eyeonwave Posted April 22, 2011 Share Posted April 22, 2011 I got a 2500.00$ macbook pro about 10 months ago. Its main purpose is for audio production and logic is the primary program that I use. I've been working on projects, pretty basic ones, with approx 4 to 5 instrument tracks and usually a delay effect or reverb effect in the inserts... But nothing to crazy, usually only one or 2 insert effects on each instrument. I'm only using synths and midi (EXS24, EX2, ESE). Lately when recording or during playback logic's HD will frequently overload... and a message "Disk is too slow or System Overload. (-10009)" comes up. Now, i understand that if your putting a lot of stress on your system why this problem might occur. However like i explained above I'm not doing a lot of heavy processing in my projects. So could this be a settings issue? I was told a while back that the only way to deal with this problem is to go into Logics preferences and change the buffer size... But i've tried several different buffer sizes and logic still crashes while I'm in the middle of recording something or even during playback... This is extremely anoying considering that my Macbook is supposed to be a powerful audio production unit. My specs are as follows. Processor: 2.66 GHz Intel Core i7 Memory: 4GB 1067 Mhz DDR3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
triplets Posted April 23, 2011 Share Posted April 23, 2011 You should save your projects to an external FW800 drive. That will take load off the system drive. Also record to that external drive. Are you using an audio interface? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eyeonwave Posted April 23, 2011 Author Share Posted April 23, 2011 Thanks Triplets:) Prior to getting a Macbook, when I worked on a PC laptop using Reason and Acid Pro with roughly same number of tracks and midi instruments I never had this type of issue... And I recorded straight to my PC drive . Which is why Im a little confused why my Macbook pro would have troubles with processing similar sized projects. My old PC had half the Ram and a 10th the HD space. Not to say my old system was better but this is one difference that certainly sticks out. Anyway I'll give an external drive a try. Hopefully that will make everything run smoother. Is USB 3.0 gonna be okay or should it be a FW Drive?. I use an M-audio mobile interface. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
analogika Posted April 23, 2011 Share Posted April 23, 2011 Make sure you have ample free space on the hard drive. Also, you don't mention whether you're using Logic 9.1.3 and 10.6.7 yet. If not, consider yourself kicked solidly. (If yes: Now what about that free space? ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
triplets Posted April 23, 2011 Share Posted April 23, 2011 Logic is a different animal than Reason and Acid. It doesn't matter what you did on the PC. USB 3 does not work on the Mac yet. Get a FW800 drive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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