Disk is too slow or System Overload.

ArnsteinK wrote:

so I started a new project to record it, with only one track. But I still got this error when I was recording one track, with no other tracks in the project!

But you didn't shut down Logic or (sometimes best) restart your machine in between ? Often, data gets left in memory and it hasn't had any particular command to clear it otherwise - a lot of allocated memory can be still considered as 'used'.

Well, maybe, but that aside,

ArnsteinK wrote:

I run this on a 27" iMac with 8GB ram and 7200rpm, which should be enough to play and record many tracks.

- hopefully you're not doing that just using your internal computer's drive - if you have, you've been lucky so far.

If you're into Logic it is a well established fact that this message can appear for so many different reasons and its not possible for me to know what goes on with your machine - there are plenty of articles on this forum and LogicProHelp as well as the very concise and accurate (but not always as explanatory as I'd like it to be) stuff on this Apple website.

That's all I can offer at the moment until we have some more technical information, in which case there are others here that may have particular insights as well, so you're gonna have to take it from there because there is no one answer.

Another thing that caught my eye was

ArnsteinK wrote:

I was working on a project that had a little over hundred tracks, and got this error. I thought that it was understandable,

Well, yeah..

I think its important to think about, well, either combining different sounds into a track in a way that you don't have to think about it when it plays back (so I suppose automation may come into its own on such occasions) or its a mixdown of, say, a string section or brass or woodwind or different synth sounds, you know - I still work like that anyway; maybe it is a bit of a throwback to the times when I had to keep thinking about how to use all 8 tracks on a tape machine, he he...

Did you fix your problem and what did you do?

Thanks!

I used File > Project Managment > Clean Up, and then froze some tracks and that worked for me.