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Garageband has several intermitent problems

1. I sometimes can not play many tracks. Either I can play six tracks (maybe more), or I am just limited to one track. For the time being this problem seems to have cleared up.


2. This morning when starting a new file, when I selected a loop to see if I wanted to include it, by clicking on that loop's icon, the loop would play over and over again until I selcted anoter loop, then that loop would be in an infinite loop also. This problem went away when I started another new file.


3. When playing a file repeditively using the repeat button, giving the yellow stripe on the time line, sometimes the play did not go to the end of the yellow stripe. The play would stop in the middle and go back to the beginning of the yellow stripe and continue playing.


I have a Mackbook running 10.6.8, with Garageband 4.1.2


Steve

Posted on Feb 9, 2014 7:48 AM

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Feb 9, 2014 11:09 AM in response to stephen.locke3.gmail.com

Hello, on #1, how much RAM do you have? And free Disk Space?


So we know more about it...


At the Apple Icon at top left>About this Mac, then click on More Info, then click on Hardware> and report this upto but not including the Serial#...


Hardware Overview:


Model Name: iMac

Model Identifier: iMac7,1

Processor Name: Intel Core 2 Duo

Processor Speed: 2.4 GHz

Number Of Processors: 1

Total Number Of Cores: 2

L2 Cache: 4 MB

Memory: 6 GB

Bus Speed: 800 MHz

Boot ROM Version: IM71.007A.B03

SMC Version (system): 1.21f4


Also...


Open Activity Monitor in Applications>Utilities, select All Processes & sort on CPU%, any indications there?


How much free RAM & free Disk space do you have also, click on the Memory & Disk Usage Tabs.


Open Console in Utilities & see if there are any clues or repeating messages when this happens.


In the Memory tab of Activity Monitor, are there a lot of Pageouts?

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Garageband has several intermitent problems

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