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

After finally getting my UAD plugins working again (had a serious problem due to my energy saver settings), now I've moved on to the next problem - just started getting the noise blasts today while attempting to adjust settings on the Neve 1073 and the Pultec EQ. Had to save and quite and reopen to get it to even play the song, otherwise just the beachball and then eventually a system overload message over and over.

So for me at least, it seems connected to plugins. Now I'm scared to adjust anything for fear of the deafening white noise. Just updated to Snow Leopard yesterday, don't know if this is related to that. Is there a work around?

Reinitializing core audio may help. You can reinitialize by going to the Audio Preferences window, changing something (like the buffer size) and change it back, so that the Apply button becomes active. Clicking that then reinitializes core audio.
I also think it is due to a (SI) Plug In gone (temporarily) bad. Or an unintentional loop in the signal flow.

regards, Erik.

Thanks Erik. Reinitializing core audio helped until I touched the Neve plugin again and immediately back to static and then no audio at all when I try to playback again. I after much frustration I changed to 1024 I/O buffer and Medium Buffer Range, and that seems to be helping at the moment. My UAD plugins seem to be cursed...

I remember reading this post and hoping it would never happen to me. Alright, it happened this morning. White noise at peak volume. Extremely disturbing. EXTREMELY! Not happy at all… This happened during playback in a recording session with ALL plugins turned off.

I started freezing tracks for the first time ever on regions where I used the Flex Tool. I see some discussions are linking the white noise to freezing.

It took Apogee six months to make a compatible driver for Leopard. I was getting kernel panics every day until then. So now I'm suspicious of the Duet also.

So, how do I turn off Journaling on my audio drive? In System Profiler my music drive says, "File System: Journaled HFS+"

Yes, LP9 is full of bugs. Up until now (for me) they were mostly interface behaviors or there were workarounds that I could find. Deafening white noise is more than a little problem. I'll try re-initializing the core audio too.

I've spent a LOT of time and money on a system that was running perfectly. Why would Apple fix something that wasn't broke, thus breaking it?

OK, it was the freezing. No visual wave form. The noise was from 0 to the start of the first region. Unfreeze and refreeze fixed it. Another bug. I'll be turning my volume WAY down for now on after freezing a track.

Anyway, I went back to work on my little project and within a couple of hours Logic was running SO SLOW it became unbearable. Over 5 seconds to zoom or change screen sets. Frustrating. Now I see a lot of people with the same problems talking about their equipment and wondering if they need to upgrade. I've got the best computer Apple makes. It's maxed out. And Logic just doesn't work any more. It's no longer a professional application. You can't open a recording studio and expect people to stand around waiting for you to get Logic to work. They've taken the Pro out of Logic. Too bad. I feel like I've wasted 3 years learning to use a DAW that is a joke. Maybe I've love it again tomorrow. For today, I've had enough!

Bob Lyons wrote:
Anyway, I went back to work on my little project and within a couple of hours Logic was running SO SLOW it became unbearable. Over 5 seconds to zoom or change screen sets. Frustrating. Now I see a lot of people with the same problems talking about their equipment and wondering if they need to upgrade. I've got the best computer Apple makes. It's maxed out. And Logic just doesn't work any more. It's no longer a professional application. You can't open a recording studio and expect people to stand around waiting for you to get Logic to work. They've taken the Pro out of Logic. Too bad. I feel like I've wasted 3 years learning to use a DAW that is a joke. Maybe I've love it again tomorrow. For today, I've had enough!

Bob,

Don't know if you saw this, it's Bee Jays impression after attending "Logic Studio World Tour - London".

http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2162084&tstart=225

pancenter-

Bob Lyons wrote:

So, how do I turn off Journaling on my audio drive? In System Profiler my music drive says, "File System: Journaled HFS+"

Open *Disk Utility*, in the left column, select the right Volume (part of the disk, indented) , hold option, and choose *File>Disable Journaling*.

The Option key...of course! Alright, journaling is disabled. Thanks Erik.

Pancenter, yes, Bee Jay's report from London was a little ominous. I don't mind the marketing guys making Logic look like SuperGarageBand, if it still works. Hopefully the Logic Tour will return to my neighborhood soon. We haven't had any kind of Logic seminar/demonstration in the Miami area for a couple of years now. I always learn something at those.

I got a full on random blast of digital noise yesterday, with headphones on, while recording some drums. Bad bad bad.

The noise burst was actually recorded, but did not show up in any of the waveform displays on screen. So when I played back what I had recorded... I got it a second time, with no warning. Bad bad bad!

I had exactly the same problem - I had to switch my recording session over to Pro Tools to complete it.

We all had ringing ears after Logic's noise bursts as well - not good for professional recording (well not good for anyone really).

Certainly didn't with help my "Logic is as good as or better than Pro Tools" advocacy.

I'm getting glitch spikes too (as if the spike has been time stretched) - there is also a really dangerous bug in STP2 which is also still present in STP3 where if you try to remove noise you get the same static noise.

Other bugs I've noted are crashing while saving (which also produces a loud burst of noise which you can only stop by force quitting Logic (nearly lost a pair of Mackies and my ears thanks to that lovely bug!), the blasted Low Memory bug - and the fact that bouncing in LP9 does not bounce at the level it states (leading to volume discrepancies in stems)

It's pretty shocking that these dangerous bugs were not picked up sooner or still have not been addressed as without our ears, we really can't use this software!

Hopefully your hearing is ok - I have tinnitus (have done since I was young) and its normally due to the tiny hairs in your inner ear mis-firing, if there's no bad damage it usually clears in a couple of days/weeks, but a musician friend of mine had it for about 3 months. I've had it for 13 years and counting...

The best thing to do in a situation, is to wear ear-plugs
(the kind they use at the rifle range.. LMAO!)
You wanna get Tennitus?

This is a serious problem, especially since it is very random. It is hard to pin down what causes it and how to reproduce it. It just happens. I have gone for 3 weeks now without it happening, but at any moment, bam.

So how widespread is this white noise problem? There are thousands of Logic users worldwide so you would think Apple would have to issue a warning and possibly a full refund for a defective and unsafe product. I have not heard the noise yet but since I read this post tonight I am sure it will happen soon. Has Apple issued any statements about this problem?