Garageband and Snow Leopard disk too slow errors

Yes I'm having the same issues. I may go back to leopard.

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Yes I had the same problem but I have solved it.
I to had all my Garageband songs stored on a second drive in my new MacPro. Garageband ran slow, showed messages such as too many real instrument tracks... disk too slow etc. Moved all the files to the start-up disk and all the problems went away.
Try it

Just a thought.
SL seems to be able to detect any movement of the GarageBand folder and therefore uses it to create a new project. (No need to tell an any application where the file folder is kept anymore with SL) Therefore from the outset GB is running to a second drive (if that is where your GarageBand song folder is located) and there are plenty of warnings with many applications that however fast your second drive connection (internal or firewire 800) in essence file access is slower. This is evident in IPhoto for instance... keeping the photo library on a second disc shows up as a slight delay when a large JPG is opened whereas if the library is on the startup disc the delay disappears.

Is there any workaround yet. I have the same problems. With Logic 9 under leopard everything went really smooth now with snow leopard I get the annoying error. The problem is that I don't want to relocate my files.

Is there any possibility to fix this?

I have this same issue (Disk Too Slow Error -10005) and I'm not even using an external drive. I'm using the internal 7200 rpm drive that came in my macbook.

I get the error with only 2 tracks (one loop, one real instrument).

I'm using a Line6 Pod XT-Live connected via USB, and there's nothing else connected to the computer, nor is there anything else running.

Any ideas?

Macbook Pro 15" 2.8Ghz, 4GB RAM, 7200rpm drive OS 10.6.1

I have a new MacBook Pro with SSD it runs GB with no problems including any slowdowns... I had to use it whilst I was sorting out the MacPro slowdown with SL. Even though I have said I have solved it in other posts in actual fact GB still runs slow on my 8 core shown up by jumpy tracking of the play head line.
Have you set the GB preferences for lots of real instrument tracks? Just a thought.
I also use a USB mic.

I, too, just received this error while recording a single track, acoustic piano with USB mic. I have never recorded a song longer than 80-90 measures. Today I went past 170 measures and the msg popped up. I'm using the internal drive. Time Machine is not turned on.

I never used garageband before snow leopard so I can not speak to that.

I wish I could help, but I have to chime in here.

I use GB '09 with Snow Leopard and have not yet encountered any insurmountable problems. The worst that happens to me is occasionally a track will make itself unavailable - but saving, closing out and rebooting the sequencer always repairs the glitch (so far).

That being said: I do not create any external midi-controller tracks and only use a couple of really basic third-party plugins. I do, however, load zillions of (audio and midi) tracks atop each other, and while I've gotten the spinning rainbow-wheel of death a few times, I only had to force-quit once.

Seeing all these GB '09/Snow Leopard conflict posts concerns me greatly though, and I'm just as anxious for resolution as you all must be.

Seeing all these GB '09/Snow Leopard conflict posts concerns me greatly though, and I'm just as anxious for resolution as you all must be.

There may indeed be some glitch Apple needs to address. Keep in mind that often the problem seems worse because only the people with problems will post here. We don't hear from all those without a problem.

Of course not... these forms are mainly for those with problems... !!!!! Just in case anybody reading this has had the problem of no drivers for M-Audio firewire I/Os the beta drivers for 6.1 are available on the M-Audio forums now.

I'm posting here with JKSBass .

I'm not having any problems with GB and Snow Leopard whatsoever. I'm also using GB with 3 external drives with loops on 2 USB 2.o drives and one Firewire 800 drive.

I have the same issue and I also have an Edirol FA66...

Tried uninstalling and then re-installing garageband, same issue...

I have now changed from 192 khz to 44.1 khz on the back of my Edirol FA-66 and hasn't had the issue since then. I will try it some more and get back.