy track, S. College!