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

I'm absolutely not shure if it has something to do with this problem, so if I'm completely wrong, please disregard.
I had problems with random 'white noise attacks' a while back (Logic 8) with a Tascam FW-1884. It happened in the middle of playback or recording, for a couple of seconds, and then it went back to normal.
What solved the problem for me was a separate Firewire Card which I installed in my MacPro (I think it's a Lacie FW400-Card with Texas Chipsets). After this, it never happened again in Logic 8 and so far in 9.0.2. I always found that strange, because I had absolutely NOTHING ELSE connected to any of the Firewire-Ports of the MacPro. And I didn't change anything else (drivers...).
It just crossed my mind, because a lot of people with the problem use Firewire-Interfaces. Has anyone had this problem working with only the internal In- and Outputs of the Mac?
But as I said before, it could be a specific Tascam-problem or a problem with my specific setup as well and it has maybe absolutely nothing to do with the described problem.

I think I just had this happen to me on my Macbook. Just a sudden burst of static/hum/noise sound and then gone again. Not deafening thankfully. Great!

same problem here had a few singers scared ******** in the recording boot. never happened in logic 8, only in 9, and only when recording. Usually happens after we recorderd for about 10 to 15 minutes. Always happens once during a session and doesnt come back after that. Its very very anoying especially for people who take good care of their ears.

This has happened to me a few times recently too. Once or twice with cans too.....NOT much fun.

It's always accompanied by a message saying "disk too slow" and a disconcerted vocalist. Recently I've been getting a lot of "disk too slow" messages when I'm not recording too BTW - something that only recently started popping up.

I'm recording onto my internal hard drive (with plenty of free space), everything is up to date, except logic (I'm not on 9.0.2 yet)

The "blast of white noise" issue is one of the reasons I haven't upgraded to Logic 9 yet. I have never experienced this issue in Logic 8. UNTIL this weekend! I had a session and was recording an acoustic guitar and a vocalist simultaneously and wammo a big burst of white noise! It scared everyone! Didn't happen again the rest of the session and the first time this has ever happened. Weird!

I am on Logic 8.0.2 OS 10.4.11...

Just to add to the party - I have experienced this about 10 times since 'upgrading' to Logic 9. - Twice were at pant wettingly dangerous volumes.



Amazed that it didn't fry my tweeters..

I am on Logic 8.0.2 OS 10.4.11...

Just curious: which interface are you using, and which Mac model?

Mac Pro Quad Core 2.26(2007) model. Apogee Symphony 32 Rosetta 800...

I'm not sure if this is any help but I had the "blast" problem when I used a USB interface (Line 6), since switching to a firewire interface (Presonus) has fixed the issue for me.

Tom

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I'm not sure if this is any help but I had the "blast" problem when I used a USB interface (Line 6), since switching to a firewire interface (Presonus) has fixed the issue for me.

That's not the issue causing this. This problem has also been reported by users of Firewire Interfaces, and (like me) users of PCI card interfaces.

Best I can tell, it's across the board, and what type of audio interface is being used is of no relevance.

This is happening on my new G5. My ears are still ringing too and I'm sure that it has caused some permanent hearing loss, really a horrible thing.

I have a Quad-Core G5 with an Apogee Ensemble connected via Firewire. I have Logic 9 on the mac, but this happens to me even if logic is not running. I can just be checking email and get blasted. It happens a couple of times a day.

It ***** because I just paid a mint to get an Intel mac to run my sound apps with Logic 9 and now I'm afraid to even turn on the speakers for fear that I will never hear again.

I wish I was still running protools on my pre-intel G4 POS.

Really this message board won't even allow the work S * U * C * K * S ?

This could lead to a lot of major lawsuits.

I'm not convinced this is just Logic. I found this thread from Googling for OSX White Noise. I'm not using Logic but I'm still getting the white noise blasts. I'm using a USB soundcard that appears to periodically crash resulting in a blast of noise. Sometimes it's related to MIDI input, so maybe the USB connections cannot handle the amount of data being send through to the Mac?

I should have altered my OS on the last post. I'm using 10.5.8.