Logic 9 - Slow Loading/Processing

[RolandFan]

I am running Logic Pro 9 on a Mac Pro with dual 2.66Ghz dual core Xeons and 8GB RAM.

 

I've experienced slowness in certain areas and I'm not sure why. First, when I drop and drag an audio file from the finder on to an audio track on the arrangement window, it takes a while for it to load and appear. I get the beachball for several seconds, even if it's a very small file. For example, in my current project, I just dragged an 8 bar loop onto the page and I got the beachball for 28 seconds before the region appeared on the page.

 

Second, when I use the glue tool to glue regions together, I often get the beachball for a longer than normal time before the clips process.

 

Does anyone have any tips or ideas for me on how I might improve the performance here. The delays really breakup the workflow and are quite maddening.

 

Thanks.

[Eriksimon]

1. It might help to reindex your harddrives, seems Logic (or more accurately: spotlight) has difficulty localising and/or reading the files.

http://support.apple.com/kb/ht2409

2. It could also be that the audio files are fragmented. Do you have dedicated drives for recording and for sample instrument libraries? Or just the startup disk?

3. It could also be that your System disk is too full. Keep at the very least 40 GB, and ideally at more than 20 % of the total capacity of the disk free.

[RolandFan]

1. It might help to reindex your harddrives, seems Logic (or more accurately: spotlight) has difficulty localising and/or reading the files.

http://support.apple.com/kb/ht2409

2. It could also be that the audio files are fragmented. Do you have dedicated drives for recording and for sample instrument libraries? Or just the startup disk?

3. It could also be that your System disk is too full. Keep at the very least 40 GB, and ideally at more than 20 % of the total capacity of the disk free.

 

I have 3 drives in my machine - a start-up drive, a sample drive and a project drive (where I save all my Logic projects).

 

The Start-up Disk is 640GB, with 325GB used. The sample drive is 300GB with 143GB available.

 

I'll take a look at the re-indexing thing and see if it helps. Thanks for the response.