Logic x quits often and even simple tasks cause it to freeze. Runs very slow. unuseable so far. Any one else?

Question

I guess there must be more users with the same problems I have experienced with Logic X.
The program freezes even performing simple tasks such as dragging a loop into an audio track. This causes the cursor not to respond to return key reset to head for over a minute. Opening a new project freezes the file header and takes over 2 minutes to respond. Even on unrelated windows moving the mouse around causes logic tags such as 'track number' to appear in the midst of text. Extremely odd. I would certainly appreciate any remedies from the community.
Cheers
Mike

Answer 1

Dilksy, (and Joe for that matter..)
You should check other things on your system as such issues have been found to typically be related to;
Other apps running in the background, corrupted Spotlight indexes, lack of System Drive space (you should keep at least 30% free system drive space at all times), issues with OS X installations... badly written or incompatible Audio/midi drivers.. old plugin issues.. use of poorly cracked plugins/libraries.. hardware problems.. disk errors...and so on...
I can say I have been running LPX with 10.9 for the last 3 weeks during a very busy period at the studio and not had a single crash or spinning wheel or 'showstopping issue' of any kind... so the kind of issue you are seeing is not typical...
If you want to get your problems fixed, you need to do some intensive troubleshooting yourself.. Try to find what is causing the issue.. is there any pattern to it? What do your crash logs tell you? What does the general system logs in console tell you? If you just use Logic's own plugins and nothing 3rd party, does the issue continue? have you checked for updated Audio/Midi drivers and have you installed them? Have you updated your plugins? Have you done a full disk/permissions check recently? What does OS X's activity montior show when things slow down?
Its very easy to blame LPX for any issues you may have but more often than not it is found not to be a LPX issue at all... Just read through the various threads here with people having crashes etc.. and you will see what i mean...