System Overload in Garageband

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System Overload in Garageband

I recently downloaded Yosemite and the newest Garageband, and I am constantly getting the System Overload error, and it is making Garageband completely unusable. I have 4 drum and 2 guitar tracks running (nothing fancy), all of which are Locked.

-It's an early 2011 macbook

-I tried upgrading to 8gb ram

-reset smc

-restart computer before each session

-checked energy saver preferences (putting harddrives to sleep)

-391gb HD available

-running Yosemite

-Filevault is not activated

MacBook Pro

Posted on Apr 20, 2015 2:49 PM

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Answer 1

Apr 21, 2015 2:51 PM in response to friggingarageband

Do other programs have the same problem?

Have you tries a restore library in the menu options?

Have you tries a uninstall and reinstall of the program?

Yosemite is known to cause problems that is why I didn't update to it.

Garageband Facebook Group

Garageband YouTube Channel

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Answer 2

Apr 21, 2015 3:46 PM in response to Bruce Willis

Thanks for the reply, I appreciate it.

Garageband is the only program that is having problems. I'm going to try your suggestions now, and see what happens.

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Answer 3

Apr 21, 2015 5:21 PM in response to friggingarageband

No luck with the suggestions, thanks though. I think it may be time to get different recording software.

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Answer 4

Apr 25, 2015 6:17 AM in response to friggingarageband

If anyone is having the same issue, I just updated to Yosemite 10.10.3 and was still getting error, I reset the SMC one more time, and now all is working perfectly, for the first time in a month.

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