Disk too slow while recording real instruments

Hi everyone, I've got this problem that I found out is not new.
What frustrates me is that I didn't have this problem on GB '09.

I didn't record for a while in my MBP since I had the previous iLife version, but few days ago I needed to record a children chorus, and I thought that I could use my Edirol FA-66 with my awesome MBP.
I was testing at home before the performance, and for some reason all my recording on GB stopped at about 45 seconds... with the message "disk it too slow (error 10005)".

At the first time I thought that I could have made something wrong, I looked for a solution on this forum and in other sites, but there's not a real solution, except for the "File Vault" thing that couldn't help me 'cause it's not turned on in my mac.

In the end I recorded the performance... using Audacity... That I must say worked perfectly.


The point is that I had to use GB, and I need it to record also my own songs and stuff...


I really hope that someone can help me solving this.

I repeat shortly what I use and what I need:
I have a MBP with i7, 8Gb ram, hard dist at 7200 rpm, and I was recording music through an edirol fa-66 pluged on firewire, GB says disk is too slow.
Even tho I closed every application the problem is still here.

Thanks for your attention,
Regards,
Maurizio

Macbook Pro 15" i7, Mac OS X (10.6.4), HD500 Gb 7200 rpm - 8 Gb Ram - GT 330M 512 Mb

Posted on Jan 3, 2011 11:52 AM

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Mar 7, 2011 5:36 AM in response to Jimble12

For help about Logic, you should ask the guys in the Logic forum.

For GarageBand: Never, never use GarageBand to record a longer live session. It's just not reliable enough. A simple audio editor like Audacity is a lot better suited for that, and I don't see a reason why someone "had to use GB" for that. You can always import the Audacity recording into GB later for editing and mixing.

Mar 21, 2011 3:39 PM in response to isteveus

In June of last year I posted the same question but my thread was archived. I now have upgraded my Mac Book Pro to 8Gb of RAM and I have a SSD hard drive. I still get the "disk too slow" from Logic Pro 9 every once in a while. I use it in 64 bit mode, with 44.1Khz sampling rate for recordings and the cache is 256. After I did a repair on disk permissions using the disk utility, the disk too slow message went away for a while but it came back. I record 16 tracks of real instruments at a time via a Mackie 1640i on firewire 400 cable. Maybe some Pros here can chime in on the buffer configuration settings, I have a feeling this is the problem. I should not be getting a "disk too slow" with an Intel SSD hard drive.

Jan 18, 2012 1:50 AM in response to KEForex

I have this problem intermittently recording with Garageband (2007 MacBook Pro 17, OSX 10.Lion) and after searching the web reading various threads, I believe this happens without regard to your computer configuration. With me, thankfully, it's kind of a random but disconcerting occurence. There must be a reason for it, but I don't think it's an obvious one that can necessarily be remedied by an upgrade to your computer hardware.


I hope that an Apple rep who browses this stuff will notice this and make some suggestions!


If anyone knows how to get the attention of those folks, please do. thanks.

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