Logic Pro 7 system overload - can anyone help

Jim Frazier, "Logic Pro 7 system overload - can anyone help" #45, 01:08pm Mar 21, 2005 CDT

What's the possible "connection" with Pluggo and/or Waves?

Maybe none at all. I was just trying to find a commonality.
I asked about Waves because of the problems users have had in the past and because AFAIK the current waveshell is still beta, and Plugo because, in the past, I have seen that kind of error from pluggos myself (and from others).

Now is the time to just start throwing out ideas and vague echoes of remembered problems from the recent past, as this often can hit on something. Like a 'software psychic' hehe (it has worked for me in the past 🙂 )

go to System Preferences -> Energy Saver and make sure that you have your processor performance set to MAXIMUM 🙂 I get that sometimes on my Powerbook, especially when it is on Automatic

I'm still on Logic 6, but have played around with the LE 7 trial version.
Working with a single midi track and switching between different editors I got audio distortion and a 'system overload' message after about 10 minutes. So my personal conclusion is to stay with Logic 6 and wait for the next version of Logic 7.

How powerful is your G4 system? I used a G4/500 with Logic 7 with a lot more than a single MIDI track and only really got system overload messages when I got overly ambitious with it. So it definitely makes me wonder what your system is doing while it is running Logic.

jord

My system is a G4/800. I had nothing else running but LE 7.
Performance meter was below 10%. Nevertheless I got the system overload message.

Fred B, "Logic Pro 7 system overload - can anyone help" #50, 08:39am Mar 22, 2005 CDT

My system is a G4/800. I had nothing else running but LE 7.

Performance meter was below 10%. Nevertheless I got the system overload message.

Does it get any better if you restart the computer and try again ?

Well, it happened just once and I could continue working even without restart. The point is that the message seems to be triggered by something other than a 'real' overload. Since it happened for me after some heavy editor switching, I would suspect an intermittent conflict of graphics and audio.

Fred B, "Logic Pro 7 system overload - can anyone help" #52, 12:01pm Mar 22, 2005 CDT

the message seems to be triggered by something other than a 'real' overload.

Spurious warnings are possible, which is why there is the option to turn the warning off, in prefs.

Thanks for the hint.
However, I wouldn't expect to get this message on a tiny project.

Fred B, "Logic Pro 7 system overload - can anyone help" #54, 03:34am Mar 23, 2005 CDT

However, I wouldn't expect to get this message on a tiny project.

There's a minimum project size for
b spurious
errors ?
I didn't know that. 🙂

Hi Guys,

Well I finally sorted out what the problem was for me........

RAM

It was a dirty contact on one of the RAM sticks which caused my machine to jump back to 256MB!!!!!!!

I cleaned the contacts with some isopropanol alcohol and popped them back in and POW, logic runs like a dream again.

I don't know that this will help many of you with the same error messages, but it does give you another thing to go back and double check.

Hope that at least helps somebody.

Cheers
Dean

Dean, glad you found an easy fix. You mean that your memory reading on your computer showed only 256? Well, if so, the rest of us are still searching.

Someone suggesting checking the audio configuration for plugins not routed to objects that aren't in the environment. I haven't really tested this yet, but I did find a few sends and a couple of Klopfgeists routed to objects that weren't in the enviroment. But I can't recall whether this file is one which gave me a lot of trouble previously.

I'll explore this a bit further and report back if I find something noteworthy.

No progress with that approach.

Run a search in these forums using RMX and I think you may get the answer you are looking for. I have had the same problem with RMX - its crazy for CPU

Ivan

I have a song with NOTHING IN IT. No notes, no audio files, no plug ins, no synths even turned on. Nothing. I'm getting constant "system overload" messages most times (but not all) when i hit start. This comes and goes in phases. I am on Tiger with logic 7.1. It seems much worse (its unsuable now) than previous versions.

No non logic plug-ins, plenty of functioning RAM. 121MB free ram (in activity monitor). Page ins/outs 63000/1700.

Logic appears to take 20% CPU just to play an empty song. That seems abnormal. No other apps are running, no processes are doing much of anything at all.

Thanks to all in this thread for the usual disk/memory/set-up suggestions. In this case I think its obvious its nothing of that nature.