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Disk is too slow (Record)(-10004) error..so sick of this.

Hello all,

I can no longer record more than three tracks in logic without getting the error message "Disk is too slow (Record)(-10004)". When this happens, recording is stopped.

At first I suspected my drive was faulty, maybe slowing down. So being in the middle of a session that took me 2 hours to set up, I called for a break and rushed off and bought an external Seagate 7200rpm firewire 800 drive. I installed it and set it as the recording path for the project. There was no change, the same error occured.

I then switched the target drive to another internal one I use for Time Machine - same problem occured.

It seems to me that this problem has nothing to do with my drives. I am at a loss to explain it. I have looked for hours online for a solution but while many have experienced this there seem to be few answers out there.

Unless I find a solution this will be my last project with Logic. I tried and tried for the last 5 years to use this program but things like this keep happening. It's glitchy with UAD cards, Duende, RME interfaces, Midi controllers, Hard Drives, RAM and external clocks. I've had problems with them all over the years. I will most likely switch to Cubase which I feel is inferior for editing and loops, but at least it seems to be stable.

If anyone has any insight I'll try and fix it, but I just can't keep shelling out money for a program that just doesn't work.

2 x 2.66 Mhz Dual-Core Intel Xeon, Mac OS X (10.6.4), Logic Pro 9.1.1, Fireface 800

Posted on Nov 15, 2010 11:41 PM

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Posted on Nov 16, 2010 3:00 AM

maybe you already know this, but: I can avoid this messages by setting all not in use tracks to "no input". For some reason it reduces processor use.
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Disk is too slow (Record)(-10004) error..so sick of this.

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