spinning wheel when audio recording

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spinning wheel when audio recording

when i attempt to audio record onLogic 9 i get the spinning wheel and have to wait about ten seconds before record engages, regardless of buffer size; No other programs (digital performer or ableton live) have this problem on my computer (imac 2.6 dual; new;) other people making same complaint but update dosen'taddress this; messing up my business; what to do

imac 2.6 dual, Mac OS X (10.5.8)

Posted on Oct 13, 2009 5:11 PM

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Answer 1

Oct 13, 2009 5:24 PM in response to hfnerdle

Are you recording to an external drive? If so, check that it's formatted as Macintosh OS Extended.

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Oct 14, 2009 12:55 AM in response to John Alcock

yes formatted correctly

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Oct 14, 2009 1:04 AM in response to hfnerdle

Turn off Journaling.

Christian

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buchi

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Oct 14, 2009 5:12 AM in response to christianobermaier

how can i turn journaling off? won't work in the disk utility program

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immo

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Oct 14, 2009 5:17 AM in response to buchi

Also...how much free space you have on that HD?

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Oct 14, 2009 6:19 AM in response to buchi

Hold down Option and check the Disk Utility's File menu.

Christian

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alphacen

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Dec 16, 2009 10:28 AM in response to hfnerdle

Having the same problem too. It seems to take even longer when the singer or guitarist is in the room.
Very embarrassing. I have been going back to 7.2 for overdubbing until I sort it out.
I'm thinking that because I'm on a new terra drive it's paving the way for a millennium of space each time I hit record. It says there are 536 minutes recording time remaining. This is a great feature to be able to turn off.
I'm still trying things. I've noticed it the worst (i.e. longest waiting time) when the song had a lot of instrument plug-ins. It's not so bad at the moment on the current song with no one in the room. Only 2 secs when doing a test record. The same song took up to 10 secs to start recording when the guitarist was here yesterday!
More importantly, does anyone know how to set the record time to i.e.5 minutes like we can do in 7.2?
Any ideas would be most appreciated.

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