Logic X glitching out when editing during playback

Hi,
Pretty self explanatory - does anyone know how to stop LPX having a full on heart attack whenever you make edits whilst it's playing back? Particularly when editing midi whilst it's playing, will cause all the audio to glitch out, go out of time before taking a good few bars to straighten out. Every update of LPX seems to have this lovely feature, and it still occurs even when I save it from a folder to a Logic Project. Changing the buffer settings seems to make no difference to the problem. The only fix I can see is to play, stop, edit, and repeat, but having not had this problem in 9, it seems a bit silly!
Ben

I'm presuming performance in LPX is better under 10.6.8 or 10.7.5?
Hi Ben....
Unfortunately no, as LPX won't run under those OS X versions....
Minimum version of OS X is 10.8.4...... in order to run LPX... and given the other issues found by many with 10.8.x and LPX, the recommended combo is LPX 10.0.7 and OS X 10.9.4 or 5...
I wrote a little about best combos in this tip....
Latest OS X & Logic Pro Compatibility Information

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