My ears are ringing from blast of white noise from Logic 9

In the release notes
http://support.apple.com/kb/ts2565
it says:
Resolves an issue where recording would incorrectly appear to continue after "Disk too slow errors."

To me, this means, the "white noise" problem is solved because audio is muted before any noise can get to the outputs.
But it is still not clear what is causing the "Disk too slow errors".

I doubt it. Hope springs eternal though....

After several weeks of noise-free work and foolishly lulled into believing that this problem may have mysteriously gone away, I got blasted this morning.

Booted in to my 10.6.2/9.1.1 drive. Added 17 audio files from another project. Added a couple of compressor plugs, played the song through once. All fine.

Second pass resulted in "Disk Too Slow' immediately followed by "The Blast" when I hit play again. No 3rd. party plug-ins, no freeze files, no software instruments. Started from a empty project.

Maybe 10.6.3, which supposedly has substantial core audio changes, will be a fix. My fingers are crossed.

Nope. Upgraded to 10.6.3 with 9.1.1 on a quad Macpro only three ⚠ tracks playing, no plugins, recording one onto a dedicated SATA drive. 1/2 hour into the session I got several "blast of white noise" files in a row. This *****......

Well, here I am just putting my hand up on this thread with the rest of you poor sods.. There I was thinking that the blast of white noise bug was limited to certain systems or caused by certain plug ins or whatnot. But I just had my first one while doing a vocal tracking session. Hooray. No ear damage though, because the minute I saw that big nasty looking block of audio at the end of a take, I knew exactly what it was (with the accompanying sense of dread), turned down my cans just to check that it really was what I thought it was.. and deleted it.

This is, indeed, not good. I don't do much heavy tracking, but I feel for you guys that do. Hope it gets addressed very soon.

It can be a show stopper.

If this issue is caused from a slow disk, I'd suggest you do the following;

Get a free copy of Xbench 1.3 and check your performance of your system. The things I suggest to look for is;

- disk tests, check all of your disks, especially the one your streaming your music to. Also make sure you have more than 10% of free disk space on each of these disks, especially your boot drive, as this is were the swap space is kept.

if your disk(s) become slow for any reason this might/could/maybe cause your issue. Especially any external disks; USB/Firewire drives. Remember the slowest USB device slows all the USB devices to the slowest device on the USB buss. Dont attach a drive to a slow keyboard; ie 1.0 USB, to any usb drives, especially music drives for recording music. If you must use USB drives, make sure the drive is the only device on that USB port.


- Also check your console logs for timestamps when your white blast occurs to see if the system logs any error during that time.

- Last but not least, I always have the activity monitor running checking my system cpu's and the level of them, anything over 50% for more than 5-10 secs should be looked into.


Good luck,

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My own white noise issue was solved when I turned the volume control on my external speakers down slightly. I can crank the Apple menu control to the hilt and never have a problem now. It worked for me and I don't have the issue at all without the external speakers plugged in.

This is not a Logic problem, but as others have suggested it must be core audio. I've gotten it several times while using fcp7. Mostly out of the line out or headphones out. I've never heard it when monitoring via blackmagic multibridge, but that may be coincidence since I rarely monitor audio that way.

Come on Apple!!! How can this not be fixed yet??? A bug that is physically harming your customer's eardrums should be a priority!

BUNKR wrote:
This is not a Logic problem, but as others have suggested it must be core audio. I've gotten it several times while using fcp7. Mostly out of the line out or headphones out.

FCP7 may well use some of Logic's audio technolgy. The reason I say that is this problem has been around for a long time, and over several different OS releases, traces of it go as far back as Logic 4.x.

It's more prevelent now, possibly because of the added weight of recent OSX releases... there's a lot going on all the time, the OS is consistently touching the system drive, Leopard in it's most recent incarnations seldom sits still.

pancenter-

Just figured Id through my 2 cents in. While transferring tracks from the Roland 1680 I got my first blast. A dark blue block on the track for about a second. It was at that second updater kick in. Just a thought.

cowbell bill wrote:
Just figured Id through my 2 cents in. While transferring tracks from the Roland 1680 I got my first blast. A dark blue block on the track for about a second. It was at that second updater kick in. Just a thought.

Yep, that's what I was speaking of in my previous post... there's no way OSX should be doing much of anything with Logic open and recording. I would put update into manual mode.

pancenter-

Thanks Pancenter,
I put update into manual mode. I was working at low volume with the monitors. And it was loud. Now I'm scared. I often record 8 tracks of drums with the click track cranked in the headphones. This ain't good.

Have you experienced blasts of white noise while using Logic to record or play back audio?
• No

Under what conditions has the noise occured?
• N/A

After recording audio, has the waveform overview ever looked normal but playback resulted in white noise?
• N/A

After recording audio, has the waveform overview ever appeared like a thick solid white bar that filled the entire waveform display (peak-to-peak waveform level)?
• No

Computer -- complete specs of your Mac, including:
• MacBook
• 2.16 HGz Intel Core 2 Duo
• 2 GB 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM

OS
• X 10.5.

Logic
• Logic Pro 9.1.1

Frequency
• Never

Audio Interface
• Built-in Intel High Definition Audio

Hard Drives -- list each audio drive which you've used in the course of production and from which audio recording or playback has resulted in a white noise blast. Leave this part blank if you don't experience the white noise problem.



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Why does the 'host' keep deleting/editing my post rather than replying to it with answers? Is this problem fixed and I don't know about it? Very poor customer service. I expect this post to disappear too; unanswered. 😟