I've got one better. Is there a system test for input objects, busses, and auxes that can run before recording anything, to verify that each object is working perfectly?
I mean, there shouldn't be any resonances or artifacts imposed onto any tracks by the system itself, right? In GarageBand, I'd sometimes get a flat sounding high-pitched whine that went up to a very high frequency, and it would then stay on the track, and suddenly would be in other tracks for that song, too. This always happened after a lot of editing of EQ settings, with a modulation effect on. But the thing wouldn't go away from these affected tracks. This would be a case of file corruption?
I read in another thread that someone was having trouble with low frequencies crossing several inputs in L8, and I was wondering if there is a system test that looks for resonances of the system itself, or of the software. Here's my idea--
Open a new song, and set it to the maximum possible number of tracks, busses and auxes. Then set each track's output to the first buss, output that buss to the next buss, that to the next, etc, and thru all the auxes, and out the master output. Then record a wave form from SP and copy it to every track. Then open Channel EQ for the first track input and for the last possible insert in the environment, the master track if this is possible, or else the last aux, I forget, and then monitor the playback and see if there is any change in the waveform in Channel EQ, or volume in the channel faders.
If a program could automatically do this, for every track, for a variety of frequencies, then if there is a problem with one of the input objects, busses or auxes it could find it. But there shouldn't be, right?
Then, change all of the tracks to instrument objects, and insert an instrument that produces resonance, and try it again, monitoring for any change in resonance thru the system. Try it for each track, and a variety of resonances.
A program to do this quickly would be pretty fast.
I don't do drugs, but this would find any problem like a dream, and if there was a bad input object, buss or aux, you could just delete it. If a new one did the same thing, then you could tell Apple.
There shouldn't even be any problem like this anyway. It's probably something else.
Unfortunately, I can't install the full Logic Studio without filling my mini's drive to 2/3, or I'd be trying this out myself.
Has anybody heard of any testing capability on the Mac besides Audio Units plug in test?