Why is audio so sluggish in Logic?

I am wondering if there is a good reason why logic has always been soo sloooow when handling audio. If you do anything, such as move a clip (region) during playback, it takes about 3 seconds to have an audible effect. I allways avoid using audio in logic because it becomes very tedious
When using Cubase on my old Dell laptop I find the response very snappy in comparison. Not to mention the fact i can easily and quickly change the level of independent audio clips.....non-destructively!
I'm guessing this problem is down to some core level programming as its been the same for many years, but its really about time it was sorted out.
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audio addict wrote:
I'm running cubase on my old dell latop (intel celeron 1.86ghz)
Cubase updates the audio playback in around .85 of a second, allways under 1 second. Logic running on the mac as described in my sig takes at the very least 2 seconds to update playback. Ive got the buffer set to 32 and processor buffer range set to small
Logic uses a lot of disk buffers these days, it improves track count but may be causing some delays.
I don't know which version of Cubase you're using but since Steinberg revamped Cubase to the Nuendo code base audio editing is a pleasure. I've mentioned it on this forum before (much to everyone's chagrin) but Cubase/Nuendo are very good at handling audio, I always feel like I've entered a time warp every time Logic's audio editor opens. That said, did you know you can assign an external audio editor in Logic? It's not any faster but if you have a full featured audio editor on your Mac you can make it Logic's default editor.
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