Audio System Overload blues
I've been using Logic since Logic Pro 7. I used this on a Powermac G4 with a 5400RPM hard disk drive. It worked GREAT. I could record many many tracks and hardly ever have any dropouts or weird performance issues.
So why is it that today on a 2.7GHz i7 Mac mini with 4GB of RAM and a Fusion drive I can't even record three tracks without it barfing with "audio system overload" errors? It's like every time I try using Logic it gets worse and worse.
This is just BASIC RECORDING STUFF. No plugins, no loops playing, just me trying to record a simple multitrack project onto what should be really fast hardware.
It's like Logic has turned into a damp piece of tissue paper and it falls apart under the slightest load. Like, it doesn't even try to buffer stuff for writing out.
I've tried dozens of combinations of things, I've tried shutting down all my background apps, I've tried rebooting, I've done everything short of a full system reinstall on every new project and still... I can't get this STUPID PIECE OF SOFTWARE to do BASIC. STUPID. THINGS.
I'm getting really frustrated now, and I hope someone else has a quick fix other than switching software or buying a new computer. If there's even a basic means of diagnosing what the problem IS so I can try to fix it in some way, even! I mean this is getting really frustrating and it seems like Logic's inability to work is directly proportional to how quickly I'm trying to work on a piece for a client.
Mac mini, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.4), 2.7GHz i7, 8GB RAM, 1TB Fusion