greggumz Posted October 6, 2009 Share Posted October 6, 2009 Before I installed Snow Leopard I had no idea this error existed. Now I get it every 3 bars. Its really sad actually, I can't even enjoy making music when everything stops all the time. Logic 8.0.2 OS X 10.6.1 iMac Computer 3.06 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo 4 GB 800 MHz DDR2 SDRAM Internal Hard drive (not sure how to check) Lexicon Alpha Audio interface. As for my set up. I run all of my files off of my internal hard drive (i know, bad). I've never had trouble with this before, and now I have trouble when just 5 tracks are being played at once. I have my computer hooked up to a Lexicon Alpha box, which that box is hooked up to two speakers, I also have a mic coming into the Lexicon box. I have an Axiom 61 Keyboard hooked up to my computer via USB. ------------------- A few days ago I downloaded stem files from a band, it was about 40 or so tracks, and they were Huge files. I put them all in logic and I got the error that I hate now "Disk is too slow or system overload." I figured my computer could not handle so many files, but to my surprise I found out it was doing it on all of my songs I'd recorded in the past. I read around and saw that messing with buffer settings could help, but I have been unsuccessful so far in fixing my new problem. I honestly think that this has something to do with Snow Leopard, but it could be a setting or it could be a that i need to get an external hard drive. Either way, how can I start singling out what the problem is? Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
triplets Posted October 6, 2009 Share Posted October 6, 2009 It could be that your hard drive is getting full. Just double click it and look at the bottom of the window how much space you have. And get yourself a firewire external hard drive. Go to www.macsales.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greggumz Posted October 6, 2009 Author Share Posted October 6, 2009 It could be that your hard drive is getting full.Just double click it and look at the bottom of the window how much space you have. 345 out of 500 gb available. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
triplets Posted October 6, 2009 Share Posted October 6, 2009 Are you using any 3rd party plugins that maybe are not Snow Leopard ready yet? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greggumz Posted October 6, 2009 Author Share Posted October 6, 2009 Are you using any 3rd party plugins that maybe are not Snow Leopard ready yet? Not that I see... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
triplets Posted October 6, 2009 Share Posted October 6, 2009 Running everything from the Macintosh HD is a bad idea anyway. Try with an external firewire HD. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redlogic Posted October 6, 2009 Share Posted October 6, 2009 Just a shot in the dark...does the Lexicon Alpha have the latest Snow Leopard compatible drivers? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt Mayfield Posted October 6, 2009 Share Posted October 6, 2009 Before I installed Snow Leopard I had no idea this error existed. Now I get it every 3 bars. Its really sad actually, I can't even enjoy making music when everything stops all the time. Running everything from the Macintosh HD is a bad idea anyway.Try with an external firewire HD. Not to be rude - an external HD is a good idea in principle - but this is kind of like: greggumz: Why do my new tires keep going flat on my sedan? triplets: Driving a sedan is a bad idea. You should trade it in for a truck. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greggumz Posted October 7, 2009 Author Share Posted October 7, 2009 Before I installed Snow Leopard I had no idea this error existed. Now I get it every 3 bars. Its really sad actually, I can't even enjoy making music when everything stops all the time. Running everything from the Macintosh HD is a bad idea anyway.Try with an external firewire HD. Not to be rude - an external HD is a good idea in principle - but this is kind of like: greggumz: Why do my new tires keep going flat on my sedan? triplets: Driving a sedan is a bad idea. You should trade it in for a truck. Thank you Matt, I couldn't agree more. I'm not looking for the "get a new hard drive" answer. I want some deductive reasoning here. It worked before snow leopard, now it does not. Maybe it's not snow leopard, but something changed. Any recommendations on how I can optimize my hard drive, or make my recording settings the most efficient? Redlogic, that was an awesome shot in the dark about the lexicon alpha driver. I changed the output to the computer speakers, and after much time I finally had the error happened. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt Mayfield Posted October 7, 2009 Share Posted October 7, 2009 Any recommendations on how I can optimize my hard drive, or make my recording settings the most efficient? The thing about these errors is that they seem to just happen on random people's systems and not others', and NOT because the system (drive or CPU) is legitimately overloaded. As I've said many times, I've recorded 16-track audio live to a 4200 RPM drive in an 867MHz PowerBook G4. It *can't* be that your system actually doesn't have the muscle to do this. There have been a lot of threads about it, with various things to try, but not a definitive fix. Maybe if you search around this forum, you might find something that will work? I remember something about changing something in Network preferences. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eusyloemehl Posted October 20, 2009 Share Posted October 20, 2009 I'm running two different systems: 1) Logic 9.0.2 on SnowLeo on a MacPro 2) Logic 9.0.2 on Leo also on a MacPro though a newer one. I frequently get the same error message "system overload/disk too slow" and can't find a solution. I am not using an external hard drive and everything has worked fine in that regard. My disks are not too full, since I just bought 4 new TB disks for all machines. I read something about sync problems in past versions of Logic having something to do with ADAT. Has anybody found a solution yet? Cheers! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chuckk1 Posted October 20, 2009 Share Posted October 20, 2009 Big no no...like playing Russian roulette. The internal drive already has enough to do handiling the app. Asking it to record audio along with what's already going on is asking for heartbreak. Friend of mine ost everything including paying clients' masters doing this. Get a FW drive TODAY!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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