Logic Pro 7 system overload - can anyone help

Hi Mark
I'm afraid I don't have an answers to your problem, but just to let you know I am having exactly the same trouble. Even with very little for logic to do if I change sounds on 'Atmosphere' I get crackles and bumps all over until eventually logic gives up showing the same error messages as your getting.
It is incredibly frustrating. I am a proffesional musician and the time I spend on this problem is way outta control.
I feel even though I love those instruments I have to stop using them.
If anyone can help..... please

It seems a bit strange to me that you get this with a G5. I get this on my iBook G4 933MHz 640 MbRAM depending on the ammount of processor power needed. Sometimes I can run several audio files / instruments with Reverb and such, sometimes one single track of Sculpture is enough to make it knee.
The sollution I use is to freez tracks, then unfreez for changes and refreez to listen again.

did you freese your DTDM tracks?
that help quite a bit, try it.

hope that helps,
Paul

Hello Mark,

not that it´s gonna really make you feel fine but here´s one of the reasons:

Logic Pro 7.01 or 7 is reportedly very, very hungry and the worst Logic ever concerning stability. So if You can go back to 6.

good luck!

Bourian

A word to the wise:

Having just finished upgrading my some 224 plugins (by Logic's count) to ensure AU validity across the board, we've not experienced one crash or System Overload on our studio G5.

Dual 2Ghz Rev A, 2GB RAM, RME Hammerfall 9632.

There is a letter to the editor in this month's issue of Mix magazine. This guy gave up using his protools, and waves pluginns with Logic, cause he had so many problems.

Seems strange, some people are having lots of problems, and others appear to be having none. I went to an Apple Logic Demo in NYC last week. They wouldn't answer questions until after the demo had ended. . Like they were afraid to let Logic users voice their complaints

I felt to uncomfortable to bring up all these bugs, that I find in Logic.

I have Stylus rmx, and BFD running on a 2.5 dual gig. OK.. But everyonce in a while, the G5 will start sputtering out and give a cpu overload when their are only 5 virtual instruments running..

I'm not an Apple apologist (fanboy) by any means, but sometimes people place anger in the wrong places.

While there is no doubt in my mind that there are people experiencing serious issues with Logic that they had not before, they also need to realize that version seven was a major (VERY MAJOR) upgrade to a platform that had since been created on the other side of the planet. While it really is an annoyance to have a $300 upgrade that isn't feasibly usable, the vast majority of people have no problems with Logic.

Realize that, again, the vast majority of people on this board are people having issues. Being musicians, we're a vocal minority. That said, the number of people on here complaining is very small compared to the number of people actually running Logic 7.

Issues are a pain, but they will be addressed. Waves plugins gave me serious issues until I got an update directly from my Waves rep.

Since verifying that each plugin I run is fully Logic 7 AU compliant, I have had no issues whatsoever.

So... is there any any definate answer?? I am having the same problems, compounded with an error saying: 'cannot sync audio and midi' and 'system overload'

If I wanted to freeze tracks all day I'd become an ice cream scooper!!!

OSX 10.3.8 quicksilver g4 1G of ram, presonnus fire pod.

Well, I think the main thing is that Logic 7 as a whole is more CPU hungry. It uses more CPU power - period. While it will no doubt be optimized over time, it will always use more CPU than Logic 6.

Have you tried optimizing your environment? Realize that if you're only using two audio tracks and you have 32 audio objects in your environment, they still use CPU. There are lots of little nuances that have to be recognized.

Mark:

I run a nearly identical system to yours in terms of software. If your BFD on a drive other than your sytem drive? if not, expect it do be glitchy and have overloads. BFD can trigger disk access overloads faster than they can be displayed. Also go into the BFD preferences and turn off all of the animations, they hog power. Set your IO buffer settings in Logic as high as it will go if you're not recording (Audio hardware and drivers). opening plugins and modifying plugins such as atmosphere, RMX and BFD while a song is playing is a bad combination. Melodyne is also very hard on the system. I'd use the plugin to get the audio into your system, then go offline with melodyne and do your edits, play it back into Logic when you're done editing....
hope some of that helps.

Dustin.

how many disk do you have ?
do you get this error all the time or just when you play the song for the 1st time ?
Do you get this error having let your Mac going to sleep ?

Can you monitor the ram usage ? you can do this using MenuMeters it's a freeware

You can also monitor your disk load with "Bigtop" (it's on the Mac Os X dvd ; in the develloper section)

jerad howard, "Logic Pro 7 system overload - can anyone help" #9, 01:24pm Mar 11, 2005 CDT

compounded with an error saying: 'cannot sync audio and midi'

Your issues may be different then.

When you updated to 10.3.8 did you do it through Software Update, or did you download and install the full Combo updater ?
If it was the first method, you should definitely try the second now. (Combo updater)
That
b may
fix the Audio/MIDI sync error.
If it doesn't, I can suggest some other things to look at.

Install menumeter and answer to my question !
I may have the solution ?