Logic in the Twilight Zone

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Logic in the Twilight Zone

This afternoon I started everything up, to return to a track: the last one of a project. First off, I was writing an email,while Logic launched the song, the song opens and I start playing it, still writing the email. Suddenly, Logic quits: oh, well, I thought; sent the email and relaunched. This time when getting to the stage of loading an East West Platinum Pro patch, Logic crashes again. This repeatedly happened, same place each time, so I went back to basics and started up a vanilla autoload: fine. Then I tried one of my own templates from the dock, where I keep them: that opened, but immediately disappeared! No "Logic unexpectedly quit", etc. Just poof! vanished. I tried several other custom templates, and they all performed this disappearing act. So, I'm getting really panicky: I have to finish this album before the studio is relocated. I decide to post the problem on this forum: Safari repeatedly crashes.

I check all the usual suspects: no problems anywhere. I then decide to open the vanilla song again and try opening one of my templates from that. It works. I save it, and then try opening it from the dock: it works fine again, and so do all the others, plus the problem song.

What was that all about? I'm running 7.2.2, and until then it had been more or less fine, but that was a bit alarming. Has anyone any ideas, and should I take any other measures? There was also a bit more fan activity when all this was happening.

It felt like the whole thing was on the edge of collapse.

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Posted on Sep 9, 2006 2:18 PM

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Answer 1

Bee Jay

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Sep 9, 2006 2:24 PM in response to Community User

From my PC days, I learned that once you have an application crashing, it can leave the computer in a little bit of a flaky state, so I got into the habit of saving copies of anything important, and restarting.

Generally these days OS's are much better at protecting themselves from application crashes, but sometimes things can go screwy. It sounds like Logic crashed and caused the computer, the audio or MIDI subsystem and anything else Logic uses from the OS to go flaky.

In this case, I would have done a restart to cause any aberrant behaviour to calm down, but it seems like it recovered on its own. (I'd still restart though).

Normally an application will crash cleanly and can simply be restarted, but sometimes...

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Answer 2

Sep 9, 2006 3:07 PM in response to Bee Jay

Hey, Bee Jay: I did restart. Nothing. I fixed permissions, checked preferences with Preferential Treament, and ran all the other tests. The simple act of saving that custom template, when opened by the autoload, seemed to fix it. I hate that sort of non-specific, irrational behaviour, becuase one never seems to actually get to the bottom of the problem.

All the backups of the song wouldn't load wither and, stranger, neither would any other song, unitl I saved, using the autoload. Also, Logic and Safari are unrelated, yet Safari was also misbehaving. Weird stuff.

I wondered whether it might have been connected to having 7.2.2 on a PPC, which has hitherto been fine.

Thanks!

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