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

+Wakey wakey!+ This is NOT the customer service department. Moderators do not take part in the discussion here. We're all just Logic users. Go here:
http://discussions.apple.com/forum.jspa?forumID=1076

The fact that this topic is still alive is a sign that this issue is taken seriously. The fact that you don't have this issue but keep going on about it is not helpful to any other user. In fact, it is rather annoying.

Well, that would make you extremely ignorant. For instance, the data that was compiled would be inaccurate if users who weren't experiencing the problem weren't a part of that. Secondly, just because I havn't experienced the problem doesn't mean I might not be prone to it. It's not an 'elite' club. I have every right to post my concern.

I'm also well aware that this is for users of apple products. I was merely illustrating that moderators have the time to delete/edit posts and nothing more. I wasn't initially looking for moderator input. There are plenty of unedited posts in this thread that aren't constructive in their criticisms.

Just because this thread is still alive does not indicate to me that it's being taken seriously by Apple. The fact this thread has been alive since September but nothing official regarding this has been circulated would suggest quite the opposite to me.

I didn't want to have an uppity argument. I'm just simply very concerned about it.

What specifically are they deleting? Looks like they left most of your post.

My first post was deleted. I signed up to post in this particular thread just because i was so alarmed about it. I too often record drums with everything cranked up in my cans and it's quite a scary thought really.

I was just indicating in that post that there are no connections between users experiencing this white noise: Different applications (some DAW, some not), some using internal audio, some FW, some USB, some with plugins, some without, different OSX, different software versions..

bump!!!

Hi Guys,

Any solution for that issue? I have the same problem and I unable to fix it. I checked out all the internet discussion forums, restore the system, optimize it, tried to record to the internal HD, external one, I tried all different kinds of properties in Logic 9, basically everything was possible... I have this terrible noise when I recording microphone at 3:38 (sec). Previously it said at 3:38 "Disk is too slow (record)", but I only recorded a single microphone in a new Logic document. Its basically killing me, I cannot do anything. I am researching and reading for 3 days now, trying every advice, nothing helped.... Please let me know, if you know something smart. I have an Edirol FA-101 audio interface with buit in driver in Snow Leopard.

Pete

Pete Gorilla wrote:
checked out all the internet discussion forums, restore the system, optimize it, tried to record to the internal HD, external one, I tried all different kinds of properties in Logic 9, basically everything was possible... I have this terrible noise when I recording microphone at 3:38 (sec). Previously it said at 3:38 "Disk is too slow (record)", but I only recorded a single microphone in a new Logic document.

Pete,

Did you check the system for errors by opening the console application in the application/utilities directory ?

I helped a friend recently who was complaining of click/distortion sounds coming from his Mac Pro Garageband and Presonus DAW setup, as well as long sync up times to the Presonus device.

His Presonus device was flashing red, blue, the red, then blue, repeat, repeat, repeat...... usually mine takes one red blue flash after the initial hw check the presonus does before trying to sync to external FW devices.

While playing back all tracks with a live lead track, I opened the console and it was and had been spitting out '1394' errors every couple secs. I unplugged the Firewire cable on the presonus side and watched console output, the 1394 errors went away. We checked all other firewire ports and cables, but the source of the noise was coming from the presonus device having a fw sync issues.

Checked the presonus sites for current downloads. There is one for the device, but the read me documents did not state this was a fix for fw errors.

So in closing, the point here is the slow disk report could be;

- your edirol FA-101, check the console output. Try what we did by unplugging your edirol and watch for errors, or try to record from the computers mic input if possible.

- make sure you have more than 10% disk space left on boot up drive, as well as any other drive attached for not enough free disk space. This can definitely cause the 'too slow disk' error.

- run xbench a free download to check your system perf and disk thru-put and compare with similar macs, observe disk speeds, ram performance, and lastly CPU speed. Again compare against xbench.

- the last is check what your system really is doing, use the activity monitor and observe the cpu meter/s. Right after a reboot without Logic running, the cpu should be less than 10-15% if not less. If its larger your system could be busy like I've seen personally, an old print job trying to print to a printer we no longer have....

PS: not having white blast issue and use Logic 9.1.1 with 10.6X on a Intel Mac Pro Logic @ 2-3 hrs week. Hope I don't jinx myself now .....

Good Luck

I had the same white noise in Logic 8, sometimes spurts, sometimes like a scratchy record. Using a Mac Pro, Tiger 10.4.11, with logic Studio, I made sure I had the latest firmware for my audio interface and I unplugged everything from the back of my display monitor and any fire wire from my computer I wasn't using while recording..... and it all went away, no more white noise.

CLB64 wrote:
I unplugged everything from the back of my display monitor and any fire wire from my computer I wasn't using while recording..... and it all went away, no more white noise.

Good point, this can make a huge difference on USB and Firewire bus performance. Pay close attention to;

"What 'else' is daisy chained from that same usb or firewire port that your DAW and/or Drive is plugged into"

Heres a USB DAW example

Try to keep slow devices on one port; ie older printers, keyboards, game controller, etc... and put your fast devices on the another port; ie DAW, Disk drives, SLR camera's, and such.

Now firewire is similar, 800 vs 400, keep em separated.

Although I do the same as CLB64 states, unplug unused devices from your system. I Also prefer Firewire over USB for DAW.

Try to be Creative....

Just Happened to me....

My ears are killing me AND my tweeters blew up.....
This is dangerous.

Blast of White Noiz.
I was NOT recording audio. I was in the piano roll editor and playing back

I am running VE Pro
OS 10.6.3
Logic 9.1 (32 bit mode)

SvK

I know it's been said before, but I hope everyone is reporting this to

http://www.apple.com/feedback/logicpro.html

or even better

https://bugreport.apple.com

if you have an ADC Apple ID#

On the one hand it's good to know I'm not alone. I was for so long since I've had this insane issue since V7 with a variety of different hardware.

OTOH I'm about to head over to the Presonus site.

hi,
don't post here anymore 4 varying reasons, but i thought i'd add fuel to this fire.
i've had two disasters regarding bursts of white noise.
first one cost me 2 tweeter drivers ($au1200) and some hearing loss.
and the next, one woofer ($au1250).
these are tannoys, btw. 15"duals.

j.



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a frightening topic and as someone said here, a serious problem.

i've had these attacks of whitenoise once or twice, if protools had the prob and fixed then apple must do the same, preferably yesterday

i can see big lawsuits forming on the horizon unless this one is addressed

maximum sympathy and trust the ears will recover